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Twenty Years On

Post 1

Beaker (Muse of bad guitar playing and Pork Pies)

Many, many years ago, in fact last century when we probably still thought that digital watches were a pretty neat idea and h2g2 was still on the BBC website, I joined and spent many a happy hour at work in silly conversations with Ormondroyd, Dr E Vibenstein, Mrs V, Bluebottle, Cakewalker and the like.

Amazingly , twenty years on, I find the site is still up and running ... as is what's left of my profile.

What did I miss?


Twenty Years On

Post 2

Bluebottle

I think the kettle boiled…?smiley - chocolateteapotsmiley - tea

<BB<


Twenty Years On

Post 3

Beaker (Muse of bad guitar playing and Pork Pies)

BB - you're still on! smiley - cool

Good - I'll fetch a teabag


Twenty Years On

Post 4

Bluebottle

Yep, still here – and still writing stuff about Muppets too. smiley - winkeye

<BB<


Twenty Years On

Post 5

Beaker (Muse of bad guitar playing and Pork Pies)

Naturally smiley - biggrin - anybody else still around?

It's been a while and I'm a bit saggier and greyer round the edges now.


Twenty Years On

Post 6

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

Muppets? smiley - bigeyes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awhyiBv-oQc

(Rainbow connection was so beloved where I worked that everyone on the staff knew it smiley - wow)

Welcome back, Beaker. How is Dr. Bunsen Honeydew doing lately? smiley - smiley


Twenty Years On

Post 7

Caiman raptor elk - Inside big box, thinking.

You also missed the coming and going of some other people, I guess.

Nice meeting you, BTW.


Twenty Years On

Post 8

2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side...

You probably missed the arrival of nighthoover.... and their untimely vanishing. Although, some would say, that this isn't so much 'missing' as it is 'escaping' that particular chapter within the history of this site smiley - zensmiley - erm


Twenty Years On

Post 9

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

"Chapter" could also be a subdivision of an organization, as in a chapter of the Nighthoover Appreciation Society.


Twenty Years On

Post 10

Caiman raptor elk - Inside big box, thinking.

Don't worry, I missed (most of) that too. But not the aftermath.


Twenty Years On

Post 11

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

I don't think there was very much to miss.


Twenty Years On

Post 12

2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side...

so little, yet so much. - the really good stuffs was in all the tiny spaces inbetween the actual 'stuff', physicalities created to distract the observer from the important things happening in the gaps, in time and physical space smiley - zen


Twenty Years On

Post 13

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

No detail is too small to go unnoticed. smiley - bigeyes


Twenty Years On

Post 14

2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side...

smiley - wow - that's exactly what all my girlfriends said... smiley - blush


Twenty Years On

Post 15

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

I should have said that no detail is too small to be noticed. That would be the philosophy of a dedicated trivia lover. smiley - smiley


Twenty Years On

Post 16

Caiman raptor elk - Inside big box, thinking.

The trick is to see the details, the bigger picture, and everything that goes between those. (and then jump around the corner unexpectedly and say BOOOO!!! for no apparent reason)


Twenty Years On

Post 17

2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side...

That is indeed a trick to achieve, if one can smiley - zensmiley - tea


Twenty Years On

Post 18

Caiman raptor elk - Inside big box, thinking.

Can't be too serious. Wait, you can.


Twenty Years On

Post 19

2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side...

smiley - erm Actually, I'm really not too sure I am capable of being too serious... or even moderately seriously..... even in serious circumstances I seem to fail to grapple or grasp the seriousness of the situation smiley - laughsmiley - bluelight sense is overrated, outsanity is far better smiley - magicsmiley - boing


Twenty Years On

Post 20

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

Montaigne said, "The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness," though not in those words, as he was writing in French. You, 2Legs, are wise by that standard. smiley - ok.


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