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From: "curtis repen" <curtis.repen@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: phone sanitizers
Date: 23 Jul 92 14:26:05 EST
Reply-To: "curtis repen" <curtis.repen@canrem.com>
Distribution: alt
Organization: Canada Remote Systems


  Hear Ye, Hear Ye!

  The End of The World is Nigh!

  How do I know this?? Because I just received a visit from a ...  wait
  for it ... *Phone Sanitizer*!! Since when do these creatures exist??
  If memory serves, this particular profession only comes into existence
  when a civilization is well and truly in decline. Shortly thereafter
  they (along with some other "undesirables") are sent away to a new
  planet. Shortly after that, the original planet is wiped out in a
  plague transmitted by unsanitary phones.

  Now, I really didn't mind this particular visitation too much, as the
  Phone Sanitizer in question was young, and rather shapely, and when
  she left, she gave me a kiss (a *Hershey's* Kiss, you dirty-minded
  sod), but any fan of DA must surely be worried at this manifestation.

  N'est ce pas??

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  ain't even mine.  I got 'em off the back of a (fnord) Fruit Loops box.
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From: J9KW000 <J9KW@UNB.CA>
Subject: hhg type in adventure?
Organization: University of New Brunswick
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 14:52:01 GMT

Hello
   This is my first post ever ... so please bear with me. I have
been following this group as often as I can however I havn't seen
much discussion of an IBM hhg type in adventure. I wonder if
anyone has tried it. I am considering putting in an order at
my local computer store and I would like any comments anyone
can give me on your opinion of the game. From what I understand
from the dealer there are no graphics.

  thanks muchly in advance

     Tracy
From: Vasilii.V.Petrenko@dartmouth.edu (Vasilii V. Petrenko)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Mostly Harmless
Date: 27 Jul 92 01:10:55 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

DA's new book is supposed to come out either late Oct. or early Nov. in
the US i think.   It might already be out in the UK - either htat or
it's coming out there soon  (at least thats been the rumor around
here....)\
Karen Reed
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From: bpostow@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Brian Postow)
Subject: Re: Kubla Khan
 i have read and reread Dirk Gently and can't really figure out what
 Dirk did by talking to Coleridge and stopping him from writing the
 rest of Kubla Khan.  How did this stop the ghost from wanting to go
 back in time to stop the ship from blowing up?  Any ideas? Anyone?
 And what about the albatross?
Organization: Oberlin College Computer Science
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 06:20:20 GMT
X-Posted-From: occs.cs.oberlin.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

WOW!!! what a SUBJECT!!!

sorry, I don't quite remember the answer but I think it might be in
the FAQ
--
Brian Postow :: The Pasta Knight - that noodle head in shiny armour
reachable at:
bpostow@occs.oberlin.edu
sbp2530@ocvaxa.cc.oberlin.edu		this space left unintentionally blank.
sbp2530@oberlin.bitnet.edu

Yes, I KNOW that 6*9 is 42 in base 13.
From: v122kzkw@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (A FROOD WHO SURE KNOWS WHERE HIS TOWEL IS)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: the computer game
Date: 30 Jul 92 21:02:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Jul27.203359.21975@news.media.mit.edu>, tsmaster@media.mit.edu (David LeCompte) writes...
>In article <1992Jul27.155815.25194@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> "tbk" <UKJP@DKAUNI2.BITNET> writes:
>>hi everywhere,
>>
>>can anyone tell me if the infocom computer game 'thhg2tg' is still
>>being produced or sold ?  i didn't find it anywhere here in germany .
>>if this game is not sold any more, i think that it would not be
>>immoral to ask for sending me a copy via e-mail .
>>
>>so long -- tobi
> 
>Piracy issues aside (PLEASE!) Look for The Lost Treasures of Infocom.
>If you're only looking for Hitchhiker's, then the price will be steep.
>Otherwise, it's an excellent buy. Expect to pay $50-$60 US.
> 
Greetings.
Yes, HHGTTG is in the Lost Tresures of Infocom set.
Buracracy (my spelling is not what it used to be) is out on the new LTOI 2.
It doesn't have as many games as LTOI 1, costs about $10 less and from what
I understand, doesn't have a hintbook - just a 1-900 number to call for hints
(which, personally, I think sucks - half the fun was the hint book itself).
I have also read (read this and more on rec.games.misc) on that group, that
it is already available for IBM and MACs - I don't know about Amigas (which
I'm anxiously awaiting news for).
T.
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From: dep@world.std.com (Eric J DeWitt)
Subject: Re: Kubla Khan i have read and reread Dirk Gently and can't really figure out what Dirk did by talking to Coleridge and stopping him from writing the rest of Kubla Khan.  How did this stop the ghost from wanting to go back in time to stop the ship from blowing up?  Any ideas? Anyone? And what about the albatross?
Organization: Saestar Computer Services, Brookline, MA
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 13:49:31 GMT

