HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: zaphod@bluemoon.use.com (Peter Bierman)
Subject: Hehehehehehe!
Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 23:30:00 EST

Happy Happy Joy Joy!

I have a friend in Chicago (I'm in Columbus, OH) who had the unbelievable 
insight to go to the U of Wisconsin to see DA, and get *me* a signed copy 
of Mostly Harmless!!!!!!

Yippy! I guess I'll have to sell my unsigned copy. Darn. :)

I'm not supposed to know about this, since it's a Xmas present, but I 
promised I would only tell my 1 million closest friends. :)

Happy Happy Joy Joy! Yig!

Zaphod


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From: rblackma@nyx.cs.du.edu (robert blackman)
Subject: endless specualtion...
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Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 18:46:33 GMT

I discovered alt.fan.d-a the same day that DA came here to do a reading
and book-signing (and radio interview, as you may have seen referenced
earlier).  As a DA fan I have enjoyed reading all of the various
opinions and information, but I have also marvelled at how seriously
people seem to care and argue about very fine details in the books.
I frankly doubt that DA really wants people to read his books in any
spirit besides that of the great fun and deliberately illogical logic
that they were written in.  (So Clinton will be the 42nd President.
If DA had chosen the number 41, we'd all have noticed that Bush was
the 41st president 4 years ago.  How meaningful.)  
At his book signing, someone came up and eagerly began asking DA
a convoluted question about some plot inconsistency.  DA just smiled,
said "it's only fiction," and walked away.  
There are an awful lot of things to be serious about in this world.
DA's books are great fun.  I'd just as soon keep them that way.

Bob Blackman, Haslett, MI
From: jaxh@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Jon Hanson)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: DNA/Tom Baker VR TV Program
Date: 16 Nov 92 14:30:57 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh

I thought the FAQ was pretty interesting but one rather interesting Douglas Adams
'project' missed out was the made for TV program about the possibilities of Virtual
Reality in a MultiMedia context. (I can't remember what it was called, damn!!)

Anyway, at the start we had DNA falling asleep at home, and finding himself in the
future where multi-media had fulfilled it's potential as the ultimate information
service. DNA was confronted by a computer generated guide - Tom Baker, who
proceeded to take him through the 'system'. Included were several interviews with 
people who are working in similar areas at the present (such as Micons - animated 
icons (ok - a bit trivial but cool all the same )).

Essentially, the program was a demonstration of the entertainment and educational
possibilites of MM/VR, delivered in a typically off-beat DNA style. Tom Baker and
DNA made a great team too.

Does anyone know what it was called ??

Jon.

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From: Richard.Dalton@newcastle.ac.uk (Richard Dalton)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Douglas Adams Interview in East Lansing
Date: 18 Nov 92 11:01:50 GMT
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU

leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton) writes:

>In article <BxnvEE.5Jr@newcastle.ac.uk> A.G.Poole@newcastle.ac.uk (Alex Poole) writes:

>[yes DA was ... no DA wasn't deleted]
>>>He is *not* the voice of Marvin on radio (or, i don't think, on TV for
>>>that matter). Simon Jones (I think, i'm trying to remember the credits
>>>at the end of each CD episode) was Marvin on the radio series (and probably
>>>the TV as well).
>>
>>Yep, he also naratted the stories on tape (available in the UK, not sure about
>>elsewhere), so the Marvin bits sound great and the others... unusual. He made a
>>good job of Arthur...

>Ahem! Stephen Moore was and is the voice of Marvin on the radio
>broadcasts, the tapes thereof, the LP's and the television series.
>Stephen is quite a well known dramatic actor in the UK, and his voice
>is unmistakable. Except, apparently, by Geordies :-)

>Of any alleged narrated tapes I cannot speak ...

Who are the Geordies? Hull rules! *8^)
And I was the originator of the 'Simon Jones not Stephen Moore' thread
and I've already posted my correction. (I was remembering off the tapes
and I always get those two mixed up - at least thats my excuse and i'm
sticking to it! *8^)

	Rich 'Z'


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From: stevenn@nadine.cs.mun.ca (Steven G. Newhook)
Subject: Re: On Infinite Universes and _Mostly Harmless_  (SPOILERS!)
Keywords: infinity, Mostly Harmless, Universes (individual)
Organization: CS Dept., Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:34:31 GMT

In article <JNPauB1w165w@mertwig.UUCP> xyzzy@mertwig.UUCP (Daniel Drucker) writes:
>>   _            "Don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things
>>  (_ __  o _    than you free with my breakfast cereal." --Zaphod B.
>>  (_/ (_<_(_ @astro.lsa.umich.edu        (Pecan-flavored ice cream?)
>                                            ^^^^^^^^^^
>
>Garlic flavored is weirder.
 ^^^^^^  I tried that once at a national advark convention, but I didn't like
it.  I thought the multi-coloured invisible raincoats with plaid chocolate 
sauce was a much better flavor.  The texture left something to be desired.
I was a kind of crunchy liquid.  
                                 NOW THAT'S WEIRD !!!

