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From: norbeck@mira.bucknell.edu (nancy norbeck `93)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Origins of "f**k" (was Re: Belguim (excuse my language))
Date: 21 Jul 92 13:39:16 GMT
Organization: Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa.

In article <1992Jul21.104351.12224@bnr.uk> datasbld@bnr.ca (Datasbuild) writes:
>barker@enel.ucalgary.ca (Scott Barker) writes:

[discussion on origin of f**k, and dictionary quotes, deleted]

>[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 ?
>


Yeah, I suspect it's a perfectly ordinary Anglo-Saxon word that didn't
have any sort of negative connotation to it until the Norman Invasion
made French the language of court.  As soon as William came over,
French and A-S mixed a little bit but remained mostly separate.  Since
French was the language of the court, we had Old (or Middle, I think
it was in transition then) High English, and Old Low English.  The
Anglo-Saxon was considered inferior by the French invaders, and since
it was forbidden in court, many of the Anglo words for less
pleasant/polite things began to take on the "taboo" meanings we have
now.  In practice, there's no real difference between the meanings of
the words "manure" and "shit," except that someone decided one was a
bad word to say.  Chaucer used "shit" in the Canterbury Tales back
circa 1385, at which point the word had nowhere near the negative
meaning it has today.  

Nick's right on.  If you look at a lot of the "four-letter" words,
etc, in English, you'll find an Anglo background on them.  And since
Anglo-Saxon is a Germanic language, it explains why the word still
exists in a slightly different form in German.

(Not that you probably really care about all that, but since Nick was
on the right track, I figured I'd elaborate a little..I guess it comes
with the English major.. ;) )


Nancy

 

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From: htk33322@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (P. Parker )
Subject: Kubla Khan
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 20:51:45 GMT

	Okay, the last time i did this, the message
	went into the header line.  Okay, the question
	in question is this....
	Dirk Gently WAS the man from Portlock who stopped
	Colerdige from writing down the rest of KUBLA
	KHAN.  Now why does stopping Coleridge from
	writing down the whole poem of KUBLA KHAN save
	the human race from extinction by the ghost?
	This is the question.  i do hope this works.
	


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From: zxmda01@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Christof Damian)
Subject: Douglas Quotes ?
Organization: Comp. Center (ZDV) U of Tuebingen, FRG
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 01:19:23 GMT

Can someone mail me the quotes from Douglas Adams posted some weeks/months
ago ? (I lost them :-)

   Thanx Christof
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From: rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes)
Subject: Re: HHGTTG film?
In-reply-to: wowbagger@ed.ac.uk's message of 28 Jul 92 11:44:01 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
	<40085@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 16:56:20 EDT

In article <40085@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk> wowbagger@ed.ac.uk (Scott Telford) writes:

>No, no, no! As Douglas says in at least one version, Trillian is
>supposed to be small and dark, "with ridiculously brown eyes". Casting
>a small blonde American, Sandra Dickinson, in the tv series was entirely
>inappropriate. A tall blonde wouldn't be much better 8^)

When I heard DA speak at the Worldcon in Chicago? many years ago, he
stood up to the critics in defense of Dickinson -- I think he was in
on the decision to cast her, and in any case he very much liked her in
the role. Apparently he liked the idea of an astrophysicist who looked
and talked like that.

But that's his opinion, not mine.

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From: hinz@bonfire (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987)
Subject: Re: HELP!   HHG Radio Scripts
Organization: GE Medical Systems, Magnetic Resonance
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 10:18:29 GMT

calloway@lonestar.utsa.edu (Michael L. Calloway) writes:
: 
: I have actually tracked down one of the Pan printings in Calf. for $75.00
: I will not pay that much for it though.
: I got a US printing a garage sale 2 yrs. ago for $0.75.
: Good Luck!!!!

Yikes!  I have one laying around somewhere, that a relative bought for me
years ago because they recognized the name!  I think that was a rummage sale
item, as well.  Look around, you never know...

--

Dave Hinz  -  Opinions expressed are mine, not my employer's.  Obviously.
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From: abw@dsbc.icl.co.uk (Andy Wardley)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: GALACTIC GUIDE
Date: 31 Jul 92 13:46:47 GMT
Organization: International Computers Limited

In article <..> 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?

