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

Mostly I've just been "Paul" all my life. In grammar school, people sometimes called me "Charley." That stopped when I got into high school. In college, some people called me "Champ." At work, people call me "Diidles" sometimes, though not often.

Let's change "Diidles" to "Doodles."

(That's what you get when you put "i' next to "o" on the keyboard. )

See, when I saw it, I thought you meant 'Diddles'. That could have all sorts of interesting meanings.

I would like to add my name to the petition to get Oojamaflip to change his name back to Gosho. I never knew him as Gosho, as I arrived here too late, but everyone else seems to want it to happen and I have a very short attention span and am easily lead.

Ooh look, a dog.

The thing is, after a while you can easily tell when someone has a new journal entry, just by the subject line of the conversation that pops up on your page.

So when I see a new subject line that sounds like it belongs to Gosho, I think "Oh, that'll be Gosho".

But as the page loads in, I see this Oojathingynamethathasabout87lettersinit. Doesn't do any good, I still think, "Yeah, it's Gosho's".


Some of us don't adapt to such extreme changes well, and I'm one of them. He'll always be Gosho to me, although I may eventually adjust enough to call him Goshooja.

See, I wouldn't mind if Gosho kept a different name than Gosho (Oojamaflip is such a funny name, I could go along with it ), but considering all the delightfully weird and funny names that so many researchers have come up with, I can't fathom his choosing Ojakawhatever. Okay, so admittedly that's a *weird* name. Now I'm waiting for the funny bit.

Yalonksa (post 104) -

Of course, there are some of us who stay pretty close to our *real* names. Nothing wrong with that, either.

Yeah, I'm called Rich and generally pretty skanky

I'll rememebr that.

Most quiet campaign I've ever joined....

Slow but steady.
Shouting would be vulgar.

is this a case of softly soflty catch the monkey?

Light! Are you calling Gosho a monkey?

Well he is quite a cheeky chappy!

We have to call him something other than Gosho, don't we, as he no longer calls himself that?

That would be admitting defeat. We need to wear him down...

Don't give up; he still answers to Gosho: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/F1900573?thread=691457&skip=0&show=20#p7572069

We can't expect to see him wear down in this hot weather, Parrferris. Down is cold-weather wear.