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From: s890412@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU (Chris Diffey)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Trillian TV question
Date: 17 Dec 1992 04:51:04 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
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mcginnis-john@cs.yale.edu (John McGinnis) writes:
>In article <8f_wZJu00aw5IdaVpy@andrew.cmu.edu> Jason Paul Togyer <jt3y+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

>> published?  Maybe DA originally planned to make Trillian a
>> bimbo/airhead, and later decided it would be more interesting to make
>> her one of the more logical and levelheaded people around?  
>> 

>Well, first of all, I have to say that I have the misfortune of never seeing
>the TV series, so I can't comment on the bimboness of Trillian in that medium.
>However, I have read the scripts (many times) and I have the CD's of the radio
>show, so I do have a feeling as to how she was originally meant to be played,
>and I think I can safely say that she wasn't meant to be a bimbo.  First of
>all, she does have a degree in math and another in astrophysics.  Plus, she
>just doesn't have the voice of a bimbo.  You know, it isn't all bubbly or
>anything.  She sounds pretty smart.

>Oh well.  These are just my impressions and probably mean absolutely nothing.
>But what the heck, I might as well post them...  :-)

I agree how can she be a bimbo I mean Zaphod is far more a bimboish character 
then trillian is, ("whats the z for?" "which one?" "any one!") she is the
only one that knows how to drive the heart of gold. etc. She and Ford are the
only real froods in the story, just as an aside ford chose his name for
his assignment on Earth ("the minimal research he had done suggested the name
Ford Prefect would be nicely inconspicuous") How come Zaphod calls him
Ford throughout the story? shouldn't he only know his real name from the
small planet in the vicinity of Betelgeuse? and before you say that he told
him before he left, Zaphod didn't know Ford was there when he went to the
party in Isilington and picked up Trisha.
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Date: Sunday, 13 Dec 1992 13:59:03 EST
From: <MDSQC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: The answer and the question
 <V228uB4w165w@mertwig.UUCP>

Once you go down to the parking lot of the restaurant at the end of
the Universe, and the show is over, you are back in your original time.
Therefore, you lose. :-)

Question, though. If the end of the Universe happens only once on each
probability axis, then there can only be one show at the end of the universe.
Wouldn't reservations, therefore, be impossibly hard to get? On earth alone
we have four billion people, and we're not even close to finished. It seems
like the only way to get tickets would be through a Ticket Master driven
by the heart of gold.

And it wasn't a waste of time, I'd have done the same if you didn't. Besides,
I thought of this question, didn't I? Also, could 42 be the answer? Would
that mean [sound of universe ending]
From: ST201434@brownvm.brown.edu (jude)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: More on Brick under Hat?
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 23:05:51 EST
Organization: Brown University - Providence, Rhode Island  USA
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The brick under the hat reminded me of something I once read about somewhere:
Leaving a shopping bag out in the middle of the road with a pile of bricks
underneath.  The idea is, a driver assumes it's empty and basically wrecks
the car.  Pretty evil thing to do.

Problem is, I can't recall where I heard about this.  I guess it was a book
but I'm not sure.  Anyone got any ideas?

                   Thanks!

                                       -jude

I wish I was a headlight on a northbound train
I'd shine my light through the cool Colorado rain
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From: tuffyd@bray1b.its.rpi.edu (Devin 'Nice Guy' Tuffy)
Subject: Re: Ford's Name (Was Re: Trillian TV question)
Reply-To: tuffyd@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 17:12:02 GMT


|> I agree how can she be a bimbo I mean Zaphod is far more a bimboish character 
|> then trillian is, ("whats the z for?" "which one?" "any one!") she is the
|> only one that knows how to drive the heart of gold. etc. She and Ford are the
|> only real froods in the story, just as an aside ford chose his name for
|> his assignment on Earth ("the minimal research he had done suggested the name
|> Ford Prefect would be nicely inconspicuous") How come Zaphod calls him
|> Ford throughout the story? shouldn't he only know his real name from the
|> small planet in the vicinity of Betelgeuse? and before you say that he told
|> him before he left, Zaphod didn't know Ford was there when he went to the
|> party in Isilington and picked up Trisha.
|> -- 

I believe it was said somewhere in the liner notes of the radio scripts how  this problem was overcome.  When changed his name shortly before going to the earth, and he went to some bureau or something to have this officially done.  They wove his name into the fabric of space-time so it was as if Ford's name was always Ford.

