Hitchhikers' Guide Books

[Robaato]

That very game is hosted online by the Good Ol' BBC.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game_nolan.shtml

(link for edition two - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game_andrew.shtml )

*ahem*

I seem to have beaten you to the punch, as it were. By more than two hours, no less! Must I assume that nobody ever reads my posts...?

 

[jimbob]

*ahem*

I seem to have beaten you to the punch, as it were. By more than two hours, no less! Must I assume that nobody ever reads my posts...?

Maybe people thought that your link was just some random formatting

 

[SomeGuy]

Maybe people thought that your link was just some random formatting

?? Who are you responding to?

 

[Robaato]

?? Who are you responding to?

drat. It seems that my SEP field generator is stuck on again...

 

[Lothian]

If anyone is interested in the game here is a link..











What ?

 

[UnrepentantSinner]

I prefered the radio series to the TV one.

I'm not sure how many radio episodes I remember hearing, but I can definatively aver that I didn't hear the whole series, while I did see the whole TV series to I guess I'm a bit biased because of that. Unlike, say Cosmos, I wasn't aware of what a gem PBS was providing us during the radio series. It was only about 5 years later, after I'd read the books, that I understood what I'd missed out on.

Not to be Ken Burns' pimp, but I had a similar situation 10 years later when I missed The Civil War during it's first airing, though I was aware of it, and fell in love with the series after finally enjoying it's magnificence.

 

[Wowbagger]

I saw it as a stage play in London back in the early 80's. Being sat in the front row I was rudely accused by the cast of being a telephone sanitiser.

I wish someone made a recording of all the stage versions. I would be very curious to see them. (Even if most of them sucked.)

 

[grunion]

...Please join me for a beer in the Damaged Ego pub.

Make it a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster and you're on.

 

[HawkeyeMD]

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is definitive.

Except, of course, the parts that are apocryphal. Or at least wildly inaccurate.

 

[BillyJoe]

None of you are going to believe this but...

I had never ever read, heard, or seen anything written by Douglas Adams until earlier this year when I picked up a copy of "Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy". I'd heard it referred to so often on this forum that I finally decided to read it.

 

[Robaato]

...And what did you think of it?

 

[BillyJoe]

I couldn't put it down.

 

[grunion]

None of you are going to believe this but...

I had never ever read, heard, or seen anything written by Douglas Adams until earlier this year when I picked up a copy of "Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy". I'd heard it referred to so often on this forum that I finally decided to read it.

Great, Billy Joe. Believe me, you will just LOVE the convenience and comfort of electricity and indoor plumbing when they make their way out to Woop Woop as well.

 

[JQH]

Except, of course, the parts that are apocryphal. Or at least wildly inaccurate.

But it is not wrong. Any discrepencies are the fault of reality for failing to be either beautiful or true.

 

[Mojo]

Well, it certainly can't be said to be "harmless".....

How about "mostly harmless"?

 

[Scott Haley]

When I worked for temporary service companies, I often didn't know what kind of work I would do in a day. One day I was told I'd move office furniture, and the employer asked us to clean used telephones. I like to think that I was a first class telephone sanitizer.

 

[BillyJoe]

Great, Billy Joe. Believe me, you will just LOVE the convenience and comfort of electricity and indoor plumbing when they make their way out to Woop Woop as well.

What a great idea: inside toilets!

 

[Mojo]

What a great idea: inside toilets!

Hmm. Sounds kind of unhygienic doing it inside the house...

 

[BillyJoe]

...but you could put it in a separate room with a window venting to the outside!

 

[Mojo]

What will they think of next?