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Ce quoi un 'Ford Prefect'? (What's a Ford Prefect?)
Whisky Started conversation Mar 24, 2005
Here's a bit of useless Trivia for you...
Whoever produced the French translation of the books was clearly worried that the French wouldn't get the link between Ford's surname and the 1950s car...
So in French he's now called 'Ford Escort'
Ce quoi un 'Ford Prefect'? (What's a Ford Prefect?)
James Casey Posted Mar 26, 2005
Well thank goodness they didn't rename him for the movie...
Ce quoi un 'Ford Prefect'? (What's a Ford Prefect?)
There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Mar 26, 2005
Douglas wrote (and presumably set) the Hitchikers Guide series in the mid 70s, which means that if Ford Prefect had been 'stuck on earth' for 15 years he would have been there for the whole of the sixties.
Given that Ford is such a party animal, where on earth (no pun intended 
) was he during the sixties, also given that he often *complained* about having been on the planet for so long?
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