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

Hey there, .. I´m like gone for, like, a few years or something, and nobody even checks in to see if i´m ok? Like, devastating..
Seems i had it comin, no other logical explanation.. Wait, thats not an explanation!, just a.. Nevermind.
How´s everything?
..Or just a few select somethings?

The privateer formally known as AdvocatusDiabolicus

Hi there, Advocatus Diabolicus.

I came across your posting on the jokes thread and your comment there about things from the past made me wonder who you were, so I checked out your space and anyways... Glad you ventured back to h2g2.

The jokes thread has indeed been suffering from political correctness (as some would have it) or from a lack of humor by some (as others would have it) or from overcautiosness (as few would have it) or from being prohibited to say or write certain words. Moderation has, since its introduction, been the object of many a debate and quite a few folks around here are not happy with it. Oh well. I hope your joke was good, though. Most of the jokes that get yikesed are good...

So anyway, what have you been doing these past years, what brought you back, and who are you anyway? I am Yelbakk, formerly proud of being the Keeper of Abandoned Thoughts, formerly proud of having a long and exhaustive Home Space, now a teacher in training, now married and in love (with the same woman, too!), still in Germany, still German.

Y.

Hi Yelbakk, - Thanks for letting me know that i still existed. Or trying to relay the intel, at least. Delayed responsiveness seems to be a trait of mine. Maybe Ok for 1788-standards of document transfer-time between Ireland and Honshu, .. But +2years might seem unserious to modern spectators. Good thing we´re not that crowded here ..

Visiting you space and reading your entry, i get the idea that you are yourself not the type that spends most of your day in front of a monitor.. Or behind, whichever seems more accurate .. I hope that the situation described is one that you´re gradually overcoming.
I´d practice my German (lack of) skills on you, had it not been for the probability of being moderated blank, by our protective patrons.. Part of the reason i don´t really hang out here anymore.
MSNger first, then facebook (and wikipedia for info on anything Earth and beyond) also left this place more or less obsolete to others than the "real" inhabitants..
I came here mainly for sh'ts n´ giggles.
Been back a couple of times since to catch up with a few of the researchers that made a lasting impression, in particular "pandora" , -ever had the hoot of crossing her path?
Unfortunately she seems to have other business to tend to as well..

Anyway, i´ll pop in a from time to time, now that i have a reliable Inet, check for jokes that have´nt been posted a zillion times, and a little threadsurfin´ when so mooded.
Oh, btw.. regarding my abscence. I´m a sailor, ..well, i used to be. Now i´m a father of two daughters, and landed myself a job as skipper on the canalboats passing tourist around the harbour of Copenhagen.
There´s still a bit of salt and the occasional seaspray to it..
If youre ever in Cph, ask for Iwanoff and i´ll fix you up with a free tour..
Regards

AD

Rightbackatcha! Venus.. Glad to see you still orbiting
So, this Universe haven´t imploded completely after all..
-offer stands for you as well,- f´course!..

I pop from time to time, more often than you do i guess.
How are the kiddies doing? Growing up fast i expect.