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From: Andy.Taylor@brunel.ac.uk (Andy J Taylor)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: BBC world service second 6 episodes
Keywords: radio
Date: 21 Jul 92 12:26:42 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, West London, UK


>
>There always have been 12 episodes (two series of six)...
>well, since they were made, there have been; but the second one came the
>following year.
>

12 Episodes - right but 1 series of 6, one special (fit the seventh)
and one series of 5 (sorry to nit pick). The second series was first
broadcast in January 1980 and the last episode was finished 30 minutes
before trasnsmission!!

Andy

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From: mncmic02@uctvax.uct.ac.za
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: MUD's out there?
Date: 29 Jul 92 09:59:26 +0200
Organization: University of Cape Town

Hi

I'm completely new to this newsgroup. I discovered MUD's yesterday, and I
wonder if there are any MUD's for HHGTTG. Please could you e-mail the 
addresses, and any info you think may be applicable.

Thanks very much

Mike
University of Cape Town
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: pedmonds@cs.toronto.edu ("Philip G. Edmonds")
Subject: Re: The Frantics
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Date: 31 Jul 92 19:51:45 GMT

In article <1992Jul30.220119.9177@honte.uleth.ca> tagg@hg.uleth.ca writes:
>       Ah! Do I actually hear the voice of an American who has heard of the
>Frantics?  Or did I read the by-line wrong?

I believe that I am Canadian.

>       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. 


This is getting a bit of topic but,
I have to say that The Kids in the Hall is also some of the best comedy
in the world (perhaps better than The Frantics).  Canadians seem to be
coming up with the best funny stuff around the world at this point in
time.  (and then there's Codco and Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie)

Phil.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: romero@stat.tamu.edu (Ron Romero)
Subject: Priest w/ no specific religion?
Keywords: request
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 18:29:54 GMT

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?

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ron Romero
ron-romero@tamu.edu
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Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: maryelen@fox.nstn.ns.ca (Mary Ellen )
Subject: Re: Origins of "f**k" (was Re: Belgium (excuse my language))
Organization: Industry Science & Technology Canada
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 19:36:23 GMT

Excuse me - this discussion has been going on for a while, and I really don'
t see what possible relevance it has to Douglas Adams. Couldn't it be moved 
to another newsgroup (something in talk. perhaps?) Just a thought.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: aj923@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (P. J. Remner)
Subject: Re: Arthur's brother
Reply-To: aj923@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (P. J. Remner)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 21:59:59 GMT


In a previous article, pedmonds@cs.toronto.edu ("Philip G. Edmonds") says:

>In the radio play the narrator says something like:
>
>   ...this was all academic to Arthur since his brother was long ago
>   nibbled to death by an okapi (? or is it acarpie ? -- it's hard to
>                                 understand the word ).
>
>Does anybody have a clue what this is supposed to mean?
>


Adams wrote it. It doesn't HAVE to make sense.

--
aj923@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Peter J. Remner)

"Kibo is an international conspiracy of one. The scary part is, he
   seems to have the other 6 billion of us outnumbered."
From: dascoser.bbs@cybernet.cse.fau.edu
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Origins of "f**k" (was Re: Belguim (excuse my language))
Date: 22 Jul 92 04:24:02 GMT
Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton

datasbld@bnr.ca (Datasbuild) writes:

> barker@enel.ucalgary.ca (Scott Barker) writes:
> : > 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?
> : 
> : From Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary:
> : 
> :         1 fuck \fek\ vb. [perh. of Scand origin; akin to Norw dial. _fukka_
> :         copulate, Sw dial. _focka_ to copulate, strike, push, _fock_ penis;
> :         perh. akin to L _pugnus_ fist, _pungere_ to prick, sting Gk _pygme_
> :         fist] vi: COPULATE -- usu. considered obscene ...
> : 
> : --
> : Thank you for your attention.
> : ===========================================================================
> : Scott Barker
> : barker@enel.ucalgary.ca
> : 
> : "If winning is not important, then commander, why keep score?"
> :    - Worf, Star Trek: The Next Generation
> 
> Also, from the Concise Oxford Dictionary:-
> fuck verb and noun (vulg.) 
>   1. transitive verb: Copulate with;=DAMN, mess up.
>   2. intransitive verb: Copulate; mess, fool, about or around; make off.
>   3. Hence ~'er noun (often as general term of abuse), ~'ing adjective and 
>      adverb ()often as a mere intensive). 
>   4. noun: Act of copulation; person as partner in copulation; slightest
>      amount (not care or give a fuck).
>  
> [16th century, origin unknown.]

