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

 I want a rejection letter - Just how long does it take to tell me my articles are rubbish?

(Ginger has left the site for the weekend but will be back with a vengance soon. Please leave a message after the tone and she will get back to you)

P.s. If anyone reads this go hunt down benjymous and sign onto his campaign for a chat room if you haven't already done so!

Waiting for the bad news is pretty rough, huh? I've reached two weeks waiting for my rejection. I can't eat, sleep, go to work, etc. I wonder how many more days in a row I can call in sick before I get fired?

Here's some worse news - I've been waiting 3 weeks now! If they don't reject me soon I'll resign, and take my work somewhere where they don't appreciate me!

I think the problem here is that they don't pay us. If they were spending money they would be forced to take at least some of our work, or else waste all that money.

OK so lets start a campaign to make them pay us! I could do this all day if they'd pay me £35k + pension!

Ok, I'm about to reveal my country of origin (If I hadn't already). How much is the 35K in American dollars? (I'd use the symbol for pounds but it isn't on my keyboard!)

if it's still $1.5 = £1 then approx $52K. Sounds better in $!

Do you have the pound symbol on your keyboard? I wonder if there is some way I can also use that symbol? It would sure beat typing "pound" all the time. I'm certainly too busy to be typing "pound" all the time, when I could be saving time by using the symbol. What was I talking about?

Yes it's above the 3 and the $ is above the 4. I thought all keyboards are pretty much standard or do the US not recognise that any other currencies exist in this world?

Americans never want to admit that anyone else or thing exists in the world, or at least anything better. We've acomplished so much, such as wars, New York, etc. Having said that, there is also a pound sign above my 3, but it looks like this: #

I have no L-shaped thingy on my keyboard. Maybe I should take it back.

You should be able to change the settings on your keyboard so the # you have above the three shows as a £. Do a little searching on your system settings - it should be easy to find!

No luck. I'm sure you're right, but I haven't been able to motivate myself enough to do more than a brief search for the L-thingy. Maybe I can just call it the L-thingy from now on. Then I could type great sentences like, "I went to the bank today and some masked guy relieved me of (L-thingy)500."

Try settings, control panel, keyboard, properties and there should be a language setting. There's loads of US ones but if all else fails try British!

Hey, it worked. £££££££££££!

Thanks for the help. Being an engineer, I do actually know a fair amount about computers, but I am also very lazy.

With my keyboard set to British, I would expect it to automatically enter "colour" when I type "color", but I can see that didn't happen.

Hmmm! So do you have speakers - If so try getting your computer to say tomatoes or potatoes. If they are not pronounced in the queen's english I suggest you call the whole thing off!