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The downtime should be called...
The Researcher formally known as Dr St Justin Started conversation Mar 13, 2001
A lunchbreak.
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beeline Posted Mar 13, 2001
I think it should be called Rupert.
"In the Time of Rupert, there was darkness across the land, and rumour and unrest were rife. But then came a new light from the West, shining out across land like a beacon of hope... (fade to lone fearfully bemuscled rider galloping across windswept, smoking moorland...)"
The downtime should be called...
The Researcher formally known as Dr St Justin Posted Mar 13, 2001
Always reminds me of a red jersey and a chequered scarf though...
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Mar 13, 2001
I know FOOP got the popular vote while we were on Yahoo but I still think The Interregnum is the best name. Not only is it a really cool sounding word it carries with ot a sense of occasion and mystery to and it's literally correct too, It means *grabs V. Large Dictionary*:
"A period when normal government was suspended; especially between successive reins or regimes."
There was some objection to this on the grounds that H2G2 wasn't lording over us like a government and the dislike of the term "regimes". but I think it kinda sums up the grand occasion of the commnity co-existing on Yahoo as well as other places of refuge while H2G2 became part of the Beeb.
Clive (Hey I'm a Warlord, regimes are in my blood...)
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Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted Mar 13, 2001
Erm... I did have a good word - but its gone!
I thought H0G0 was pretty good though.
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Wumbeevil Posted Mar 13, 2001
I liked the "Nowhere2go2" someone posted in another place.
Good sounding and factually inaccurate, what more could you want?
*raises *
Cheers!
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Shea the Sarcastic Posted Mar 13, 2001
I quite liked "Nowhere2go2" as well. Can't remember the name of the place I first heard it though. Some vague, blurry, very non-gooey place...
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Notquiteallhere - the Conversation Assassin Posted Mar 13, 2001
I'd just like to submit "The Traumatic Episode" as a possible candidate! If you read some of the early posts on Y!Groups, you'll see this name fits with the emotions expressed therein!
NQAH
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Wumbeevil Posted Mar 13, 2001
It came back to me earlier when I let loose an exclamation of joy at hearing h2g2 was back, but I forgot it again when I saw my home page
Ah well...
*pulls out a mop and bucket and wearily goes to clean up his page*
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Inkwash Posted Mar 13, 2001
"The Traumatic Episode" it shall always be in my mind.
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Mikey the Humming Mouse - A3938628 Learn More About the Edited Guide! Posted Mar 13, 2001
Downtime? What downtime? Admittedly, the calendar jumped quite abruptly from somewhere in late January (I think???) to March 13th, but that's just a random blip in the space-time continuum. Any memories you may have of the intervening days are simply figments of your imagination, possible induced by government-sponsored psychodelic warfare.
Mikey
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Shellers (Master of wit and ready repartee) Posted Mar 13, 2001
How about ermmmm - The Downtime?
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FABT - new venture A815654 Angel spoiler page Posted Mar 13, 2001
Which chapter of hitch hikers was it when zaphod went down the total perspective vortex thingy?
it would be appropriate because I certainly found the loss of h2g2 put things into perspective
FABT
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- 1: The Researcher formally known as Dr St Justin (Mar 13, 2001)
- 2: beeline (Mar 13, 2001)
- 3: Abi (Mar 13, 2001)
- 4: The Researcher formally known as Dr St Justin (Mar 13, 2001)
- 5: Inkwash (Mar 13, 2001)
- 6: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Mar 13, 2001)
- 7: Inkwash (Mar 13, 2001)
- 8: Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) (Mar 13, 2001)
- 9: beeline (Mar 13, 2001)
- 10: Wumbeevil (Mar 13, 2001)
- 11: Shea the Sarcastic (Mar 13, 2001)
- 12: hagbard (Mar 13, 2001)
- 13: Notquiteallhere - the Conversation Assassin (Mar 13, 2001)
- 14: Wumbeevil (Mar 13, 2001)
- 15: Inkwash (Mar 13, 2001)
- 16: Martin Harper (Mar 13, 2001)
- 17: Mikey the Humming Mouse - A3938628 Learn More About the Edited Guide! (Mar 13, 2001)
- 18: Shellers (Master of wit and ready repartee) (Mar 13, 2001)
- 19: MaW (Mar 13, 2001)
- 20: FABT - new venture A815654 Angel spoiler page (Mar 13, 2001)
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