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Re: "Thursday Next" vs "Hitchhiker's Guide"
Posted by: Sarah (---.vip.uk.com)
Date: April 29, 2003 08:31PM

That would have been Wowbagga the Infinitely Prolonged, if I'm not mistaken. I always wondered how he managed to do it in alphabetical order. After all, presumably Zeke Zobitsky of Zagreb could have had time to be born and died while he was still working his way through all the A's...



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

Re: "Thursday Next" vs "Hitchhiker's Guide"
Posted by: Ooktavia (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: April 29, 2003 09:05PM


He stole a Tardis whilst insulting Borusa?



My reality check has just bounced again.......

Re: "Thursday Next" vs "Hitchhiker's Guide"
Posted by: Ooktavia (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: April 29, 2003 09:44PM

Marvin, what are you doing in the car park?

What do you think? Parking cars. Brain the size of a planet and they ask me to park cars...

We fforumites who know where our towels are, do you think we can call ourselves Ffroodes?



My reality check has just bounced again.......

Re: "Thursday Next" vs "Hitchhiker's Guide"
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: April 29, 2003 10:08PM

'It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of The Leopard".' - Arthur Dent on the plan to demolish his house.



PSD

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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

Re: "Thursday Next" vs "Hitchhiker's Guide"
Posted by: dante (---.internal.omneuk.com)
Date: April 29, 2003 10:18PM

"42"

Re: "Thursday Next" vs "Hitchhiker's Guide"
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: April 29, 2003 10:41PM

"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job"

No further comment, before they name me as part of the axis of evil...



PSD

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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

Re: "Thursday Next" vs "Hitchhiker's Guide"
Posted by: Magda (---.dialip.mich.net)
Date: April 30, 2003 02:30AM

"The large yellow ships hung in the sky in exactly the same way that
bricks don't."



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"I've often said that the difference between British and American SF TV series is that the British ones have three-dimensional characters and cardboard spaceships, while the Americans do it the other way around."
--Ross Smith

Re: "Thursday Next" vs "Hitchhiker's Guide"
Posted by: jon (---.abel.net.uk)
Date: April 30, 2003 10:15AM

"[of Hotblack Desiato] he's taking a year off dead for tax reasons."

"I've got this pain in my diodes all down the left hand side ..."

"Which part of me would you like to eat?"

"You're never alone with a rubber duck!"



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

Re: "Thursday Next" vs "Hitchhiker's Guide"
Posted by: Skiffle (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: April 30, 2003 10:42PM

42 - My winning score on 15-1
(That's a day-time quiz show, for non-Brits. And a rotten score. But I still won...)

Re: "Thursday Next" vs "Hitchhiker's Guide"
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.dalect01.va.comcast.net)
Date: April 30, 2003 10:53PM

that's also how that band "Level 42" got it's name fwiw! (I got to meet them! Impressive, I know!)

Re:
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: April 30, 2003 11:07PM

What? 15-1?

(plus - is it true that be-mulleted Swedish rock group Europe were Richard Whitely fans inspired by the end of the Swedish all-comers championship on Moose TV?)



Post Edited (05-01-03 00:16)

PSD

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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

Re: "Thursday Next" vs "Hitchhiker's Guide"
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.dalect01.va.comcast.net)
Date: May 01, 2003 01:13AM

sorry, I was doing a random reference PSD move...

in THHGTG, the answer to the universe, etc is 42. That's where Level 42 got their name.

Re: "Thursday Next" vs "Hitchhiker's Guide"
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: May 01, 2003 02:02AM

In actual fact it was I, PSD, doing the, er, PSD thingummy.

And to add to it - great Marx-brothers-esque bit from 'Duckula meets Frankenstoat. Or Duckula and Frankenstoat meet Dangermouse. Or...'

"No garlic!"
"Why, are you allergic?"
"No, I'm a vampire."

(Funny when played out very quickly in the spirit of "You can leave in a huff...")

Another good quote from "Top secret secret secrecy"

"It's easy if you follow the train of logic"
"Never run for a train in my life, DM. Better explain it for me"



PSD

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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

Re: "Thursday Next" vs "Hitchhiker's Guide"
Posted by: dante (---.internal.omneuk.com)
Date: May 01, 2003 09:35PM

Skiffle: you won 15-1? *impressed* Now, that's cool. One of my teachers was on it, but lost very badly. Still, one of my friends won stuff on Wheel of Fortune.



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Do something pretty while you can...

Re: "Thursday Next" vs "Hitchhiker's Guide"
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.dalect01.va.comcast.net)
Date: May 01, 2003 10:39PM

a friend of the family paid his way through medical school with his winnings from Jeopardy and $100,000 Pyramid. He went back to Jeopardy for the Tournament of Champions and totally bombed. Smart guy though. Fun to play Trivial Pursuit with!

Re: "Thursday Next" vs "Hitchhiker's Guide"
Posted by: Skiffle (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: May 02, 2003 10:18PM

I wanted to go on'Catchphase' but ended up on 'Wipeout', I don't talk about that much, because I did badly. but I have got a nice glass paperweight. I also got a t-shirt big enough to be worn by two average sized people at once.

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Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: May 02, 2003 10:20PM

On (vague) topic - I got hold of series two of Red Dwarf today...

"There's a simple test. Right girls, stick up your hand if you're still alive"

(Rimmer, to the deceased crew Kryten has been looking afer for centuries....)



Post Edited (05-02-03 23:27)

PSD

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Re: "Thursday Next" vs "Hitchhiker's Guide"
Posted by: Sarah B (---.cable.ubr06.dudl.blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: May 03, 2003 05:07PM

lol. I love Red Dwarf. It has a sense of humour that I can appreciate...



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There's a hole in my creativity bucket and it's all leaked out.

Re: "Thursday Next" vs "Hitchhiker's Guide"
Posted by: Sarah (---.vip.uk.com)
Date: May 03, 2003 05:32PM

Someone once observed of Isaac Asimov that the way to tell if he was dead would be to put under his nose, not a feather, but a typewriter. Asimov's rejoinder was that the feather would tell if he was dead, but the typewriter would tell if he'd been dead for at least three days.



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

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