>
>--  "Xyzzy T. Plugh"                               mertwig!xyzzy@jaflrn.uucp
>                     Amateur radio callsign pending
>        Daniel Max P. Drucker, the 14 year old networks wizard.
>
>"Difficulty! It's the single simplest machine in the entire Universe!" -HHGTTG


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Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: umhudso7@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Wayne Hudson)
Subject: HHG Collection
Originator: umhudso7@gibson.cc.umanitoba.ca
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:28:50 GMT

I've seen ads for a box called something like "The More Than Complete HHG"
which has the 1st 4 books + "Young Zaphod Beeblebrox".

I want this for a christmas present for someone, but it's sold out all
around here, and store tell me "sorry, bud. just outta luck!"

Does anyone know where I can order this (or maybe other interesting HHG things)
and get it for christmas?  Without getting tooooooo expensive, of course.

Thanks,
-- 
Wayne Hudson                     | "From this point on, things get
 Wayne_Hudson@UManitoba.CA       |   a *little* bit confusing."
 umhudso7@ccu.umanitoba.ca       |    -Rimmer, _Red_Dwarf_
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: "steve degroof" <steve.degroof@canrem.com>
Subject: marvin
Reply-To: "steve degroof" <steve.degroof@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: alt
Date: 15 Nov 92 20:59:56 EST

>>It has probably been conveyed in the group in previous
>>postings, but I will pose it nevertheless.  Based on a tape
>>of DA reading his work, he IS the voice of Marvin, the
>>Paranoid Android (on radio and TV.)
>
>He is *not* the voice of Marvin on radio (or, i don't think,
>on TV for that matter). Simon Jones (I think, i'm trying to
>remember the credits at the end of each CD episode) was
>Marvin on the radio series (and probably the TV as well).
>
Nope, Stephen Moore was Marvin. Simon Jones was Arthur Dent.

SD
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From: ST102315@brownvm.brown.edu (Jake)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Bureaucracy
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:13:09 EST
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>Anybody ever play "Bureaucracy?"  I remember seeing something about it in "The
>New Zork Times" years ago, but never saw the actual game.  Like to sometime.

I've played it a little bit.  The documentation is hilarious, and the game
is funny, tricky, and annoying (although not as annoying as The Hitchhiker's
Guide game).  Right now I'm stuck on an airplane.

>Stay hoopy,
>Ford Prefect.

So what's it like, being a car?

-jwgh
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: marka@meiko.co.uk (Mark Aldworth)
Subject: Re: Hitchhiker's Guide TV show
Keywords: Douglas Adams, Hitchhikers Guide 
Organization: Meiko Ltd. Bristol
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 15:15:29 GMT

The videos have been out over here in England (the small insignificant
planet... I mean island, above France) for several months now. As to when
they'll be appearing at a "local stockist near you" I haven't a clue I'm
afraid.

Mark "Mark Aldworth" Aldworth
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: john7552@mach1.wlu.ca (Niall Johnson u)
Subject: Re: Tapes of TLDTTotS read by DNA
Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 22:53:24 GMT

In article <1992Nov17.111740.6001@chemeng.ed.ac.uk> jens@chemeng.ed.ac.uk (Jens Krabbe) writes:
>
>Did you know that DNA has read The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul recorded
>on to tapes? Although TLDTTotS doesn't call for anything as dramatic as
>Marvin against the Frog Star Battle Tank, it's still worth listening to
>DNA reading his own material. It's 99.9% word for word what in the book,
>so there's nothing new on the tapes. Still I enjoy them very much.

There is also available a tape version of "Last Chance to See" read by DNA -
however, it is a slightly abridged version - some elements have not been
read for the tape.

Ciao

Niall Johnson,
Dept. of Geography,
Wilfrid Laurier University.
     john7552@mach1.wlu.ca
From: xyzzy@mertwig.UUCP (Daniel Drucker)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Is 'Mostly Harmless' the end? ** Possible SPOILERS **
Keywords: Mostly Harmless
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 92 09:19:50 EST
Organization: Odd Parity Hacker's Group

mastr@husc10.harvard.edu (claudia mastroianni) writes:
> In the same Cambridge, Mass. talk others have posted about, Douglas Adams
> said he thought his next book would be a Dirk Gently.  I don't know about
> Hitch-hikers, and didn't really want to ask.  If he comes up with something
> he's love to write concerning that universe, I'll buy it.  The mind that
> came up with the Guide II can definitely find a loophole in the current
> ending (some have been discussed already).

How about Dirk meeting the HH crowd?

