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

yes - the original 'status' - years and years before anywhere else.

I like Halloween fancy dress. The best year was when we did haikus.

i don't eat any sort of raw fish!!!

The ancient tradition of eating raw fish, as an indicator nomenculature to disentangle that from the independenatness of the previous raw fish eating endurance, was, most probably, not necessarily, first started itself, way back when. When what it was which it was deliminating was not in itself so easily disintangled itself from the rawness or indeed the freshness or fishness of the raw fish. Indeed the reverse raw fish indication as a pronouncement itself as of to which it pertained, did not necessarily become indiictive of its own involuentary indication of its forward facing counterpart, until after that which it had proceded was in itself less endangered by the longevity of its own counterpoint to the fixation and general causation of the nomenculature of its own creation... I think.

Yes I liked the haikus.

How about the tradition of calling the the , and while we're at it, making nonexistant smileys in hopes that they'll turn into real ones someday?

The tradition of hootoo meets? and getting drunk...

How about the tradition - I love this one - of turning up about once a year and saying "Oh God! This place is even worse than I thought it was. I can no longer come back now that I've seen how bad it has become"...only to return and say the same thing three months later? We never had a name for it, that I'm aware of, but it's still a hootoo tradition.

##We never had a name for it, that I'm aware of,##

how about we give it a name????

Let's call them Elvis impersonators, because they haven't really left the building.

Does that one go along with the 'I'm leaving and never ever coming back!' I think I've seen a couple of instances.

Yes, I've seen that very often. It never took them long to return.

ahh... you mean the 'Roymondo flounce'....

I wasn't thinking of Roymondo, but now you mention it, he's done that, too.

but he didn't come back!!! did he??

He came back a couple of times, but I haven't seen him on h2g2 for a long time now. I met him at the London meet, though.

He'd flounced about a dozen times before the most recent one... looking at his name on his PS at the moment, he's changed that recently, ergo must have logged in to do so...

Yes, he was at the London meet, I demanded his presence... (mainly so I had somewhere to kip that night )

Just remembered another custom - that we don't barge into each others conversations in Journals, unless invited to be Friends first.


which brings me to the unmentionable smiley.

That's actually quite an easy 'rule' to inadvertantly break if you're as inattentive to the top of the page as I am.

I don't think it is terrible mistake - just that I noticed people politely introducing themselves rather than just barging straight in.