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From: xyzzy@mertwig.UUCP (Daniel Drucker)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Vanity Plates
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 20:50:11 EST
Organization: Odd Parity Hacker's Group

oahvenla@snakemail.hut.fi (Osma Ahvenlampi) writes:

> In article <eJuXTB1w165w@mertwig.UUCP> xyzzy@mertwig.UUCP (Daniel Drucker) wr
> >Mine says XYZZY; (not from hitchhikers, but along the same lines) a word 
> >from the old ADVENT game. People always ask what it means. Occasionally, 
> >though, someone shouts either "PLUGH" (a synonym) or "NOTHING HAPPENS" 
> >(what happens when you type xyzzy in the wrong place).
> 
> Wasn't that spelled XUZZY? At least I remember that worked...

If you'll look closely at your keyboard, you'll note that char 'u' is 
adjacent to char 'y'. Perhaps you thought you were entering XUZZY?

An even easier solution (one I haven't tried, so I'm _NOT_ saying you're 
wrong (yet) is to ......Use the source, Luke^H^H^H^HOsma.

I'll have to check on that one.

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From: jseaver@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Jason John Seaver)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: "How to leave a planet" - where is this from?
Date: 5 Nov 92 21:41:55 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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In article <9gJoTB6w165w@sday.pulp.nullnet.fi> jute@sday.pulp.nullnet.fi (Jussi Kantola) writes:
>
>Could someone tell me where the following text has been published?
>
>--Cut--------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                How to Leave the Planet:

	I think it's been in every bound-as-one-book edition of the trilogy.
I've only PERSONALLY seen it in _The Hitchhiker's Trilogy_ and _The More Than
Complete Hitchhiker's Trilogy_ (y'know, the leatherbound one).

						-Jay
From: domalley@unix1.tcd.ie (Slartibartfast            (alias Daniel O'Malley))
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Pizza delivery (in Ireland)
Date: 13 Nov 92 18:17:33 GMT
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin

In <1992Nov13.095036.13381@maths.tcd.ie> bermand@maths.tcd.ie (daniel berman) writes:

>Well Michael, You'll be glad to know that here in Ireland, as in Britain, we
>now have order-out pizzas.

Only in Dublin, you mean...
Dial-out pizzas are one of the many niceities of 20th century living
that have never managed to permeate rural Ireland like they have Dublin - like
cable TV, free delivery from Clery's, and traffic jams...

>And I should know because there's a really cute
>girl in our local, so if she's reading (and she'll know who she is).. You're
>a Babe!!!!

Which place is this???

Daniel.
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From: apm@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Andrew Merritt)
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 09:59:53 GMT
Subject: Re: Re: "QED"
Organization: Hewlett-Packard SSG/CCSY-PWD, UK.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams

little@bellatrix.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (H. Mark Little) writes:
>In article <BxGJ4B.Bys@dei.unipd.it>, roto@elena.dei.unipd.it (Roberto Totaro) writes:
>|> >>[question about QED deleted for brevity]
>|> 
>|>     QED means Quod Erat Demonstrandum, that is: "What has to be
>|>     demonstrated".
>Right expansion of the acronym, (slightly) wrong translation.  Should be "As
>*has [already] been* demonstrated".  The past tenst is relevant.
>
No, it means "which was to be shown", i.e. we have now proved what we set out
to prove.
From: ginsu@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Wes Simonds)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Let's get DNA on the Net!
Date: 11 Nov 92 03:48:21 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

Somebody writes:

>Let's DON'T get Douglas Adams on the net.  Let's let him WRITE, which
>is why we all enjoy his stuff in the first place.

What an optimist!  Do you actually suppose that Adams would WRITE if he had 
more free time?  Here's a quote from his recent visit to UT Austin:

"There is nothing at all enjoyable about writing."

The easiest (and quite possibly only) way to get him to write would be to 
take away all of his money and houses and let the same fear of starving 
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: djesimps@laplace.uwaterloo.ca (Darel J. Simpson)
Subject: Re: Thoughts on MOSTLY HARMLESS (spoilers)
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 05:12:14 GMT

In article <BxAqL7.B70@cs.bham.ac.uk>, amw@cs.bham.ac.uk (Andy Wood) writes:
> In article <uV7mTB8w165w@sday.pulp.nullnet.fi> jute@sday.pulp.nullnet.fi (Jussi Kantola) writes:
> > weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener) writes:
> > 
> > > What this means is that THE _GUIDE II_ IS NOW FINANCIALLY
> > > COMMITTED TO SAVING THE EARTH ANIMALS (except geese) ON ZAIRE, BAFFIN,
> > > SUMATRA ETC AND WITH A VOGON-LIKE DETERMINATION, IT IS GOING TO DO SO.
> > 
> > Whew!  Neat idea!
> 
> I second that - but why not the geese?
> 
> Andy...
> 
> -- 
> 
> Andy Wood : amw@cs.bham.ac.uk

Well, you recall when Ford went into the Accounting Virtual Reality
thing in the sub-sub-sub basement of the Guide offices?
He set up a program that hid itself, and this program made the animals of
the universe a high priority (Excuse any discrepancies, I'm doing this from
memory). Anyhow, Ford likes all animals in the universe, except geese. He just
felt that he'd done enough with all the other causes he was helping out in, and
it was time that something else suffered.