Well, the group is alt.galactic-guide (note the hyphen).  When we were
talking about creating this group at the end of last year, someone (unknown)
went ahead and did it.  People have since cried that some news machine don't
like the hyphen or groups over 12 letters, and so on, and so on, but as
far as I know, there have been no major problems.  It may just be that your
local administrator, or a machine 'upstream' of your news feed has decided
not to carry the group.  I'm not familiar with your freenet setup, not 
even coming from the states, let alone cleveland, so I can't really suggest
how you might tackle the problem...

Best of luck

Cheers
Andy
From: mwerling@snoopy.umd.edu (Michael T. Werling)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: What is a FAQ ?
Date: 30 Jul 92 16:49:51 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park

In article <1992Jul30.122856.25404@hplb.hpl.hp.com> rik@hplb.hpl.hp.com writes:
>Need I say more ??
>
>
>Sorry for being stupid, but this is all quite new to me, so any help would be
>appreciated.
>
>
>	Thanx.
>
>		RIK
Isn't that a FAQ?

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From: hymowitz@whatever.cs.jhu.edu (Hymie!)
Subject: what is _mostly_harmless_?
Reply-To: hymowitz@cs.jhu.edu (Hymie!)
Organization: Creative Sensualities dept, Jacquie's House of Underwear
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 08:14:03 GMT

sorry, i joined this group fairly recently, and my feed must have
a 6-hour expiration, or something.

what is _mostly_harmless_? is it going to be another dirk gently novel?
or hitchhiker's v? or completely unrelated?

thanx.

--hymie
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From: jnygaard@Lise.Unit.NO (Jens Olav Nygaard)
Subject: Re: Origins of "f**k" (was Re: Belguim (excuse my language))
Organization: University of Trondheim
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 21:35:13 GMT

In article <1992Jul21.104351.12224@bnr.uk>, datasbld@bnr.ca (Datasbuild) writes:
 > : 
 > :         1 fuck \fek\ vb. [perh. of Scand origin; akin to Norw dial. _fukka_ to

Well, I'm Norwegian, but I've never heard *this* (_fukka_) word before... Also,
it doesn't "sound Norwegian" to me... more Swedish maybe...

Jens Olav Nygaard (jnygaard@imf.unit.no)
From: tme33711@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (NASAco-op)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: HHGTTG film?
Date: 28 Jul 92 17:16:26 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

che238n@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au writes:

>        Disaster Area: Alice Cooper, Bon Jovi, Meatloaf, etc.

Spinal Tap.  No question.  "It goes to eleven..."
Actually, according to a recent _Guitar World_ article, their new amps
go to 20.


                         Tom M. Erkenswick
preferred: tme33711@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu   else: terken@gto.jsc.nasa.gov
                  last resort: NASAco-op@uiuc.edu
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NASA Johnson Space Center/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
From: phaedrus@unkaphaed.UUCP (James Hartman, Sysop)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: BBC compact disks
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 11:09:29 GMT
Organization: Unka Phaed's UUCP Thingy

ss@wpi.WPI.EDU (Scott Streeter) writes:

> gnat> Fax: (071) 497 0498
> 
> 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.
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Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: BKD@USLVM.USL.EDU (Brian K. Dore')
Subject: Re: Getting Mostly Harmless
Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 14:25:38 GMT

 
This was private mail to me on the topic of getting Mostly Harmless from a
U.K. source since it will be released there well before it is released here
in the states.  It is being forwarded with the authors permission.  Thanks
Anthony!
 
---- Begin included Message ----
 
Two UK bookshops which I sometimes mail order sf/fantasy books from, (mostly
US titles :)
 
   Andromeda Bookshop            Phone: +44 21 643 1999
   84 Suffolk Street             Fax:   +44 21 643 2001
   BIRMINGHAM
   B1 1TA                        Credit cards listed: ACCESS/MASTERCHARGE,
   United Kingdom                                     VISA
                                 Payment in sterling or US dollars
                                 (I suggest insuring hardbacks)
 
   (I haven't used this one for awhile, hope it's upto date)
 
   Science Fiction Bookshops     Phone: +44 31 667 0426
   17 & 40/42 West Crosscauseway,
   EDINBURGH
   EH8
   United Kingdom
 
These type of shops will be sitting on the publisher's doorstep to get the
first copies, as they sell -large- quantities when they are first issued!
 
