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Posted: 9/5/2018 10:34:02 PM EDT
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I've got this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left hand side
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Posted: 9/5/2018 10:39:33 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/5/2018 10:40:51 PM EDT
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I told them my views on life the universe and everything....
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Posted: 9/5/2018 10:53:57 PM EDT
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LoL, just found HHGttG on netflix and watched it again. Pretty terrible overall, but I do love to watch Zooey Deschanel in anything.
Also have begun to collect first edition printings of the books when I run across them. Thus far have pretty good 1st printing first edition copies of So Long and Mostly Harmless. An 8th printing run, first edition of Life, the Universe and Everything, and a 4th printing 1st edition of The Restaurant at the End of the Universe missing its dust cover. Haven't come across a 1st edition HHGttG yet. |
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Posted: 9/5/2018 11:02:22 PM EDT
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"I am at a rough estimate thirty billion times more intelligent than you. Let me give you an example. Think of a number, any number."
"Er, five." "Wrong. You see?" |
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Posted: 9/5/2018 11:12:05 PM EDT
[#6]
 Marvin I love you |
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Posted: 9/5/2018 11:12:55 PM EDT
[#7]
The Vogon ship hovered in the sky in much the same way bricks don't.
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Posted: 9/5/2018 11:13:53 PM EDT
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The ships hung in the air the same way that bricks don't.
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Posted: 9/5/2018 11:14:56 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/5/2018 11:21:12 PM EDT
[#10]
Life? Don't talk to me about life!
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Posted: 9/5/2018 11:21:14 PM EDT
[#11]
Now the world has gone to bed
Darkness won't engulf my head I can see by infra-red How I hate the night |
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Posted: 9/6/2018 12:14:12 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
The Vogon ship hovered in the sky in much the same way bricks don't. |
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Posted: 9/6/2018 12:35:09 AM EDT
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That movie was an insult to the masterpiece that was the book.
I don't even particularly like books, but I loved that one. Enough that I bought it. Only book I've ever bought as an adult (I was much more into reading as a kid). |
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Posted: 9/6/2018 12:39:50 AM EDT
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Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster for the win!
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Posted: 9/6/2018 12:42:02 AM EDT
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That movie was an insult to the masterpiece that was the book. I don't even particularly like books, but I loved that one. Enough that I bought it. Only book I've ever bought as an adult (I was much more into reading as a kid). |
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Posted: 9/6/2018 12:42:48 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I haven't seen the movie, The book(s) are too good to be ruined. |
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Posted: 9/6/2018 12:55:06 AM EDT
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I’m so hip I can’t see past my own pelvis.
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Posted: 9/6/2018 4:39:33 AM EDT
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R E L A X
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Posted: 9/6/2018 4:46:03 AM EDT
[#19]
I enjoyed the movie. But I also never read the book. The first time I thought it was quite funny. And Zooey Deschanel is certainly easy on the eyes.
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Posted: 9/6/2018 4:53:45 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
I enjoyed the movie. But I also never read the book. The first time I thought it was quite funny. And Zooey Deschanel is certainly easy on the eyes. |
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Posted: 9/6/2018 5:01:01 AM EDT
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No problem with the movie... in fact it influenced me to read the books; which are amazing. I've never found myself laughing out loud while reading a book before.
Not from the movie but from the book: "The President in particular is very much a figurehead he wields no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the government, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it. On those criteria Zaphod Beeblebrox is one of the most successful Presidents the Galaxy has ever had he has already spent two of his ten presidential years in prison for fraud." |
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Posted: 9/6/2018 5:19:14 AM EDT
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I enjoyed the movie. But I also never read the book. The first time I thought it was quite funny. And Zooey Deschanel is certainly easy on the eyes. Also found a digital copy, although the quality isn't very good... https://archive.org/details/HitchHikersGuide06 |
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Posted: 9/6/2018 5:21:56 AM EDT
[#23]
There is only one Marvin
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Posted: 9/6/2018 5:44:04 AM EDT
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There are things about it that I didn't like (Zaphod's portrayal, etc.), but Rickman knocked it out of the park as Marvin. |
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Posted: 9/6/2018 7:42:38 AM EDT
[#25]
Mostly harmless.
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Posted: 9/6/2018 8:10:20 AM EDT
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It’s important to point out the book was not the original medium by which the story was told. The story started as a radio show. The radio show did things the book could not do, and vice verse.
The movie was excellent as a movie. They didn’t try to make a movie of the book, they made a movie as a movie. Thus, they succeeded. One need not supplant the other, just as the book did not supplant the radio show. |
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Posted: 9/6/2018 8:20:12 AM EDT
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I seem to recall a serialization of this on late night UHF TV back in the mid 80's.
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Posted: 9/6/2018 8:22:40 AM EDT
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I seem to recall a serialization of this on late night UHF TV back in the mid 80's. |
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Posted: 9/6/2018 8:23:55 AM EDT
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I can't find my leather bound copy with the first five books of the increasingly misnamed trilogy......grrr!
