HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: chil@fraser.sfu.ca (Keith Lim)
Subject: Re: Tea.
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 06:01:21 GMT

roek@emerald.egr.msu.edu (Daniel Roek) writes:

>|> 
>|> >	Erm.....Does anyone out there know how to make tea ?
>|> 
>|> You mean you want to drink dead leaves boiled in water?
>|> 
>And squirted with milk...from a cow!?

It might take some time to make.
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From: danaf@vccsouth20.its.rpi.edu (Frank R. Dana Jr.)
Subject: Re: Game spoiler wanted - I've been stuck for 4 years now!
Reply-To: danaf@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 16:07:54 GMT

Well, of course, if you want to remove your own common sense, then you obviously
have no common sense, and it has been proven (Marc Barrett excluded...) that no
human being can exist without common sense, so obviously anyone without enough
common sense to see that you cannot remove your common sense does not deserve to
live!

}8)


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From: torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair)
Subject: Re: Further permutations of Adams' work
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 20:28:35 GMT

torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu  writes:
> According to DC Comics Summer Preview, and the Comics Buyer's Guide, both DC 
> and Innovation Comics will be publishing adaptations of the Hitchhiker's 
Guide to the Galaxy.
> 
> Innovation is known for adapting a variety of novels (Terry Pratchett, Anne
> Rice) as well as television shows (Quantam Leap, Dark Shadows) into comic 
> books.
> 
> Ask your friendly neighborhood comic dealer for more information.

HHGG has been published for the Apple Powerbook as an electronic book.  This 
means that most of the possibilities available to computer databases would be
available for this book.  (Want to know how many times "forty-two" appears in 
the book?  Do a word search.  Create your own concordances!  Annotate the 
book!)

	Torsten
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From: fong_jh@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Julian H Fong)
Subject: Re: Simon Jones
Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 18:29:53 GMT


In article <1992Sep13.173653.13579@news.cs.brandeis.edu> st923058@pip.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
>Thomas Beagle asked whether Simon Jones was the same guy as in Brazil. I've
>never seen Brazil, so I don't know, but my friend Adam is a Brazil fan and
>he was raving about some guy named Simon Jones. Suggestion: try posting
>that question on alt.fan.cult-movies. Most of them have seen Brazil, and
>maybe they can tell you if it's the same guy.
>				Rosaleen Dhu

	Simon Jones had a very brief part in Brazil, as the Arrest Officer.
("This is your receipt for your husband, and this is my receipt for your
receipt.")

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From: "rui madeira" <rui.madeira@canrem.com>
Subject: ytv broadcast ???
Reply-To: "rui madeira" <rui.madeira@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: alt
Date: 13 Sep 92 15:56:43 EST

LM>To the point now, there was a post about YTV broadcasting the HHGTTG TV seri
LM>some time ago (the post not the broadcast) and I never saw any further info
LM>than "somewhere in september".  I would hate to miss it and scanning TV guid
LM>(no highlights on this show) is not my idea of fun.

   It's on at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, starting Sept 12.
BTW, first episode has already been shown. However, it seems to me that
they've snipped out a few pieces. :-<<


  Rui M.
rui.madeira%canrem@lsuc.on.ca


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From: david@donald.concordia.ca (David Gaudine)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Looking for HHGTTG game for the PC. Yes I have read the FAQ.
Date: 14 Sep 92 16:37:50 GMT
Organization: ORGANIZATION!! HERE? You must be kidding

In article <19533.2aacd811@ul.ie> brehonyt@ul.ie writes:
>
>
>In the FAQ it says that the HHGTTG game for the PC was originally produced
>by Infocom and that after they went bust it was marketed by Virgin 

Infocom released it, then released a "paperback" version (less packaging,
i.e. no pocket fluff, peril sensitive sunglasses, etc.).  It disappeared
for awhile and then reappeared in the package "The Lost Treasures of
Infocom" which has all the old Infocom games.  Infocom seems to be back,
since they just released "Leather Goddesses... 2".
From: mcramm@dct.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Game spoiler wanted - I've been stuck for 4 years now!
Date: 14 Sep 92 15:04:33 GMT
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology

In article <1992Sep11.150545.1@happy.colorado.edu>, ajmorrison@happy.colorado.edu writes:
> In article <1992Sep11.164902.321@dct.ac.uk>, mcramm@dct.ac.uk writes:
>> Since there are obviously some THHGTTG gamers out there  
>> 
>> Could someone please mail me either
>> i) a solution to the Infocom game
>> or
>> ii) A hint about what to do once you've completed the sub-games ?
>> (I've been using the improbability drive, and think I'v finished them all).
>> I'm stuck on the Heart of Gold and can't find anything else to do.

