h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

There is little more I imagine I can say except add my own story of how Douglas Adams has effected my life.

I often quote him where ever I can. My home computer's are named "babelfish" and "beeblebrox" etc... Ever since first reading the original book in the five part Trilogy many years ago I see life from a different point of view. BUT...

...it isn't just that which makes the Guide so special. It's that it gives a topic of conversation between people who otherwise would be speechless. It brightens one's day when a over the PA you hear someone paging Arthur Dent - knowing fully the call is for you... Until you find out that it is some other person make making a prank call to your work collegue. It is when you answer "42" to every question asked in court, and the jury laugh in response, that you realise how much effect Douglas Adams has had to us all.

So long, and thank you for everything.

André

i also still laugh after all these years about the little one liners that were so much part of douglas adams' work. i never had the privilage to meet him but i always felt that digital watches were naff!!! perhaps he is only at the restaurant at the end of the universe and waiting for us all to join him - if i knew for certain he was there i will be happy to join him knowing somebody else refuses to take this world too seriously

did you know that there's a band in Norway called 'Babelfish'?

meganne
ps. where are you from, Andrè?