The poem that Drik stoped Coleridge from writing was the "Rime of the
Ancient Mariner." (I think mind you, thats what made sense and thou my
copy is currently on loan Dirk Gently is probably my favorite DA book.)
If you look at "The Rime.." you will gleen all the connections you are
missing.  It does infact make sense, in a twisted sort of way.
	-dep
	-ericd
	@>---`--,--'---

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From: wjturner@iastate.edu (William J Turner)
Subject: Re: Origins of "f**k" (was Re: Belguim (excuse my language))
Keywords: belguim, the guide, hhgttg
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 14:22:49 GMT

In article <1992Jul21.012451.29353@news.Hawaii.Edu> irace@lanai.keck.hawaii.edu writes:
>In article <1992Jul15.020126.20405@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, umrice02@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Stephen Rice) writes...
>>                                                           (We don't swear
>>here...what does f**k mean?) 
>
>An unreleated topic, but I have to put my own two cents' worth: I 
>have heard that f**k is an acronym standing for "For Unlawful 
>Carnal Knowledge," and originated as a legal term. I have some 
>difficulty swallowing this, because there's a gnawing feeling in 
>my gut that tells me that the word "f**k" predates the modern 
>English language. Would any etymologists like to comment?
>
>ObAdams: Can someone please provide ISBN #'s for the "liff" books?
>	 The FAQ has expired at my site.
>
>--Will                        #include stddisclaimer.h
>irace@kaula.keck.hawaii.edu

My understanding is that f**k, along with most if not all other words 
considered to be ofensive in the English language, actually came from Old
English and the other languages spoken in the British Isles before the
Norman invasion of 1066.  Once the Normans came to control on England, they
made French the official language, and only peasants and other undesirables
spoke English.  For this reason, many truelly "English" words have come to
be considered not as polite as the words from French meaning the same thing.
One exampleis f**k.  Another is the Anglican word "sweat" which is supposed to
be more rude than "perspire" which the Normans brought with them in 1066.

This is only what I have read and gotten from my mother, who has been studying
the origins of the English language for her M.A.

-- 
Will Turner,  N0RDV		 --------------------------------
wjturner@iastate.edu		| Whatever the mind can conceive |
twp77@isuvax.iastate.edu	| and believe, it can achieve.   |
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From: v122kzkw@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (A FROOD WHO SURE KNOWS WHERE HIS TOWEL IS)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: GALACTIC GUIDE
Date: 31 Jul 92 20:39:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Jul31.035321.12424@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, ba511@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (M. Amis Rich) writes...
> 
>I heard that there was a HitchHikers Guide To The Galaxy - Alt.Galactic.Guide
>but am unable to acess this group on my Cleveland Freenet Account although
>my brother can access it on his. How come we can both acess Alt.Fan.Douglas Adams but not Alt. Galactic Guide? 
>    Does being a Galactic HitchHiker have anything to do with it?
Greetings.
Well, I'm not sure if being a Galactic Hitchhiker has anything to do with
it (couldn't hurt though) however, I have seen it there in the usenet section.
It's in the alt hierarchy number 122 or 123.
T.
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From: tagg@hg.uleth.ca (Nathaniel Tagg)
Subject: The Frantics
Reply-To: tagg@hg.uleth.ca
Organization: University of Lethbridge
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 22:01:19 GMT

