Tribute to Douglas Adams and HitchHiker's Guide

[ProdigalJunkMail]

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

[redqueen]

1. Aren't they making another movie or summat?

I can't remember... thought I read something about that...

[ProdigalJunkMail]

3. I believe the answer to that to be YES

but my authority bit is off so I cannot guarantee anything...

theProdigal

[baldguy]

8. 2005

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371724/

[Book Lover]

9. That's a big fat YES

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/A2642384

[redqueen]

11. YAY!

You guys ROCK!

[Saffy]

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.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

5. depends...when were you last in GA?

that would help...but Hitchhiker's was and is one of my absolute favorite books!

theProdigal

[redqueen]

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.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

19. what a loss for those poor souls

hopefully they 'found' it later in life...

Got your towel???

theProdigal

[motely36]

4. 42!

[ProdigalJunkMail]

6. but what is the question???

come on...I NEED it :-)

theProdigal

[motely36]

7. beats the hell out of me!

[baldguy]

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.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

21. but how many people do math in base13?

and why???

:-)

theProdigal

[LynzM]

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!

[lapfog_1]

10. I also liked the "Holostic Detective Agency" - n/t

[liontamer]

32. I love dirk gently !

I think I like the long dark teatime of the soul even better!

[realisticphish]

12. Slartibartfast

and dentarthurdent...two of my favorite names of all time...well, and ford prefect


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[ProdigalJunkMail]

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

[realisticphish]

18. lol me too

havent read it in years...damn...*gets up to find it*


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[CrownPrinceBandar]

22. Sirius Cybernetics Corp..................................

"Your plastic pal that's fun to be with!"

[ProdigalJunkMail]

23. just what we all need...depressed machinery

poor Marvin... :-)

theProdigal

[ProdigalJunkMail]

17. oh yeah...and i love the explanation of Fjords...

nice to know real creativity will yield rewards :-)

theProdigal

[Gothmog]

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.

[arcane1]

14. Wonko The Sane

:silly:

[motely36]

24. Anybody ever play the infocom text game based on the book?

It's a blast if you like text games

[CrownPrinceBandar]

26. Play it here.........................

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml

[motely36]

27. I have it on disk.

In fact I have most of the infocom games on disk.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

25. Pan-Galactic Gargleblasters.......................................

...Ol' Janx Spirit.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

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 . . .

[lenidog]

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.

[lenidog]

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.

[robbedvoter]

31. Do not press the button!

http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/main.html

[ProdigalJunkMail]

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

[Hans Delbrook]

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)."