Actually the new dictionary of American  slang says it's from the 1200's

Dascoser
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: UKJP@DKAUNI2.BITNET
Subject: Re: MUD's out there?
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 17:04:34 GMT



> Hi
>
> I'm completely new to this newsgroup. I discovered MUD's yesterday, and I
> wonder if there are any MUD's for HHGTTG. Please could you e-mail the
> addresses, and any info you think may be applicable.
>
> Thanks very much
>
> Mike
> University of Cape Town
Could you please tell me: what is a MUD?
Thanks, Tobi
From: tsmaster@media.mit.edu (David LeCompte)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: hhg type in adventure?
Date: 24 Jul 92 15:53:00 GMT
Organization: MIT Media Laboratory

In article <24JUL92.11736487.0040@UNBVM1.CSD.UNB.CA> J9KW000 <J9KW@UNB.CA> writes:
>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
>
You might be talking about the Infocom adventure, in which case, I
must take my customary stance on Infocom graphics.

Yes, there are graphics. The stories are told by accomplished
story-tellers, and have very graphic (i.e. detailed) descriptions. Now
if you're talking about pictures explicitly drawn on the screen, No.
Infocom came and went before computer graphics became realistic enough
to be worthy of their work.

Buy the game, it's really good; but at the end, a sequel is mentioned.
Don't bother looking for it.

				-Dave
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ObSig
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: 2118858@hydra.maths.unsw.oz.au
Subject: Re: BBC compact disks
Summary: information
Keywords: CD, Hitchhikers Guide, Don't Panic
Organization: Uni of Newcastle, Australia
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 04:08:03 GMT

In article <1992Jul21.042219.29645@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> cdouglas@nyx.cs.du.edu (Collin Broadrick Douglas) writes:
>  I have a friend who has the six CD set of Hitchhikers Guide.  I was wondering
>if anybody has the address I could write (or call) to order this set.  It would
>up costing him about $80 American and I think it's really worth it.
>  Any help would be much appreciated.

The BBC world service in the UK sell the HHG on Casette and CD. From memory 
the address is in the FAQ file.

  Sam.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: BBC compact disks
From: gnat@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (Nathan Torkington)
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 01:38:01 GMT
Organization: Contract to CSC, Victoria Uni, Wellington, New Zealand

From the FAQ:

--begin
 4. Where can I find the HHGTTG tapes/albums/CDs?

    The canonical address is:
	BBC World Service Mail Order
	Room LG26 NE
	Bush House
	Strand
	London WC2B 4PH

	Tel: (071) 257 2575
	Fax: (071) 497 0498

    The prices from there are:
	Box Set: 6 Audios - #21.70 (English Pounds)
	         6 CDs    - #34.76
--end

My apologies for the infrequency of the FAQ.  Rest assured that it
will come out at the start of every month.  If I can every get the
damn script to go, it will come out on the 15th as well :-)

Nat.
(gnat@kauri.vuw.ac.nz -- Nathan Torkington -- is the electronic text and
 MS-DOS archivist for the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
From: glreno@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Gerald Reno)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Origins of "f**k" (was Re: Belguim (excuse my language))
Date: 22 Jul 92 15:05:55 GMT
Organization: The Great Beyond

