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

Hi... er... guess that I am technically from the Discworld... but... am now living and loving in good ole England...
Have only just recently discovered H2G2, but am already making my mark here...
Be nice to each other, and be especially kind to cats...
Respects, Greebo T. Cat

Never tried kangaroo...
But smalahove tastes excellent, if you manage to not look too much on it..

So for me it is whale, raindeer, snails (ugh!) and smalahove.

Originally from Watford, England.
Until recently from Venlo, Holland.
Now from Galway, Ireland.
Confused

As far as I can see (which really isn't that far!) I am the first researcher originally from Ohio. A small state in the U.S.A. The village I'm from is Richwood. Ohio may seem like an insignificant place as the world goes, but I have recently learned that many serial killers/mass murderers originated here! Must be something in the corn. I'm not sure where I am currently. I am not certain if I exist at all outside this web site. Or inside it for that matter.

Bit south of the large white pine tree, under the red oak,
town of Easton, south of Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Is that the Richwood up by Marion?

YES! Oh my goodness(or badness), someone has heard of Richwood! It's between Marion & Marysville.

We haven't advertised as of yet - so we are doing quite well considering. We have just managed to get a mention by the Alta Vista babel fish though. Babel fish was Douglas' creation after all...

In the future well -

Ads on the bottom of files cabinets seem somehow appropriate...

Hi Irishsaint - long time no chat - how's the water level now?

Hahahahaha

...at the bottom of file cabinets in very dark and bug-infested cellars ofcourse.

Return of the undead summary...

Note: For those of us who listed multiple places, I chose the
current residence (assuming I could figure out which one that is),
unless the researcher emphatically specified some other city as
home.

1 Argentina

2 Canberra
1 Stirling
1 Sydney
2 (unspecified Australia)
6 Total Australia

2 British Columbia
1 Ontario
1 Quebec
4 Total Canada

1 County Durham
1 Dover
1 Durham
1 Gloucester
1 Leicester
2 London
1 Oxford
1 Manchester
1 Peak District
1 Plymouth
1 Reading
1 Redditch
1 Warrington
1 Yateley
3 (unspecified England)
19 Total England

1 Germany

1 Cork
1 Dublin
1 Galway
1 Kerry
4 Total Ireland

1 Haarlem
1 Rijswijk
1 Steenwijk
3 Total Netherlands

2 Auckland
1 Wellington
3 Total New Zealand

1 Paradis
3 (unspecified Norway)
4 Total Norway

1 Glasgow
1 (unspecified Scotland)
2 Total Scotland

1 Alaska
2 California
2 Florida
3 Massachusetts
1 New Hampshire
1 North Carolina
1 Ohio
1 Pennsylvania
1 Washington
1 (unspecified USA)
14 Total USA

1 Barry
1 (unspecified Wales)
2 Total Wales

63 Grand Total participating

Indeed... I'd even question the mere *existence* of any spelling and pronounciation rules in the english language. Take the string "ove" as it is used in "dove", "love", "above", "glove" as opposed to "clove". Or take "ea" as in "heard", "beard", "read", "Reading".

There simply *are* no rules...

Add one more for Germany, although I was born and raised in NEW Hampshire, NEW England U.S. I am currently blowing the froth of a Bitburger just north of Kaiserslautern. Beer foam's not good foe ' XINOyrwe jwtvi'ES, is it?

Hey, I live on a sandbar on the Outer Banks coast of North Carolina, US. Have you ever heard of the Labrador Current? It runs parallel to the Gulf Stream in the opposite direction. It brings cold water down the east coast of the US along North Carolina. I think dogs like it or something.

Silesia -can't ever go home. My family traveled west -generation by generation.

In Colorado, USA currently.
Planning to leave eventually. - Oregon, Washington, England, Denmark... any suggestions?
My brother headed back East to New York.
My mother moved North to Alberta, Canada.
My father is planning to stay put here in Colorado (nice enough place).

Ah. Good ol montreal. Wish I was back there now.
Definitely my favorite city.

Any other ex montrealers out there? We can talk about
old times. Geese they way I am talking you might
think that I have been away for more than just
4 years.

kgb

Calgary, Alberta, Canada here.

No, not a cowboy, however I did try on
one cowboy boot once.

Whats the name of that town in Wales with the really
long name?

Why does my wife, who is a Brit, pronounce the
letter H with a "Hey" at the start. Heych.
eh? how come?

kgb

Yes indeedy. Been through it on many occassion.

You can replace unspecified Scotland by Inverness Scotland - if you really want to.

Merton, South London, UK (as I know there other Mertons exist)
or
Sarf Lunnun as it's pronounced round here.

AKA South Wimbledon if you listen to the estate agents,
London Transport renamed the tube station South Wimbledon years ago but some of the signs still have the subscript (Merton High Street) below the name.

Once the hang out of Admiral Lord Nelson and his bit on the side Emma Hamilton as shown by the local pub names.