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

I had occasion to look for my very first h2g2 post earlier today, and I had to get to '&skip=9700' before I got there

Now, since I must have unsubscribed to a couple of thousand other convos since then, that puts me well over 10k. That's a lot of talking

Of course, I just know that GreyDesk is going to come along and say 'Only 9700 Goshers? Pshaw ' Well, I know that you've got 12,600 under your belt GD, so pee po belly bum drawers to you

You've spelled "pooh" incorrectly

12,624 with a few hundred that I've unsubscribed to on top of that

I didn't say 'pooh'

In that case you've violated a BBC trademark. 'Po' is a well known and highly respected member of the Teletubbies team, to which you've seen fit to not spell his(?) name correctly. You should be ashamed of yourself

Of course you might have been thinking of a river

I only had to go back 1,275 to find this, which is probably somewhere around my oldest: F25936?thread=26571&post=144095#p138985

I do massive amounts of unsubscribing....

'Pee po belly bum drawers' is from a Flanders and Swan song, and though it may be copyright material, it's short enough to be fair use Anyway, it's the title of the song


Ma's out, Pa's out, let's talk rude!
Pee po belly bum drawers.
Let's dance in the garden in the nude.
Pee po belly bum drawers.

Well, I was subscribed to Ask for a long time That'll really bump up your batting average.

I *never* unsubscribe from something unless it's in protest...

I'm not subscribed to ask h2g2, but am moving slow and steady upwards, at 9,250 at the moment...

How do you find out how many posts you've made?

You don't. You only find out how many threads you're subscribed to.

Only 12637, GD?

S'easy Paul You just have to mess about with a url.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/MP176638&show=50&skip=100

Copy that into a browser window and hit 'enter'. When the page comes up, go up to the address window and change the '100' to 200, then hit 'enter' again. Keep increasing the number (working back through your conversations) until you get a page with no conversations on it, then work forwards until you do. The number in the url after &skip= tells you how many you've skipped to get to that page

Ottox! 13813

*coughs* F19585?thread=165731 *coughs*

See? I knew it pays to stay subscribed to everything. Just today I got a reply on a post I made the first day I came here.

I'm only subsribed to 850 conversations.

See, I thought the point of being here was to prune the conversations where nothing has happened in a long time.

It's often a pleasant surprise to find a conversation which hasn't had a post for three years suddenly pop up on your postings list

Yes, I am still subscribed to that one GD