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

Well, I guess that researchers who *do* know the books, will always outnumber the researchers that don't, simply because they have a REASON for coming to investigate this site

But knowing the books isn't exactly what the "ACEs" are about, actually. It's about making the newbies feel welcome, and assisting them in getting accustomed to the way to "use" this site. As they'll understand what Towel Bearers are about, they will come to these people in case of any problems. After all, who would YOU go to, if you were a hiker in distress? Right: someone who knows where his towel is.

And this does NOT mean that I don't like Prefect.

I think Pasteys point is that a newbie won't know the relevance/significance of the towel reference if they don't know the books. I don't think he has saying that knowing the book was what the job was all about.


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How do we know that you are HOT. The advantage (for ugly people) of the Internet is that we can't see you, and so therefore don't know whether or not you ARE (HOT).

BTW I know that you were talking about the anacronym for Handlers Of Towels, I was making a joke. I mention this because I have been previously pounced on by older researchers (I'm 17) in other forums when I have used preceeding posts to make comical remarks based on those posts. It would be helpful if people would stop being helpful and saying 'Yes but HOT stands for Handlers Of Towels'. I KNOW!!!

hee hee hee

I got it!

'an I'm an 'Ole Fart'...but I dunno if I am still HOT or not [used ta be]


keep posting!!!!


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We definitely will vote - I'm just compiling a list - I am also going to show all of these to Douglas, so he may be the one to decide in the end. We will take the vote into account though...

Ghehehehe, Yes I *am* HOT! Just check out http://fessie.cjb.net if you must!

Ouch, so much for my voting for ACEs

If they were to use the blindfold, pin in the paper method then

"Peta's Pack of Picked People People Politely Providing Pertinent Points Pertaining to Previously Perturbed Preregistration Personages - Promoting Pleasant Pastimes & Paynimism, Preventing & Prohibiting Pernicious & Ponderous Pontifications Possibly Prejudicial to Permanent Playtime; Pedling Pearls of Playfullness, Pavans, Particularly Participatory Peaceful Perambulatory Pastime Parameters, Pleasant Pheasant & Peasant Plucking, Perspicacious Permutations, Paronomasia Producing Paroxysms, Primary Passion 'Puter Pasquinade. Pardon 'P' Pasticco - Patent Pending (Probably )"

would have to be in with a good chance purely on the amount of paper used

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Yeah, as if you thought you could make *me* believe that! I wasn't born yesterday!

At least you could have voted for Towel Bearer then

Ok, I'll give you a chance to make up. Link from your homepage to the "SETI@home project" (A193231) at last! There's a link TO your site, so why not one back in return, huh?

Will comply post haste! That was on my to-do list and in my last update, I must have missed it!

Hey Bruce...

Whatcha takin' *me* for, Bruce?
Don't you think I *know* he's referring to the towels?

For a newbie to know about the towels IMPLIES they also know the books, right? And in reverse, if they don't know the books, they won't know the significance of the towels either... Simple maths to me

And if you've followed everything, you may also be aware of my suggestion that a page is created where all Towel Bearers are listed. On that page the relevance of the Towel could be explained as well, don't you think? I'd actually think that such information would be a VITAL part of that page And if ALL Towel Bearers also show a link to that page (*), any newbie is bound to run into that explanation sooner or later.



*) unlike all those SETI-participants, who only benefit from a link TO them without placing a link back in return

Hahaha, I wouldn't want to try explaining THAT to any newbies... they would "P" (or Pee) on it, most likely!

Most kind, thank you

Shorthand P^56

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Yeah, no matter to what power you put it, that won't explain anything

dearest guru Bruce,

I liked lots of the ideas so far, but I'll only vote for this really great one if you promise to care for some GuideML-tag or script that will write the full version of the name automatically when signing the welcome message - I detest shorthand

but then somebody maybe would want to automize the whole thing, and that would take all the fun out of it... a jeez. back to the drawing board...

Sub-Com-Ed-ians?

Sub-Com-Ed-ians I like.

In the earlier posts, although the posters say that what I say is a case of simple maths, ie, people won't know what the towel reference is about, they still seem to be missing the point. I'm sorry if I drag this on but I will for two reasons. One I've just got back from the pub and Two I want to try and clarify myself. The reason I'm sort of against Towel Bearers is not because I'm against the name, as previously surmised but because I'm against the elitist group ideal that it sugests. Yes, I know that currently most people will have heard of the books. But they will not get all the references to them. We can not start to call voluntary positions for references to the books. This Guide, although based on the idea of the books should not be based on the characters of the books. Here we have the opportunity to set up not just a reference for life on this planet of ours but to set up a Guide to life. People logging on to here should have to opportunity to find out about anything. Regardless as to how it relates to the books. This is not the books. This is different, better even. We should not exclude people, I've given up with terms like 'newbies' or 'new users' because this applies to us all. This site has the potential to be the definitive reference to not just life on Earth but to Us. To everyone who logs onto the internet and to everyone who can look at a computer screen. The possibilities are almost endless. So, given what this site can be, and what it is bound to become, I say, 'Steer away from oblique referances that really are only there purly for a giggle.' For those that came to this site early on, look at the entries or the correspondants articles that started here to pad the guide out a bit. One line entrires. Reports about life on Earth from the point of view from peole from another planet. These were great when the Guide started, I still find them good reading now, but they were soon passed over to make way for the more serious side. I'm not saying that we shouldn't look at humour, after all with out humour none of us would have stayed here. What I am saying is that there is a place for humour, but it is not a place that stays. Something like the suggested Asssistant Community Editors would be here for a while. They will not be dealing purely with Hitchhikers adicts. I repeat, they will /not/ be dealing purely with Hitchhiker adicts. So anything that they get called should not exclude those who haven't read the books. Anything relating to Towels would do that. Imagine that you yourself had never read a Hitchhikers book (sick thought I know) but imagine, and some body you then met on the net comes along and says 'Hi, Im a Towel Bearer'. Your first repsonse would be along the lines of 'F*** off creep' and then you would log off. Don't deny it, it's true. It's like being accosted by a religious nut in the street. You do your best to avoid them. So I plead, stay away from the book references. Things like Prefect, yes, it's an obscure reference in a way but also describes the position that would be held. Let's go for sublte humour rather than slapstick. Not everyone enjoys slapstick. Not all jokes are funny to all people. So please, let's go for something with a bit of dignity. Towel Bearers would be great if we all knew the relevance. All here currently might. But with the amount of people using the internet such references could seriously set this site back. We are here for the good of us all. Not just for the good of all who have read the books.
Mind you we could always make it compulsary to have read the books before being able to sign up for this site, have a little test maybe to prove your knowledge of DNAs material. But that is it. Why should it be limited to only the people who have read DNAs books? Why should this site be limited to only the people who have heard of DNA? If we limit this, it will die. Let's not be elitist. Let's open it to everyone, and let's not exclude people from certain gags.

Ahhh but think of the intrigue & mystery

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Javascript with Genuine People Personalities perhaps?

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