h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It's a bit strange now, I remember when I first wandered this blue goo (back before you had color background choices) you could click on the 'who's online' button and know 99% of the people on there. Now you click on it and I'm lucky to know 1 person on the list.
I was referred to as an 'elder' a few weeks back because my user number was only 5 numbers long. Not sure if that is a good thing or not.
Kinda miss MadMunk and his dragon, Marv the Great and his Church of the True Brownie, The magical Hot-tub, Vegiman and his antics, Anonymouse and her cheese fetish oh and we can't forget Greebo and the donuts...or was that doughnuts, I forget LOL!
Oh, and ThePost!! I remember the birthing of this jewel! How many remember the role that Vegiman had in the creation? I remember the 1-2-1 interviews, my favorites are between two - Woman Lovingly Sculpted and the interview with GOD (that was def. an interesting one I must say).
I also remember the days of Agony Aunt, still can't quite get the key to work in that door just yet but hopefully soon the rust will be knocked off and I can enter once again.
I remember the long hours that Shazz would spend tolling over the editing of ThePost and all the fabulous Wowbagger cartoons and the list goes on and on.
Guess I am sort of an 'elder' and that's ok. Sometimes I miss the old days but guess everything has to change in the end

Monsy, it's great to see your name up here again. You were missed, by me in the least.

And by me!

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Hey there you two ...been ages since I've been around the goo, and what's up with my page not wanting to stick to blue goo? Durn thing keeps flopping back to this bland facebook background. Granted I love the facebook...I'm plum addicted to facebook actually...but hootoo is supposed to be blue goo colored .
Oh, and then there's the whole having to learn all the cute icons again and coding, I almost feel like a newbie again

ROFL!! And I can tell I spend a lot of time of facebook, I keep looking for the 'like' button

I've heard rumours that h2g2 may introduce an equivalent 'Share & Enjoy' button, but that's just a rumour at the moment.

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You made it back Monsy! <share & enjoy>

I'm here and I'm lost...ok, lost is not the right word...maybe I need to ACE myself

Erm, I'm a bit out of practice with that, but hello and welcome to h2g2, a strangely addictive place full of things and towels and 42s...

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LOL! Thanks for the effort Bluebottle
You did much better than I would have done. It's been so long since I've been an ACE I actually spent 10 minutes this morning remembering the name ACE

Does H2G2 even still have ACE's or are they as ancient as us?

They do and I've still got the badge, but with only 10 minutes online a day I don't do as much ACEing as I'd like.

Not sure whether they'll still have them after the changes.

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I reckon there is a lot up in the air. What I really hope is that the database of posts and articles is fully transitioned.

I imagine that that is one of their priorities, and they also hope to restore all the other IDs that people used to be able to access but were logged out of in the BBC days. I'm looking forward to that, not that I can remember who all my other user names were...

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So that means I might can become Agony Aunt once again too? Oh now that would be kewl!!! Kinda miss my gray bun and that cute kitty that used to sit in my window sill while I offered up my wisdom to the masses

Yay! Bring back Agony Aunt!
That's surely a must.

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I feel so sad for all those lost researchers out there in need of the sage advice of Agony Aunt. I mean honestly, her advice is steadfast and true...well, ok...so maybe it's more unusual with a twisted humor but you gotta admit that the world can never have to much twisted humor

That's certainly true

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Soooo, what has been happening in the Goo while I was 'absent'? Do we still have magical hottubs, true brownie religion, the donut/doughnut debates....what's the scoop?

The CotTB pretty much fell apart when I stopped driving every single thread.