--  Xyzzy T. Plugh                                   mertwig!xyzzy@jaflrn.uucp
                     Amateur radio callsign pending
      Daniel Max P. Drucker, the 14 year old TCP/IP and OSI wizard.

"Difficulty! It's the single simplest machine in the entire Universe!" -HHGTTG
From: jens@chemeng.ed.ac.uk (Jens Krabbe)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Tapes of TLDTTotS read by DNA
Date: 17 Nov 92 11:17:40 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University Chemical Engineering Department

leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton) writes:

>In article <BxnvEE.5Jr@newcastle.ac.uk> A.G.Poole@newcastle.ac.uk (Alex Poole) writes:

>[yes DA was ... no DA wasn't deleted]
>>>He is *not* the voice of Marvin on radio (or, i don't think, on TV for
>>>[even more deletions]...
>>
>>Yep, he also naratted the stories on tape [and again]...

>Ahem! Stephen Moore was and is the voice of Marvin on the radio
>broadcasts, the tapes thereof, the LP's and the television series.
>Stephen is quite a well known dramatic actor in the UK, and his voice
>is unmistakable. Except, apparently, by Geordies :-)

>Of any alleged narrated tapes I cannot speak ...

Did you know that DNA has read The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul recorded
on to tapes? Although TLDTTotS doesn't call for anything as dramatic as
Marvin against the Frog Star Battle Tank, it's still worth listening to
DNA reading his own material. It's 99.9% word for word what in the book,
so there's nothing new on the tapes. Still I enjoy them very much.

Jens@chemeng.ed.ac.uk
From: domalley@unix1.tcd.ie (Slartibartfast            (alias Daniel O'Malley))
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: DNA/Tom Baker VR TV Program
Date: 16 Nov 92 21:04:09 GMT
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin

In <BxtCBM.Kr5@dcs.ed.ac.uk> jaxh@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Jon Hanson) writes:

>I thought the FAQ was pretty interesting but one rather interesting Douglas
>Adams 'project' missed out was the made for TV program about the possibilities
>of Virtual Reality in a MultiMedia context. (I can't remember what it was
>called, damn!!)

>Does anyone know what it was called ??

Hyperworld.

Daniel.

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>     / /\ \ \     | /___/ /  \____/ /_/ /\__/ /   |                   |
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>   / / /__\_\ \   |---..---..---..---..---..---.  | "Party on dude"   |
>  / / /________\  |   |.---||   |`---.|   ||   |  | - Bill & Ted      |
>  \/___________/  `   '`---^`   '`---'`---'`   '  `-------------------'

Cool .sig...
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From: xyzzy@mertwig.UUCP (Daniel Drucker)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Mostly Harmless spoilers and the rest of the HHG series
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 92 09:15:56 EST
Organization: Odd Parity Hacker's Group

>  > And just a little thought.. Since Tricia McMillan never left earth in the 
>  > other reality, what happened to that Arthur and Ford and Zaphod in the 
>  > other universe?  The Improbability thing with all of them knowing each 
>  > other would have never happened, and most likely, Arthur and Ford would 
>  > have died of Axphyxiation in deep space one second before the Heart of 
>  > Gold in it's sneaker-likeness would have shown up, which it probably 
>  > wouldn't have, and Zaphod also would probably never have gotten the 
>  > ship!
> 
> Good point!
> 

Just a small detail...I agree that they wouldn't have been picked up, but 
the ship WOULD have been there, as it passes through every point in the 
universe.

--  Xyzzy T. Plugh                                   mertwig!xyzzy@jaflrn.uucp
                     Amateur radio callsign pending
      Daniel Max P. Drucker, the 14 year old TCP/IP and OSI wizard.

"Difficulty! It's the single simplest machine in the entire Universe!" -HHGTTG
From: leffel@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Christopher J Leffel)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Signed MH book....
Date: 24 Nov 1992 04:35:20 GMT
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From article <By6IE5.59p@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, by umrice02@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Stephen Rice):
> In <1992Nov21.203610.15463@u.washington.edu> behs@stein.u.washington.edu (Jon Martin) writes:
> 
>>*wild applause*
>>God I love this service. 
>>I GOT MINE!
>>*thlbtphlptblpthlptbltphlptlbptlhptlptlhtpbtltphlt*
>>And the world continues...
> 
> So did I...from the UK (still sealed in a plastic bag - I am afraid to open it).

I hate to get in a contest of one upmanship but....

*very wild applause*

He signed my book last week... I shook his hand... told him how great
his books were etc...    So... HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHA =)
-- 
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"Don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my
breakfast cereal."    -The Restaurant at the End of the Universe-

Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: u912078@daimi.aau.dk (S|ren Erland Vest|)
Subject: I HAVE THE QUESTION!!!!!
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 10:31:53 GMT

My god, I have found the question. It is.... It is...... 

S... I just forgot!

