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

Today I am 8,000!
I was born on January 18th 1980.
Since then there have been leap years in:
1980, 1984, 1988,1992,1996 & 2000,
So that is 6 years with 366 days, which equals 2,196 days
As I'm 21 years old, the 21 years, minus the 6 leap years = 15 normal years.
15 x 365 = 5,475
2,196 + 5,475 = 7,671
Plus 346 as this is the 346th day of the year = 8,017
8,017 - 17 days of January before I was born = 8,000!

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Congradumalations on your 8,000th! thats quite an accomplisment you got there

Thanks.
I feel old!

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fret not, you've got millions and millions of days ahead of you. possibly not true.

Thousands anyway.... I hope...
And tomorrow is my birthday

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horay for you! merry birthday bluebottle, i hope you get eberything you would wish for and some things you wouldn't normally, but which turn out to be surprisingly brilliant and open whole new areas of interest for you.

I applied for a job - does that count as "everything you would wish for and some things you wouldn't normally, but which turn out to be surprisingly brilliant and open whole new areas of interest for you"? It should be a good job if I get it.

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yes! well, if you get it anyway. what is the job?

It's at the Royal Armouries' Museum at Fort Nelson, Portsmouth.
I don't suppose you know of it?

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Congratulatilatsions! *sets off fireworks*

Thanks - I'm now 8,047 days old.

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More congratilatutions!

Thanks!
So, how old are you?

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gah, too much effort to work out. i'm afriad i have not heard of it, but i don't often go to portsmouth. you could work out how many days you've been on h2g2 next. if i did that would i have to work out the individual totals of all my incarnations and add them up, or just go with yours? sounds a bit complicated.

I am, um, nearly three h2g2 years old. Or is it two. Dunno. Need to figure this time thing out one day.

I think we're both roughly 3.

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Wow, that's cosmic....

quite a ripe old age indeed, quite old enough for a spot of nostalgia. those were the days.

They were.
I remember the days before the smiley when there was only and .
When the name of the person you were replying to wasn't listed, only the message itself...
I remember Llama, Ripley and DNA.
I remember Abi when she was The Grim Squeaker.
I remember when my name was Bluebottle

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and ths fish was so much better, what still gets me is the orange line underneath an uncomented on entry meaning to subscribe instead of comment, i keep subscribing to entries i just wanted to comment on. I remember the religion of Fred and playing cake, and when you used to have to start a new forum after a couple of hundred posts because it took too lon to load.