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Who are you, what are you, and what do you get out of h2g2?
azahar Posted Mar 30, 2004
Anyone else? 
az
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Saturnine Posted Mar 30, 2004
Gotta be some more people around here. 
Who are you, what are you, and what do you get out of h2g2?
The Reverend Something or Other Posted Mar 30, 2004
Just fell into this line of thought/conversation/what-ever-it-has-devolved into. Looks like a fine jumping in point.
Logged into H2G2 last week after accidentally find a book about a doubtful fish. Sure do miss the writings, ramblings and ravings of Mr DNA. In any case, ...
Ex Canadian military, techie-type, contracted back to the same branch of "her Majesty's Armed Forces" fixing anything they have that may or may not be related to comms or air navigation. Been through the "civil union" discussion explaining why I'm still happily in my 2nd marriage, 16+ years worth, a VERY young 29, with 16 years experience at that, a 22-yrs-old wench who has not only given me a step-grand-daughter (6) 
and a superbly named grand-son (2), she is now formulating / baking / fermenting what appears to be twin grand-somethings
. Or perhaps just the pro-genitor of Zaphod? Who knows?
And a happy (thankfully) nearly spring-time to bunches of us (I'm sure the bears, skunks, etc have the right idea about winter)
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Universal Granny Posted Mar 31, 2004
Hello - you got room for a Granny on this thread?
You all seem so *young*!
Who am I? Granny
What am I? A Granny.
A Granny to 3 lovely grandchildren (not that I am biased, you understand), given to me by two daughters and their husbands. My eldest daughter has a 5 year old girl who has just started school, and a 3 year old boy who has just started throwing things if he can't get his own way! My youngest daughter has a two year old boy, who goes absolutely loopy when I arrive and aforesaid daughter is thinking of banning me because, she says, I come with E-numbers!!
There may be a fourth somewhere in the ether, a wrecking partner for the 2 year old, but I don't ask - just wait to be presented with the scan photo!
What do I get out of hootoo? Apart from my daughters and their families, there is no one else, except my elderly mother who I visit regularly. I am in full time employment on night work, in an unforgiving and harsh environment, with little opportunity for conversation with my (6) fellow workers - so hootoo provides me with conversation, friends, information, comfort, advice which I cannot get from fellow human beings IRL.
Will stop rabbitting on now, as you may not want a Granny cluttering up this thread.
Take care, Universal Granny
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The Reverend Something or Other Posted Mar 31, 2004
Sorry, Granny, but you can NOT be that terribly old. The quantity and ages you just gushed about your grands are pretty much in-line with my own. (See the entry just before yours ...) And I KNOW that I'm not old. Ergo, you too cannot be .
Enjoy them then send 'em back to their parents! The blessing of grand-parenting, even at (perpetual) 29 !!!
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Universal Granny Posted Mar 31, 2004
Oh, I don't think I am OLD, just everyone else on here seems so young - even you at 29!!
My body thinks it is old and lets me down quite a lot, but my mind is still racing and I enjoy hootoo because I can exercise my brain, and hone my conversational skills, not to mention keep up my typing speeds, without having to creak the knees into compliance and the back into anything but bent.
I give my grandchildren back quite often, but that's only because I ask to have their company quite a lot! Individually they are all a delight - corporately they are exhausting!!
Take care, Universal Granny
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Blackberry Cat , if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque Posted Mar 31, 2004
Me-39, male, British, bored nightshift worker
First came on because 12 hour nightshifts need filling
Stayed on because I found lots of interesting articles, conversations and people ranging from frivolous to very serious
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Scandrea Posted Mar 31, 2004
I'm a geology student (soon to have a BS- next spring) in Akron, OH. I first came on a few years ago, after I finished all five books of the Hitchhiker Trilogy, signed up, and forgot about it. Got back into it a few weeks ago when I needed somewhere to go on spring break and never left!
I signed up for the articles, and I've got one in process (which unfortunately won't be done until April, or else I won't HAVE a BS), but I stayed on for the chance to slip off my starving student identity at the end of the day and pretend to be something a little more glamourous.
cheers!
