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From: u906789@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (Mark Julian Turner)
Subject: Re: Price of beer & peanuts?
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 04:20:58 GMT

domalley@unix1.tcd.ie (Slartibartfast            (alias Daniel O'Malley)) writes:

>In <1992Nov17.213513.10470@mail.cornell.edu> drh2@cornell.edu (Dave Horlick) writes:

>>The trouble is that the Earth is destroyed by the Vogons in the 1980's
>>according to Life, the Universe, and Everything. So Ford couldn't have
>>bought the peanuts at 1978 prices.

>Why not???
>It was set in 1978, after all...

Well see above! Just because it was first transmitted in 1978 doesn't mean it 
was set in 1978.

This may seem to be an extremely fiddley and pointless question(when the start
of THHGTTG was set) but some poor souls *are* slightly interested, so everyone
just calm down and don't sent off a "how pointless..." or "Adams must think you are wierd" post.

mark.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Price of beer & peanuts?
From: Geoffrey Spear <gs32+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:20:05 -0500 
 <u906789.722492458@bruny><1992Nov23.093844.17719@husc3.harvard.edu>
Organization: Freshman, CIT general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

	Also, remember the line in "Life, The Universe, and Everything" when
Ford and Arthur return to Earth a few days before it's destroyed, and
the year is listed as "198-".  The exact year is not given, but it's not
'78.
-----------------------------------
Geoff Spear
Carnegie Mellon University
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Class of '96 (I hope...)
-----------------------------------
"You're redlining my bogometer!"
From: okes@essex.ac.uk (Simon Oke)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Price of beer & peanuts?
Date: 16 Nov 92 12:20:54 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Essex, UK.
In-reply-to: u906789@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au's message of 16 Nov 92 07:19:26 GMT

In article <u906789.721898366@bruny> u906789@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (Mark Julian Turner) writes:
| I think this has been discussed before, but does anyone know how long ago 
| you would get quite a bit of change from 5 pounds for 6 pints of bitter and 
| 4 packets of peanuts for 28 pence?
|
Late 70s. Since then the price of beer has risen *far* faster than the rate of
inflation. In the 70s, it rose at about the same rate, which was roughly
equivalent to the rate of inflation at the time.
^
|
(slight dig at the Labour "government" of the late 70s :-)

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to your friends with all documentation.              Email okes@essex.ac.uk.
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 ...though he was master of all the world, he was not quite sure what to
	do next. But he would think of something.
From: gundy@omar.WPI.EDU (aka Gundy)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Does any one know...
Date: 17 Nov 1992 05:31:56 GMT
Organization: Woosta Politeck Institution
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Originator: gundy@omar.WPI.EDU


	...how to get in touch with either Douglas Adams or his publisher, about
rights to his radio scripts.

	Or, who has writes to the radio scripts...


								Gundy
+--------------------+--------------------------------------------------------+
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|A.k.a. Gundy	     |  1 medium sized Yorkshire Terrier		      |
|87-10 Park Ave	     |	48 packages of Jell-O Vanilla instant pudding	      |
|Worcester, MA 01605 |	3 gallons of milk			              |
|gundy@wpi.wpi.edu   |	Blend ingredients on high until all lumps are gone.   |
|(508) 795-1592	     | 	Preheat oven (or exhaust manifold) to 450 degrees F   |
|		     |	Place pudding contents into bread tins. Cook until    |
|		     |  mixture doesn't stick to a tooth pick. Best when      |
|		     |  served hot.					      |
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Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: boek@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Christopher Boek)
Subject: Re: BIG problem with MH theories
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 07:51:35 GMT

weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener) writes:

>I mentioned that that's part of why I believe there's a sequel.  Whether
>DNA will write it or not is a different question, but I'm certain that he
>planned out far more than he wrote.
>-- 
>-Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)

I wouldn't bet on it.

Chris.

--
|Christopher Boek                               boek@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU|
|  Dept ElecEng, University of Melbourne,  Parkville Vic 3052 Australia |
|_____"Anybody remotely interesting is mad in some way or another"______|
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: csedlack@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Christopher Sedlack)
Subject: Re: Thoughts on the Whole Series and M H
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 19:06:44 GMT

GRS00021@CONRAD.APPSTATE.EDU (APHiD) writes:

>Slartibartfast and such but the rest are history.  Even Marvin died in the
>previous book.  They're all DEAD!! DEAD DEAD DEAD DEAD!!!!  Why, Bob, why??

While it is true that Marvin died in So Long, it is also true that he was 
something like 17 times older than the universe itself, due to time travel and
such.  Marvin could show up again anywhere (or should I say, anywhen).