Sounds good to me.

dev.
From: e37larsen@skyfox
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Wanted: Video
Date: 18 DEC 92 03:17:45 GMT
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
NNTP-Posting-Host: sask.usask.ca


I'm looking for the video of HHGttG to show at a retreat, and I'm wondering
if there's any leads.  I've checked in the video stores to no avail.  Part
of the problem may be that I don't know if it's available in Canada.  Anyone
happen to know?

BTW,
With regards to time travel, there's been an interesting discussion on it
in alt.sci.physics.new-theories which basically states (I'm paraphrasing
here) that to find out if time travel is real, write a letter telling
your exact location in as many different ways as possible, and then
handing it off to your children, and they to their children, and so on.  The
letter should also have instructions for the person who invents, or uses the
time machine to come back to the specified spot on the specified day, and then
you can know if it actually works.  Neat concept!

Trina Larsen
E37Larsen@sask.usask.ca

Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: cmwolf@mtu.edu (christopher m. wolf)
Subject: Re: HHGTTG TV Series
Organization: Michigan Technological University
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 05:14:19 GMT

bbs.zio@tsoft.net (James Elkinton) writes:
>
>This is another interesting note regarding PAL/NTSC:
>
>PAL:  270 Line Disp @ 50Hz
>NTSC: 225 Line Disp @ 60Hz
>Total lines per sec. are equal, since:
>50Cycles/sec, 270L/Cycle = 13500L/Sec
>60Cycles/sec, 225L/Cycle = 13500L/Sec
>
>Same also holds true with WB Screens J.P.  Compare 240 to 200 as you do 
>with 270 to 225, and you get the same L/Sec - 12000.
>
>Just a thought.  Maybe common knowledge, maybe not, but thought someone 
>might find this an interesting tidbit.

They're still not compatible.

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From: dcartled@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Knees)
Subject: Re: Another book? (was Re: doug)
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 03:30:47 GMT

>The thing that bothered me about Marvin was that you couldn't get rid of him.
>He kept coming back, like the dog in "Hotel New Hampshire"

Or rather, for those who have played the Hitchhiker's computer game,
like the thing which your aunt gave you and you don't know what it is!

Regards,

David Cartledge

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From: tara@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Lady Johanna Constantine)
Subject: Re: DON'T PANIC - the official HHGTTG companion
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 05:42:11 GMT

shepa@sersun1 (Shepherd A J) writes:

>For all those froods looking for a copy of DON'T PANIC, there is
>apparently a reprint
>coming soon. The reprint will contain some extra material which
>Neil Gaiman is apparently
>too cool to write, so the extra bits are being done by some guy
>called Dave Dixon
>(no relation). So watch the bookshelves!


Actually, I would guess Neil was probably too busy relocating to the
United States, writing Sandman, writing Death: The High Cost of Living,
writing Good Omens with Terry Pratchett, writing Miricleman, writing
Sweeney Todd, or somesuch.  He's been very busy recently.

Currently, I believe he is busy shelving books.


Ta,

LJC

-- 
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From: r16a@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Roger Earle)
Subject: Re: The answer and the question
Organization: University of Maximegalon.
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:51:55 GMT

In article <92348.135903MDSQC@CUNYVM.BITNET> <MDSQC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:
>Once you go down to the parking lot of the restaurant at the end of
>the Universe, and the show is over, you are back in your original time.
>Therefore, you lose. :-)
>
    I guess I forgot one point in the initial explanation of how to do it. It also hinges on the fact that the theory states that the universe will instantly disappear and be replaced with something even more bizarre. If you get the question from Marvin after the show is over, the instant you know both the question and the answer there is no universe to be replaced, so you've hopped over the necessary time frame for the changeover, and it should be safe to return. Or you could always get a job at milliways

 :)

(sorry if you've already seen this but the last time I posted this I didn't see it come up so I'm not sure if it went out)

					"OH NO, not again!"