	LOOK!  A newbie!!  Let's kill it!
(with no .sig, even!)

	Darel J. Simpson
	djesimps@descartes.uwaterloo.ca
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: jota@mujave.inesc.pt (Joao Pedro Martins)
Subject: Re: Let's get DNA on the Net!
Reply-To: jota@iguana.inesc.pt
Organization: INESC - Inst. Eng. Sistemas e Computadores, LISBOA. PORTUGAL.
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:05:38 GMT

In article <1992Nov8.230510.2154@mksol.dseg.ti.com>, ctalbott@mksol.dseg.ti.com (christopher j talbott) writes:
|> Let's DON'T get Douglas Adams on the net.  Let's let him WRITE, which
|> is why we all enjoy his stuff in the first place.

	have you considered the possibility that he is already writting messages
to the ng, under a phony ID ?

----
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 "cover my face while the animals cry [...],	
  cover my face while the animals die !" (The Cure) 
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: scythe@byron.u.washington.edu (The Grim Reaper)
Subject: Re: MH weirdness...
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 05:38:31 GMT

In article <1992Nov8.040116.3833@ugle.unit.no> eyvind@Lise.Unit.NO (Eyvind Bernhardsen) writes:
>I'm not sure if anybody else has mentioned this (I only just got MH, and skipped
>all spoilers before I'd finished it), but did anybody notice that there are 
>discrepancies between the first four HHGG books and MH?  The only one I can think
>of now is that Ford complains (in MH) that all the writing he'd done on Earth was
>edited down to just two words - but I git the impression that it was all put in
>at the beginning of So Long...  Am I mistaken, or is reality?
>
>-Eyvind
>
>-- 
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> \X/   |         eyvind@lise.unit.no | Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!  Ackpth!

That's not really a discrepancy.  In the original universe, Ford's
description was in fact edited down to two words - "Mostly Harmless"
(An improvement from the original "Harmless").  When the Earth was shifted
into the other universe where it wasn't destroyed by Vogons, in that
universe the description was not edited.  See?


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From: wusel@hactar.hanse.de (Kai 'wusel' Siering)
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 06:17:26 +0100
Organization: Villa Straylight, Hamburg, FRG
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Let's get DNA on the Net!
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In article <1992Nov8.230510.2154@mksol.dseg.ti.com>, ctalbott@mksol.dseg.ti.com (christopher j talbott) writes:

% Let's DON'T get Douglas Adams on the net.  Let's let him WRITE, which
% is why we all enjoy his stuff in the first place.

 Despite he probably already IS on the net (without letting us know =:-<),
why not having him write *here also*?
			kai
From: jute@sday.pulp.nullnet.fi (Jussi Kantola)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Let's get DNA on the Net!
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 92 17:53:23 EET
Distribution: world
Organization: Splattersday

ross-c@scs.leeds.ac.uk (R Clement) writes:


> Then he would sit back and laugh like anything when he got flamed for
> being an ignorant so-and-so who doesn't have a clue what the books are
> all about.

10^6 * "What?!  How did you come to that conclusion!?  You're DNA!!!!"

Gosh, I think THAT would be the end of alt.fan.douglas-adams.



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From: protonen@daimi.aau.dk (Lars J|dal)
Subject: Re: "QED"
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 09:54:08 GMT

apm@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Andrew Merritt) writes:

>little@bellatrix.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (H. Mark Little) writes:
>>In article <BxGJ4B.Bys@dei.unipd.it>, roto@elena.dei.unipd.it (Roberto Totaro) writes:
>>|> >>[question about QED deleted for brevity]
>>|> 
>>|>     QED means Quod Erat Demonstrandum, that is: "What has to be
>>|>     demonstrated".
>>Right expansion of the acronym, (slightly) wrong translation.  Should be "As
>>*has [already] been* demonstrated".  The past tenst is relevant.
>>
>No, it means "which was to be shown", i.e. we have now proved what we set out
>to prove.

