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From: hennessy@acsu.buffalo.edu (Mathew A. Hennessy)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: HHGG videos
Date: 7 Apr 92 13:28:13 GMT
Organization: UB

In article <31069@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk> wowbagger@ed.ac.uk (Scott Telford) writes:
>The HHGG TV series videos are out now in the UK on 2 tapes at L10.99
>each. There's an ad in the current Q magazine.
>

	Are they available NTSC 60Hz?  maybe thru Lionheart if they distribute
videotapes...  I'd like a _good_ copy

>-- 
>Scott Telford, Dept of Computer Science,      electric mail: wowbagger@ed.ac.uk
>University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Rd, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK.
>------ <wham!> "It's in the trees!" <wham!><wham!><wham!> "It's coming!" ------
From: cri@acsu.buffalo.edu (Whoopee Buttlord)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: HHGTTG to be rebroadcast on R4
Date: 9 Apr 92 18:19:14 GMT
Organization: UB

psr@acsu.buffalo.edu (Ben the Crafter) writes:

>Um, not to be daft or anything, but who's radio are you talking about?
>I think you are in Europe somewhere.

	Radio 4 is in Britain.
		makes sense, doesn't it?

	anyway, is there anyone that will be capable of receiving the 
broadcasts that would be willing to accomadate us folks in the states by 
perchance making copies of them for us?  or at least for me?

	note I would of course be willing to either send tapes or
the money FOR tapes to any such intrepid soul.

	kindly respond either via mail (cri@acsu.buffalo.edu) or here...


	Mercy Buckets...

	Mr. Pleasant

			cri@acsu.buffalo.edu

"I'm a bomb, remember? Who know's _when_ I could go off! Tiktiktiktiktik..."
From: stephen@maxwell.physics.purdue.edu (Stephen W. Hill)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: HH/STTNG stories
Date: 13 Apr 92 22:13:14 GMT
Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept, W.Lafayette, IN

Hey,

     If anyone out there received parts 5-8 of the HH/STTNG stories please
mail me a copy.  Either they weren't posted or our site didn't get them.

thanks,
-stephen

+-----------------------------------------------+-----------------------------+
|"Hi there!  This is Eddie, your shipboard com- |stephen@maxwell.cc.purdue.edu|
|puter, and I'm feeling just great, guys, and I |                             |
|know I'm just going to get a bundle of kicks   |       PURDUE UNIVERSITY     |
|out of any program you care to run through me."|                             |
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From: trent@termnet.chi.il.us (Brian Issleb)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: alt.fan.douglas-adams FAQ
Date: 7 Apr 92 02:53:09 GMT
Organization: Temple of Pong BBS

Why don't you just let them buy the book?
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: Mindy McKaig <mmckaig@silver.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Last chance to see
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 92 17:29:43 EST
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]

I about bought this book two months ago, but i was told that it would be
out in paperback soon. now i can't even find it in hardback!!!! arrrrgh.
does anyone know if it has been released in paperback in the US yet?
thanks
-mindy
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From: IO00844@MAINE.MAINE.EDU (((ZERO)))
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: The Movie, Series, Towel, Paraphenilia...
Date: 16 Apr 92 02:20:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: MAINE.92106.222001IO00844
Organization: University of Maine System

Hi. As far as the H2G2 T-Shirt I saw...well, it was at a Star Trek convention
in Boston Mass. last Saturday. The shirt was black with the picture of the
green smiley dude across the front and DONT PANIC written in large friendly
letters along side it.
A very nice T-shirt indeed...however, I was there for the Star Trek stuff...
it was my first convention.
You might want to try contacting someone from rec.arts.startrek who might
go to conventions occasionally...from there the person might be able to pick
up a T-shirt from one of the many venders. Who knows, maybe it was a one of a
kind....what a scary thought!!

Funny thing is, I also noticed an original hardcover copy of 'Life, the Univers
e and Everything" there also.

