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Twenty Years On
Beaker (Muse of bad guitar playing and Pork Pies) Started conversation Feb 7, 2019
Many, many years ago, in fact last century when we probably still thought that digital watches were a pretty neat idea and h2g2 was still on the BBC website, I joined and spent many a happy hour at work in silly conversations with Ormondroyd, Dr E Vibenstein, Mrs V, Bluebottle, Cakewalker and the like.
Amazingly , twenty years on, I find the site is still up and running ... as is what's left of my profile.
What did I miss?
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Beaker (Muse of bad guitar playing and Pork Pies) Posted Feb 7, 2019
BB - you're still on! 
Good - I'll fetch a teabag
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Bluebottle Posted Feb 7, 2019
Yep, still here – and still writing stuff about Muppets too. 
<BB<
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Beaker (Muse of bad guitar playing and Pork Pies) Posted Feb 7, 2019
Naturally 
- anybody else still around?
It's been a while and I'm a bit saggier and greyer round the edges now.
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paulh. Antisocial distancing works a well as the Social kind Posted Feb 7, 2019
Muppets? 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awhyiBv-oQc
(Rainbow connection was so beloved where I worked that everyone on the staff knew it 
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Welcome back, Beaker. How is Dr. Bunsen Honeydew doing lately? 
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Caiman raptor elk - Yes, but what if the box is REALLY big? Posted Feb 8, 2019
You also missed the coming and going of some other people, I guess.
Nice meeting you, BTW.
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2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Feb 11, 2019
You probably missed the arrival of nighthoover.... and their untimely vanishing. Although, some would say, that this isn't so much 'missing' as it is 'escaping' that particular chapter within the history of this site 
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paulh. Antisocial distancing works a well as the Social kind Posted Feb 11, 2019
"Chapter" could also be a subdivision of an organization, as in a chapter of the Nighthoover Appreciation Society.
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Caiman raptor elk - Yes, but what if the box is REALLY big? Posted Feb 12, 2019
Don't worry, I missed (most of) that too. But not the aftermath.
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paulh. Antisocial distancing works a well as the Social kind Posted Feb 12, 2019
I don't think there was very much to miss.
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2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Feb 12, 2019
so little, yet so much. - the really good stuffs was in all the tiny spaces inbetween the actual 'stuff', physicalities created to distract the observer from the important things happening in the gaps, in time and physical space
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paulh. Antisocial distancing works a well as the Social kind Posted Feb 12, 2019
No detail is too small to go unnoticed.
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2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Feb 12, 2019
- that's exactly what all my girlfriends said... 
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paulh. Antisocial distancing works a well as the Social kind Posted Feb 12, 2019
I should have said that no detail is too small to be noticed. That would be the philosophy of a dedicated trivia lover.
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Caiman raptor elk - Yes, but what if the box is REALLY big? Posted Feb 13, 2019
The trick is to see the details, the bigger picture, and everything that goes between those. (and then jump around the corner unexpectedly and say BOOOO!!! for no apparent reason)
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2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Feb 13, 2019
That is indeed a trick to achieve, if one can 
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Caiman raptor elk - Yes, but what if the box is REALLY big? Posted Feb 14, 2019
Can't be too serious. Wait, you can.
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2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Feb 15, 2019
Actually, I'm really not too sure I am capable of being too serious... or even moderately seriously..... even in serious circumstances I seem to fail to grapple or grasp the seriousness of the situation 
sense is overrated, outsanity is far better 
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paulh. Antisocial distancing works a well as the Social kind Posted Feb 15, 2019
Montaigne said, "The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness," though not in those words, as he was writing in French. You, 2Legs, are wise by that standard. 
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- 1: Beaker (Muse of bad guitar playing and Pork Pies) (Feb 7, 2019)
- 2: Bluebottle (Feb 7, 2019)
- 3: Beaker (Muse of bad guitar playing and Pork Pies) (Feb 7, 2019)
- 4: Bluebottle (Feb 7, 2019)
- 5: Beaker (Muse of bad guitar playing and Pork Pies) (Feb 7, 2019)
- 6: paulh. Antisocial distancing works a well as the Social kind (Feb 7, 2019)
- 7: Caiman raptor elk - Yes, but what if the box is REALLY big? (Feb 8, 2019)
- 8: 2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... (Feb 11, 2019)
- 9: paulh. Antisocial distancing works a well as the Social kind (Feb 11, 2019)
- 10: Caiman raptor elk - Yes, but what if the box is REALLY big? (Feb 12, 2019)
- 11: paulh. Antisocial distancing works a well as the Social kind (Feb 12, 2019)
- 12: 2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... (Feb 12, 2019)
- 13: paulh. Antisocial distancing works a well as the Social kind (Feb 12, 2019)
- 14: 2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... (Feb 12, 2019)
- 15: paulh. Antisocial distancing works a well as the Social kind (Feb 12, 2019)
- 16: Caiman raptor elk - Yes, but what if the box is REALLY big? (Feb 13, 2019)
- 17: 2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... (Feb 13, 2019)
- 18: Caiman raptor elk - Yes, but what if the box is REALLY big? (Feb 14, 2019)
- 19: 2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... (Feb 15, 2019)
- 20: paulh. Antisocial distancing works a well as the Social kind (Feb 15, 2019)
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