Chris Sedlack

csedlack@uiuc.edu
csedlack@imsa.edu

The (still) sigless wonder

Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: mr2@irz204.inf.tu-dresden.de (Matthias Rauhut)
Subject: TV-tapes in germany - the result
Reply-To: rauhut@freia.inf.tu-dresden.de
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, TU Dresden, Germany.
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 03:07:56 GMT


So ,nachdem mich so viele mit Mail beglueckt haben - hier das
Endergebnis meiner Nachforschungen:
(Now,after so many answers to my mail - the results:)

Wo erhaeltlich (where to get):
BBC WORLD SERVICE MAIL ORDER
Room LG26 NE
Bush House
Strand
London WC2B 4PH
U.K.

phone:(england)-44-71-257-2575
fax  :(england)-44-71-497-0498

(Einfach mal anrufen oder hinschreiben.)

price:6 CD =40.75 oder ca. 100-150DM (+20,- Zoll)
      also available on MC,but...(you know?!) 
      2 VHS-cassetts (the TV-movie) in PAL only:???

Aus dem Ausland billiger,wenn man's per Kreditkarte
ueberweisst,sonst will die Bank von euch fuer die Ueberweisung
eine Menge Geld (so ca. 15DM) sehen.

Use your credit-card,if available - it's lesser expensive than 
money-transfer via bank!

***A special remark for Marc and Howie***
Sorry,but the tapes aren't available here in germany (*sniff*).
And - if your VHS-recorder is capable of playing PAL-videos - i 
think you can play these tapes.I haven't them yet and no idea about
us/european-player-incompatibilites,so i cannot answer your question 
right.

So,dann mal auf ans bestellen und schreibt mir,wenn ihr was bekommen 
habt - mir fehlt momentan das kleine Geld fuer diesen grossen Einkauf,
denn,wisset - Weihnachten steht vor der Tuer (und ich Trottel hab mir 
schon "Herr der Ringe" bestellt).

------------------------+---------------------------------------------.
| Matthias Rauhut        | TCP/IP-Mail: rauhut@freia.inf.tu-dresden.de |
|   (90/08/06)           |   IRC:st-guru                               |
|                        |                                             |
+------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
|   My profession? .GIF-hunter as a full-time-job,what else?           |
|                'Only a dead GIF is a good GIF!'                      | 
|                     God bless Truecolor!                             |
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From: GGPERRY@NUACVM.ACNS.NWU.EDU (ggreg)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams,rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Hitchhiker's Guide TV show
Date: 18 Nov 92 16:47:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: NUACVM.168A397AC.GGPERRY
Organization: Northwestern University

supposedly this is supposed to be out in video some time next year.  but
in the meantime, i'm sure some pbs stations still run it once in a while,
unlike here in chicago which got rid of dr. who and black adder (which
during it's brief run was shown at something like 1:30/2:00 in the morning!)
and never even had red dwarf!
                             ggreg
 
 
 
In article <1992Nov17.234958.19466@daffy.cs.wisc.edu>
rob@skool.ssec.wisc.edu ( Rob Jacob) writes:
 
>
>
>Hello all!
>
>I remember seeing the BBC-produced "Hitchhikers Guide to the
>Galaxy" TV series back in 85 or 86 in Dallas.  A friend of
>mine just found out about the existence of the TV version
>and now we're both wondering when it will be on again.
>
>Does anyone out there know anything about when this fine production
>will be broadcast again?  Does it depend on the whims of the BBC or
>does it depend entirely on my local PBS affiliate having the money
>and the will to acquire it?  Is it available on video?
>
>Your answers will be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>Robert Jacob
>rob@ssec.wisc.edu
>rob@meteor.wisc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: Dave Horlick <drh2@cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: Price of beer & peanuts?
X-Xxdate: Tue, 17 Nov 92 21: 37:43 GMT
Nntp-Posting-User: drh2@cornell.edu
Organization: Cornell University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d7
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:35:13 GMT

The trouble is that the Earth is destroyed by the Vogons in the 1980's
according to Life, the Universe, and Everything. So Ford couldn't have
bought the peanuts at 1978 prices.
From: Richard.Dalton@newcastle.ac.uk (Richard Dalton)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Douglas Adams Interview in East Lansing
Date: 16 Nov 92 11:37:01 GMT
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU

What am i on about? (I said I was remembering off the CD's), Simon Jones
was Arthur, Stephen Moore was Marvin. Sorry for that piece of 
un-information folks *8^)

	Rich 'Z'