What say we start some organization for the organization of organizing a group
to organize people to start 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" conventions! I
mean, this can be discussed right...I mean, this IS the Douglas Adams group!
We can do whatever we want!   ...as long as it's cheap, not against the law,
clean, righteous, fule efficient...ah, what the hell, forget it then!
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student with a      | Star Trek TNG Fan.
(mostly harmless)   | Douglas Adams Fan.     MAJOR: Life, The Universe,
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Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: jbenger@nepean.uws.edu.au (Jonathan Benger)
Subject: help with the infocom game HITHIKERS (the bit where u r Zaphod)
Organization: University of Western Sydney
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 05:59:50 GMT

i've had the game for years
and i paly it every now and then and now i have
finally finnished every bit i can
except for when you are zaphod
i find the key under the seat
open the toolbox and find the wrench and magnifying glass
but how do you stop the guards from shooting you 
and how do you steal the ship?
 

 any help would be GREATLY apreciated

 mail me at 

	      jbenger@*.st.nepean.uws.EDU.AU


or you could leave an item on NN
(mail would be best) 



thanks!
From: bob@castle.ed.ac.uk (Bob Gray)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Hitchhiker's and beer prices
Date: 6 Apr 92 14:29:55 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre

abw@natchez.bu.edu (Al Wesolowsky) writes:
>Two quid fifty for a bleedin' pint!? Just what *has* Mrs. Thatcher done to
>poor old Blighty?

Taught them how to relieve the tourists of large sums of
money, by the looks of things.

No-one in their right mind would pay that much for one pint.
Two pints would be more like it.
	Bob.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: g92n3228@giraffe.ru.ac.za (MISS KL NAYLOR)
Subject: Re: Douglas Adams DYING?!?!?!
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 16:50:33 GMT

In article <1992Apr9.015638.1@runt.appstate.edu> grs01146@runt.appstate.edu writes:

>SOMEBODY PLEASE RE-ASSURE ME ..... QUICK!!!!

>I asked the manager of my bookstore the anticipated release date of
>_Mostly_Harmless_ and she replied that the book would not be released 
>due to Douglas Adams contracting a terminal illness...



WHAT!!!!!!!!!!  This just _cannot_ be true!!!!  What with Isaac Asimov last 
week, and now ...  PLEASE someone tell me this is not true.

Thanks

Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: btm34360@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Structural Violence )
Subject: Re: Dirk Gently - Douglas Adams gets Literary?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 15:48:23 GMT

dwr34397@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (37000) writes:

>	(BTW, there's a reference to this in the trilogy - when they are
>in HotBlack Desiato's ship - just after they escape...  I'll find it if anyone
>cares...)
	

	No one does.


They might be brain, they might be washed
They might be Dr. Spock's backup band.

				TMBG
From: IO00844@MAINE.MAINE.EDU (((ZERO)))
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: The Movie, Series, Towel, Paraphenilia...
Date: 14 Apr 92 21:30:47 GMT
Organization: University of Maine System

Ok ok ok, you figure after this much time someone on top of things could
at least get things under control enough to release The Hitchhiker's Guide
to the Galaxy on videocassette! C'mon, I thought $$$ was a big drive in
the world! Don't you think it would sell? I'd buy it.

The same goes for the proposed film...why hasn't anything happened about
this? Or has it? Is the script just gathering dust somewhere? You'd think
with all the Douglas Adams fans in the world, even if the film was terrible
it would at least sell tickets. I'd go.

Another question, they used to sell a large H2G2 towel you could order
from Europe. Do they still do this or has H2G2 died down enough that
it's no longer done? I recently saw an excellent 'Don't Panic' T-shirt
the other day...didn't buy it, but loved it.

Any comments on "Mostly Harmless?". This'll be an instant bestseller...even
if it's written in crayon.

Just trying to get some spark going. With only 30 messages in this newsgroup
today it's a  sad sad sad one.

