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How did you come to h2g2?
toybox Started conversation Sep 22, 2009
More specifically, did you end up on h2g2 because of Douglas Adams's work, or for some other reason?
How did you come to h2g2?
Primeval Mudd (formerly Roymondo) Posted Sep 22, 2009
I think it was through the mention in The Salmon Of Doubt.
How did you come to h2g2?
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Sep 22, 2009
Digital Village is mentioned on the inside cover of my copy of The Deeper of Meaning of Liff - and from there to h2g2.com.
How did you come to h2g2?
Taff Agent of kaos Posted Sep 22, 2009
can only get out onto the bbc site at work and stumbled upon hootoo while rooting around in cult!!!
How did you come to h2g2?
tzjin_anthony_ks Posted Sep 22, 2009
'flu. or rather, tried to fall, but missed the ground
How did you come to h2g2?
2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Sep 22, 2009
I was carried here, through the air on the back of a badger, by forty-two swans with very strong necks and a bad scence of direction.
err randomly came across the pre BBC version via Google, and thence to the BBC, though I never could find my origional account... 
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~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum Posted Sep 22, 2009
I haven't 'come to' yet.
I'm still in a comma,,,,,,
although the dockers say it could get inverted.
~jwf~
How did you come to h2g2?
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Sep 22, 2009
Incidentally, I stayed because someone answered my question in Ask and I was mightily impressed. 
BaldBloke replied to my: 'What's the difference between a lexicographer and a philologist?' , poser. 
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2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Sep 22, 2009
Well? what is the differnce? and can you find the thread now? 
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Taff Agent of kaos Posted Sep 22, 2009
you can't get a drink out of a philologist!!!!!!
How did you come to h2g2?
kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Sep 22, 2009
I was looking for information about 70s cult TV series The Professionals, and I found this excellent entry in the EG: A1161190
That go me really intrigued - who had written it, and what was this place? So I rambled round the EG for a bit, and then found the rest of the community. It was the writing aspect that intially interested me, but later it was the community that made me stay.
I read for a year or so before I joined. Learnt all about the dramas that happen here before I came onboard 
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Sep 22, 2009
Philologists study the structure of language.
Lexicographers compile dictionaries.
How did you come to h2g2?
lil ~ Auntie Giggles with added login ~ returned Posted Sep 22, 2009
Daughter Vicki Virago had been telling the family all about this community of extremely odd people she'd come across online 
Wee'ell, she decided to enroll me here so YOU odd entities could help me give up smoking 
That was over five years ago... and I haven't had a cigarette since! 
How did you come to h2g2?
MMF - Keeper of Mustelids, with added P.M.A., is now in a relationship. Posted Sep 22, 2009
Needed an answer as to why there is not a definitive fire-man's uniform... And I'll I'm still waiting!!!
MMF
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KB Posted Sep 22, 2009
Are there any definitive uniforms? Soldiers vary by regiment, police forces by region within the same country...
Professional fire-quenchers started off on a very local and regional basis anyway - basically a guild system to put out fires on members' property.
How did you come to h2g2?
2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Sep 22, 2009
A lot of the volenteer fire fighters in London during World war II were cabbies.... they knew the streets well so could hopefully* quickly get to any site where a fallen bomb had lead to a fire...
They're uniforms are useually very nice though 
How did you come to h2g2?
Mr. X ---> "Be excellent to each other. And party on, dudes!" Posted Sep 22, 2009
There were bunches and bunches of references to h2g2 in The Salmon of Doubt.
Incidentally, wasn't there already a Thread about this at some point?
How did you come to h2g2?
Primeval Mudd (formerly Roymondo) Posted Sep 23, 2009
"Incidentally, wasn't there already a Thread about this at some point?"
I believe so. It's probably flanked by threads about the lack of a form search.
How did you come to h2g2?
Milla, h2g2 Operations Posted Sep 23, 2009
I found it via the babelfish translation thingy on Yahoo. Nine years ago, almost to the day.
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How did you come to h2g2?
- 1: toybox (Sep 22, 2009)
- 2: Primeval Mudd (formerly Roymondo) (Sep 22, 2009)
- 3: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Sep 22, 2009)
- 4: Taff Agent of kaos (Sep 22, 2009)
- 5: tzjin_anthony_ks (Sep 22, 2009)
- 6: 2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... (Sep 22, 2009)
- 7: ~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum (Sep 22, 2009)
- 8: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Sep 22, 2009)
- 9: 2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... (Sep 22, 2009)
- 10: Taff Agent of kaos (Sep 22, 2009)
- 11: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Sep 22, 2009)
- 12: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Sep 22, 2009)
- 13: lil ~ Auntie Giggles with added login ~ returned (Sep 22, 2009)
- 14: MMF - Keeper of Mustelids, with added P.M.A., is now in a relationship. (Sep 22, 2009)
- 15: KB (Sep 22, 2009)
- 16: 2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... (Sep 22, 2009)
- 17: Mr. X ---> "Be excellent to each other. And party on, dudes!" (Sep 22, 2009)
- 18: Primeval Mudd (formerly Roymondo) (Sep 23, 2009)
- 19: Primeval Mudd (formerly Roymondo) (Sep 23, 2009)
- 20: Milla, h2g2 Operations (Sep 23, 2009)
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