===============================================================================
         Computing Laboratory          | Email: Richard.Dalton@Newcastle.ac.uk
   University of Newcastle Upon Tyne   | Email: usr10131@tso.uc.edu
===============================================================================
From: lulu@ucrengr.ucr.edu (david lu)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Vanity Plates
Date: 20 Nov 92 04:42:16 GMT
Organization: University of California, Riverside

In article <uerics.721430673@mcl> uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd)
writes:
>Re: XYZZY
>
>I donn't remember XYZZY working.  There's a road in a small town in
>Arizona (I think) -- there's a sign telling you how to get there on the
>Interstate -- called "XYZZY ROAD".  Imagine my surprise in seeing _that_
>on my way to New Orleans. :)

Which interstate is it?  I drive along I-10 between LA and Tucson
quite often (about 4, 5 times a year), and if it's on I-10, I will
keep an eye out for it next time.  In fact, I'm due to make another
trip in about a month.

			- David

-- 
---==lulu@ucrengr==---  just another overworked graduate student.
David T Lu, Amateur Thinker: lulu@ucrengr.ucr.edu, {ucsd, uci}!ucrengr!lulu
"I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle."
					- Arthur Dent, Hitchhiker's
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams,rec.arts.sf.written
From: oahvenla@snakemail.hut.fi (Osma Ahvenlampi)
Subject: Re: Hitchhiker Radio Play on CDs?
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 16:44:33 GMT

In article <s8Z7TB1w165w@mertwig.UUCP> xyzzy@mertwig.UUCP (Daniel Drucker) writes:
>Now if they could come out with one with writable cds, alt.galactic-guide 
>could have a ball!

Well, 'they' have. Ever heard of CD-R? Or the Sony version, MD (or whatever..)?
--
Osma Ahvenlampi  -  oahvenla@snakemail.hut.fi   * Workstation power for micro-
All my opinions are not necessarily really mine * computer price: Amiga := FUN
From: xyzzy@mertwig.UUCP (Daniel Drucker)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Vanity Plates
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 15:36:17 EST
Organization: Odd Parity Hacker's Group

dsteinbe@nmsu.edu (David Steinberg) writes:
> In article <uerics.721430673@mcl> uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd) writ
>    Re: XYZZY
>    I donn't remember XYZZY working.  There's a road in a small town in
>    Arizona (I think) -- there's a sign telling you how to get there on the
>    Interstate -- called "XYZZY ROAD".  Imagine my surprise in seeing _that_
>    on my way to New Orleans. :)
>    - Eric S.
> No, no, no, no, no.  Unless there's something really odd going on
> here, you're thinking of ZZYZX Road that is on I-15 in California
> between L.A. and LasVegas.  There is an odd mystique around that road.
> I should know; ever since I took it on as a pseudonym, people have
> been telling me ZZYZX stories.  Maybe XYZZY is another one (Like the
> store in Baltimore called ZYZYX...)
> -David "ZZYZX" Steinberg- King of the ellipses

I've been away from the group for a while, but was this thread started 
cause of me? I don't remember posting here.

-- Xyzzy Markany Tesseract Plugh

--
Daniel Max P. Drucker, the network communications wizard.

mertwig!xyzzy@jaflrn.uucp                   amateur radio callsign pending
Disclaimer: It's all my fault!

"Difficulty! It's the single simplest machine in the entire Universe!" -HHGTTG
From: xyzzy@mertwig.UUCP (Daniel Drucker)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: On Infinite Universes and _Mostly Harmless_  (SPOILERS!)
Keywords: infinity, Mostly Harmless, Universes (individual)
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 15:36:30 EST
Organization: Odd Parity Hacker's Group

>   _            "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.

--  "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
From: ginsu@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Wes Simonds)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Thoughts on M H (spoilers)
Date: 15 Nov 92 23:11:36 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

>the earth has a discontinuous nature and probability being what it is there
>must be a point where all the earths do exist - presumably this will be at the
>focus of the Plural sector - this was where the grebulon leader was - and this
>was how all the earths managed to be destroyed...

Absolutely.  But how did the Grebulons manage to track down all the comedy and
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From: glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams,rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Hitchhiker Radio Play on CDs?
Date: 20 Nov 92 00:47:00 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

What I'd said is that making a CD based computer that could 
do what the Guide in the TV show was shown doing is already 
possible. The technology is there, tho it's not quite that small yet 
-- 
"Faahk Ohhf Yoo Buhm, I Keehl Youu!!" - Lupo The Butcher
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From: u2mpl@csc.liv.ac.uk (M.P. Leeuwangh)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: 42
Date: 20 Nov 92 13:55:57 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, Liverpool University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]


Re: DNA on the net?