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Zero Z. Batzell     | Amiga User.     "We come in peace...shoot to kill!"
(207)-581-7579      | Iguana Keeper.     "NCC-42 U.S.S. HEART OF GOLD"
University of Maine | Video Hobbyist.    "Live long and Don't Panic!!"
student with a      | Star Trek TNG Fan.
(mostly harmless)   | Douglas Adams Fan.     MAJOR: Life, The Universe,
transfer in mind.   | Orson Scott Card Fan.         and Everything.
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  The Enterprise is not a ship for freeloading degenerate hitchhikers.
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From: ph2fcd@sdcc14.ucsd.edu (Amiga 3000 = freedom)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: The Movie, Series, Towel, Paraphenilia...
Date: 15 Apr 92 21:21:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: sdcc12.31692
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <92105.173047IO00844@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> IO00844@MAINE.MAINE.EDU (((ZERO))) writes:
>
>Another question, they used to sell a large H2G2 towel you could order
>from Europe. Do they still do this or has H2G2 died down enough that
>it's no longer done? I recently saw an excellent 'Don't Panic' T-shirt
>the other day...didn't buy it, but loved it.
>
Hey, does anyone know where I could get Douglas Adams/Guide related
posters/t-shirts/towels/etc's in California, retail or mail order?
I would sell my soul for a DA T-shirt!


>Any comments on "Mostly Harmless?". This'll be an instant bestseller...even
>if it's written in crayon.

Is it out yet?  If so, where??
>
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Zero Z. Batzell     | Amiga User.     "We come in peace...shoot to kill!"
			^
			|
Awright, me too!  Amigas are great!  If Douglas is such a
Mac-oriented guy, maybe one of us should show him an Amiga 3000!

>University of Maine | Video Hobbyist.    "Live long and Don't Panic!!"



--jeremy  (I left my .sig in my other suit)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: tarrall@horton.Colorado.EDU (The Admiral, actually)
Subject: Re: Comic Book
Organization: _USS Christopher Pike_, NCC-1779-A
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 07:37:04 GMT

In article <1992Apr16.021807.4049@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> jsw21124@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Joseph S. Walker) writes:
|The most recent issue of the Comic Buyer's Guide includes a list of upcoming
|DC Comics projects.  Included among them was an adaptation of "The Hitchiker's
|Guide to the Galaxy."  It's going to be three issues in the Prestige Format
|(regular comic-book size, but squarebound and with more durable paper).  It's
|not on the schedule yet but should be out within the next year.
|
|CBG did not say whether the adaptaion would follow the movie or the books, or
|how far into the story it would go.  DA is not writing it, but he is
|supervising the project and has final script approval.

Did the Comic Buyer's Guide say which company was planning on producing it?

-- 
-- The Admiral          Email address:  tarrall@horton.colorado.edu
---------------------------- ghewmey Daghaj SoH ---------------------------
|  What I want to see in the paper:  "Rockies sign Puckett and Sandberg"  |
|  --------------------> HOW ABOUT THOSE TWINS???? <--------------------  |
From: kwest@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Kenneth C West)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Dirk Gently
Date: 17 Apr 92 04:58:04 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


	After someone brought it up here a little while ago, I dug out
DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY and re-read it. I'd originally]
carved through it as a wee-little one, and realized I couldn't recall
thing one from it (except, oddly enough, the Zen Driving  -which is
actually in THE LONG DARK TEA-TIME OF THE SOUL. Hmmphh....memory ain't
what it used to be.....
	Well, I've read it in a week and here are a few thoughts on it:
	
	First off, as a book it really is sort of thrown-together. The first
4/5 of it is sort of disconnected and almost without a central plot. The 
last fifth ties a whole bunch of loose threads together rather preposterously.
It really seemed like Adams made it all up as he went along.....which is what
a lot of writers do. But you're not supposed to get that impression, after
all.
	Still, I really enjoyed the book and heartily reccommend it. Why?
Because it's FUNNY. Well written. I love the character of Dirk Gently and 
the way things are described is pure Adams. I think that if Adams had
bothered to come up with a slightly more plausible plot....or at least to spend
enough time detailing the one he ended up with, the characters could have
sailed to new heights.

	Favorite stuff:
		The sofa impossibly stuck in the stairwell
		Dirk's misadventures with ESP
		All those missing cats....long dead, of course
		The wedding party on the train.
		The detective refusing to see Gordon Way's
	ghost in Macduff's apartment.

	Of course.......didn't it seem that Gordon Way was going to
actually amount to something in the plot? And then Adams just faded him
to black. He might as well have not existed.
	Still, a great book. I'm re-reading TLDTTOTS now.



Sigs are evil, slimy, disgusting things for grown people to play with.



