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Posted Jul 8, 2009 by The h2g2 Editors
We're always being asked 'Just what is h2g2?' and it's so hard to clearly get across in one simple line the magnificence of the site. We quite often say things like 'The Guide to Life, The Universe and Everything written by you' but it still doesn't quite get across to outsiders exactly what h2g2 is!
Can anyone help us come up with a brilliant, pithy one-liner that provides a clear answer to the question 'What is h2g2?' when asked by a complete newbie?
It needn't be totally different or anything. For instance, what about 'The Guide to Life, The Universe and Everything written by the public.'?
Or, 'The Guide to Life, The Universe and Everything written by the public, inspired by Douglas Adams.'?
Or, 'The Guide to Life, The Universe and Everything - Share Your Knowledge, Learn Something New'?
Your ideas, as ever, will be most welcome. 
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Posted Jul 8, 2009 by ~ jwf ~
h2g2 is an internet interface between people and their own ideas as inspired by the works of Douglas Adams who had this idea that people might like to be able to interface with the technologies that were about to destroy the whirled but had no idea who to talk to about it and would probably hate the word interface anyway.
~jwf~
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Posted Jul 8, 2009 by ~ jwf ~
I just pith on it myself.
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Posted Jul 8, 2009 by Not-so-bald-eagle
'the Public Guide to Everything - Browse, Write, Comment'
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Posted Jul 8, 2009 by Br. Robyn Hoode - Now with added Ginge.
 I read that as 'pubic' guide... *ahem*
How's about: Douglas Adam's Guide to the Galaxy - as written by you, the public, from all over the universe. Probably.
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Posted Jul 8, 2009 by Roymondo: World Aids Day, 01/12/2009 A60032828
Hootoo's just this guide, you know?
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Posted Jul 8, 2009 by Br. Robyn Hoode - Now with added Ginge.
Woymondo's nailed it I weckon.
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Posted Jul 8, 2009 by Reddyfreddy
Guide? don't talk to me about Guide.
RF
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Posted Jul 8, 2009 by Icy North
Question: Who wrote:
"Dr Who is the Beeb’s biggest money-spinner and I can’t understand why they don’t just start making them again, if only to stop those 30-year-old virgins posting crap about Cybermen on H2G2. Get some dandruff shampoo, floss regularly, stop listening to Coldplay and get a life. Losers."?
a) The BBC
b) The Guardian
c) 2legs
Did you get it?
it was
a) the BBC
(the Editor of the Collective, to be precise) : http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A1064008
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Posted Jul 8, 2009 by Flying Ants; formerly Effers
It lets the universe enter your world.
A bit cheesy I know 
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Posted Jul 8, 2009 by 3Dots
'The Guide to Life, The Universe and Everything: you can flounce off for good...but you'll always come back.'
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Posted Jul 8, 2009 by Giford
Everything you didn't know you needed to know.
Gif 
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Posted Jul 8, 2009 by turvy - not Cap'n Jack Sparrow but trying very hard...
H2G2 - beyond definition. Come and see why...
I know, I know...I'll get me coat.
t.
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Posted Jul 8, 2009 by minichessemouse. {ACE}
hootoo, slightly less expensive than the Encyclopaedia Galactica.
Hootoo, you will wonder what you were doing all these years.
mini
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Posted Jul 8, 2009 by anhaga
h2g2: it reaches the parts other online encyclopedias cannot reach.
And one could start a whole campaign based on bad puns on the word 'parts' . . .
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Posted Jul 8, 2009 by 'Mazin'MadFiddler - MMF - Apprentice to the Fledgling Art of Positive Mental Attitude aka FAPMA - Keeper of Mustalids.
"The unexpergated guide to LTUAE"
Appendices - 'Within the confines of the POTB! No sex, drugs or Rock and Roll-ups!'
MMF
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Posted Jul 9, 2009 by kea
I think Robyn nailed it:
>>Douglas Adam's Guide to the Galaxy - as written by you, the public, from all over the universe. Probably.<<
I'd add Hitchhiker's though:
Douglas Adam's Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy - as written by you, the public, from all over the universe. Probably.
How many new people coming here know who DNA is though?
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