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Words Douglas Adams made up...

Douglas Adams was truley a genius, and I still miss him. I'm anxiously looking forward to the movie and hoping against hope that it doesn't suck. Judging from the website and all the interviews and articles I've read, it seems like it just might be good. Let's hope.

Incidently, I recently finished a very good biography of Douglas Adams. Recommended reading for anyone who loved Douglas and his work.
 
Technically, Adams didn't make those words up :p. But in the spirit of the thread, I'd like to offer some of my favourites:

Penistone n
Husband

Coed-y-paen n
Wife

Much Marcle v
The activity of being penistone and coed-y-pain;e.g. "There'll be much marcling now them two are penistone and coed-y-pain!".

Casnewydd n
The state of discovering that, on having safely reached one's destination, one's luggage has been sent to the other side of the world.

Abergavenny n
The condition of being without partic. financially related; e.g. "Can you lend me some money?" "Sorry - abergavenny!".

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He didn't make them up. They're all actual place names. For instance, there's CHICAGO (n.), the foul-smelling gust of wind before the subway arrives. My favorite is PELUTHO (n.): A South American ball game. The balls are whacked against a brick wall with a stout wooden bat until the prisoner confesses.
 
ABOYNE (vb.) To beat an expert at a game of skill by playing so appallingly that none of his clever tactics or strategies are of any use to him.
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I've used that one twice already. (Risk game...ugh...that's not supposed to work, goddamit!)
 
Just a friendly reminder to everyone to pick up a copy of "The Salmon of Doubt" if you haven't already. There are some GREAT essays in it.
 
chrisberez said:
Douglas Adams was truley a genius, and I still miss him. I'm anxiously looking forward to the movie and hoping against hope that it doesn't suck. Judging from the website and all the interviews and articles I've read, it seems like it just might be good. Let's hope.

Incidently, I recently finished a very good biography of Douglas Adams. Recommended reading for anyone who loved Douglas and his work.
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I've just ordered it from Amazon along with 'Salmon of Doubt'.
Adams died in 2001 at the age of 49 (I think). Conclusive proof, in my mind, that there is no god!;)
 
Oleron said:


I've just ordered it from Amazon along with 'Salmon of Doubt'.
Adams died in 2001 at the age of 49 (I think). Conclusive proof, in my mind, that there is no god!;)
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Why? It has been said that god makes the good ones die young so he can have them with him a little earlier.
 
phildonnia said:
This must be the abridged version; I could not find "FROOD".
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That's cause frood is a word DNA actually made up, while this list (blatant copyright infringement by the way, buy your own books you bastards ;)) consists of actual place names which Douglas Adams together with John Lloyd (technically :D) made up meanings for. Or more precisely the purpose of The meaning of Liff and its expanded and illustrated descendant The deeper meaning of Liff is to apply words that are uselessly hanging about on signposts and such to concepts that everyone knows that just haven't got any words for them.

I find Boinka to be an excellent term. Fortunately only used it a couple of times.
 
Salmon of Doubt has an intro from Richard Dawkins of Oxford and TAMIII fame. Adams also has a great essay in their about why he thinks it is important to be a militant atheist and not just hedge your bets by being an agnostic.

DNA, like Randi, became a role model for me during my impressionable years of middle school and continues to have an influence everyday.

I heard that Hugh Grant declined the role of Arthur Dent for the film but we will get Mos Def as Ford Prefect.

Share and Enjoy - Aaron
 
bjornart said:

[...]Or more precisely the purpose of The meaning of Liff and its expanded and illustrated descendant The deeper meaning of Liff is to apply words that are uselessly hanging about on signposts and such to concepts that everyone knows that just haven't got any words for them.
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Like heddlu, which is a strategy for cleansing your brain of crap, and not another word for police, as some Welsh speakers might claim...
 
Chaos said:


Why? It has been said that god makes the good ones die young so he can have them with him a little earlier.
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Err... God is a p*d*ph***?
 
It's probably been 20 years since I read Hitchhiker's and I still occasionally refer to really bad situations as "jujuflop*." As in, "Man, last night my car broke down in the driving rain and there was a machete-weilding killer chasing me through the leechy water. Believe me, that was one jujuflop situation."


*or is it "joojooflop"? I don't remember.
 
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