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

Reminder/refresher-

What have you done or been part of or 'been there' for?
{Any & All though I might ask for a brief background if it seems likely to be unfamiliar to most of us...}

We now have two sections:

In Living Memory: for those things of Global, (your) National or (your) Cultural significance, that won't come around again (try to put a date or a year or a decade to your story).

Things We Remember: for non-earthshaking events, but which are important to us as individuals (times of less importance).


RtB

Hokay

Just about ready for PR, with both. I'll delay a while 'cos I'm agonna be occupied for a week, which will be enough (?) for a few more contributions ...anyone?

So far
InLivingMemory: nearly 8 A4 pages, Times New Roman/14
ThingsWeRemember: 5-and-a-bit, ditto

Wordcount:
Recommended length for a long entry: 2,000 words or so

ThingsWeRemember: 2549

InLivingMemory: 3557
. pre 60s: 1016
. the 60s: 1471
. post60s: 1012
eh? that doesn't add up

I think I'll post them (soon?) as Not for Review, so you can look 'em over, set me right & comment before formal submission to PR - I'll give links here.
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Do you know, the more I work on these, the more important InLivingMemory seems.

- and, how do I give credit to contributors?

In Living Memory
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/A60097962?s_fromedit=1

Things We Remember
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/A60098097?s_fromedit=1

More work to do, but -

corrections/comments please? - Here.

Rod

Hi - these Entries are coming on well. Can I recommend that you submit them to the Edited Guide <./>writing-workshop</.> as a preliminary to Peer Review? You get lots of helpful advice there - especially from people interested in the craft of writing, who may or may not have already contributed here - so widening your pool of advisers/contributors.

Oh, yes, about adding researchers to the list of contributors -

Go to 'edit entry' and look towards the bottom of the page. There is a box which gives instructions - you add researchers by pasting in the user numbers ( without the 'U') and then click where it says 'Set Researchers'

Lanzababy Scout

thanks lanzababy, I'll get 'em out of where they are & put 'em where you suggest... but not, I'm afraid, just yet.

(I should have waited, but wanted to move on before abandoning y'all for RL)

There's no rush Rod I just thought it would be a halfway house, and I know that there is a lot of supportive commenting that goes on in the Writing Workshop.

I was surprised to read those and suddenly realise just how many stories had been contributed. Seeing them all together like that makes a great impression, greater than seeing them bit by bit as they were posted into the thread over a longer period of time.

As for the Edited Guide and the Review process - which will almost automatically reject 'first person' accounts submitted as entire entries - may I suggest that all these individual accounts be more clearly and firmly set as 'quoted examples of typical responses' (acquired data) to the larger original question of how memories work, how they are retained what we choose to remember.

Edited Entries often rely on 'quotes' (even first person quotes) to support a larger thesis or to enlarge a larger question.

peace
~jwf~

Hi Rod, Correction or clarification re: my entry. My father served in the Canadian Army , in WWII as a cook, that is what always made the story my dad told so special. I also remember, He said, finding that goose was not easy, something about a big fight going onand I believe dad mentioned Patton's showing up was not something the cook got any forewarning about. I wish I had more details, I will try to find out.
Thanks for doing these entries, I'm enjoying them very much.
Nancy

OK, as to corrections - the Wembley Goal one. My Dad wasn´t stationed there, our hovel was on the left side of the road, ie German. And calling the town WetMold was a squaddies´ joke, due to our weather - real name is Detmold. (Hobart Barracks in our part of if, and it was jolly good to have you Brits.)

just calling in, trying to keep up with backlogs...

Thanks folks.

Rod, one you ought to leave out, as, by tacit agreement, it never made it to MP or civilian police files. Detmold again, 70s.

Gentlemen from...erm, another country tried for a protection racket.
Unfortunately the first landlord they contacted ran the Lifeguards´ and MPs´ favourite pizza restaurant. First time they came to collect their fee made them ditch the idea.

The young gentlemen were even as gentlemanly as to call for ambulances before they spoke their mind.

That´s what used to happen whenever Brit soldiers were posted to too large a garrison in too small a town and feared they would have to stay in the ghetto and were welcomed instead.

Calling in again - Christmas fayre at *The Studios* (remind me to tell you about that, one day - small but I find it novel and interesting) on Sunday, so I'm turning toys & tree decorations, Miz Stress painting them... busy Busy BUSY. After that (on Wed), my monthly full day's (6/7th of 36) woodturning course - homework not done yet & it's a tricky task.
Dammit I'm supposed to be retired!
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Pit & anancy girl - thank you, corrected.
Sorry about those , just a teensy little big bit crass of me.

Pit - your protection racket's a goodie, (not for InLivMem, but it'd well suit ThiWeRem). Pity it's one we ought to leave out ...but just how long ago was it...?

Rod

Rod, I was still living in Detmold, so it must have been sometime in the mid70s. Probably all involved who wore tinsel on their uniforms are pensioneers by now, so you might use it.

Hi Rod,
For the living memory entries:
Expo '67- Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
My father's catering company won the bid to feed the school trips to the Expo, we went before the fair opened to the general populous, I think it was in June 1967. Aside- to all Canuks, I was thirteen at the time and I was not involved with the choice etc. of the food.
My memories of the trip were:
Buckie's USA pavilion. Habitat '67( a new type of housing) I believe that someone is restoring that complex. At the time is was so cool!
The exposure to all the world's/human different cultures was so amazing and "blew my tiny little mind". I lived in Toronto at that time(a very vanilla culture) and was so impressed at the' world of wonders' that we humans have.
MY favourite time was when four of my new found friends decided to "get lost", we went to "la Rounde"(sp) and tried out all the new rides. The amazing thing, upon reflection, "of our current times", is that no body seemed the least bit concerned that we went missing and when we rejoined our group, we somewhat sheepishly apologized .
As I only have Dial-up, and links are not my forte, I believe the CBC has some really good references to Expo '67.

girl.
#1 - you were a silly girl back then. AFAIK appartments in the Habitat were sold for next to nothing after the expo - had you bought a few you´d be a very rich lady nowadays.

#2 - you are a very clever girl. A 100+ pounds German Shepherd is a wonderful bedwarmer when the heating conks out - and I believe Canada cold is something not to be underestimated. Give Anubis an extra cuddle.

not in the bar pit??

Just out of bed again - crawling over there.

i'll get em in

Hi Pit;
Having a King size bed, Yes( the idiot twins) Roo is at 65 lb's.. now the bed is very warm.
Aside- when I had the bed built, my master carpenter"wood elf" questioned why, as at 5'2"-approx. 115 lbs. girl , I wanted a king size bed. I explained that I lived with a 100 lb's... GDS and a 6'2"- 200+ lb's.. part time partner and was getting another GDS. Wood elf smiled and told me he would put an extra support under the bed- I forgot to add that to the design.
I shall remain, always silly...but very practicable.