       Ah! Do I actually hear the voice of an American who has heard of the
Frantics?  Or did I read the by-line wrong?
       Frantic Times (or the TV series Four on the Floor) remains, to my mind,
the best comedy in the world, second only to Douglas Adams and Monty Python. 
The particular skit mentioned on this board was 'Worshippers (Backwards)-R Us'.

    "Welcome, one and all to Worshippers R Us, the first church of all
denominations..."
    Prayer:
     "Oh large person or persons of whatever gender or branch of the animal
kindom,
      Who did something great once, and is now somewhere that we aren't,
      Grant us whatever it is that you tend to grant
      Unless you don't interfere in earthly concerns,
      Please watch over us, or save us from evil, or let us find out for
ourselves, or damn us randomly,
      Amen, praise Allah, Have a Nice Day."

(I may have missed a few lines.)
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          Nathaniel Tagg               The U of Hell,  Lethbridge, AB
    "It's just a matter of putting one point seven one five three seven two
and two point two oh four six two eight together."     --The Doctor 
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From: uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann)
Subject: Re: Origins of "f**k" (was Re: Belguim (excuse my language))
Organization: Student Pool, CSD, University of Erlangen, Germany
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 12:19:08 GMT
Keywords: belguim, the guide, hhgttg

irace@lanai.keck.hawaii.edu (Will Irace (jnr)) writes:

>In article <1992Jul15.020126.20405@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, umrice02@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Stephen Rice) writes...
>>                                                           (We don't swear
>>here...what does f**k mean?) 

>An unreleated topic, but I have to put my own two cents' worth: I 
>have heard that f**k is an acronym standing for "For Unlawful 
>Carnal Knowledge," and originated as a legal term. I have some 
>difficulty swallowing this, because there's a gnawing feeling in 
>my gut that tells me that the word "f**k" predates the modern 
>English language. Would any etymologists like to comment?

This group seems to go down the drain, oh yeah!

Anyway the word exists in German, too, albeit sound-shifted* and even
more stigmatized. So if it ever was an acronym it should be a runic one.

* "u" becomes "i"

ich f**ke
du  f**kst
er  f**kt    It's a regular verb, but if you're keen on
wir f**ken   getting the other tenses as well, mail me.
ihr f**kt
sie f**ken


May the Cool be with You!

(C)OOL mcmxcii
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From: robh@grex.ann-arbor.mi.us (Robert Henderson)
Subject: Re: Origins of "f**k" (was Re: Belguim (excuse my language))
Keywords: belguim, the guide, hhgttg
Organization: GREX Public Access Unix +1 313 761 3000
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 17:05:39 GMT

In article <1992Jul21.012451.29353@news.Hawaii.Edu> irace@lanai.keck.hawaii.edu writes:
>                                                   I have some 
>difficulty swallowing this, because there's a gnawing feeling in 
>my gut that tells me that the word "f**k" predates the modern 
>English language. Would any etymologists like to comment?

I can't remember the source, but I believe the word derives from
Middle German, and means "to strike".  Hang on while I try to find
my dictionary...

Well, I was close.  According to my American Heritage Dictionary
(1979 edition), it derives from the Middle Dutch word "fokken",
meaning "to strike".  Perhaps this is where the Fokker airplanes
got their name?  Naaaah.
-- 
RobH (or Rob Henderson, if you prefer)
robh@grex.ann-arbor.mi.us
They're setting fire to the cornfields...  (Kate Bush)
From: Vasilii.V.Petrenko@dartmouth.edu (Vasilii V. Petrenko)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: hhg type in adventure?
Date: 27 Jul 92 01:19:41 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