   Roger Earle
   Infinite Improbability Physicist
   University of Maximegalon
   Sub-etherNet:r16a@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca
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From: mike@win3 (Michael Paull)
Subject: Radio Scripts
Organization: Victoria University of Technology
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 04:32:24 GMT

Hi ..

	Being a huge Douglas Adams fan, and an even bigger fan of HHGTTG,
i've been trying to locate a file i'd seen some time back. The file was a
complete copy of the original radio scripts, it might have been a couple of
files, not sure. Does anyone know of an ftp site that has it? or if someone
has it, can they email it to me .. 

Thanks

	Mike

mike@win3.vut.edu.au

Organization: Freshman, CIT general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 18:40:20 -0500 
From: Jason Paul Togyer <jt3y+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: [more] Re: Trillian TV question
	<Bz6nLM.Ass@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>

In article <1992Dec10.174100.1245@scorch.apana.org.au>
jimgar@scorch.apana.org.au (Jim Garner) writes:

>Can you imagine the TV Trillian acheiving all the things Trillian does
>in "Mostly Harmless"? I mean she becomes a major TV newscaster.

Well, it's not like you have to be a brain surgeon to become a major TV
newscaster.  All you need is hair-spray...

Oooh, now I AM gonna get flamed!!!!  ;-)

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From: jdunning@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (John Alan Dunning)
Subject: Re: Another book? (was Re: doug)
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 17:53:43 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.100602.1@acad3.alaska.edu> fsjdj1@acad3.alaska.edu writes:
>In article <13@jptcs.COM>, Steve.Kilbey%bbs@jptcs.com (Steve Kilbey) writes:
>> Could there possibly be another? I hope there are no more Dirk books. They
>> didn't have the pizzezz that HGTTG did.
>
>I was thinking about this the other day, and there actually could be another
>book, though I seriously doubt Adams is going to do one.
>
>Zaphod wasn't on Earth (or so we are led to believe) when it blew for the
>second time, and though the Heart of Gold is still who-knows-where I bet
>there's still enough improbability associated with the whole group (and that
>stuff about unstability in the plural sectors mentioned in Mostly Harmless)
>that ol' Zaphod could have easily slipped them off the planet between the
>shooting and the Earth's second destruction.
>
>Besides, who could pass up the opportunity to write a sex scene between Zaphod
>and Trillian(s)?  And where, exactly, did Fenchurch go?  I think Adams liked
>her too much to just let her blip out.  I could be wrong.  Look at Marvin
>(but no one really liked him, anyway).
>
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It certainly seems like Adams was trying to end the series with MH.
But he can't just leave Fenchurch lost on the probablity axis, never to be
seen again.  I won't stand for it.  If he doesn't come up with another
Hitchhikers book, well...  has anyone seen "Misery"?

For my $.02, I think there could be at least two more books.  The next
one would feature Fenchurch, after Arthur has mysteriously disappeared
from the hyperspace liner.  Perhaps she would meet up with another
Ford and a Trillian or two while trying to find Arthur, and then finally
end up on Earth just as it was about to be destroyed (again).  The 
seventh(!) book could tell the story of how Zaphod manages to save
everyone from certain destruction, while ending up with not one but
four girlfriends.  Maybe he would add a couple of heads and arms to
keep them all happy.

