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

hello, I'm after some chatin' and belive this or not your were picked out of the hat.

so?

-- doctorMO --

hello! you men the hat of the whosonline? any excuse to stay up a bit later than.... er... lets just say the time i used to get *up* for school so as to get there at 6, when they opened. my theory of being able to be nocturnal is being validated even as i type.

oops, that should've been "youe mean the.." maybe i have been ... nah...

yer, I'm a little board waiting for Shazz.

-- DoctorMO --

and *that* should have been you, not youe. now that sentence i have proofread very carefully and am sure it has no typos.

and that last one was in reply to mine, not yours. why are you waiting for Shazz?

I did some pic'ys for him (the Post) and I need him to get the second one, he did say he would be here, but apart from that, I'm just trying to convince a friend of mine to join our little group, he's a Sci-fi Comedian and tries to write stories, I think they are prity good. he should suit being here,

I make typeo's all the time and because I stutter and am dislexic I have developed a method of comm'tion which involves taking words I can't comm'ate and shorting them down or just abr'ing them

-- DoctorMO --

oh, like shorthand. (thats also what mlas are good for, i just love those things, altho thats because i'm just lazy in my typing.) except that has all those nice little symbols and such that you can't reproduce on the computer w/o more trouble than it's worth.

with out using the power of CharMap I will produce some symbols...

éÉíÍúÚóÓÁá

! i've noticed that some symbols don't seem to go well in the forums, they just turn into that box, or the closest letter.

hehe, ^-- I pressed [Ctrl]+[Alt]+(None/Caps(a/e/i/o/u)

whats mlas?

Oh and thoughs boxes are somthing else, (btw have you seen my 'Space'?)

(None/Caps(a/e/i/o/u)?

hmmmhmhmh.. e or E, a or A, i or I, o or O, u or U any of these, try it!

-- DoctorMO --

oops, i've gotta watch that order..
mlas are multi-letter arconyms. more general than 2-letter- or 3- letter-.
what *are* the boxes?
yep, been to your space. have you been to mine? the one i've linked to, i mean.

lessee.... unless there's something after those dots that i can't see now, nothing happened. i always got my symbols from Word before.

éíóúáá yep works, make sure your holding [ctrl] AND [Alt] AND press the keys, it may matter what browser your in, but I'm in netscape and áéíóú was a microsoft inervention, it works with any Text Box.

your space link comes up with the...

"This is the Personal Space of Researcher 149526. Unfortunately Researcher 149526 hasn't managed to find the time to write anything about themselves, but hopefully they soon will."


...Page

-- DoctorMO --

what? it does! i was sure i'd checked the link.... now i'll have to logo ut and get back on as my other id.

wait, no i don't, turns out i just typoed the link. it's fixed now. good thing i got the number right in the title.

and i tried the symbol thing; when it didn't work again i tried it with different letters. when i hit something in the vicinity of "O"(on a qwerty keyboard), not ONLY did the computer lock up and the cursor disappear, but the scroll-, caps-, and num-lock lights began blinking on and off, in that order, constantly, and for some reason i got taken to a site called "netscape fishcam", or something like that. that is just about the strangest thing i've ever seen a computer do. ever.