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

Sorry, this is a test. Wherever this post ends up I hope nobody minds but I have to try this. I'm probably jsut detecting a bug.


Tavaron

Oh god, I'm terribly sorry, I thought this would probably end up on the Arts PS.

, sorry, it is a little bit funny, maybe not to you at the moment

oh Tav,don't worry,at least you weren't trying out the filther or anything

That's why it's called a 'Test'




lil x

At least you now know where it ends up! Could have been worse, could have been the Front Page.

Er, Vip, all announcements *do* go on the front page in Pliny

Tav was merely trying out some things that we're working with But yes, good job it wasn't the filther

I really was shocked for a moment.

Well... um.. I did send a bug report about this so it was some use I guess.

Oh. Ooops. Well, that attempt to cheer up Tav didn't go quite to plan!

I don't mind unexpected posts

I like unexpected posts also. This one was interesting. Woke me up. . It just said Test. (with a surreal hint of detected bugs). . I'm like huh? . .

I felt like part of the band. Someone doing a sound check, checking the mics ..

test 121212 Hullo Earth 1212

what? sorry, you started me off .... good start to a story, the Test post. .

Do you think they're testing us? To see if we're still paying attention and can still use our brains? Well, I'm not sure about that...

Really?? . Nice plot, mvp,can I steal it, mvp? .

I can see that the Test post is inspiring some new scifi stories here. Test 12121! Good morning writers of the Earth and some other places.

Oh no! The Test post woke the writers.

help! wink wink

Wherever this post ends up I hope nobody minds ?

has it got a name/address tag on it's collar ? like kids had years ago if they got lost on school holidays etc - someone could return it then

It's a Paddington Bear of a post

Nah, more like a message in a bottle.

Did I pass the test?

Reminds one of Noah's Ark and sending out the Dove to answer the question "Is there anyone out there?"

All very appropriate in these times when politicians fear another "Deluge" and descent into World Chaos like 1932-33.

Didn't Noah send a "bird in black" first? But "birds in black" may be selfish or clannish in outlook too, thinking first of saving themselves and their own kind.

The Dove which became the bird of love brought back an Olive Branch that became an act of peaceful reconciliation.

With mention of bands with electric amplification this all comes back to the London Games which sent its message out to a global audience.. Testing. Testing. Are there any other lovers of love and peace out there?

Cass

"has it got a name/address tag on it's collar ? like kids had years ago if they got lost on school holidays etc - someone could return it then"

Has anyone else read Arthur Miller's account of how his father [to whom he paid tribute in "Death of a Salesman"] was left behind in Eastern Europe when the family moved to New York? They did not have anough money for one more ticket. When they had enough they sent it back to the extended family, and this small Jewish boy of ten was put on a train that would take him towards Hamburg. As he spoke no German they placed a card around his neck asking politely in German for anyone who could to help him along his way.

In a culture in which we are encouraged to worry about 10 year old children being out on their own for any length of time it is food for thought.

Cass

So long as we get a warming when its a 'test to destruction'.... otherwise we might all be over-welked by the testing

I expected this to be a long-lost friend checking if their account was still working. Instead I find a bug test, which morphs into sci-fi and Arthur Miller.

Don't you just love h2g2 conversations?

I expect nothing, and am constantly supprised, shocked, and sometimes agast Well... sort of... I always half expect it to be a certain researcher... finally coming back