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

... for 3 years now. My third birthday was on Saturday.

Help yourself to the .

happy hootobeeday

munches and

Thank you pheloxi.

yay, is it by any chance a cake with jelly babies and choccy buttons round it?

Hippy Burpday and all that.

3 yrs? You must have been barely out of school when you joined

Although you're right in a way Icky, I'd run away from a primary classroom a couple of months before I turned up here.


The has chocky buttons on it, but I'm afraid to say that only the red jelly babies made it onto the cake - the rest mysteriously dissapeared!

I is still the baby!!!...


Happy Bipday Odo..

*puts lil and some into the playpen safely out of harms way.*




Ohhh, .


Is it a nice new shiney ?

pressies? You want pressies?

Hmm, well, in that case I think you should wait here for the present.
No moving, mind!

I can't see much of a future in just standing here.....

*moves to one side and looks up*

Especially not in that particular spot.







Am also mildly concerned about the alarm that seems to be going off in one of the adjacent buildings - I wonder if I'm in for an exciting graveyard shift.

what sort of alarm? Fire alarm? Bunglar alarm (alerts one to inept burglers)? Car alarm? Diverse alarums?

Is this all just a dream and that sound is really your bedside alarm and its really time for you to wake up and go to work?

I'm sure I've been here all day.

*bangs head on desk*

Hmmm, yes I'm awake.


It's one of those old janggly bell alarms - I've no idea what it's for though. I've wondered round to the back of the canteen and one of our caretakers is standing outsdie and looking very efficient with a couple of other suited types to keep him company so it's probably just a bunglar alarm.

ah.
Not the batphone then? Or, in your case, the Odophone, calling you to some emergency where a studnet has stolen a book?

I just thought, my unumber is lower than yours, I guess that means I've been here over 3 years myself now. Ho hum.

Nothing to do with my building at all. No one gets out through my front door with a .


I'm off to collect rather a large delivery of brand new unopened books tomorrow. Hope they'll all fit in the back of the car. Then to a joyous afternoon of dewying them up and soaking up that loverly new book smell.


When were you ACEd? They usually seem to get to people within a few hours of them joining.

I wasn't ace'd well, not until quite a while later. But then that's prob cos I lurked the site for quite a while before joining, and only joined when I wanted to post a comment, hence removing myself from the ace's list.
I did post once pre-rupert but think I had to recreate my account post rupert so that's lost.

You must be a geriatric then!!!

Who or what was Rupert? Was this in the pre-BBC days?

Hmmm, earliest subscribed convos are from the end of 2001 but I distinctly using h2g2 at my previous job which was back in 98.
I also remember there being entire threads in finnish and other languages so it must have been pre bbc (yep, rupert was the bbc takeover).

I've got my first post lying around here somewhere.

98!!!

*pops Icky into a rocking chair*

Yake it easy old chap.

to Ralph.

Hiya, Odo.

a rocking chair! Didn't think anyone still had them! Think even my mum lost hers some time ago.
Probably due to the effects of us lots as kids using it as a toy