Probably something like that. Anyway, the discussion shows that
people in general are (a bit) unsure about the meaning.
My own first encounter with QED was when I got a math proof back
and at the bottom the teacher had written something. It was a bit
unclear what he had written, but I thought it was GED, which means
GOAT in Danish. Not the kind of response you want when you hope
to have made a flawless proof :-)

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PS: QED also means "Quantum Electro Dynamics", but some peple might
    consider this off the track...
From: GRS00021@CONRAD.APPSTATE.EDU (APHiD)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Thoughts on the Whole Series and M H
Date: 13 Nov 1992 15:17:50 GMT
Organization: Sally Strothers At-Home University
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Looking at the way Mostly_Harmless turns out.... at the way Adams has tended
to treat the characters.... do you suppose that, as popular as it is, he
_really_ hates doing the series? M_H seemed to be to the typical I'm-sick-
of-this-series-let's-kill-all-the-heroes book. Well, as typical as any
Adams book can get at least which isn't very but you see what I mean.


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From: amw@cs.bham.ac.uk (Andy Wood)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Thoughts on MOSTLY HARMLESS (spoilers)
Date: 10 Nov 92 11:50:21 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, UK

> : I second that - but why not the geese?

> Have you ever actually *met* a live goose?  They are some of the most vicious
> and unlikeable beasts on the planet (IMHGO)

But what exactly has Ford (or DNA) got against them?

Are there any more examples of Goose hatred around?

Andy...

 

-- 

Andy Wood : amw@cs.bham.ac.uk
From: eyvind@Lise.Unit.NO (Eyvind Bernhardsen)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Young Zaphod-Huh?
Date: 9 Nov 92 20:16:11 GMT
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology

In article <1992Nov8.232922.2632@bvc.edu>, hochsteindav@bvc.edu writes:
 > 
 > 	I'm sure many of you have read it, so could you tell me where " Young
 >  Zaphod Plays It Safe" fits in with the other books.  Or quite possibly the point 
 > of the story?  I like it but I still haven't figured out how it fits in.  

Read carefully.  Pay extra-special notice to the location of the planet to be made
'perfectly safe' at the end.  Now read the bit in HHGG where Trillian says to 
Zaphod where he picked her up.  Hmm...

 > Thanks

Weeell, if you consider this a good answer, then you're welcome.  Other ideas?

 > Doc

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Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: y41@aix320a.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (Jeffrey Hazelwood)
Subject: WHERE IS MOSTLY HARMLESS???????
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 11:42:12 GMT


Hi Netters!  Hello computers!  I'm in Germany and want to know where
I can buy a copy of MH.  The bookstores haven't heard of it yet.  Does
anyone know who publishes it in Germany? Is it Ullstein or DTV or?????
An english or german copy will do.


Hi Netters!  Hallo computers!  Ich bin in Deutschland und ich will wissen
wo ich MH kaufen kann.  Die Buchhandlungen haben es noch nicht gehort.  Weiss
jemand wer der Herausgeber in Deutschland ist?  Ist er Ullstein oder DTV oder
????  Ein englisches oder deutsches Exemplar...(es ist scheiss egal).

Ciao.


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From: uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Clinton 42. president of the USA
Date: 6 Nov 92 21:24:38 GMT

Damn!  You caught me out!  How'd you know about my fiendish plot to
assassinate President Bush?  Dan Quayle for President!! :)

Actually, I'd rather have Dan than Slick Willie.  Sigh.

If Clinton's the Answer to the Question, then I guess the Universe is a
giant horror film. :)

- Eric S.

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Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: amw@cs.bham.ac.uk (Andy Wood)
Subject: Re: Thoughts on MOSTLY HARMLESS (spoilers)
Organization: School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, UK
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 13:24:42 GMT

In article <uV7mTB8w165w@sday.pulp.nullnet.fi> jute@sday.pulp.nullnet.fi (Jussi Kantola) writes:
> weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener) writes:
> 
> > What this means is that THE _GUIDE II_ IS NOW FINANCIALLY
> > COMMITTED TO SAVING THE EARTH ANIMALS (except geese) ON ZAIRE, BAFFIN,
> > SUMATRA ETC AND WITH A VOGON-LIKE DETERMINATION, IT IS GOING TO DO SO.
> 
> Whew!  Neat idea!

I second that - but why not the geese?

Andy...

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Andy Wood : amw@cs.bham.ac.uk
From: maujs@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr J D Morris)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Douglas Adams Interview in East Lansing
Date: 13 Nov 1992 14:48:41 -0000
Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
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	The person who played Marvin on TV, Radio, Album & Singles was the
	talented actor Stephen Moore. If you've seen him in anything
	else (or heard the talking-book versions of HH) , you'll
	recognise his voice immediately. Not only that, he is also
	credited for playing the part on all the episodes - 
	incontravertible proof I would say.
						Jonathan Morris
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From: zdv146@zam112.zam.kfa-juelich.de (Dirk Haunschild)
Subject: Re: Hitchhiker Radio Play on CDs?
Organization: Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH (KFA), Germany
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 14:17:07 GMT
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In article <starman.03q2@crash.amigans.gen.nz>, starman@crash.amigans.gen.nz (Robin Halligan) writes:
|> 
|> the address for the BBC shop is
|> 
|>       BBC WORLD SERVICES SHOP
|>           BUSH HOUSE
|>           STRAND
|>           ALDWYCH
|>           LONDON
|>           071-257-2579 (fax i think)
|> 
|> 
|> HITCH-HIKERS' GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1               10.99
|> HITCH-HIKERS' GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 2               10.99
|> HITCH-HIKERS' GUIDE TO THE GALAXY "CD"            41.99
|> 
|> Prices are british pounds
|> 