Soeren E.

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Strapped to the chair at the city's gaschamber,
               why I'm here I can't quite remember

                            -Guns'n'Roses
Newsgroups: alt.fan.madonna
From: greg_bradt@msmgate.mrg.uswest.com (Greg Bradt)
Subject: Re: I wanna do her over...
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Date: 16 Nov 92 17:12:05 GMT

In article <1992Nov16.031204.19818@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> Joseph J.
Marcheso Jr., Joseph.J.Marcheso.Jr.@dartmouth.edu writes:

>She should take the
>critisicm, shut up and maybe she'll learn a thing or two about
music...

I don't think there is any question that her music has evolved a great
deal... no doubt due to the influences of her teachers and her critics.

As for "shutting up", I think she has shown marvelous restraint in
ignoring those critics who have nothing of value to say beyond
attitude bashing or comparing her work to other artistic genre which
have virtually nothing in common with hers.  Perhaps there is a lesson
in that for many here on this newsgroup.

Greg Bradt  aka  ()The Lensman()
From: ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.madonna
Subject: thankyou
Followup-To: alt.stupidity
Date: 17 Nov 1992 10:42:22 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
NNTP-Posting-Host: unixg.ubc.ca


thankyou, Madonna, for existing, so that this group could exist, and have 
such funny flames in it.

honestly, if this keeps up, I won't have to read rec.humor for laughs!

not many groups get the prefect balance of pretentious smart asses and
vapid twits outdoing each other.

keep it up
-- 
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Newsgroups: alt.fan.madonna
From: mcollins@nyx.cs.du.edu (Killans - First And Last And Always)
Subject: Re: I wanna do her over...
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Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 20:41:27 GMT

In article <TORKEL.92Nov9230327@bast.sics.se> torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen) writes:
>In article <s1070619.721302800@giaeb> s1070619@giaec.cc.monash.edu.au
> (YOGI *is* N.KROENERT) writes:
>
>   >"Creeps" is usually a word reserved for different, unusual, or offensively
>   >different people... I would have thought it more apt to call your beloved
>   >madonna a creep... not us.
>
>  Yes? To my mind, it smacks of considerable weirdness to state "I
>hate Madonna!" and go on to spew anger and hatred on a woman who
>happens to be a successful pop singer.  Many of these Madonna bashers
>seem to be genuinely disturbed people, with a pathological hatred of
>women in general, or perhaps of women who put themselves forward or are
>sexually explicit in their actions or statements.
>
>  Madonna, surely, is a pop singer who has done some good stuff, and
>who knows how to handle herself and her business. There are fanatical
>fans: this is a well-known phenomenon, and a pretty harmless one.
>There are people who spew spluttering hatred of Madonna: this is not
>so common, historically speaking, and I think it's not unreasonable to
>suspect that the emergence of these people in connection with Madonna
>is a "flushing out" of people who are psychologically disturbed.


Oh really? Maybe I'm just somebody who detests the cult of mediocrity and
banality that has pervaded Western society and culture, and are sick of
no-talent 'media celebreties' like Madonna (along with others I could name)
being celebrated above those who are gernuinely talented and creative.

But then, I guess by the standards of a society which elevates such banal
drivel to the heights of worship, I *must* be psychologically disturbed.

And proud of it.

Mike

Newsgroups: alt.fan.madonna
From: jessop@ljohub.enet.dec.com (Class Dinosauria)
Subject: Re: I just love madonna!!!
Reply-To: jessop@ljohub.enet.dec.com (Class Dinosauria)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:55:11 GMT



>Quinzian  L. Hao       CS '95!!!!      Amerika is the Opressor


	How quaint.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.madonna
From: greg_bradt@msmgate.mrg.uswest.com (Greg Bradt)
Subject: Re: Madonna the hypocrite
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Date: 20 Nov 92 20:39:07 GMT

In article <1992Nov19.231515.4936@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> Joseph J.
Marcheso Jr., Joseph.J.Marcheso.Jr.@dartmouth.edu writes:

>That may be true but are you going to TRY and tell me that she
>practices monogamy? What about her movie?

No, in fact I doubt very seriously that she is monogomous.  My only
point to the previoys poster was that her book (and her lifestyle) was
not inconsistent with her public stand on AIDS prevention.

> and the stories that she
>picks up Latino men  while driving around in her limo? What about all
>her lesbian affairs? 

None of my business, really, even if true.  (I might even say
_especially_ if true!)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.madonna
Subject: GIFs How to?
From: csc45101_08@dhvx20.csudh.edu
Date: 16 Nov 92 12:14:49 PST
Organization: CSU, DOMINGUEZ HILLS

Hello!

Can anyone tell me what can of equipment I need in order to view the Madonna
GIFs?. How do I view them?
/Ed
Newsgroups: alt.fan.madonna