Thanks to everyone who mailed me with the ftp sites and hints etc.
I think I've got enough to keep me going now.

All I need now is a copy of Bureaucracy and Wonko's address.................
-- 
 Angus M. Marshall, 
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clatter -  stood  the  Hall  of  the Mountain Grill, where table strain'd
'neath loaded platter "                             
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From: gs32+@andrew.cmu.edu (Geoffrey Spear)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Tea.
Date: 10 Sep 92 22:07:47 GMT
	<1992Sep10.084552.7432@ac.dal.ca>
Organization: Freshman, CIT general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


	That makes perfect sense.  How COULD you drink no tea?  You have to GET
the tea to drink it.  Of course, listing no tea in your inventory might
be pointless (as you also have, for example, no small thermonuclear
devices and that's not listed)... but you just have to accept the fact
that you have no tea.
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From: lchoqu%asylum.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Lee Choquette)
Subject: Re: credit cards
Date: 15 Sep 92 09:01:14 MDT
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
Distribution: alt.fan.douglas-adams

In article <1992Sep14.201822.26159@news.unomaha.edu> torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu
(Torsten Wesley Adair) writes:
 > Also, about sending only the name and card number through the mail...
 > There are many laws protecting credit card holders and companies against 
 > fraud.  However, whenever I have used my card by mail, I have always had to 
 > sign [...]

Of course, when you use the card by phone, they can't have you sign anything.
If they can charge the card in that case without a signature, they may be able
to charge it without a signature in the case of mailed-in orders as well.
  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
   . . . . Lee Choquette . . . . . . We're going to keep having these  . . .
  . . lchoqu@asylum.cs.utah.edu . . . meetings until we find out why  . . .
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . nothing is getting done . . . . .
From: mcramm@dct.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: READ/NEW
Date: 11 Sep 92 09:19:39 GMT
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology

Oh good grief! - I just saw a new TV ad. for Guiness last night on Scottish
T.V. - It's another of the series featuring Rutger Hauer (sp?) [because,
dressed in black, he looks like a pint of Guiness].

Anyway the ad. showed him in front of a table covered in Scrabble tiles with a
pint of Guiness on it.

Script was something like - 
"Sometimes it's hard to put a value on things.........This is 42"

 Angus M. Marshall, 
 e-mail: MCRAMM@UK.AC.DCT.CC.VAXB           
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clatter -  stood  the  Hall  of  the Mountain Grill, where table strain'd
'neath loaded platter "                             
(from the legend of Beenzon Toste - Hawkwind)      
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From: fong_jh@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Julian H Fong)
Subject: Re: zb: TV Show...
Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 03:07:47 GMT

In article <92255.211426JAP8@psuvm.psu.edu> JAP8@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>First of all, he wasn't the one who tried to steal Ford's beer. DNA was lurking
>waaaaayyyy in the back.  He can be seen when Arthur and Ford walk over to the
>window.
>Actually, he wasn't in the rest of the series...his picture was!  He was one of
>the "first people up against the wall when the revolution comes/came", and his
>picture (plus pigtails) became Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings (or whatever her
>name was), the author of THE worst poetry in existance.  I think his picture
>was also in another segment, but I forget which...I'll try and watch the tapes,
>and post whether there was another occurence of DNA-cameo'ing.
>                              Cheers,
>                              Jean
>                              aka Chainsaw

	The sequence of images showing examples of human behavior that the
dolphins regarded as proof that humans were less intelligent that they were
includes a picture of Adams siting behind his typewriter with a drink in
one hand and a cigarette in the other, rather than writing.

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Subject: Re: hello
From: thomas@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Beagle)
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 10:30:00 GMT
Organization: Datamark International Ltd.

>>Someone asked way back who the voice of the book on the TV series was. I
>>can't believe nobody bothered to look this up. I'm fairly certain it was
>>Simon Jones, but my stupid-jock brother taped over my HHGTTG episodes so I'm
>>not altogether positive.]