In article <1992Jul21.104351.12224@bnr.uk> datasbld@bnr.ca (Datasbuild) writes:
>barker@enel.ucalgary.ca (Scott Barker) writes:
>: > 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?
>: 
>: From Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary:
>: 
>:         1 fuck \fek\ vb. [perh. of Scand origin; akin to Norw dial. _fukka_ to
>:         copulate, Sw dial. _focka_ to copulate, strike, push, _fock_ penis;
>:         perh. akin to L _pugnus_ fist, _pungere_ to prick, sting Gk _pygme_
>:         fist] vi: COPULATE -- usu. considered obscene ...
>: 
>: --
>: Thank you for your attention.
>: ==============================================================================
>: Scott Barker
>: barker@enel.ucalgary.ca
>: 
>: "If winning is not important, then commander, why keep score?"
>:    - Worf, Star Trek: The Next Generation
>
>Also, from the Concise Oxford Dictionary:-
>fuck verb and noun (vulg.) 
>  1. transitive verb: Copulate with;=DAMN, mess up.
>  2. intransitive verb: Copulate; mess, fool, about or around; make off.
>  3. Hence ~'er noun (often as general term of abuse), ~'ing adjective and 
>     adverb ()often as a mere intensive). 
>  4. noun: Act of copulation; person as partner in copulation; slightest
>     amount (not care or give a fuck).
> 
>[16th century, origin unknown.]
>
>A good old English word!  Many so-called 'modern' swear words are in fact 
>quite old ie cunt, cunniligus, balls, arse/ass, shit etc.
>
>Nick            DoD 1069
>
>42 ?
>
>"Just another brick...."
>
>'Be off with you'

And some of these words have rather interesting histories. My
English prof last fall was the lucky guy who got to do the
research on some of these for the 2nd edition of the Oxford
English Dictionary.... look up the word "quaint" if you ever
have a chance.

Jerry Reno glreno@afterlife.ncsc.mil
"It takes a nimble tounge to be a cunning linguist"
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: sarangan@nabla.uwaterloo.ca (Andrew Sarangan)
Subject: HHG BBC radio series
Reply-To: sarangan@maxwell.waterloo.edu (Andrew Sarangan)
Organization: University of Waterloo, Waterloo Ont.
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 15:05:05 GMT


Can someone tell me where I can get a copy of the recordings from the 
BBC series ?


Thanks

Andrew
From: v122kzkw@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (A FROOD WHO SURE KNOWS WHERE HIS TOWEL IS)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Origins of "f**k" (was Re: Belguim (excuse my language))
Summary: The differences between the UK and NA versions of HHGTTG.
Keywords: belguim, the guide, hhgttg
Date: 30 Jul 92 20:43:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

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?
> 
Greetings.
I'm not an etymologist (and I don't play one on tv :-), However I remember
hearing one explaination that has always stuck in my head. From my under
standing, it is old english (the kind with an -e on the end of everything,
hey I guess Quayle was right after all!) - and was an acronym (or one of 
those words made up from the first letter of other words) for
	Fornication
	Under the
	Concent of the
	King.
Also from where ever it was that I heard this, one needed a document, signed
by the king of England to do the act in question, however that is where the
memory gets real foggy.
Anyhow, that my contribution.
T.
From: sg@monsoon.com (Sunil Gupta)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Arthur's brother
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 12:06:27 EDT
Organization: Monsoon Software, Inc.

pedmonds@cs.toronto.edu ("Philip G. Edmonds") writes:

> In the radio play the narrator says something like:
> 
>    ...this was all academic to Arthur since his brother was long ago
>    nibbled to death by an okapi (? or is it acarpie ? -- it's hard to
>                                  understand the word ).
> 
> Does anybody have a clue what this is supposed to mean?
> 
> Phil.

As any dedicated PBS bug-show watcher could tell you, an okapi
is a deer-like African mammal.

Sunil Gupta
Monsoon Software, Inc.
sg@monsoon.com
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: dpearson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Pearson)
Subject: Re: TV show
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 19:47:03 GMT

avik@icase.edu (Avik Banerjee) writes:

>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!

ME too!  If anyone finds out anything.  Could you post it here?      
thanks much.

		-the Amalgamated(sp?) Union of Philosophers, Sages, Luminaries,
		 and Other Professional Thinking Persons.


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Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: neilg@fraser.sfu.ca (Neil K. Guy)
Subject: Re: Arthur's brother (and other mysteries)
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 01:48:06 GMT

>In a previous article, pedmonds@cs.toronto.edu ("Philip G. Edmonds") says:
>>In the radio play the narrator says something like:
>>   ...this was all academic to Arthur since his brother was long ago
>>   nibbled to death by an okapi (? or is it acarpie ? -- it's hard to
>>                                 understand the word ).
>>
>>Does anybody have a clue what this is supposed to mean?

>Adams wrote it. It doesn't HAVE to make sense.

