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The babelfish made me do it
six7s Started conversation Apr 7, 2002
I read the 1st three (and then the fourth) books in the trilogy as and when they came out, since then at roughly 5 year intervals, I have re-read them. Once, back in the days before programmable anything, I took my radio/cassette player to work every Tuesday and Thursday so that I could tape the series whilst I was working.
Then the Meaning of Liff came out, and within a matter of weeks I was transformed into something akin to an evangelist! I bullied every likely fan into buying a copy and it worked! To this day, there is a mad gang of us (predominantly ex pat poms as we are called here) who litter our already messy dialogues with Liffisms.
But since Dirk Gently, nothing much in the way of DNA... until last week, when I was using alta vista's babelfish to translate some French into English, and when I was done, I saw a link to "where it all began" or something similar, so of course, I clicked!
The weird thing is that even thoough I found out about babelfish about 3 years ago, I never even thought that there would be a site like this... earth is cool, but not that cool??? How glad I am to be wrong! hootoo is Sssooooo hoopy! 
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