Hope this helps, Anthony
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From: C0031018@dbstu1.rz.tu-bs.de (Johannes Heyer)
Subject: Please send me the FAQ
Organization: Technical University Braunschweig, Germany
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 13:00:23 GMT

 
Hi,
 
the subject says it all: I want to have the FAQ or should I be patient because
it's published in this newsgroup every once in a while?
 
Bye
    Johannes
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From: Howard_Bartel@mindlink.bc.ca (Howard Bartel)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Beurocracy
Date: 27 Jul 92 08:02:46 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

Can someone tell me whether Beurocracy is available for the Amiga, and if
so, from whom?  I think someone mentioned here that Volume Two of the
Lost Treasures of Infocom is already available.  Would this have
Beurocracy on it?  I also completed HHGTTG, and was very disappointed to
find out that its sequel will probably never be done, but at least there
exists one other game by Adams.

Also (somewhat off-topic; reply by e-mail if you wish...), does anyone
know what Dave Lebling and Steve Meretzky have been up to since Infocom
folded?


Howard Bartel


Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: bpostow@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Brian Postow)
Subject: Re: BBC compact disks
Organization: Oberlin College Computer Science
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 06:48:59 GMT
X-Posted-From: occs.cs.oberlin.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

does anyone know how authentic the tapes/cds that are sold through the
mail order catalog of national [american] public radio/television are?
the catalogs are called Wireless and Signals, if they are
authentic,than that would probably be a good place to get them,
assumigng you are in the US, otherwise there are probably easier ways
to do it anyway...

if the above was indeciferable, respond to
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Yes, I KNOW that 6*9 is 42 in base 13.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: oscar@mi.el.utwente.nl (Oscar ter Hofstede - TUT)
Subject: Re: Arthur's brother
Organization: Utwente
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 07:44:13 GMT

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.

Can you tell me which fit this was in?

Oscar.

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From: wowbagger@ed.ac.uk (Scott Telford)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: HHGTTG film?
Date: 28 Jul 92 11:44:01 GMT
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh, UK.

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

>               Trilian: Pamela Stephenson

No, no, no! As Douglas says in at least one version, Trillian is
supposed to be small and dark, "with ridiculously brown eyes". Casting
a small blonde American, Sandra Dickinson, in the tv series was entirely
inappropriate. A tall blonde wouldn't be much better 8^)

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From: johnsc@Chemeng.Ed.Ac.Uk (John Currie)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: 42- again and again and again
Date: 28 Jul 92 08:11:56 GMT
Reply-To: johnsc@Chemeng.Ed.Ac.Uk
Organization: Edinburgh University Chemical Engineering Department.
Originator: johnsc@ruel

i've just moved into the property marker and am now a happy house owner- even happier because i paid 42-42 for the house (\pounds 42042). it is also on the second floor and surprisingly enough has 42 stairs up to it. is someone/ thing trying to tell me something???
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From: bpostow@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Brian Postow)
Subject: Re: Priest w/ no specific religion?
Organization: Oberlin College Computer Science
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 18:13:38 GMT
X-Posted-From: occs.cs.oberlin.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

I am not exactly sure where this comes from.. but I have a friend who
claims that a prayer very similar to this is something that a
Unitarian woul say [I think it was unitarian... ] but, as I have never
heard a Unitarian prayer, I can't comment on any simmilarities...


please don't flame me, please don't flame me, ... B-)

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Yes, I KNOW that 6*9 is 42 in base 13.
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From: eam3@po.CWRU.Edu (Eric A. Meyer)
Subject: Re: HHGTTG film?
Reply-To: eam3@po.CWRU.Edu (Eric A. Meyer)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 20:39:20 GMT


In a previous article, che238n@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au () says:

>The omnibus edition mentions the possibility of a HHGTTG film. Who would you
>cast? Post your suggestions but do not use any of the original cast (actors
>only, no political typecasts).
>I list a few below.
>
>             The Book: Rowan Atkinson
>               Arthur: Michael Palin

   No no no!  The obvious choice here is Douglas Adams himself!

