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

I can't believe its been that long. One year. 365 days (I think).

On the 23rd August 2002 I registered.

I'm just gobsmacked. I remember thinking that people who were on over a year had been here forever. And now I'm one of them!

and to think on September 9th i think i'll have been here for 2 years! time just seems to go so fast really!

congrats for lasting this long Verc!

spook

Yeah, happy Anniversary!

Thank you very much people. And hasn't that last year gone quick

What is it they say? Time flies when your having fun

Yes

Well done holding out this long. I've still got a while to go

I'v a few months myself, so, great job!

Ah, my time is soon approaching.

Jodan : At what point are you judging from? Your registration date, or the point you became an active member?(and do you know that date? )

...I've been here since 1999 or 1998, I can't really remember which. So it's been a great long while for me...

The date I became an active member. I registered just a few days after you did, right?

And Jade- I'm guessing it's 1999 'cos the site wasn't around in 1998

...Okay then it was 1999!

You expect me to remember these things? I'm just a after all...

Gabsmacked:

Is a fairly recent British slang term: the first recorded use is only in the eighties, though verbal use must surely go back further. The usual form is gobsmacked, though gobstruck is also found. It’s a combination of gob, mouth, and smacked. It means “utterly astonished, astounded”. It’s much stronger than just being surprised; it’s used for something that leaves you speechless, or otherwise stops you dead in your tracks. It suggests that something is as surprising as being suddenly hit in the face. It comes from northern dialect, most probably popularised through television programmes set in Liverpool, where it was common. It’s an obvious derivation of an existing term, since gob, originally from Scotland and the north of England, has been a dialect and slang term for the mouth for four hundred years (often in insulting phrases like “shut your gob!” to tell somebody to be quiet). It possibly goes back to the Scottish Gaelic word meaning a beak or a mouth, which has also bequeathed us the verb to gob, meaning to spit. Another form of the word is gab, from which we get gift of the gab.