John
From: Steve.Kilbey%bbs@jptcs.com (Steve Kilbey)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: doug
Date: 12 Dec 92 02:15:00 GMT
Reply-To: Steve.Kilbey%bbs@jptcs.com (Steve Kilbey)
X-Posting-Software: UniBoard 1.10a S/N 202921

Hey, doesn't this group get any action. What dod you all think of the book?
Could there possibly be another? I hope there are no more Dirk books. They
didn't have the pizzezz that HGTTG did.
From: ginsu@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Wes Simonds)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Wodehouse
Date: 17 Dec 92 07:20:26 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

Yes, the PGW influence is quite substantial, extending in several cases even
to line-level loans, whether conscious or not... consider for example

"...it was not possible to heave a brick on Brequinda in the Foth of Avalars
 without hitting at least half a dozen Fuolornis Fire Dragons."
                                 So Long...Fish, 1984, Adams

"...you could have flung bricks by the hour in England's most densely 
 populated districts without endangering a single girl capable of becoming
 Mrs. Augustus Fink-Nottle without an anesthetic."
                                 Right Ho, Jeeves, 1934, Wodehouse

"In Islington you can hardly hurl a brick without hitting three antique shops,
 an estate agent, and a bookshop."
                                 Dirk Gently's...Agency, 1987, Adams

"You barbarians!" he yelled. I'll sue the council for every penny it's 
got! I'll have you hung, drawn and quartered! And whipped! And boiled... 
until... until you've had enough."
 "And then I will do it again!" yelled Arthur. And when I've finished 
I will take all the little bits, and I will jump on them!"
                                 Hitchhiker's...Galaxy, 1979, Adams

"Listen.  I'll have to let you in on something that's vitally secret, and if 
 you breathe a word of it to a soul I'll rip you both asunder with my bare
 hands, shred you up into small pieces, and jump on the remains with hobnailed
 boots."
                                 Return of Jeeves, 1954, Wodehouse

There are many that are even more straighforward... the original edition of
Life...Everything contained a line which has since been removed because
it was simple theft, word-for-word, from Wodehouse.

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From: kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jason 'KodaK' Balicki)
Subject: Don't read this if you don't wanna know about MH yet!  Re: Trillian TV question
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 05:36:56 GMT

In article <1992Dec10.174100.1245@scorch.apana.org.au> jimgar@scorch.apana.org.au (Jim Garner) writes:

>Can you imagine the TV Trillian acheiving all the things Trillian does
>in "Mostly Harmless"? I mean she becomes a major TV newscaster.

Argh, Argh, Argh, Argh, ARGH!  Will you PLEASE put "spoiler" in the 
subject line before you post this stuff!!!  I don't wanna know anything
about the book until I READ it!

Yeah, I go and reserve it here TWO MONTHS before it even comes in, I 
thought "HA!  I'll get it before ANYONE ELSE!"  Yeah, right, I still
havent got it and I probably wont until I get back from the holidays!
I'm going to end this sentance with a period.

>Jim Garner - jimgar@scorch.apana.org.au

--Jason Balicki
kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
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From: rwooten@milp.jsc.nasa.gov (TCATS user)
Subject: Re: Wodehouse
Organization: Loral Space Information Systems
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 15:10:26 GMT

|> 
|> There are many that are even more straighforward... the original edition of
|> Life...Everything contained a line which has since been removed because
|> it was simple theft, word-for-word, from Wodehouse.
|> 

Well, out with it!
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From: Jeremy_Reimer@mindlink.bc.ca (Jeremy Reimer)
Subject: Re: Another book? (was Re: doug)
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 07:15:23 GMT

> Knees writes:
>
> Msg-ID: <BzDwFB.4Fs@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
> Posted: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 03:30:4
>
> Org.  : Indiana University
>
> >The thing that bothered me about Marvin was that you couldn't get rid of
> him.
> >He kept coming back, like the dog in "Hotel New Hampshire"
>
> Or rather, for those who have played the Hitchhiker's computer game,
> like the thing which your aunt gave you and you don't know what it is!
>
> Regards,
>
> David Cartledge
>


That was a great part of the game!  You would keep dropping it but you would
suddenly have it in your dressing-gown pocket again.


