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

Welcome to the Atelier, now celebrating its TENTH year of continuous conversation! Our forum page is at A304354, if you haven't been here before, worth checking out. On May 12 we will be having a grand party: watch for the new thread.

And without further ado, here's a reprise of 9FX:

First LED Roll of Honor
Mags (fttf)
Vip
Titania
Witty Moniker
B'Elana
CountSpracula/Bluebottle
B4
Minichessemouse
Phil
Beatrice
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Ben
egon
FG
Santragenius
Happy Nerd
Marv
Dr. Z
MR
Bald Bloke
kelli
eatsmice
Mol
Hypatia
GDZ
d'Elaphant
Solnushka
lostmonalisa
David B
Metal Chicken
lentilla
Amy Paper
Teuchter
Agapanthus
KerrAvon
pedros_ecosse
Milla
spacecadette
Bagpuss
Todaymueller
Gandalfstwin
Mysterious Stranger
Wandering Albatross
Taff
V
runescribe
Camaris, a cat (new)
Mr. Dreadful
tartaronne
Sulking is Easy
Rosemary - welcome back!
Ottox 1729 - Last to the Forum and winner of the blue mohair pants



Best bon mot: from Agapanthus (491), "...the Renaissance was when Europe Went Totally Retro And Greek Was The New Black."

And d'E right after: "Alternate career path for a pope? Infallibility definitely has its uses - I think proofreader, fact checker or quality-assurance testing would be ideal."

Most informative post: MR on priestly celibacy and history (503)

Best non sequitur: Post 726.

Best retrieval of obscure trivia was by Teuchter (1855).


Notable Links
There were simply too many Youtube song videos to mention, in accord with one of our conversational topics. Scan through the 200-300's to find them.
An odd site that captions photos of house interiors:
http://unhappyhipsters.com/
extreme house makeovers:
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/03/21/realestate/keymagazine/20100321-reuse-slideshow_index.html
A quiz! this is for your Autism Quotient:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/aqtest.html
The Nimrod is dead: long live the Nimrod!:
http://news.stv.tv/scotland/north/166019-raf-kinloss-says-farewell-to-nimrod-mr2/
The Sistine Chapel virtual tour:
http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html
What stormtroopers do on their day off:
http://wildammo.com/2010/04/06/what-stormtroopers-do-on-their-day-off-part-2/
ash plume as ragnorok:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30288966@N07/4546218830/in/photostream/
The Blak Kitteh (now Camaris):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10569202@N06/sets/72157623773587395/
Scary shoes (a sample):
http://ifshoescouldkill.com/2010/04/18/crazy-shoes-as-if-i-dont-have-enough-to-shave-already/
How to say that Volcano:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/04/how_to_say_eyjafjallajoekull.shtml
The Lying Down Game:
http://dengedenge.com/2010/04/the-lying-down-game/



As the conversation opened and salonistas found comfortable places, the meltmeltmeltmelt project was soon resumed for the Scandinavians and Hibernians. Count Spracula was able to revert to Bluebottleness early on. Mr. Dreadful was stabbed to death in LARP World and later revealed to be co-starring in a Regency novel, as a zombie. Football frenzy swept the salon, followed by a plume of Icelandic ash, and Sporky finally rejoined us as Sulking is Easy. Europeans commented in hushed tones on the clarity of the sky and the absence of contrail-induced clouds while the skies were clear of jets.

Topics of Note
the benefits of meaningful conversation
kibitzing
raising kids
Girl With the Dragon tattoo - movie
songs that make one weepy/happy
a tax on cider
spike milligan
crisi management with employees and children
the Catholic Church and the scandal
bullying
Easter dinner and eating rabbit (no, coney)
watching the space shuttle
the new Who
suicide and its effects on the relicts
Anathem (again)
the scariness of debt
the welfare state
tell-tale signs of Mad Cat Woman Syndrome
Annotated Alice
memorable aircraft sightings and airshows
Roald Dahl

And so here we are once again, milling around in the foyer as the bots finish cleaning the salon and refilling the samovar. Two hundred and fifty-five conversations have flowed under the bridge: let's celebrate as we celebrate the 256th. Please make yourselves at home!

Am I first?

Yes, you are, darn it!

Happy birthday, Hyp.

- a book stamp which automatically causes offending patrons feet to be stamped upon as soon as they offend. Usual warnings about organe buttons apply, of course.

*Matina brings Rosemary an irish coffee in an FTTF mug*

*behind her comes Chloe with a floral-themed birthday cake for Hypatia*
http://www.easy-cake-ideas.com/image-files/flower-birthday-cake-test.jpg

Wayhay, first LED!

*pours from samovar*

Hello

Ooh, .

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Well here we are then 100X I wonder if we thought we'd be around this long all that time ago.

To think, our current conversations are 40 times longer than they were originally. The march of progress or just getting more talkative...

First LED, methinks...

I needed a new conversation methinks. Time to re-engage my brain.

SG V *serving RL dinner right now*

*Drinks Coffee and fills mug with tea*

I was just very lucky that we had a quiet patch and I clicked refresh at the right time.

Phil: I think it's a case of both we've got better at reading longer threads and they've now bred hamsters can cope with so many pages on one link. Talking of which, I hope they've fed the Live Feed hamsters up for tonight.

[BB]

Slides in rapidly, before going off to put an X in a box.

What has the X done to deserve being boxed?

*slips8 her missing 'that' into her comment.

*slides through the door*

*slides in and immediately back out*

I would have been here sooner but after voting I had to come home and make a ballot box out of a shoe box so that t'Boy could post his vote for who is going to be in charge. (He is)