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Posted: 9/6/2018 8:25:23 AM EDT
[#30]
 
...is what you seek in the video medium - the original BBC television mini-series. Never listened to the whole radio show, but: Books > BBC Video > Mos Def I didn't dislike Mos Def as much as I expected to, but I still much prefer the BBC version. |
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Posted: 9/6/2018 8:28:42 AM EDT
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I saw the movie and enjoyed it for what it was.
Then I read the books, and am rereading it again 9 years later. The books are amazing, and I'm not one who gets bent out of shape over book/movie differences. I really can't get into old BBC shows (Dr Who, HHGTTG, etc...) so the tv series version on Prime was painful to get through. Any idea where to hear the radio version? I'd like to listen in my way to work. |
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Posted: 9/6/2018 8:37:30 AM EDT
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I can't find my leather bound copy with the first five books of the increasingly misnamed trilogy......grrr! My copy is also lost somewhere in a box stored... somewhere. |
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Posted: 9/6/2018 8:39:30 AM EDT
[#33]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
I saw the movie and enjoyed it for what it was. Then I read the books, and am rereading it again 9 years later. The books are amazing, and I'm not one who gets bent out of shape over book/movie differences. I really can't get into old BBC shows (Dr Who, HHGTTG, etc...) so the tv series version on Prime was painful to get through. Any idea where to hear the radio version? I'd like to listen in my way to work. I have it and the original Star Wars radio show... you guessed it - somewhere in storage. |
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Posted: 9/6/2018 9:03:42 AM EDT
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Remember Infocom's game? So does the Beeb!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1g84m0sXpnNCv84GpN2PLZG/the-game-30th-anniversary-edition |
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Posted: 9/6/2018 9:05:19 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/6/2018 9:05:38 AM EDT
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Remember Infocom's game? So does the Beeb! http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1g84m0sXpnNCv84GpN2PLZG/the-game-30th-anniversary-edition |
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Posted: 9/6/2018 9:06:48 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/6/2018 9:07:20 AM EDT
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It'd be impossible to make a movie that does justice to the book unless the movie was as long and detailed as the book and the BBC serial that followed it very closely.
Though I can't remember it in adequate detail, there's a paragraph in the book that describes a race that developed telepathy, and two weeks later, they were all extinct.  Yeah, I think the ability to read each other's minds all the time WOULD create an extinction event. 
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Posted: 9/6/2018 9:07:28 AM EDT
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Remember Infocom's game? So does the Beeb! http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1g84m0sXpnNCv84GpN2PLZG/the-game-30th-anniversary-edition Now no longer compatible with newer versions of iOS. Sad face. https://www.change.org/p/activision-convince-activision-to-convert-their-ios-game-lost-treasures-of-infocom-to-64-bit |
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Posted: 9/6/2018 10:41:15 AM EDT
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
I saw the movie and enjoyed it for what it was. Then I read the books, and am rereading it again 9 years later. The books are amazing, and I'm not one who gets bent out of shape over book/movie differences. I really can't get into old BBC shows (Dr Who, HHGTTG, etc...) so the tv series version on Prime was painful to get through. Any idea where to hear the radio version? I'd like to listen in my way to work. They have raised British audiences to enjoy a different standard of theater, I guess. |
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Posted: 9/6/2018 10:43:14 AM EDT
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Hanging around a cat's neck disguised as jewelry?
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Posted: 9/6/2018 10:43:24 AM EDT
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"There is an art to flying, or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. ... Clearly, it is this second part, the missing, that presents the difficulties."
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Posted: 9/6/2018 10:46:01 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/6/2018 10:51:10 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryInterestingly, the reviews make a “prime” example of one of my major Amazon peeves. Many of those reviews seem to be for the 5-book complete trilogy, not the radio show scripts. Amazon does a shitty job keeping its reviews associated with the products they are reviewing, and misleads a lot of people. |
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Posted: 9/6/2018 10:54:37 AM EDT
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That game was hard as hell. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Remember Infocom's game? So does the Beeb! http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1g84m0sXpnNCv84GpN2PLZG/the-game-30th-anniversary-edition |
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Posted: 9/6/2018 10:55:20 AM EDT
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But the plans were on display…”
“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.” “That’s the display department.” “With a flashlight.” “Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.” “So had the stairs.” “But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?” “Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. 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. |
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Posted: 9/6/2018 10:58:50 AM EDT
[#47]
It's not Douglas Adams level humor, but it's still funny.
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Posted: 9/6/2018 3:04:13 PM EDT
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So this is the sort of thing you carbon-based life forms do for fun, is it? I ask merely for information.
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Posted: 9/6/2018 7:09:08 PM EDT
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I seem to recall a serialization of this on late night UHF TV back in the mid 80's. |
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Posted: 9/6/2018 7:20:08 PM EDT
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There are things about it that I didn't like (Zaphod's portrayal, etc.), but Rickman knocked it out of the park as Marvin.  Best of Marvin (The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy) |
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