HAHAHA, the CD ist *nearly* forty-two pounds....but in earnest :
Is this only one CD or more of them (six?) . 42 pounds may be a
high price for one!

Dirk
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From: dace@shrike.und.ac.za ()
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Let's get DNA on the Net!
Date: 11 Nov 1992 14:54:37 GMT
Organization: University of Natal (Durban), South Africa
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eyvind@Lise.Unit.NO (Eyvind Bernhardsen) writes:
: In article <1dilmiINNddc@shrike.und.ac.za>, dace@shrike.und.ac.za (Roy Dace) writes:
: 
: Try posting something *really* controversial (like "Hi, I'm Douglas Adams.  I
: wrote HHGG.  Please don't mail me.").  Wait for, say a week.  Then, when your
: systems manager tells you "There is NO room left on the net. You use 1.6GB (no. 1
: of 600,000).  *Please* delete *something*", you'll know why.

First, I am really, really sorry I ever fingered the account or posted the
results.  I kinda hoped it would fuel discussion, not some of the email
flames which have come my way.  HOWEVER, you've never been in 
alt.fan.pratchett have you?  Terry Pratchett is a regular contributor
and I think gets a fair amount of email from his fans, but still writes
far more than DNA does.  I guess he'd get a lot to start with, but there
are *lots* of famous people on the net who survive the onslaught.
 
: Just adding a bit of realism here :) (I didn't mean to, really...  Aargh!)

Why? 8-)

	-Hal
From: scythe@byron.u.washington.edu (The Grim Reaper)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Young Zaphod-Huh?
Date: 9 Nov 92 23:12:38 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

In article <1992Nov8.232922.2632@bvc.edu> hochsteindav@bvc.edu writes:
>
>	I'm sure many of you have read it, so could you tell me where " Young
> Zaphod Plays It Safe" fits in with the other books.  Or quite possibly the point 
>of the story?  I like it but I still haven't figured out how it fits in.  
>
>Thanks
>
>Doc

Very simple.  1) It doesn't. 2) It doesn't have one.
=)
From: car-a@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Mostly Harmless (again)
Date: 8 Nov 92 15:25:15 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England

Having started reading this newsgroup shortly before getting hold
of MH, I was prepared for the ending.  Despite the sorrow I felt 
at the demise of the earth, in toto, I must admit I thought that
MH was the best read I'd had since my first reading of THHGTTG.  I
think that some of the previous four books were a little too fast
for my liking and it took at least two readings of some parts to
get the message.  The same can be said for the very ending of Dirk
Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, which I also felt took one too
many insane, sideways leaps.  Don't get me wrong, I'm not
complaining, just putting forward my reasons for liking MH. I felt
that MH was a far easier book to follow - though thankfully, not
any more sensible.  And that the ending of MH was, while a little
sad, at least fitting.  Are we actually told that Arthur, Ford,
Random etc. are dead?  It seemed to me that the reader was left
with the impression that they were dead but they needn't be...
Some articles on this group have been referring to a hole through
the Earth's core and it's use as a transport system.  Where is
this mentioned?  I must admit I am at a loss.  I probably have the
wrong end of the stick...
On the whole I felt that MH was as hilarious as we could have 
hoped for from Douglas Adams and I was not too annoyed at having
to fork out for a hardback edition.  I hope his next book is 
another Dirk Gently because, while I did like MH, I also thought
that SLATFATF was a good ending, (as well as a somewhat happier
one), and another episode in the over-extended trilogy may just be
flogging a dead horse...

By the way, I do feel that some of the readers out there are 
taking everything too seriously, with regards to what exactly DA 
means by this or that.  Douglas Adams, he's just zis guy, 
you know?

If I annoy you that much - mail me.

Chris Reece - car-a@minster.york.ac.uk
"Relax, no doubt the Universe is unfolding as it should be",
						Evan Dando.
From: xyzzy@mertwig.UUCP (Daniel Drucker)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: DNA is here!
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 21:01:00 EST
Organization: Odd Parity Hacker's Group


All this talk about DNA getting on the net...

I, personally, think he's here. And it could be any one of you.

Well, except for YOU.


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