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ProdigalJunkMail Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 07:04 PM
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Tribute to Douglas Adams and HitchHiker's Guide
After seeing many references today to the Guide, I wish to share my favorite section of the book...BistroMathics.

http://www.earthstar.co.uk/bistro.htm

Please feel free to add your own favorites...just thought I would share...

theProdigal
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 07:06 PM
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1. Aren't they making another movie or summat?
I can't remember... thought I read something about that...
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ProdigalJunkMail Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 07:08 PM
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3. I believe the answer to that to be YES
but my authority bit is off so I cannot guarantee anything...

theProdigal
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 07:10 PM
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8. 2005
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371724/
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Book Lover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 07:10 PM
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9. That's a big fat YES
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/A2642384
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 07:11 PM
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11. YAY!
You guys ROCK!
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Saffy Donating Member (85 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 07:07 PM
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2. Did I go to high school with you?
Nothing of substance to add to your inquiry, but that book was the quintessential guide to adolescence for us.

We MUST have gone to the same high school.
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ProdigalJunkMail Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 07:09 PM
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5. depends...when were you last in GA?
that would help...but Hitchhiker's was and is one of my absolute favorite books!

theProdigal
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 07:12 PM
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15. I was into this book in HS as well
and felt quite alone, as no one else I knew had read it or saw the show at that point.
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ProdigalJunkMail Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 07:15 PM
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19. what a loss for those poor souls
hopefully they 'found' it later in life...

Got your towel???

theProdigal
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motely36 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 07:08 PM
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4. 42!
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ProdigalJunkMail Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 07:09 PM
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6. but what is the question???
come on...I NEED it :-)

theProdigal
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motely36 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 07:10 PM
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7. beats the hell out of me!
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 07:18 PM
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20. Well 6 * 9 = 42, if you use base 13 instead of base 10.
But nobody writes jokes in base 13, not even Douglas Adams.
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ProdigalJunkMail Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 07:24 PM
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21. but how many people do math in base13?
and why???

:-)

theProdigal
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LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 08:56 PM
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33. I had a prof who made us do base 3 math....
Followed by the quote "well, if you were a three-toed sloth, it would be easy"

Then again, from the same prof "now, notice, they're anti-diagonal"

I like HHGttG, but my brother is a fiend about it. He's read the whole thing probably 15 times, at this point! I've only read it twice!
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lapfog_1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 07:11 PM
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10. I also liked the "Holostic Detective Agency" - n/t
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liontamer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 08:50 PM
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32. I love dirk gently !
I think I like the long dark teatime of the soul even better!
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realisticphish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 07:11 PM
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12. Slartibartfast
and dentarthurdent...two of my favorite names of all time...well, and ford prefect


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat
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ProdigalJunkMail Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 07:13 PM
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16. i still get a helluva grin whenever i see the name
Ford Prefect...I gotta go back and read it all the way through again...

theProdigal
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realisticphish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 07:14 PM
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18. lol me too
havent read it in years...damn...*gets up to find it*


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat
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CrownPrinceBandar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 07:24 PM
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22. Sirius Cybernetics Corp..................................
"Your plastic pal that's fun to be with!"
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ProdigalJunkMail Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 07:27 PM
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23. just what we all need...depressed machinery
poor Marvin... :-)

theProdigal
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ProdigalJunkMail Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 07:14 PM
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17. oh yeah...and i love the explanation of Fjords...
nice to know real creativity will yield rewards :-)

theProdigal
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Gothmog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 07:12 PM
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13. Douglas Adams was a genius
Bistro Math is one of my favorite concepts.

I am looking forward to the new movie. I hope that they keep the same spirit of the books.
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arcane1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 07:12 PM
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14. Wonko The Sane
:silly:
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motely36 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 07:30 PM
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24. Anybody ever play the infocom text game based on the book?
It's a blast if you like text games
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CrownPrinceBandar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 07:34 PM
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26. Play it here.........................
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml
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motely36 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 07:35 PM
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27. I have it on disk.
In fact I have most of the infocom games on disk.
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CrownPrinceBandar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 07:32 PM
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25. Pan-Galactic Gargleblasters.......................................
...Ol' Janx Spirit.
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ProdigalJunkMail Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 07:37 PM
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28. we used to have a variant thereof at the dorm
Its recipe, which unfortunately cannot be filled on Earth, is as follows:

1. Take the juice from one bottle of that Ol' Janx Spirit.
2. Pour into it one measure of water from the seas of Santraginus V.
3. Allow three cubes of Arcturan Mega-gin to melt into the mixture (it must be properly iced or the benzine is lost).
4. Allow four litres of Fallian marsh gas to bubble through it.
5. Over the back of a silver spoon float a measure of Qalactin Hypermint extract.
6. Drop in the tooth of an Algolian Suntiger.
7. Sprinkle Zamphuor.
8. Add an olive.
9. Drink . . . but . . . very carefully . . .
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lenidog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 08:34 PM
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29. This might be silly
I got really depressed when I heard he had died. It was like losing a best friend. When ever life got too hard or I was blue I would pick up the guide and for a while all my troubles would be gone. His books could always make me laugh.
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lenidog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 08:36 PM
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30. In HS
I once had to for a project memorize a poem, passage from a book or something like that and then tell it to the class. I memorized the story of the longest party ever and told it to the class.
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robbedvoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 08:49 PM
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31. Do not press the button!
http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/main.html
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ProdigalJunkMail Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 09:49 PM
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35. more things I LOVE about this
the Vogons...
Don't Panic...
Babel fish...

i could go on and on and on ... but i already have so i'll stop

theProdigal
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Hans Delbrook Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 08:58 PM
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34. Marvin!!!! Love him!
"I have to tell you, I'm feeling rather depressed." I love where he gets stuck in the car park for, what is it?, like 90 million years.

And my husband and I continually use the line "Something almost but not entirely unlike (fill in the blank)."
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