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

Wotcha Fish-Boy
Yeah, but I'm interested to see what happens now.
About eighteen months ago now, Alberta got topped in an over-zealous RPG thread (Ex-R thankfully reincarnating her; useful service that)
Nobody cared but me, back then. This time, I'm kind of hoping for an outburst of indignance.
We shall see...
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No-one noticed this time.

She'll have to survive in miniature until someone reinflates her.

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Search again seal-pup.

(Preoccupied Fishmonger)

And I did, but it sort of looked the same, so not for the first time I'm barking up the wrong proverbial, yeah?

Maybe you meant the N-SS. You up for going all the way with this Rime-thing? To be maliciously honest, having everyone drop dead and then conjuring a crazed and shrill Life-in-Death out of a certain basket would be...well, wicked...

Try here ... F74130?thread=397601

Dunno about the Rime. It keeps rotating the strike anyway.

I'm sure that wasn't there last time.

You know about Lion, yeah? I never met anyone with her flair for investing creative energy in the banal. She wasn't apologetic. She gloried in it. Brilliant, witty, pointless. LI-terary ON-anism.

You haven't been telling porkies about your gender, by any chance?

...and as for the N-SS, and that last riposte...

Ahem.

Nine fathoms down, a pursuant spirit is laughing so much he can hardly Speak-Your-Weight.

Yes you're correct. It didn't immediately come up on the Search Engine ... must be some sort of update delay.

Re:gender. Erm. I'll go look.

Re:Lion. Can't find her space. Is she still called Lion? Can you give me any links?

Trout

PS I see you have a nomenclatural appendage. Trout truly basks in the praise from the gifted.

Praise? It's a badge I wear with pride.

Brief history of Lion. I know her in RL. Possibly 'knew' would be more accurate, 'cos I've not seen her since about Xmas 01/02.

She told me about h2g2, where she was a Researcher. That was in August 2001. I first posted about two weeks later, and she spotted me right away. But she let me know in a RL e-mail. She fed me some stuff in the first weeks, and she started calling herself Lion (explanation as above) in those RL communications.

At the end of October she sent me another mail saying I didn't need her any longer. I backed off, largely because she had some real cares to cope with. By the time I picked up again months later...you've guessed it - she'd changed ISP and we'd lost touch.

And I never found her hootoo persona. I don't know if she's still here or not, or whether she's a name or a nobody, only that her original U-number must be lower than mine, but probably not by all that much.

More clues? Well, I know a few RL facts but they're not going to be unique and she did ask me not to broadcast them. I'd be very surprised if she put any RL-self into hootoo, given the way she talked about it. Finding her remains an intriguing background sport, but no longer a compulsion.

Any ideas gratefully received.

boys will be boys
good hunting friends.
take care

Yo, fish-boy.

Mornington Peninsula is it?
I iz jealous.

(smiling here, to see you there!)

Ha! Yes nearly. South Frankston. Can walk through Sweetwater Creek, down Olivers Hill to the sea. Still bloody (is that allowed?) parky though. Got to do me punts for Caulfield Races tomorrow!

Trout

Wo Trout
I wouldn't jettison you, not ever. OK?
I don't know, it's just that the N-SS has lost it somehow.
A large part of it is Ben herself not being arsed. That really totally p*sses me off.
But the other thing is that (I thought) there was an unspoken pact to try and write well. Imagination and style. OK, everyone has their own level of ability, but we all have to push our own level, or it's not worth it.
And not many have been trying very hard. Your good self an honourable exception, natch.
I think it's time we did something else. Something a bit more exclusive, unashamedly elitist. Something this slack and lazy sh*t-hole won't forget in a hurry...
Shame I can't think of what it is...
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Hey!

Know what you mean about NSS. It's lost all of its momentum ... probably needs a dozen or so fairly conscienscious regular contributors, or it's chinese water torture ...

Whatever happened to the Canterbury Tales? You never updated the title page to include the Hand Maiden.

Otherwise, some sort of collaborative for the EG or the UG? I'm up for it.

Inspire me big man.

Trout

The Hand Maiden, yeah, I should do that.
I kind of gave up on not-Chaucer too, 'cos the Beeb trod the ground. And there weren't enough players to make a ring (needed about six, probably)

EG collaboration? That intrigues me. I have a (childish) whim to try write an exceptionally good and essentially straight Entry on a Challenge h2g2 subject, one that they say they want to fill a gap in the EG, only then to post it to the AWW.



...Like I said, childish.

Anyway, I'm thinking. You think too, right?

See you back here when we've thunked.

I might try to shove out something banal about that painter that you're debating with the gog, just to see if I'm in the right ballpark. You never know your luck in this place. It was your mate HooVooLoo that put me onto Hieronymous Bosch. Maybe now I can learn about some new chap.

In the meantime, I would rerplace "...and the reek of the sea pervades everything..." with "...and the reek of sea is all-pervasive...".

But in retrospect, I couldn't spot a cliche if it was smearing its own nipples with nutella.

I'll tell you about that PS Entry some time. It's not all it seems.

Not sure about joining in with Dadd
Could get a bit crowded. Very much up to nadia, that would be.

There are plenty of other tortured artists to go at. One thing I thought of once was Thomas's last days in New York in 1953, written in his style. It would need to be pretty straight, and it would be a very tall order to make it a tribute rather than a travesty.
That one was originally an idea to tempt Ben, in fact - a serious challenge for a serious aspiring poet. (More recently, I've come to wonder whether she's quite got the bottle)

As for you, you bugger, I know you've got both the nerve and the ability to carry off something like that. Only trouble is, you'd probably decide to ham it up at the last minute, and revel in the resulting farce.

Maybe the tortured artist is getting a bit overdone. I want to try something really different, so different that it couldn't ever be me in my little rut who thinks of it. So shouldn't it be down to you to shape this one?

Alternatively, we could always reel off a few cliches, string 'em together and then decide what the resulting Entry's about...

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Re: Dadd. Fair Play. Dunno I could ever have got much beyond Freddie Mercury anyway.

Re: Thomas. You mean the Welsh fellah? Lay lady lay...

Yeah, that's what I meant.
About the Wesh fellah, and about hamming it up...

Oi! Weren't you gonna make us rich?