Researchers
As far as the Guide is concerned, there are exactly two types of people.Well, excluding the minor differences such as what colour their skin is, and whether or not they wrap their heads in big towels or just put little caps on, or wear big black dresses, or how many arms or legs or eyes or heads they have, then there are only exactly two kinds of people.
There are the people who read the Guide, and there are the researchers who write the Guide.
So Exactly Who Are The Researchers?
Well, they could be anyone. They could be you.
Alright, then one of them could be you. In fact, there are some very, very good reasons why one of them should be you. If you take a look inside the Guide, you can see a lot of those very good reasons and some nice, shiny, icons that you can use if you volunteer to do a little extra.
For instance, researcher 27425 is Mark A. Preston. A real person who has a real home, a real family and a real job.
Well, a job of sorts.
You may meet him in places other than the Guide and, if he is working, he may be called "The Magpie" out there. A magpie is a black and white bird, not be confused with a black and white bird called a penguin because, unlike magpies, penguins cannot fly. Pigeons can fly and they can be black and white. They come in all sorts of colours, though, and should also not be confused with magpies.
To avoid all the confusion with black and white birds, in here, to save having to remember "Researcher 27425" you can call him "The GlowWorm". Worms look very different to birds - black and white or otherwise - so that should make life at least a little easier.
Most of us have all that, of course - the job and everything, I mean. Although these days a real job is harder to come by than it used to be back in the dark ages before this researcher began to wander around planet Earth. Well, that's what they say anyway (but you have to be very careful about what they say). Of course, a lot of us keep changing our real jobs so they get passed on around all the other people. It's a sort of timeshare thing everyone has going.
The idea is to keep the money coming in so that when your turn for losing the job comes around you can spend it - the time and the money, that is - somewhere sunny, like Rhodes or Kos, rather than somewhere rainy.
Like Manchester.
Where I am.
Hmmmm - I think I must have done it wrong somewhere along the line.
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| Messages left for this Researcher | Posted |
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| A27703 - Researcherss | Oct 8, 2001 |
| NHM - The GlowWorm | Aug 20, 2001 |
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