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

Let me see if I got this right..
So.. your early experience on computers confined you to UK Gov't links and once you got the chance to surf the web you went to a US Drug Co. site and pushed the 'translate this page to french button' and ended up at H2G2.
Alice had a similar experience following a rabbit. Oh my heavens is that the time. Gotta go. I'm late. Very very late.

Something like that. I really can't quite remember how I ended up on US drug company's site. But I'm really pleased to have punched the translate button and found h2g2.com!

h'm ...
i fell to earth here a year ago when beeb.com threw me on to babelfish and .... here we are again
i don't care what anyone says, i think your choice of name is great, but then loook at myyy name.
welcome home.

Ah, the windmills of your mind. I love that tune with it's rushing forward of the words - the only one like it is a Crystal Gail song (I think it's River Road) which the she did on the Muppets and they had these 3 legged critters windmilling along beside her against a speeding background. '..like a wheel within a wheel..'
Oh thank you, I love the tumbling rhythm of that tune, I'll be falling forward all day now. Thanks.


Hi Grey Desk.

Wotcha JWF!

As you can see my name has been slightly adapted to advertise your refugee camp. I registered but haven't posted yet, I'm still ploughing through the backlog of messages and don't want to jump in with some wild statement and look silly.

Anyway I'm off to learn more about how you navigate around this BBC malarky.

Grey("This Be The Verse" is my favourite Philip Larkin poem)Desk

:: wanders in, looks confused ::

Confused ...? That'd be the Larkin poetry doing that then. Larkin, eh? Sounds like a winner though doesn't he , 'lark - in '. Hail to thee blythe spirit and all that - P.B.Shelley and all, eh what - lovely wife he had - uhm Shelley not Larkin -- oh dear me no - different kettle of fish - BBC poet you see - post WHAuden - yes, different kettle altogether - umm fish yes - this way to the chippie then...
*wanders lonely as the knight*

No its the one that starts:

"They f**k you up, your mum and dad.
They don't mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you."

GreyDesk

why do i feel the pressance of moderators ?

My dear bureau aux gris,
RE your post #5 above, in which you speak of name modifications ..was there some subsequent Moderation I missed out on? As you can see my name has been taken from me and I am reduced to being a number. (I am NOT a number!) I have had no notification and no response to my inquiry and appeal from the ModHelp people. So I am wondering if you had some 'difficulty' in that regard.
U-162344 the researcher formerly known as [email protected]

Thanks for the Larkin quote. I had somehow gotten him confused with ..oh (MacLeish was it) wrote the one about washing the family motor on a Sunday morning ..all very BBC type. God bless the Beeb, they kept poetry alive off-campus, where it was inbreeding badly.

*notes rotten structure of last few sentences - shrugs despondently*

Dear "He is not a number he is called John"
No I didn't hit moderation problems. I've just been changing my name at random intervals, depending upon how I feel at the time.
That said the "uc" has been bleeped from the first line of my last post, so the moderators are out there somewhere.
So what exactly have you done so far to [edited by researcher, because he knows it will get moderated, but relates to urination] annoy them then?
GreyDesk

Turns out I was innocent. After two or three days of flaming everywhere, with my self-righteous-rant-of-indignation at the ignomy of my name being arbitrarily reset to a user number, I have finally been vindicated.
Peta says I can, 'if I really want to', post an e-mail addy as part of my name and has advised the mod.s not pull e-mail postings because they are not URLs.

Spring being spring, are you feeling any strong urges to paint your desk a brighter, cheerier colour?

nobody's innocent...

This is true. But you all, my dear dot.comrades, know me to be a man of honour with only the best interests of the PAR-Tay in mind.
So let's Par-tay! s all round... To .."Innocence"!

PARTY

*pushes button*

I just wanted to know what would happen of I added to the oldest conversation on my posting list.

*leaves and for all those who respond *

Scoff, scoff, glug-glug, (burp).
Ta!
So now you know.

Bloody Hell it worked!
And pretty darn quick as well
So plaguesvile, you never get round to unsubscribing from conversations as well. Tell me did you recognise the thread when it popped up in your most recent conversations list?

And do you find that you spot most of the typos in your postings just after you've hit the "Post Message" button and just before the frame closes and goes back to the thread?

It should of course read, "plaguesville"

Plaguesville has asked me to present his compliments and say that he doesn't unsubscribe from threads where there have been interesting people;
he has also been plaguesvile on an ISP which went wonky;
he doesn't spot typos until the substantive reply appears;
have you kept a list of ALL your passwords?
and beware of Big Green Smilies, no matter where you encounter them!