Hi, I just saw Brazil. Was that the same Simon Jones?

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From: djesimps@lambert.uwaterloo.ca (Darel J. Simpson)
Subject: BBC World: What station on the dial?
Keywords: In the Southern Ontario region
Organization: University of Waterloo
Distribution: ont
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 21:09:31 GMT

Ok, What station the BBC world on in Kitchener-Waterloo?

Also, Can someone E-mail me the schedule that Hitch-hikers will be aired?

I VERY much appreciate it.

thank-you, Darel J. Simpson
djesimps@descartes.waterloo.edu


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From: ctalbott@mksol.dseg.ti.com (christopher j talbott)
Subject: Re: 6*9=42(13)
Organization: Texas Instruments
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 12:48:22 GMT

In article <marc.715621644@vieta.math.uni-sb.de>, marc@vieta.math.uni-sb.de (Marc Conrad) writes:
|> bpostow@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Brian Postow) writes:
|> 
|> >actually, the probablilty isn't about .25, it is EXACTLY .25.
|> ok.
|> 
|> >any number thta is of the form 4k + 2 is going to be 42 in some base,
|> >because that is what a base is, 42 in base 10 is 4 (10) + 2, etc. and
|> >since 1 of every 4 numbers is 4k +2, .25 of all numbers will be 42 in
|> >some base.
|> 
|> 
|> >this is a simpler proof, or actually just a simpler way of writing the
|> >proof above...
|> But this is a proof that an arbitrary number is by a prob. of 0.25 
|> equal 42 in some base and not,  
|> that the _product_ of _two_ arbitrary numbers is equal 42.
|> Take 41 instead of 42: 
|> then the prob, that the product of 2 numbers equals 41 in some base is 0.125 !
|>  Marc
|> 
|> --
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|>         \x <---- you are here! | of the SIMATH-group (and maybe even not mine).

SIGH............

I don't suppose there's a group like 

alt.math.majors.with.a.lot.of.time.on.their.hands

that we could take this one to?

Before you flame me, and before "That Noodlehead in Shiny Armour" adds the 
proof to his sig file to make a point...

I'm just joking! :-) :-) :-) 8-) B-) ;-) 8^)  

-Chris

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From: abw@dsbc.icl.co.uk (Andy Wardley)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: MOSTLY HARMLESS - review
Date: 9 Sep 92 09:23:38 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: International Computers Limited


Ooops, how did that happen??  Sorry - didn't mean to attach it as
a reply to that last article.....

Cheers
Andy



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From: cafer@etek.chalmers.se (Tommy Vaske)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: bragging, translations and no tea (spoiler!)
Date: 11 Sep 92 12:05:24 GMT
Reply-To: cafer@etek.chalmers.se (Tommy Vaske)
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, SWEDEN

WARNING! Possible text adventure spoiler included!

Firstly, I'd like to say that I have been away from a.f.d-a for
quite a while, and it hurts to see the waste of bandwidth caused
by the perfectly silly six-times-nine-etc-thread.

I got on just to brag a little, but now I realize this will
seem chicken sh*t compared to reading MH on preview, so I'll keep
it short; Yesterday I got a signed copy of the Swedish translation
of the trilogy all-in-one-piece. DNA is here in Gothenburg to attend
at the Books & Library Exposition this weekend, and "dropped in" to
put his autograph in this new release. Haven't had the time to check
yet, but I do hope _Young Z_ is included. Thought I was going to be
original (yeah, right!), asking DNA to sign it "Don't Panic!", but
I dropped it right on overhearing the umpteen others ahead of me in
the line, so it came to "best wishes"...

Anybody else among you not native English speakers feel that
translations stink? The trilogy was quite funny in Swedish, but I felt
like missing a lot of funny points not reading it in English.
And _Dirk_ was an absolute bore in Swedish - dropped it just after the
first chapter, actually. Plus, a friend of mine agreed that the original
seemed to make all pieces fit, compared to the Swede-bore-of-a-transl.


                  ****Minor Game Spoiler****
























Apart from the "No tea" in your inventory, when you finally get your
cup of tea, the game says: "OK. No tea: dropped"....