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From: bbs.zio@tsoft.net (James Elkinton)
Subject: Re: HHGTTG TV Series
Organization: The TSoft BBS and Public Access Unix, +1 415 969 8238
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 10:01:44 GMT

jpotter@wattle.itd.adelaide.edu.au (Jonathan Potter) writes:

> In article <Byou80.1Fy@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> dpearson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Pea
> >ensalada@cats.ucsc.edu (Kevin Charles Rubio) writes:
> >
> >
> >>In article <truesdel-021292123003@aux-1.ics.uci.edu> truesdel@ics.uci.edu (
> >>The series only became available in PAL video a few months ago.  Give it
> >                                     ^^^
> >This is only indirectly concerned with DNA, so bear with me.  What is PAL
> >format, and how is it different from NTSC?  What does NTSC stand for while I
> >at it?
> 
> PAL and NTSC are both different television/video formats. PAL is the format
> used mainly in Europe and Australia, and NTSC is used mainly in the USA,
> Canada and Japan. There is little practical difference between the two
> except that PAL has a lower refresh rate and therefore a slightly higher
> vertical resolution. Oh, and PAL colours are better :-)
> 
> PAL  - Phased Alternating Line
> NTSC - National Televisions Standards Committee
>        (or Never Twice the Same Colour :-)
> 
> 
> Jon
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This is another interesting note regarding PAL/NTSC:

PAL:  270 Line Disp @ 50Hz
NTSC: 225 Line Disp @ 60Hz
Total lines per sec. are equal, since:
50Cycles/sec, 270L/Cycle = 13500L/Sec
60Cycles/sec, 225L/Cycle = 13500L/Sec

Same also holds true with WB Screens J.P.  Compare 240 to 200 as you do 
with 270 to 225, and you get the same L/Sec - 12000.

Just a thought.  Maybe common knowledge, maybe not, but thought someone 
might find this an interesting tidbit.

--
James Elkinton (bbs.zio@tsoft.net)
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From: wolfi@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfgang Schwanke)
Subject: Re: HHGTTG TV Series
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 02:02:35 GMT

bbs.zio@tsoft.net (James Elkinton) writes:

>This is another interesting note regarding PAL/NTSC:
>
>PAL:  270 Line Disp @ 50Hz
>NTSC: 225 Line Disp @ 60Hz
>Total lines per sec. are equal, since:
>50Cycles/sec, 270L/Cycle = 13500L/Sec
>60Cycles/sec, 225L/Cycle = 13500L/Sec
>
>Same also holds true with WB Screens J.P.  Compare 240 to 200 as you do 
>with 270 to 225, and you get the same L/Sec - 12000.
>
>Just a thought.  Maybe common knowledge, maybe not, but thought someone 
>might find this an interesting tidbit.

The figures are 15.625 lines p. sec., and 312.5 resp. 262.5 lines p. cycle
I should think, but otherwhise quite right.

Supposedly the European standard was derived from the American standard
which is older.

In post war Germany the Russians ordered the setup of a television system,
and the engineers only had American equipment handy, which was capable of
15.625 lines p. sec only. The mains frequency being 50 Hz, they divided
15.625 by that, and naturally came up with the 312.5 lines figure.
This standard was then adopted by other European nations for convenience.

If the story is true, the equal figures are not a coincidence. I read it
in a book by Walter Bruch, the later inventor of PAL. But then he tends to
brag and tell anectodes in his book, so not sure if it's really true.

>James Elkinton (bbs.zio@tsoft.net)

Wolfgang

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From: kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jason 'KodaK' Balicki)
Subject: Purdue readers:  some info...
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Distribution: alt
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 04:48:33 GMT


*Sigh*  I hate to let anyone in on this, but if you go to school
at Purdue, or live in the area and are reading this from a bbs
(which is why I distributed this to 'alt' instead of Purdue, sorry)
then you may wish to know that WaldenBooks at the mall in Lafayette
has two, count em TWO, copies of the tapes of the origional BBC
radio broadcasts.  It was only the tapes, not on CD, and it was
$35.00 and unfortuneatly I have to eat.

--Jason Balicki
kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
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