						-Jeff Somers
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: cleggp@aix.rpi.edu (Paul Jason Clegg)
Subject: Re: dirk gently book
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 21:17:42 GMT

In article <1992Apr12.003534.5070@vpnet.chi.il.us> glauber@vpnet.chi.il.us (Glauber Ribeiro) writes:
>In article <trent.052g@termnet.chi.il.us> trent@termnet.chi.il.us (Brian Issleb) writes:
>>
>>Wasn't the eagle simply a jet turned into an eagle by Thor?
>
>	Or a jet pilot turned into an eagle by Odin?
>
>						Glauber.

No, it was the jet and pilot.  Somewhere, near the end, I think when Odwin
was reading the paper, one of the headlines was something about a disappeared
jet suddenly flying out of the second story of a flat in London, a place
where it could not have gotten into in the first place.

...Paul

|FQT 1.10| LSD melts your mind, not in your hand.

Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: xcz13@isuvax.iastate.edu
Subject: hithchikers
Reply-To: xcz13@isuvax.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 03:33:58 GMT

the uthere two parts are
-life the universe and everything
and
-so long and thanks for all the fish

ELF-KIN
	"we are all crazy here. im crazy,  your crazy. if you werent you wouldnt be here" the cheashire cat-alisce in wonderland
From: leaver@prg.ox.ac.uk (Andrew Leaver)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Dirk Gently - Douglas Adams gets Literary?
Date: 10 Apr 92 09:39:42 GMT
Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK

In article <1992Apr9.022205.24476@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, dwr34397@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (37000) writes:
>zahin@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Kazi Zahin S. Hasan) writes:
>
>>It seems to me that Adams has been playing with "the fundamental
>>interconnectedness of all things" and other pseudo-quantum-mechanical
>>themes since his earliest books. 
>
>	I'd have to agree with you - it's my theory that one of the main
>plots of the book is the whole concept that Zaphod, Trillian, Ford and Arthur
>all experienced infinite improbability, and spent the rest of the books 
>trying to overcome the improbability field that surrounds them.

Well, in the radio series (my personal fave of the many different versions
of Hitch-Hiker's) there are a couple of bits relevant to this:

When Arthur & co. meet Frankie & Benjy (Trillian's mice) on Magrathea,
Trillian says: "It seems they control rather a large area of the universe in
this sector" (or words to that effect). She then goes on to say:
"It seems our journey was stage-managed all along", i.e. the mice
deliberately brought Trillian and Arthur to Magrathea in the hope of getting
at the Ultimate Question.

In the second series and in the books the whole reason for Zaphod
stealing the Heart of Gold is to find the ruler of the universe, and in the
last episode of the second series it is revealed that Zaphod was in
collustion with the psychiatrists over the destruction of the Earth - so
Zaphod and his cronies effectively caused the whole thing.

However... the original radio series was of course made up as they went
along, so any attempt to see grand designs behind the plot is pretty
futile! As far as I'm concerned, sod the plot (or rather the lack of
a plot) and just enjoy the jokes!

>
>					DAVE!!!
>					suicide@uiuc.edu

Andrew
--
From: hermit@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Ron O'Dell)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Gently - DA gets literacy?
Date: 14 Apr 92 08:41:44 GMT
Reply-To: keeper@deeptht.santa-cruz.ca.us
Organization: The Pen


In article <92100.22113934I54TE@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> 34I54TE@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU writes:
>place?  From DA, "I was lying in a field in Innsbruck, drunk, looking at the
>stars, and thought that someone should write a hitchhiker's guide to the
>galaxy."  And thus, from the curious effect alcohol has on certain carbon based
>life forms [especially the PGGB!!!], the GUIDE was born.

A key point you leave out here is that he had with him
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to Europe."  It contained remarks
like "See x for n [monetary units] per day," which led to
"See the Universe for less than thirty Altarian dollars per day" ...

replies to keeper@deeptht.santa-cruz.ca.us
-- 
William R Ward						<hermit@cats.ucsc.edu>
	I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
	Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning.
					    -- Proverbs 7:17-18
From: stephen@maxwell.physics.purdue.edu (Stephen W. Hill)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: The Movie, Series, Towel, Paraphenilia...
Date: 17 Apr 92 01:12:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: dirac.7233
Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept, W.Lafayette, IN

>Hi. As far as the H2G2 T-Shirt I saw...well, it was at a Star Trek convention
>in Boston Mass. last Saturday. The shirt was black with the picture of the
>green smiley dude across the front and DONT PANIC written in large friendly
>letters along side it.
>A very nice T-shirt indeed...however, I was there for the Star Trek stuff...
>it was my first convention.
>You might want to try contacting someone from rec.arts.startrek who might
>go to conventions occasionally...from there the person might be able to pick
>up a T-shirt from one of the many venders. Who knows, maybe it was a one of a
>kind....what a scary thought!!