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azahar Posted Apr 1, 2004
Blackberry is a male cat???
az
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dasilva Posted Apr 1, 2004
Shouldn't the question be: "Who are you, what are you, and _how_ do you get out of h2g2?"
Who are you, what are you, and what do you get out of h2g2?
Dark Side of the Goon Posted Apr 1, 2004
That last question has been asked already.
By 
N i g h t h o o v e r
And you know what that started.
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Jimbob - Got a Favourite Band? Tell Us All About It at A2464355 Posted Apr 1, 2004
Hmmmm. Maybe it's time for a competing cult:
d a s i l v a
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Z Posted Apr 1, 2004
Leave - you want to leave? 
no one's ever asked that before..
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BouncyBitInTheMiddle Posted Apr 1, 2004
Welcome to Ask H2G2; you'll never leave...
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Lady Pennywhistle - Back with a vengeance! [for a certain, limited value of Vengeance; actual amounts of Vengeance may vary] Posted Apr 1, 2004
*Hotel California*
"so i got stuck here"
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Z Posted Apr 1, 2004
No it can be done!
I am living proof that you can leave ask and survive
Come join us at The Forum A335864
You'll never look back
Oh bugga
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Noggin the Nog Posted Apr 1, 2004
I'm 51, male, an Englishman exiled in Wales. Currently unemployed (more or less).
And I get to meet people of ages and places that I wouldn't meet in RL, and have the sort of conversations I wouldn't have in RL either.
It's just the of hootoo. 'nuff said.
Noggin
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Apr 1, 2004
To praphrase Withnail;
'We've come to h2g2 by mistake...'
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Spiffy - Always glad to see you Posted Apr 3, 2004
Yesterday it appeared I had suddenly 'left' Hootoo; I couldn't log in, my PS was erased - no journal, no name, no conversations... It was terrible! I've only been here for two weeks and I felt kicked out. I missed it instantly.
The moment I discovered how I kept thinking about Hootoo I decided i should leave alltogether.
Of course everything was restored to 'normal' within an hour, and I decided I would just check my conversations, and then I answered some, and read some more. If I ever leave it won't be soon.
All this aside I'm a 23-year old student from the Netherlands. On Hootoo I'm learning not to be afraid to say what I think. Maybe I'm even learning not to be afraid to think.
I found a large group of really nice people here, and even though I'm mostly lurking at the moment I do feel welcome.
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Lady Pennywhistle - Back with a vengeance! [for a certain, limited value of Vengeance; actual amounts of Vengeance may vary] Posted Apr 3, 2004
Well, I see you've already found the Thingites...
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- 141: azahar (Mar 30, 2004)
- 142: Saturnine (Mar 30, 2004)
- 143: The Reverend Something or Other (Mar 30, 2004)
- 144: Universal Granny (Mar 31, 2004)
- 145: The Reverend Something or Other (Mar 31, 2004)
- 146: Universal Granny (Mar 31, 2004)
- 147: Blackberry Cat , if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque (Mar 31, 2004)
- 148: Scandrea (Mar 31, 2004)
- 149: azahar (Apr 1, 2004)
- 150: dasilva (Apr 1, 2004)
- 151: Dark Side of the Goon (Apr 1, 2004)
- 152: Jimbob - Got a Favourite Band? Tell Us All About It at A2464355 (Apr 1, 2004)
- 153: Z (Apr 1, 2004)
- 154: BouncyBitInTheMiddle (Apr 1, 2004)
- 155: Lady Pennywhistle - Back with a vengeance! [for a certain, limited value of Vengeance; actual amounts of Vengeance may vary] (Apr 1, 2004)
- 156: Z (Apr 1, 2004)
- 157: Noggin the Nog (Apr 1, 2004)
- 158: Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like (Apr 1, 2004)
- 159: Spiffy - Always glad to see you (Apr 3, 2004)
- 160: Lady Pennywhistle - Back with a vengeance! [for a certain, limited value of Vengeance; actual amounts of Vengeance may vary] (Apr 3, 2004)
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