>        Disaster Area: Alice Cooper, Bon Jovi, Meatloaf, etc.

   I agree with the suggestion that Spinal Tap be cast here.  Although
someone else would have to play Hotblack Desiato...my office comrade
John and I vote for Robert DeNiro.
   A high school friend and I tried to figure out casting, once....it
turned into a three-hour brainstorming session.  Unfortunately, I can't
remember what we came up with.  If he remembers, I'll post what we came
up with.

		-EMeyer

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From: daniel@csunb0.dcs.leeds.ac.uk (D N Crow)
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: School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 21:23:55 GMT
X-Posted-From: csgi63.leeds.ac.uk
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <Bry6EK.AH3@world.std.com>, dep@world.std.com (Eric J DeWitt) writes:
> 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
> 	@>---`--,--'---
> 

It having been a while since I read Dirk Gently, I can't be sure whether
it was the Rime that appears in Dirk gently, but in real life, it was
of course Kubla Khan that was interupted by the "Gentleman from Porlock".
I guess given the rest of the subject line of this post, Adams has
(deliberately) confused Kubla Khan and the Rime of the Ancient Mariner,
Coleridge's two epic poems.

-- 
Dan Crow
daniel@scs.leeds.ac.uk
From: 9125113g@lux.latrobe.edu.au (Mitch Davis)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: HHGTTG film?
Date: 29 Jul 92 01:14:24 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University

In article <40085@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk> wowbagger@ed.ac.uk (Scott Telford) writes:
>In article <1992Jul28.145332.89572@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>,
>che238n@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au writes:
>
>>               Trilian: Pamela Stephenson
>
>No, no, no! As Douglas says in at least one version, Trillian is
>supposed to be small and dark, "with ridiculously brown eyes". Casting
>a small blonde American, Sandra Dickinson, in the tv series was entirely
>inappropriate. A tall blonde wouldn't be much better 8^)

I quite agree.  When I first heard Dickinson says "Well with one degree
in Maths and another in Astrophysics it was either that or the dole queue 
on Monday" I nearly turned it off...

... I think Arthur was perfectly casted the first time around, and Ford
wasn't bad, although his face needs to have more of that "pulled back
from the nose" look.

Mitch.
From: hermit@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Ron O'Dell)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: hhg type in adventure?
Date: 26 Jul 92 03:05:38 GMT
Reply-To: keeper@deeptht.armory.com
Organization: The Pen
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucscb.ucsc.edu


In article <1992Jul24.155300.15324@news.media.mit.edu> tsmaster@media.mit.edu (David LeCompte) writes:
>Buy the game, it's really good; but at the end, a sequel is mentioned.
>Don't bother looking for it.

The game has not been sold for quite a few years now.  It is available in
a "Lost Treasures on Infocom" package of many adventure games, but not on
its own.

(But, of course, you are right about there being no sequel (although DNA
 did do work on another Infocom game; "Bureaucracy").)

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From: che238n@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: HHGTTG film?
Date: 29 Jul 92 11:59:32 +1000
Organization: Computer Centre, Monash University, Australia

In article <40085@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk>, wowbagger@ed.ac.uk (Scott Telford) writes:
> In article <1992Jul28.145332.89572@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>,
> che238n@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au writes:
> 
>>               Trilian: Pamela Stephenson
> 
> No, no, no! As Douglas says in at least one version, Trillian is
> supposed to be small and dark, "with ridiculously brown eyes". Casting
> a small blonde American, Sandra Dickinson, in the tv series was entirely
> inappropriate. A tall blonde wouldn't be much better 8^)
> 
> -- 

How about Jo Kendall from I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again?
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: ludwigj@CS.ColoState.EDU (Vilkata (Joe Ludwig))
Subject: Re: Getting Mostly Harmless
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 16:34:08 GMT
Organization: Thealir Construction Company

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?
Well, the Tattered Cover in Denver carries a lot of imported books.  I'd expect
them to get Mostly Harmless shortly after the UK release.  If we barbarians
here in Colorado have such a bookstore, more civilized regions are sure to have
one.


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