I know where you can get one of these shirts (Hee, Hee, Hee).  For a price.
It's from a science fiction company in Florida and it costs about $13.  If
you want their address, email me.  I have one and I think it looks kind of
neat.

+-----------------------------------------------+-----------------------------+
|"Hi there!  This is Eddie, your shipboard com- |stephen@maxwell.cc.purdue.edu|
|puter, and I'm feeling just great, guys, and I |                             |
|know I'm just going to get a bundle of kicks   |       PURDUE UNIVERSITY     |
|out of any program you care to run through me."|                             |
+-----------------------------------------------+-----------------------------+
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: zahin@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Kazi Zahin S. Hasan)
Subject: Re: Dirk Gently - Douglas Adams gets Literary?
Organization: Oberlin College Computer Science
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 14:26:23 GMT

It seems to me that Adams has been playing with "the fundamental
interconnectedness of all things" and other pseudo-quantum-mechanical
themes since his earliest books. Recall that the Total Perspective
Vortex worked by extrapolating the whole of Creation from a small
piece of fairy cake.

Besides, even the earlier books contained some of the best satire I've
ever read. Little things like the bit about how Earth's ape-descended
life-forms were always unhappy about the movements of little green
slips of paper, and how this was odd, because on the whole it wasn't
the little green slips of paper that were unhappy.
--
Zahin Hasan
zahin@occs.cs.oberlin.edu
(216) 775 5403
OCMR box 1551
Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio 44074
				

	"No, I mean is there any venomous creature you're particularly
fond of?"
	He looked out of the window for a moment.
	"There was," he said, "but she left me."

				from "Last Chance to See"
					by
					Douglas Adams
From: trent@termnet.chi.il.us (Brian Issleb)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: dirk gently book
Date: 16 Apr 92 02:20:56 GMT
Organization: Temple of Pong BBS

In article <11379@ecs.soton.ac.uk>, lm89@ecs.soton.ac.uk (McIlhoney L) writes:
>In <1992Apr12.003534.5070@vpnet.chi.il.us> glauber@vpnet.chi.il.us (Glauber Rib
>eiro) writes:
>
>>In article <trent.052g@termnet.chi.il.us> trent@termnet.chi.il.us (Brian Issle
>b) writes:
>>>
>>>Wasn't the eagle simply a jet turned into an eagle by Thor?
>
>>       Or a jet pilot turned into an eagle by Odin?
>
>>                                               Glauber.
>
>        You're both wrong.  It was a jet AND a pilot turned into an eagle
>        by Thor.
>                                Lawrence


Well, when I said that it was a jet, I meant including the pilot.

                
 
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From: psr@acsu.buffalo.edu (Ben the Crafter)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: HHGTTG to be rebroadcast on R4
Date: 9 Apr 92 17:55:33 GMT
Organization: UB

Um, not to be daft or anything, but who's radio are you talking about?
I think you are in Europe somewhere.
You might want to set your distribution to something more local.
This isn't for you per-se, but for womever started this chain.
-Strider
-- 
Strider                     | SUNY @ Buffalo | psr@acsu.buffalo.edu
Lord Mayor, The Hill People | (716) 636 4862 | V127MHSK@ubvms.bitnet

"Of ______course it's the murder weapon.  Who would frame someone with a
From: ees1pj@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK (Peter Jones)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: HHGTTG to be rebroadcast on R4
Date: 7 Apr 92 18:13:47 GMT
Organization: University of Surrey, Guildford, England

FYI - A trailer on R4 this evening said that HHGTTG will be rebroadcast from
Monday 13 April, at 11 o'clock (in the evening I assume).

Pete.