Does anyone have a copy of that game for the Mac?  WAY back when I had
a Commidore 64 i had HHG but never got a chance to solve it.  If you
do, would you be willing to email me a copy??
                                    Thanks

-Karen Reed
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: J9KW000 <J9KW@UNB.CA>
Subject: Thanks for the advice!!
Organization: University of New Brunswick
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 13:10:50 GMT

Hi
  I just wanted to publicly(sp?) thank everyone who gave
me advice about buying the hhg type in adventure. It seems
that everyone out there that answered liked it and had
good things to say about it so last night I headed out and
bought the Lost Treasures of Infocom. Not bad, 20 different games
included.
   Well thanks everyone who advised me.

 till next time
       Tracy
From: jihad@unkaphaed.UUCP (Robby Eckert)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: hhg type in adventure?
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 01:47:05 GMT
Organization: Unka Phaed's UUCP Thingy

> Hello
>    This is my first post ever ... so please bear with me. I have
> been following this group as often as I can however I havn't seen
> much discussion of an IBM hhg type in adventure. I wonder if
> anyone has tried it. I am considering putting in an order at
> my local computer store and I would like any comments anyone
> can give me on your opinion of the game. From what I understand
> from the dealer there are no graphics.
 
Hello, Tracy.  This is my first post too, so I'll definitely bear with 
you.  ;)  I've played HHG on the IBM and yes, there are no graphics to 
it.  The game is a text adventure like so all the earlier Infocom games. 
The game is run by a set of commands (such as: North, South, Quit, Save, 
Taste, Look, Pick up, and so on) that allow you to move through the game. 
It has been quite some time since I last played it, but from what I 
remember, it followed the HHG story fairly well.  Have you ever played 
any of the Sierra games (like King's Quest 1, Police Quest I or Space 
Quest 1 (the original versions))?  It's like them, but without their 
graphics.
 
I hope this helps you out in your quest for knowledge.
 
...invisible warriors in an unseen battle...
                              JIHAD


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From: datasbld@bnr.ca (Datasbuild)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Need help in London
Date: 21 Jul 92 10:23:38 GMT
Organization: BNR Europe Ltd, Maidenhead, UK
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

mjug@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de (Matthias Jugel) writes:
: Hello,
: 
: I have some problem in London. I need accomodation, but I don't know how
: to get one. I will arrive in London during the first week of September.
: I will read a MSc course at the Birkbeck College from September to August
: next year.  If someone can help me please mail to the address below.
: 
: Thanx, Matthias.
: 
: ps: Sorry about my poor english but babelfishes are not available... :)
: 
: --
: +--------------+----------------------------------------------------------+
: |  Don't hate  | Matthias L Jugel  *****  Tech. Uni. Chemnitz (21 RES 89) |
: |   anything   | ******* NighFall / JRMud / TUBMud: known as Hate ******* |
: | in the whole +----------------------------------------------------------+ 
: |  world. :-)  | E-Mail (INet): Matthias.Jugel@Informatik.tu-chemnitz.de  |
: +--------------+----------------------------------------------------------+

Contact the college, they will have a department for this.


Nick             DoD 1069

42 ?

"Just another brick (flying) in the wall"   -Pink Fluoride
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From: dpearson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Pearson)
Subject: Re: Guide Music
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 20:12:59 GMT

otten@QUARK.UMD.EDU (Neil Ottenstein) writes:

>I was wodnering whether in the radio show they actually gave the credits
>for where the music came from.  I was just listening to the Eagles - One
>of These Nights and then was stunned to hear the music from the radio
>show which is from the instrumental song "Journey of the Sourcerer".
>It had been a long time since I had heard this album and so it seemed
>quite weird to hear the HHG music so "out of context".  

>Neil Ottenstein

If you can get a hold of the Radio scripts,  I believe that a listing of all
of the music used in the show is included with the notes at the end of each 
show.  Although, from what I've read on this group in the past couple of weeks,
I guess that this book is now out of print, which is a shame really because it
includes a lot of lines that are quite funny not included in the shows that 
aired.   

