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

I spotted you in the Condolences thread, saw you were a fellow scouser, and popped by to say hello! Then I noticed that you haven't been ACEd So here I am, better late than never!

You probably don't need the links and stuff, since you've been around for a while, but I'm going to leave them anyway!

I'm an ACE (Assistant Community Editor) one of a group of people who welcome new researchers.
This is the ACEs Homepage http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/ACES It will tell you all about us and what we do here on H2G2.

To help you get started, just click on this http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A616772
and it will take you to my Page of Links, where there are lots of links to interesting and fun places within the guide.

If you want to know how to do the smileys, just click on this one...... And it will take you to the smiley page, where you can find out all about them!

If you have any questions, or just want to chat, click the reply button under this message. Or pop by my homepage..just click on my name.

In short, wander around a bit, read the entries and conversations, and if you get stuck, don't hesitate to ask for help!
Hope you enjoy the guide as much as we do

Worth waiting for?
Again, sorry I'm late!

Mistdancer

Thanks! I was beginning to get upset because no-one had ACEd me yet! And thanks for the info - although I've been registered for a while, I've only just got the time to start h2g2-ing on a regular basis, so I'm still very much a beginner (in fact, as you could no doubt tell, I haven't got around to personalising My Space yet!)

It's good to meet another Scouser. Although I have to say, there seem to be more of us than I thought there would be.

Thanks again,

MSC

Yep, lots of us here!

I think most of the newbie scousers are refugees from the Telewest site, on WebTV. Lots have registered in the past month!

OK, I'll bite...what's so strange about it?!

Mind you, I can't comment on names, after all, I am the Queen of the Sock Eating Elves

Play on here enough, you can collect an impressive amount of titles! I still haven't got them all listed on my space yet! Really must get round to updating it soon

Feel free to pop by for a visit!

Cool site! It's inspired me to change my default viewing to Classic Goo. Never realised before just how boring Alabaster is.

I lost a pair of socks recently. They had been given to me as a present from my little brother, and I never got a chance to wear them. Could you ask your elves if they found my socks? They are black with a picture of Bart Simpson on them. If they found them, and haven't eaten them yet, could you ask them to return them to me, so that I can wear them once? I will of course return them after wearing them.

PS any tips on tea-making? I just tried to make my mum a cup and she said it was awful. She told me to stick to coffee in the future.

Hey, another convert to Goo! Yep, Alabaster is !!!

Tea. Well, here goes...!

Tea bag in cup..pour on boiling water..leave for a minute..stir and squeeze..add milk/sugar.

Loose tea...tea in pot..pour on boiling water..leave for 3 minutes..stir pot..put milk in cup..pour tea through strainer.

Tastes better from a teapot, but I can never be bothered waiting (or washing the teapot!) Just make sure you use decent teabags..no cheap crap! Yorkshire Tea is the best, followed by Tetley or PG Tips!

Now coffee...I'm utterly hopeless at making it! Someone once told me to put the milk in before the water, but it still comes out all yukky!

BTW..the elves said the socks will be in your washing machine next time you do a wash!

Thanks for the tip! I always used to put the milk in first.

Your friend was right - always put the milk in before the water. Use a milk:water ratio of 1:4. Add sugar and coffee powder to taste. Some people will stir the mixture at this point. They are fools. Add the hot water and stir immediately. That's all there is to coffee.

Just make sure you use a nice brand like Maxwell House, Nescafe (but not fine blend) or Kenco. NEVER use Mellow Birds or any of these weird brands that seem to be so abundant around Liverpool that no-one has ever heard of.

If you're feeling posh then you can use Douwe Egberts.

Hi

Tried your coffee technique....it worked! My actually tasted ok! And I always use Maxwell House or Kenco!

How's things? Finding your way around ok?

Finding my way around quite well now.

Just learned how to use smileys! They're really cool!

Go back to uni next week. Can't wait to tell all my friends about h2g2. But most of them are technophobes, so I might have some difficulty in converting them.

Glad your worked! I followed your tea-making guidelines, and my mum said it was a major improvement. The wonderful things that h2g2 can do!

MSC

*waves to MSC's mum*

Uni? Which one? And doing what?

I'm taking a time out from a degree with the Open University right now (4 month old baby!)I'm studying different aspects of Ancient History. I'd love to get back to it, but it's just not going to happen for a while

Go check out the Humour section of "Life", it's pretty good

*MSC's mum waves back and thanks Mistdancer for teaching MSC how to make tea*

I'm at Liverpool uni, pretending to study Applied Biochemistry. I'm one of those weird geeks! Just about to start my second year.

My sister is thinking of doing a degree with Open University, preferably in History. Guess one of the huge advanages of it is that it is possible to take time out, as you are doing.

*Waves and pulls funny faces at Mistdancer's baby*

Hope my funny faces didn't scare your baby (boy or girl?). In my experience, about half find it funny, and half cry.

MSC

*baby Eddie giggles*

Tell your sis to go for it!

