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

Hello there, I'm Rat and I'm an ACE (assistant community editor) its down to us to wonder around greeting newbies and being generally spiffy to everyone we stumble across (except when nobodys looking)..,I see The Theory has beaten me to welcoming you, but when I do it, its official .

Judging by your intro, I think you might like to have a look at one of my societies - The Campaign To Swap The Virtual And Real Worlds Over So We Dont Have To Go Online Anymore over at http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A671654

The smileys are pretty important too...with about a jillion listed, you might want to click on one of these and find out how to do the lot. Then theres the front page which lists the 5 latest guide entries, the 5 most overlooked entries and 5 busiest entries (and right now, my personal space is the busiest conversation and my journal is in second place ) which is always a good place to start...and theres the H2G2 post too: http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/thepost

If you ever want to talk to another researcher, just click on their name and you'll be magically teleported to their personal space where you can leave them a message just like I'm doing here.

If you've got any questions about finding your way around, just hit reply and I'll come running.

In the meantime, have some and and settle yourself in

hi rat, thanks for the hints. i was wondering about the and other stuff. i looked, but that's going to take printing out and memorizing. it's amazing how many there are! i can't imagine ever needing most of them, either, but is a good one, and 'net girls all eat too many sweets so i liked the and like that. i think swapping realities is a great idea! i'll go look. what's all the stuff about copyright in your name for?

thank you for noticing me, but that's your job, huh?
wallflowergirl

His job and many others. Lots of smileys? rat himself is the header of a campaign for an awfull lot more smileys. Ive missplaced the link maybe Rat will give you a link.

Oh well have fun!



CK

hmmm..dont have the link to hand, but theres a drop down menu on my page...you want TINARAIIDTCSPLYWWGAOWTCFLOS....

Hi wallflowergirl

Welcome to h2g2. Ratty's not employed to greet new folk, he just likes doing it and has been recognised as rather good at it ( Ooo look he's gone all pink)

Regarding smileys some folk print out the page but the best way of doing it if you can is to open another window on your browser and point it at

http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A155909.

When you're wanting to use one in a post just pop into that window and they're all ready there to choose from just copy and paste One of the campaigns on the guide is for more, especially a one.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A632431 is useful too


However I'm wasting time for you. If you pop back to the Questions thread you will find you have a personal party invite !! Come on - last one there's a

dang, and I thought the only person here thats NOT an ACE was tom.....

i'm honestly not thick -- well, not real thick anyway -- but i'm really confused by the conversations i keep seeing. is it something in the water? like lsd maybe? rat, you've got some weird conversations. at least, i think they're conversations, though one thing doesn't necessarily lead to another, the way i've heard it's supposed to, in real conversations.

i wouldn't know. and why'd anyone go and invite a wallflowergirl to a party? daniel may not have feared the lion's den, but they don't make wallflowerboys. if they do, they hang out in gay bars and that would be really sad. thanks for the tip about the smilies. it helps.

sorry i won't be crashing this party. i have to fool around with picking some pix for my page and trying to do this guide ml thing. besides, i stand around awkwardly and make other people feel like they should talk to me even though they don't really want to. i've realised by now it's not a "phase", so much as it is a mission statement for my life. even my mom stopped calling it a phase after i passed the age of 35 without showing signs of being socially adept.



wfg

I've had this conversation before...wish I could remember who with...

Wow WFG

what a change in your page over the past few days. Really

h2g2 is a bit like quantum physics - If you think you're getting to understand it, you're *really* getting it wrong

Don't worry about being socially adept here. One of the nice things about h2g2 is that folk accept you for who you are - whoever you are.

hi tom,

you like it? it took all night to get it all right, but i think it works, and when someone said "use classic goo" it solved my problems in a big way.

hmm. "be myself?" that's the kind of advice mom used to give me, when i was a little wallflowergirl. "just be yourself and people will like you." then i got older, and she got wiser, and she started saying "try to be like the other girls, and maybe people will like you." she gave that up and just said "try not to be so pathetic, and they won't hate you." so what you're saying is if the theory and i embark on that shocking crime-spree, we'll still be well-loved members of the community. oh good. cackle, cackle. now i just need to research crime-sprees and figure out one that wouldn't involve hurting anyone or doing anything illegal, because i'm too timid. the great library heist of 2002?

rat (tit),

if you could remember who with, that would have been with someone prepossessing. that's me, the perfect antithesis of prepossessing. so maybe it was with another unmemorable not-very-interesting person. that would explain the lack of memory. you won't remember where you read this, either.

tit? you've changed your name to "rat (tit)". the female ones have eight or something. the male ones haven't got those, so far as i know, or is it a state of mind? or am i just having things everyone else knows go whizzing past me while i fumble in my pockets for lip-balm? story of my life...

wfg

OK den wfg

dis is da plan

Da BBC is storin millions of bytes of useful stuff in da basement below da h2g2 offices.

Da Teory has woiked out da plan see.

Rat is goin ta drive da gettaway car. He's too conspikeus ta be inside da bildin but he's an ace driver - right. An he can hotwire da bulldoze like dey did for da jewellery heist from da Millenium dome.

Me I'm like da Face in da A-team so I goes in and be talkin to da folk at da front desk to distract dem like but we need someone to act as lookout to tell Rat when to drive thru da plate glass so that he an theory can steal da stuff and make off to da hideout.

Ya see we need someone who can blend into da background like. Youse got just da qualificashuns we's lookin for - aint she Rat? Quiet and inconspicerus is just da comouflage we need.

Is ya in den? We'll make a mint I tell ya

And yes the page is great. I'm jealous

i'm in as long as nobuddy gets hoit, and we don't steal nothin' from nobody dat don't got too much already. stealing from da rich would be ok. it worked for robin hood! i'm inconspicerous all right. you gotta wall or floor or couch or other thing you want me to blend into? i don't blend in with people too good, because i'm not one. furniture is no problem. they can hang their coats on me.

sound good? ok, guess i'm in.

I wish I could read funny accents (and backlogs)...

Naah.

No coathangin. Dat way yo head gets covrered and ya can't see.

Even in dis bunch Bourkas aint welcome

sure. i fed norman. you mean big, fat, lazy, dumber-than-the-average-hassock norman the , right? that orange one, who weighs just shy of 20 pounds and waits eagerly for the potted plants to initiate games of "chase"? he ate all the leftover meatloaf, and all that leftover congealed chinese take-out, too. i don't tell him it's not cat-food, or appetizing, or good for him, and he doesn't ask, is the deal. pretty swift, aren't i? i can outsmart the dumbest on the planet, armed with nothing but a bowl of gross leftovers! not just any wall flower girl can do that!

gosh, rat, how'd you know about norman? you're psychic, right?

tee hee

that stuff strider says is in the ventilation ducts is clearly affecting me. no head for intoxicants, so they toxify me pretty fast, and then the wall flower girl turns . uh oh. call interpol.
well, no, they don't care.
call my mother.
no... she'll just get about having me all over again.
call the department of sanitation?
animal control?
noise disturbance?
no... in my case that latter hasn't been relevant since i stopped my meteoric (as in hurtling earthward, burning up, and crashing; i've never understood the reverse way people use the word ) career as a rock bassist...
call someone. i'm getting goofy. you can tell.

you /can/ tell, right?


wfg

Gawrsh

Goofy's a dawg.

How'll he get on with norman?

Would you like some cocoa?