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XOKCowboy

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Sun Mar-19-06 01:36 AM
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Any Douglas Adams fans here?

Hithhiker's Guide is on Starz. Sure brings back memories.

I don't know about you guys but I always have my towel wherever I go and am always nice to mice.

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AmyDeLune

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Sun Mar-19-06 01:38 AM
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1. Yay!!! Douglas Adams!!!

I really miss him. :(

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XOKCowboy

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Sun Mar-19-06 01:53 AM
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4. Think of what he could have concieved in the last 5 years.

I've been sitting here lmao'ing at the movie. I'd never seen it but fondly remember the BBC series. With that in mind I liked the actors that played Trillian and Zaphod but the actors portraying Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect took some getting used to. They got Marvin PERFECTLY! Alan Rickman was perfect for the voice and he still cracks me up. "Brain the size of a planet and I'm off to fetch stowaways. I won't enjoy it I assure you". :rofl:

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politicat

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Sun Mar-19-06 01:44 AM
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2. A writer who viewed writing as performance art....

I miss Mr. Adams.....

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Porcupine

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Sun Mar-19-06 01:52 AM
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3. 42 by last count

What I wouldn't give for a Babelfish. Then maybe I could understand women.

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XOKCowboy

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Sun Mar-19-06 01:54 AM
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5. Yes but what's the question?

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cssmall

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Sun Mar-19-06 02:08 AM
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6. What do you get when you multiply 6 by 9?

Don't panic and in closing, so long and thanks for all the fish.

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pokerfan

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Sun Mar-19-06 04:09 AM
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9. 42 of course

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Oeditpus Rex

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Sun Mar-19-06 03:12 AM
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7. Douglas Adams trivia questions:

1. What two Monty Python bits did he co-write?

2. What two Python sketches did he appear in?

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pokerfan

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Sun Mar-19-06 04:12 AM
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10. I wiki-cheated

Edited on Sun Mar-19-06 04:13 AM by pokerfan

Some of his early work appeared on BBC2 (television) in 1974, in an edited version of the Footlights Revue from Cambridge, that year. A version of the same revue performed live in London's West End led to Adams being "discovered" by Monty Python's Graham Chapman. The two formed a brief writing partnership, and Adams earned a writing credit in one episode (episode 45: "Party Political Broadcast on Behalf of the Liberal Party") of Monty Python's Flying Circus. In the sketch, a man who had been stabbed by a nurse arrives at his doctor's office bleeding profusely from the stomach, when the doctor makes him fill out numerous senseless forms before he can administer treatment (a joke he later incorporated into the Vogons' obsession with paperwork). Adams also contributed to a sketch on the album for Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Douglas also had two "blink and you miss them" appearances in the fourth series of Monty Python's Flying Circus. At the beginning of Episode 42, "The Light Entertainment War," Adams is in a surgeon's mask (as Dr. Emile Koning, according to the on-screen captions), pulling on gloves, while Michael Palin narrates a sketch that introduces one person after another, and never actually gets started. At the beginning of Episode 44, "Mr Neutron," Adams is dressed in a "pepperpot" outfit and loads a missile onto a cart, driven by Terry Jones, who is calling out for scrap metal ("Any old iron..."). The two episodes were first broadcast in November 1974. Adams and Chapman also attempted a few non-Python projects, including Out of the Trees.

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Oeditpus Rex

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Sun Mar-19-06 04:24 AM
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11. Too bad it doesn't describe the bit on

"The Album of the Soundtrack of the Trailer of the Film of 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail'." It's one of the most screamingly funny bits they ever did.

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Monkey see Monkey Do

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Sun Mar-19-06 11:31 AM
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12. "Out of the Trees" is by several accounts a lost classic

http://orangecow.org/pythonet/stolenfromsotcaa/outofthetrees.html

SO much stuff was wiped back then, it's heartbreaking.

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MrSlayer

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Sun Mar-19-06 03:26 AM
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8. Huge fan of Adams' writing.

Hated the movie though, absolutely hated it.

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yellowdogmi

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Sun Mar-19-06 11:53 AM
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13. He was the best. Ever.

I was thinking about him the other night. There was a thread for made up words. He wrote a small book titled "the meaning of Liff". Where he took names off of the map and assigned meanings to them. It was fabulous. The one that I remember best is Humby. Definition- While climbing the stairs in the dark accidentally stepping up one more step when you reach the landing. Later when the children are subdued I will post some more of his wit from that book.

I never did get the hang of Thursdays.

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