Answer: 42 ..some will get it...most will not

darn, i'm one that doesn't..

i bet it some binary thing

I get it :) Used to be my standard answer for all those puzzling questions. I think D.A. for that.

i bet it some binary thing



nope.....Gord should know judging by his Avatar

Ah yes ... but the question ... that is the REAL question. To bad they destroyed the earth just before we had it ...

Answer: 42 ..some will get it...most will not


Darn it, you should have just asked FOR the answer. That would have really weeded out the nonbelievers.

Babel fish, anyone?

Its comforting to see that this forum has some truely informed people. ...sometime we should meet for a drink:

a pan-galactic-gargel-blaster (spelling -1)

I have the DVD.

im still lost.

I have the DVD.



where did you find it? I've had no luck.

Its comforting to see that this forum has some truely informed people. ...sometime we should meet for a drink:

a pan-galactic-gargel-blaster (spelling -1)

Are you treating? Or are you like a Vogon - where the only way to get a drink out of him is to stick a finger down his throat?

Are you treating? Or are you like a Vogon - where the only way to get a drink out of him is to stick a finger down his throat?



I'm not going there......one day at a buddy's cabin we decided to create this drink. I'll have to call him for the recipe. Its tasted ok but basicly rendered you useless after drinking it.

I'm not going there......one day at a buddy's cabin we decided to create this drink. I'll have to call him for the recipe. Its tasted ok but basicly rendered you useless after drinking it.

Oh, now you've got me curious. Do let me know if you ever get the recipe.

O Frettled Gruntbuggly, thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee
Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes
And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles
lest I rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurgle-cruncheon
See if I don't.

Well done...I'm not as fluent with my "Hitch-hickers" as I am with my "Python"

What there are people who don't know where that's from! :eek:

Love Adam's books, and I have the BBC TV series on CD somewhere too.

What there are people who don't know where that's from! :eek:

Love Adam's books, and I have the BBC TV series on CD somewhere too.



I video taped it a long time ago from PBS

Heck I even listend to the audio book version of it when I lived in the UK many years ago :)

If anybody asks me a quesiotn I dont know the reply to, I always go with 42. It is the answer to everything after all.

Be calm.
And dont forget a towel.

My favorite book, audio, tv and adventure game (anyone remember the game?)
My answer has always been 42 as well...
I almost cried when I heard Douglas Adams died

There's a game woah :eek:

Gotta find that, what like a PC game?

It was a ZX Spectrum game, you should be able to find an emulator and download the game somewhere, I had it ages ago in England and re-found it years ago as an emulated game... It's neat how you wake up in complete darkness....

I played the game on my Commodor Amiga back in like '90. Almost 15 years ago. Loved it even if it was just text.

Douglass Adams died? Didn't even know or I don't remember hearing about it. Either way that is sad.

It is now a Java game for all to enjoy
http://www.douglasadams.com/creations/infocomjava.html

Douglas Adams:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1326657.stm

where did you find it? I've had no luck.

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I played the game on my Commodor Amiga back in like '90. Almost 15 years ago. Loved it even if it was just text.

Douglass Adams died? Didn't even know or I don't remember hearing about it. Either way that is sad.


Had a version for PC- this was back in 85-86. I could never get past the stupid Vogon ship- I'd press this little button, and the stupid Babel Fish would fly out of a slot, and then into another slot, and I'll be damned if I could ever catch it to stick it in my ear. That frustrated me for hours on end. Anyone know how to get past that part?

I also remember the weird BBC version way back when--- that was odd, but being all of about 7-8 at the time, I thought it was hysterical.

I just bought "Don't Panic"- the biography on DA that Neil Gaiman did. Even got Gaiman to sign it last week at the National Book Festival. It's supposed to be a Christmas present for a friend (even got it signed TO the friend), but we've been reading it because we can't help it. They'll never know, right?

^^^^^ :D


nope.....Gord should know judging by his Avatar


That's one of the things I like about my personalised plates - the RX-8 wears "Z00M 44" (due credit to forum member zoom44), and the Miata has "Z00M 42". Aside from referencing the numbers of seats (and aside from being my age and my wife's age respectively last year when we got them, but that was pure coincidence), the '42' always has special significance.

I first heard the radio plays in around 1980, then read the books, then saw the BBC series. If it's on DVD, I need to get it!

OK, for those who still don't get it - it's from the book trilogy "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", by Douglas Adams. There are 5 books in the trilogy ;), although the original 3 are the most famous.

Regards,
Gordon

I just bought "Don't Panic"- the biography on DA that Neil Gaiman did. Even got Gaiman to sign it last week at the National Book Festival. It's supposed to be a Christmas present for a friend (even got it signed TO the friend), but we've been reading it because we can't help it. They'll never know, right?

Whoa.....Neil Gaiman did a biography on Adams? I'm definitely gonna have to read that. I think Gaiman is brilliant. And, yeah, your friend will never know you read it first ;)

Whoa.....Neil Gaiman did a biography on Adams? I'm definitely gonna have to read that. I think Gaiman is brilliant. And, yeah, your friend will never know you read it first ;)

Yes, he did- and it's exactly what you'd expect from Gaiman writing about Douglas Adams.

As a side note, he (Gaiman) also did a reading from his in-progress book- Anansi Boys. Looks like it will be very good- his humor in it seems to be very DA.

Hahaha, I thought it was a good omen when I bought my house....No 42! He also co-wrote a book called "Last chance to see...", with zoologist Mark Carwardine about the worlds rarest and most endangered animals. Fitting, seeing he'd previously written about the destruction of earth to make way for a hyperspace bypass!

Gomez Adams. (with one d!)

So long and thanks for all the fish.