Where are our researchers from?
Post 1
Started conversation Oct 17, 1999
When I get involved in an online community, I'm always curious to know where people are from. Personally, I'm from Alaska in the USA. Anybody else want to disclose their homeland?
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Who hoo another American
Post 2
Posted Oct 17, 1999
It seems like the bulk of us are from merry old England, which I geuss is where most of the press coverage for this project has been. But with 25,000 registered people, there are bound to be folks from all over, right?
I, myself, am from the Boston area (as in NEW England, heh).
Where are our researchers from?
Post 3
Posted Oct 17, 1999
I guess I'm from Scotland. The reason I say guess is I was actually born here, but didn't hang around too long, and in tracing my relatives, discovered my fathers side is from Scotland, while my mother is English, and here father was born in America.
To be specific and trace it all the way back to man's first steps - or even prior to this - seems to me to be just too damn much work.
So, yes I guess I'm from Scotland, but technically I'm a little confused.
Where are our researchers from?
Post 4
Posted Oct 17, 1999
Why do you want to know? Who sent you? Do you work for the Government? Bill Gates? Why does my dog keep "Beep"ing? I don't know anything! I wasn't there! IT'S NOT MY FAULT!!!!! (sob, sob, whimper...)
Sometimes, late at night, I like to wash my socks in Soda Water so my feet will fizz. Will you be my friend?
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Post 5
Posted Oct 17, 1999
Born: London, England
Grew up: Coventry, England
Current home town: Redditch, England
Parents (if you care): English father, German mother
Genetic pedigree: mongrel (great-grandparents from Denmark, Poland and Scotland (I think))
Hope that helps. If so, please explain it to me!
Where are our researchers from?
Post 6
Posted Oct 17, 1999
I'm living in Plymouth, England. How many people would get that confused with the Plymouth in America?
In my opinion my birthplace, Bristol (England again), is a whole lot preferable to where I'm living now. Maybe if I stayed in Bristol long enough I'd get to hate it. Maybe not.
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Post 7
Posted Oct 17, 1999
I'm currently residing on Earth, but the place I'm from is no longer in existence. HTH. 
a/s/l checks byte.
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Post 8
Posted Oct 17, 1999
What's really cool about the H2G2 is I've never had an impulse to look at anybody's home pages in any other community. Now, every time I read an interesting entry, I feel compelled to check out the writer's home here.
Boy, so much aimless musings from me. I gotta think of something more constructive to post about. 
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Post 9
Posted Oct 17, 1999
And yeah, Turtle, I would have never known about this site if I hadn't found the link to it from DNA's website. I imagine this site is a bit more apparent from the British Isles. Or am I wrong on this?
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Where are our researchers from?
Post 11
Asteroid Lil -- Community Editor, Community Artist
Posted Oct 18, 1999
Stop that, I say! Stop tagging!
I'm in Florida. Actually, watching the time zone is a good way
to chart who's active. Like the only Brits likely to be around right now are either insomniac or night shift workers. Or extraterrestrials.
I don't think I have ever seen an ad banner for H2G2, although I am not a rabid surfer. Where should they advertise?
Lil
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Post 15
Posted Oct 18, 1999
I'm living in Vancouver, Canada, but in a few months we will be moving to Cape Town, South Africa. After that, who knows...
Where are our researchers from?
Post 17
Posted Oct 18, 1999
None other than the Hurricane Magnet itself, Cape Hatteras, NC, USA
Now if you'll excuse me, I must go pump all the water from my yard so I can begin cleaning up the debirs.
Where are our researchers from?
Post 18
Posted Oct 18, 1999
Born & Grew up: Wallasey, Wirral, England (that's North-West England, between Liverpool and Wales but I'm not Scouse or Welsh)
Undergraduate Degree: London
Postgraduate Degree (current): Oxford
BUT
my mother is Brummy (Birmingham)
my father Wallasey
and going further back (Grandparents)...
English, Scots, Irish, Welsh, Devon, Cornwall
so I suppose I am pretty thoroughly BRITISH
I certainly feel British
Where are our researchers from?
Post 20
Posted Oct 19, 1999
On http://www.douglasadams.com. Maybe on some literary web pages, too. But with thousands of members (Lords, I can't even begin to comprehend that!) I don't think they need much advertising!
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