				I AM!
From: GRS00021@CONRAD.APPSTATE.EDU (APHiD)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Thoughts on the Whole Series and M H
Date: 15 Nov 1992 10:20:55 GMT
Organization: APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY
Distribution: world
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X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24

In <1992Nov13.212443.18562@e2big.mko.dec.com> miller@quiver.enet.dec.com writes:
 
> I just finshed reading _Mostly Harmless_ last night, and I have one major
> question:
> 
>      WHERE'S ZAPHOD??? He didn't show up AT ALL in Mostly Harmless, not at
>      all!
>

Well, he does show up in flashbacks.  I suppose Zaphod didn't show up just
because it didn't happen to fit into the plot of M_H.  Maybe he'll show up
in some further book.  After all, he's the series' only surviving hero at
this point.  Well, there are surviving secondary characters like
Slartibartfast and such but the rest are history.  Even Marvin died in the
previous book.  They're all DEAD!! DEAD DEAD DEAD DEAD!!!!  Why, Bob, why??

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From: glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams,rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Hitchhiker Radio Play on CDs?
Summary: viability?
Date: 20 Nov 92 00:20:09 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Here's a piece of rare trivia : none of the scenes from the TV
show involving Ford or Arthur looking something up in the Guide 
were done with computer animation; it was all still-frame.

/:^}//+


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From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: BIG problem with MH theories
Date: 15 Nov 92 17:27:35 GMT
Reply-To: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
Organization: The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology
In-reply-to: ENGC9241548F@LUST.LATROBE.EDU.AU (WALSH,Michael J.)

In article <1992Nov14.010004.23821@lugb.latrobe.edu.au>, ENGC9241548F@LUST (WALSH,Michael J.) writes:
>Well, any ideas on the Fenchurch factor?

I mentioned that that's part of why I believe there's a sequel.  Whether
DNA will write it or not is a different question, but I'm certain that he
planned out far more than he wrote.
-- 
-Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: ladyk@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Catarina Ang)
Subject: Re: "QED"
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 01:45:26 GMT

QED: Quite easily done!
*grin*


	Lady K

	A ripple of laughter drifts to your ears... cut off abruptly as the 
door to the Ivory Tower slams shut.

	'If what you don't know can't hurt you, she's practically
invulnerable.'

	'Be happy while y'er leevin,
	For y'er a lang time deid.'

	Q: Why are dumb blonde jokes always one-liners?
	A: So men can get the punchline.

Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: behs@stein.u.washington.edu (Jon Martin)
Subject: Signed MH book....
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 20:36:10 GMT

*wild applause*
God I love this service. 
I GOT MINE!
*thlbtphlptblpthlptbltphlptlbptlhptlptlhtpbtltphlt*
And the world continues...

   ** Kojak **
From: G.M.Suddes@newcastle.ac.uk (Gareth Suddes)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Voice of Marvin.
Date: 18 Nov 92 13:03:07 GMT
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU

STUCS204@UK.AC.BHAM.IBM3090 writes:

>The voice of Marvin, everones favourite paranoid android, was supplied by Steph
>en Moore, a well known Shakespearean actor (at least in Shakespearean actor cir
>cles).

 He also appeared as Adrian Mole's dad in the two TV series of the books.
Gareth
________________________________________________________________________________
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From: br@Germany.EU.net (Bodo Rueskamp)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: MH in Germany
Date: 16 Nov 1992 09:51:46 GMT
Organization: EUnet-Backbone, Germany
NNTP-Posting-Host: walhalla.germany.eu.net

In article <1992Nov13.070855.25484@arbi.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> Onno.Meyer@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Onno Meyer) writes:
]Some time ago, I asked if anybody was able to buy MH in Germany.
]
]Yesterday my copy arrived.
]The bookshop had ordered the book in the US first, and then told
]me "not yet published". When I told them to try to order the book
]in the UK, it arrived within 10 days. I paid DM 47.

I paid DM 36,- (I ordered the book direct via telephone
in the UK and told them my VISA card number).

; Bodo

-- 
--
Bodo Rueskamp, DG3YGD, br@Germany.EU.net, "F Y CN RD THS Y MST B SNG NX" ..._._
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: ed@cwis.unomaha.edu (Edwardo DiVinci)
Subject: DON'T PANIC!
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 22:20:19 GMT


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From: ginsu@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Wes Simonds)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Douglas Adams Interview in East Lansing
Date: 20 Nov 92 04:56:51 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

Matthew Wiener writes:
>In the omnibus intro, he comments that the delays--back when he thought
>his screenplay would become a movie--inspired him to write SLATFALF.

Interesting.  In _Don't Panic_ Neil Gaiman comments that an advance of
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