But goodluck in your quest for this book.  

			 	"Get off of me you filthy sofa!"
				-Ford Prefect (from HHGTTG Radio series) 
 
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From: jpotter@ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Jonathan Potter)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: BBC compact disks
Date: 27 Jul 92 02:03:07 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Division, The University of Adelaide, AUSTRALIA

In article <ieVeoB1w165w@unkaphaed.UUCP> phaedrus@unkaphaed.UUCP (James Hartman, Sysop) writes:
>> I tried the FAX number above, and got incorrect number, please try
>> again. I also added the International code 441. What did I do wrong?
>> Is the code 144 ??
>
>Try (in the USA) 011-44-071-497-0498.  The 011 is the international dialing
>code.  The 44 is the country code for merry olde England.

Actually, you would need 011-44-71-497-0498. You must drop the leading
zero from the area code when calling another country.

Jon


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From: che238n@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Getting Mostly Harmless
Date: 28 Jul 92 12:13:03 +1000
Organization: Computer Centre, Monash University, Australia

In article <168316B32.BKD@USLVM.USL.EDU>, BKD@USLVM.USL.EDU (Brian K. Dore') writes:
>  
> Is there any way for people in the U.S. to order a copy of Mostly Harmless
> from the U.K. as soon as it is released there?  I'm sure that there are
> others who would like to get a copy of the book a few months early.
> Perhaps a bookstore or shop that ships overseas?
>  
> Anybody have any ideas?
>  

Minotaur Bookshop in Melbourne, Australia gets most cult books as soon as
anobody. If you can find a Melbourne telephone directory, ring or write.

DAB
From: v122kzkw@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (A FROOD WHO SURE KNOWS WHERE HIS TOWEL IS)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: HHGTTG film?
Date: 30 Jul 92 21:08:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Jul28.145332.89572@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>, che238n@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au writes...

>               Arthur: Michael Palin

Greetings.
Actually, I've thought about this for quite sometime, and I think I know
who would work well in this role. An actor/comedian from England by the 
name of Tony Slattery. He can be seen semi-regularly on the gameshow
"Who's Line Is It Anyway?", broadcast on channel four in england - or on
Comedy Central at 6:00pm EST.
T.
From: pedmonds@cs.toronto.edu ("Philip G. Edmonds")
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Priest w/ no specific religion?
Keywords: request
Date: 30 Jul 92 14:13:50 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto

In article <romero.712434594@stat.tamu.edu> romero@stat.tamu.edu (Ron Romero) writes:
>There was a character in a book, which I _think_ was a Douglas Adams
>book that was a priest who made prayers to that made no assumptions
>about the nature of a supreme being.  Thus, it was something like this:
>
>  Oh Supreme Being or Beings, we pray to you, assuming you exist and
>  desire to be prayed to, and we ask your blessing, assuming it is
>  possible for you to bless things and that you bless things for your
>  followers, ... etc, etc.
>
>Where is this from?

There was a comedy troupe in Canada called The Frantics (they have
broken up now) who had a skit about a church of all denominations which
sounds very similar to what you have written.  The skit appeared on a
record album called "Boot to the Head".

One of the hymns ends in "...Amen, Praise Allah, Have a nice day."

Phil.

"I wanted to call it the SEMEN Tower but they wouldn't let me."
                  (architect of CN Tower --- The Frantics)
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From: avik@icase.edu (Avik Banerjee)
Subject: Re: TV show
Organization: ICASE/NASA Langley
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 15:32:45 GMT

In article <1992Jul27.190539.6177@ncsu.edu>, castong@eos.ncsu.edu writes:
>
>HEY!
>
>Recently I found out that the BBC-TV Hitchhiker's Guide will be aired on
>USA Network's new Science Fiction Channel.  The new channel will start
>broadcasting on September 25.  I'm don't know when they will show it but
>I can mail you their address and phone # if you really need to know.
>

im interested! send it here!

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