I was going to go to Liverpool Uni to study Veterinary Science, but I got Glandular Fever so I couldn't stay on to do my A Levels. So I waited a couple of years, and did a City and Guilds in Motorcycle Engineering instead! Now I'm a Pawnbroker by trade, but I'm not working right now!

Woman of many talents, me!

So, do you live in Halls, or with parents, or are you lucky!? I moved into my own place when I was 17, and I've never looked back! Mind you, I was very skint most of the time!!


Amazing Bongo!!!!!! The mind boggles!!!

OK, it's like this. I asked my sister for an adjective, and got Amazing. I asked my friend for a noun, and got Bongo. No other reason. And the mortals don't fly from me.

That's why I'm now the MSC - I asked various friends for adjectives, nouns, and an adverb (is Moderately an adverb? English language isn't one of my stronger points). It's not the cornice that's strange, it's my friends for thinking of it.

I live with my parents (boring old me). But what with tuition fees and books and . . . socialising . . . and everything else, I can't really afford to live in Halls. But i have got the best of both worlds. There's less stress for me, and I can still go to the guild or wherever during the evening!

Sorry to hear you couldn't get into Vet School . You'd think they'd take illness into account. But it doesn't seem to have held you back - Motorcycle engineering, pawnbroker, and now doing History! What a combination!

Glad to see baby Eddie wasn't scared by my funny faces.

MSC

I think I like MSC better! Has a ring of true ness to it!!

Eddie is now peacefully asleep...at last! Had me up till gone 4am last night..little sod! Even managed to wake his brother up! Oh joy, what a wonderful night!!

Adverbs?? Vague recollection of school, but I think I was drunk most of my GCSE year!

So, where do you go of a weekend? I used to go to the Krazy House on Wood street, and the 147 on Fleet street....I think they're still there?!! It's been a while!( and no, I'm not dead old!! I just started young!)

Ok, my spelling is terrible tonight! That should be ness!!

I go wherever the is cheapest normally!

I've been to the Krazy House. It's quite cool. Never been to the 147. Will give it a try tonight.

Liverpool's Guild of Students on the uni campus is quite good ( is £1 a pint!). But mainly I just go to regular pubs, either in town (the Augustus John on campus is quite cool) or out where I live. I'm lucky in that one of my friends from uni lives close to me, so if we can't be bothered going into town, we just go to one of the locals.

Still in town, the Firkin is also quite good (not sure what street it's on - normally too to notice!)

4am! I'm surprised you can find the energy to do anything! I'd just be . How old is Eddie's brother? When my younger brother and sister were born (they're twins), they used to take it in turns to cry. When my parents had got one off to sleep, the other would start. My bedroom was next door, so I generally got woken up as well (they could cry very loudly).

BTW I agree - I prefer being MSC.

Eddie is 4 months, and Toby is 4 years!

Hey, I'm a mum, I can function on less than 4 hours sleep....though not very well

Last time I went out, a pint of lager was 2 for a pound!! And I remember the 147 doing Sunday specials of 50p a pint! Well, not that I remember the actual Sundays!

How far out are you? I used to live in Toxteth, but now I'm way out in the wilds of Speke

4 months and 4 years? How do you find time for h2g2?

As a student, I can understand about functioning on less than 4 hours of sleep - a swift half pint after lectures in the pub turns into an all-nighter, and then there's the 9am lecture the next morning

2 for a pound? I'd never be sober! Just got news today that the student union is putting its prices up to £1.40 a pint! Scandalous! Although the Augustus John is still £1, and the Blue Angel is £1 for a pint of anything! I'll have to take a vow of sobriety if I want to get any work done this year.

Speke's not too far. I'm about the same distance out, in Aintree. It's probably quite a bit easier for me to get to town though - there's a train straight into town.

*pulls some more funny faces at Eddie, and offers Toby a *

MSC

Bloody hell, it took me long enough to get round to replying, didn't it!!!

Hello! How's you?

Hey there!

Just logged on to h2g2 again after a long absence (in uni every evening for about two weeks trying to write an essay).

Good to hear from you again! How's it going?

Am hoping to actually contribute something to h2g2 soon - I'm trying to write an article on the history of molecular biology (don't laugh). It's taking up TOO MUCH TIME!!! and doesn't leave enough time for the pub.

Gotta go and catch up on some sleep

MSC

Well, I reckon I beat my own personal record....nearly 2 years between posts! And I spot that you're back (ish) on a thread about swearing

Blimey, you must have finished Uni by now..how'd you do? And I'll bet a pint costs more then £1.40 now

I'm still stuck in Speke but I'm alive, so I can't complain. Well, yes I can, but I shouldn't. What the hell, so I'll complain! I have spent the past 14 months fighting for my life, after all. Bit of advice for you...if you want to get better, avoid the Royal like the plague.

So, you still in Aintree, or did you manage to escape?

I'm waffling. Guess who's still functioning on less than 4 hours sleep a night I'll wander off into the depths of the guide now....

Leaves a for my favourite Cornice

*wanders off, singing "Kiss The Girl" coz the kids are watching Little Mermaid and it's stuck in my head*

Nick (Mist)

BTW...where's that article on the history of molecular biology <----new smiley!!