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

Nice to meet you.
Name's Cymbeline..
Someday I am going to go to Scotland.
Every year I go to the ghetto version, the Scottish Highland Games..
It's fun.
Not that that's particularly important..
Anyway, hi!
-Cymbeline, a little

Hi Cymbeline

Were abouts in the world do you come from.

I come from sunny California..
(yeh, one of those weird Americans... )
But as my stepdad has Scottish blood (and proud of it!)
I've always been interested in that sort of thing.

-Cymbeline

Wish you could send some of your sun across the pond to us. All we ever get is rain, rain and more RAIN !!!!

Its enough to drive you to

As to your stepdad having scottish blood in him - It just goes to prove that once you've got it you never loose it.

"lang mae yer lum reek"

California gets almost tooo sunny sometimes though.. Luckily I live in the Northern half of the state and am not saturated by the sun..

Not that I'm a creepy gothic chic or anything.. I'm just a theatre dork and we don't like sunlight that much... As we're always inside when it's up and get out of work after it's already down..

And also.. is such a bad thing to be driven to?

-Cymbeline, who can't even type her alias anymore.. Getting close to sleeptime..

helloha. don't mind me butting in. scotland excellent, fantastic. i'm confused by the different ways people express their actions hereabouts. is there a convention? cymbeline i notice you use < > around your actions, is this a homage to smiley nottation? others seemt o use *s or i saw someone use :: on either side of thiers. is this up to the individual? should i develope my own?

Oi EE, nice to meet you..
It's basically a personal and aesthetic decision, people are going to know what you mean either way.. I use because I am used to typing them from smileys.. In my pre H2 days (a whopping 5 days ago ) I used **'s, and in my MUD days (longer ago than I care to think about) I used ::'s.. There's no preapproved H2 method as far as I know, but I've always preferred the **'s because they are easy to reach on the keyboard in conjunction with the key.

And now that you got an extremely long explanation that you weren't really looking for, might I say that it is completely okay that you walk into a conversation.. Welcome to the insanity.

Are you from Scotland too then?

-Cymbeline

By the way, Flanker..
What was that sentence you wrote at the end of your last post?

-Cymbeline

long may your lung reek perhapse, or then again perhapse not. i'm not from scottland but it has my approval. then again so do a lot of things. thanks for the information, i should stop worrying about etiquette usw. and just be myself, i'm sure if i say something untoward someone will discipline me

la

Hi all,

Its me again. "lang mae yer lum reek" is an old scottish way of saying "long may your chimney continue to smoke". Which in turn means may you always be able to provide for yourself. So its really just a friendly saying

And I don't need any excuse to drink although I don't drink as a habit

I just drink as a rule

horay!

right on, that's a cool sentiment.

oi, it's a way to see the world through rose colored glasses.. and just be happy, rather than stress.

s for all!

-Cymbeline

usw?

yeah, i wouldn't worry about it too much, h2'ers are a v. friendly bunch... and being yourself is always a bonus!

If not scotland then where?



-Cymbeline

usw is german for etc.
i hail from south of england way. in a not too distant village at the unfashionable, er, centre of sussex.

la

Right on..

usw... german eh.. odd.



-Cymbeline

Cymbeline I was wondering what the letters that come after your name stand for and how did you get them ? I think they are really

B.C. n' S.T., you mean?
Black-Clad and Steel-Toed. It's sea's and my theatre technician guild. Because we decided it was a tragedy there wasn't one. Soon a site shall be up, I think there is the beginnings of one but I don't know the number offhand. Might look up Black-Clad and Steel-Toed?
Or tomorrow I shall come back and post it for you..
Just having one of those nights, read my journal if you're curious.
Have a v. good night, Flanker..
-Cymbeline

usw atands for und so weiter or and so on. i think etc is the same in spanish and french but i don't know about any other languages. might be an interesting thing to look up.

Goodnight

Don't let the bed bugs bite

night eh? its just gone noon here. how confusing.