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

With over fifty member of the Society for the Addition of a Towel Smiley(SATS)A592102 there would seem to be a built in audience for
info on what the tower is going to do about towel smileys.
latest word
Shagbark to italic:"is this a lost cause?"
Italic: "I'll see what I can't do"
shagbark: "Was that a typo?"
italic: "No it was a joke and if Mark saw you
bothering me about that blinking towel
I shudder to think what he would do"

I really expected the adress for the SATS A592102 to become a link.

Late breaking update. we got our . Gotifish is no longer running the SATS and Cupid Stunt wants to change the name to SAS
(society for the addition of Smileys) I look forward to your edition.

Hey, thanks for the update!

The first issue of the H2G2 Extra won't be happening for a while, but what would be good if you could get a few people from the old SATS to write entries about the queest for the edition of a towel smiley, how they got their obsession with towels, you know stuff like that (yes i would like you to write one too please). Then, when the first issue comes out this summer, it could be a special first edition towel issue. What do u think?

NE

sounds like a fun idea. Whoami started this whole thing. Maybe we could talk him into contributing. Then there is gotifish but I don't think he is on h2g2 much anymore. And i don't want to forget the people who contributed to the box on the left(in the feedback forum) Maybe I can get you some interesting links in a later post.

Oh and just so you know. I tried using the e-mail address from your old postings and it came back "undeliverable mail"

Well, I am burning the midnight oil here but I have
Infomation for you.
I would say the whole thing started with the original h2g2 book
where the uses of a towel are set forth and the guide says you shouldn't hitchhike without one.
Then to see this edition with all those smileys and no
it just made some people see red.
It was whoami on July3,2001 who first started the campaign in
F20473?thread=125443 a wish list for new smileys who enlisted help
and the obsession was born. Four days later on post 29 I caught it.
the movement seemed to be really rolling along so I called it to the attention of the tower on F615?thread=126133 Meanwhilethe SATS was gaining strenth every day Even Shazz noted it in the Post. For My part I had started a new soapbox F55683?thread=154622 Then in
December using the ploy of a christmas greeting I called Mark's attention to the fact that it had been half a year since he promised us a . This got him talking about not giving us one so I decided to cool it for a while. And the SATS was still gaining momentum. January came and I one again beat the drum on my soapbox.
the original "flibble and a wibble" song started in an SATS chat thread but was used more here. Others rallied to my soap box and
caught the obsession like "One Large Sperm Whale U187372 or Spike Anderson U187600 so a month later when I was ready to give up on the soapbox they kept it going. I wasn't giving up on the obsession however and so In march I tried to enlist you with those true but tantalizing quotes from an unnamed italic. In July I marked the
anniversary of the campaign by asking gotifish and cupid stunt for an anniversary party and when they were late complying I wrote a party page myself Chronicalling Events early on and drawing attention once more to the lack. Shortly after that We got our . Both the SATS page and my Party Page have been rewritten since then. Sorry I don't have a copy of the original with the Marquiz reminding h2g2 of
it's pledge to give us a . I passed your message on to whoami
I hope he responds. Sincerely shagbark.

a couple of links that didn't seem to translate as I expected
feedback forum F55683"?thread=126133
The Box on the left F55683

and here's a few links I left out
SAS(formerly SATS) A592102
SATS Party A629138
My Party Page A780707

Thanks to Shagbark for drawing my attention to this thread! I'll take a look around later on tonight and let y'all know what I think.