--Tommy
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From: mostert@cs.sun.ac.za (A. Mostert)
Subject: DNA: What does N stand for ?
Organization: University of Stellenbosch, RSA
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 11:32:07 GMT


Does anyone know what DA's middle name is ?

A. Mostert
Stellenbosch, RSA
E-mail: mostert@cs.sun.ac.za
From: umrice02@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Stephen Rice)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: YTV Broadcast ???
Date: 10 Sep 92 16:47:42 GMT
Reply-To: umrice02@ccu.umanitoba.ca
Organization: The Univeristy of Manitoba.

I was the one that posted the original article and I have not seen anything
further from YTV, though someone noted that because the way they hack at the
series whenever it is shown it is not necessarily good that they show it.

BTW, I have heard that the Sci-Fi channel in the U.S. will be showing HHGTTG...
anyone have any information about this channel's availability in Canada?

Hope this helps.
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From: garden@hpltoad.hpl.hp.com
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 16:52:03 GMT
Subject: Re: DNA: What does N stand for ?
Organization: what?on_my_desk??
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Reply-To: above


In article <0eeqLI_00aw6I5ZlxG@andrew.cmu.edu>, Geoffrey Spear
<gs32+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
|> 	His middle name is Noel. 
|> 

	Noshit !!
From: david@donald.concordia.ca (David Gaudine)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: hello
Date: 11 Sep 92 13:22:22 GMT
Organization: ORGANIZATION!! HERE? You must be kidding

In article <1992Sep4.235125.7975@news.cs.brandeis.edu> st923058@pip.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
>Someone asked way back who the voice of the book on the TV series was. I
>can't believe nobody bothered to look this up. I'm fairly certain it was
>Simon Jones, but my stupid-jock brother taped over my HHGTTG episodes so I'm
>not altogether positive.]

Peter Jones.  Don't you keep your HHGTTG tape in a safety deposit box,
like the rest of us?
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: bpostow@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Brian Postow)
Subject: Re: Is "Mostly Harmless" out in the US yet?
Organization: Oberlin College Computer Science
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 01:27:30 GMT
X-Posted-From: occs.cs.oberlin.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

I asked at Waldenbooks a few weeks ago and they said that they were
expecting it in November... sigh, we will allhave to wait until
then...

--
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Didn't your parents tell you not to talk to strangers?
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From: torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair)
Subject: Re: credit cards
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Distribution: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 20:18:22 GMT

dsteinbe@nmsu.edu  writes:
> yes, that is the correct way that credit cards work.
> The reason why it is safe is beacuse of the fact that a credit card
> has 14 (or so) numbers on it.  Seeing how there are 99,999,999,999,999
> possible combinations but prob. only around 3,000,000 credit card
> holders (taking a wild stab), the odds of randomly choosing a correct
> number are low...
> Excuse me if my math is off, maybe one of the "42" people can correct
> me.
> -David "ZZYZX" Steinberg

All numbers are American.  Billion = 1,000,000,000.

Actually, there are 100,000,000,000,000 possible numbers from a 14 number
credit card (all zeros, plus one through ninety-nine trillion, etc.).

My Citibank Classic Visa has thirteen numbers, with the first four 
being used to designate the specific card or bank.  Therefore, there
are only 1,000,000,000 possible combinations.  

	Your "wild stab" at 3,000,000 holders is extremely wrong.  I don't
know about the rest of the world, but many people in the United States have
at least two (or more) credit cards.  My guess would be twenty-five million
credit cards in the U.S.  

Also, about sending only the name and card number through the mail...
There are many laws protecting credit card holders and companies against 
fraud.  However, whenever I have used my card by mail, I have always had to 
sign, even though I don't think that Citibank has my signature.  This is more
of a security device for the company, so the BBC decided not to use it.

	Torsten

A thought just occured to me:  Trillian = Trillion?
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair)
Subject: IMHO
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 20:44:37 GMT

What does "IMHO" stand for?

Also, when abrievating a title, all words in lower case are not used.  Thus,
the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy would be HGG.  It is okay to include 
letters from within the words to make it more clear, or to make a word from 
it.  Using HGG, a suitable variant would be HhGG, or maybe HiGGy.

If lower case words (such as articles) are to be used, put them in lowercase.
(tHGttG, tRatEotU, LtUaE, SLaTfAtF, YZPiS, MH)
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