 It's like the line about "dropping haystacks off the boat deck of the
Lusitania," isn't it? Actually, coincidentally that's from the same
episode, if I'm not mistaken. Maybe DNA and John Lloyd wrote those
incomprehensible (but oh-so-clever sounding) bits in an exhausted fit
of garage writing...

 - Neil K. (n_k_guy@sfu.ca)

 (and yes, it is, "...long ago nibbled to death by an okapi...")
From: navsaria@bass.bu.edu (Dipesh Navsaria)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Getting Mostly Harmless
Date: 27 Jul 92 19:29:44 GMT
Reply-To: navsaria@bu-pub.bu.edu (Dipesh Navsaria)
Followup-To: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Organization: Boston University


   Actually, one of the earliest places it may come out, interestingly 
enough, is in UK airports.  You know those little after customs shops?  Well,
apparently since they're technically outside of the UK, they get a lot of 
things there before UK stuff.

   I picked up a copy of The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul there, and the
little sign on the shelf claimed that these books had not yet been released
in the United Kingdom.  Albeit it WAS the paperback edition, not the original
hardcover release, but then again, there were other books there that were
in hardcover...who knows?

   This was at Heathrow Airport Terminal Four, BTW.  Any of the larger BAA
airports would be bound to have this kind of stuff, esp. Heathrow and Gatwick.
Whether they _will_ have Mostly Harmless before anyone else...who know? 8)

   Just my two cents...

					Dipesh (navsaria@bu-pub.bu.edu)
From: michael@paul.bu.edu (Michael Chaplin)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Priest w/ no specific religion?
Date: 30 Jul 92 15:47:40 GMT
Organization: Boston University
In-reply-to: romero@stat.tamu.edu's message of 29 Jul 92 18:29:54 GMT

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?

=  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
=  Ron Romero
=  ron-romero@tamu.edu
=  ----------------------------------------------------------------------

This is, if I am not too mistaken, from the book
_Creatures_of_Light_and_Darkness_ by Roger Zelazny
There is also a prayer asking for forgiveness. Very good indeed.

chaplin.
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===============================================================================
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michael@albert.bu.edu                     - William S. Burroughs

The Einstein Papers Project        The opinions contained herein reflect
Boston University                      neither those of the project, 
Boston, Massachusetts, USA             nor those of Albert Einstein.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: bpostow@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Brian Postow)
Subject: Re: What is a FAQ ?
Organization: Oberlin College Computer Science
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 18:16:59 GMT
X-Posted-From: occs.cs.oberlin.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

talk about meta questions.... what a FAQ is is a FAQ, and therefore
should be on all FAQ lists, but that would be kinda silly.. 
--
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.
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center
Date: Monday, 27 Jul 1992 13:13:51 EDT
From: <MDSQC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Beurocracy
Distribution: world

G'Day Mate. As far as I know, there was never (english?) a published version
of Beurocracy (sp?). I think he started to work on it and never finished.
Then, of course, Infocom went bust, the Dodgers went to LA, and Bush became
president of the USA. But hey, nobody said the world is perfect.

-- Sal "Saviour of Breakfast" Desiano
From: lm89@ecs.soton.ac.uk (McIlhoney L)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: HHGTTG film?
Date: 31 Jul 92 15:20:56 GMT


My ideas on casting for the series are rather incomplete, but ponder
these:
                Ford Prefect    :  Gene Wilder
                Zaphod Beeblebrox  Bruce Willis
                Tricia MacMillan:  Lalla Ward
                (or if you really
                want to go with the
                small/brown eyes
                thing)          :  Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
                                   (you remember, Maid Marion?)
                Arthur Dent     :  (This has to be) Simon Jones
                Slartibartfast  :  Tom Baker (he's old and grey now)
                Vogon Captain   :  Mel Smith
                Zarniwoop       :  Robert Powell
                Fenchurch       :  Lysette Anthony
                                   (or Lea Thompson or Kim Thompson
                                   or basically anyone gorgeous available)

                Disaster Area   :  Michael Jackson (well he's _almost
                                   dead, isn't he?)
                Disaster Area's
                music provided by  Lawnmower Deth (or Metallica)
                Marvin's Voice  :  Stephen Moore
                                   (I think it has to be)

And so on and so forth ....

Lawrence.