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

The Hitchhiker's series were the first books I ever read voluntarily! I'd like to say how much I always enjoyed reading and re-reading them and how they gave me the inspiration to eventually write a novel myself. Douglas Adams' death is a sad loss to literature and comedy - the world will seem a much less fun place without him in it.

I agree with your point... it's wonderufl to have DA's language in our vocabulary. I truly believe dolphins really do say "Thanks for the fish."

I'd like to make a pilgrimage... do you have any idea where DA is resting? Was he cremated and ashes scattered to the winds outside LA?

thanks [email protected] please write if you have ideas

He was cremated and the ashes were scattered in California as far as I'm aware. If you go to
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or sites connected it'll tell you more. Includes obituaries and things.

Das Mouldy Sandwich

Unfortunately the House Rules [http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/HouseRules] mean that URLs cannot be posted in forum's so the moderators have removed the one you put in above.

If you want to give the URL I'd suggest you either put it in your personal space. Alternatively many people create separate 'links' pages where they list URLs and then put a link from the forum to the 'links' page. You may want to do that instead.

Z

I actually got the web page wrong anyway. Links can be found on douglas' page on h2g2.

Maybe as DA is now in the afterlife he can prove the theory "nothing is impossible".
However, if this were true you couldn't find anything impossible. In which case it's impossible to find the impossible so you must have found something impossible after all ! So it's impossible that nothing is impossible.

I'm sure this proves nothing is impossible, even clarity.

nothing must be possible because the meaning of life is 42 so if nothing and 1 and 2 and everything up to 42 were impossible then the meaning of life would be impossible and we can't have that can we?

Don't know if you've seen it but there was a documentry here in blighty on the man himself... what a frood. I was just wondering if anyone knows what happened to Mark wing Davy? the bloke who played Zaphod in the radio and tv series?

I saw the TV doc.

Is it true that the "42" problem works in base 13?
I do not have the required number of didgets to work it out.

Does it matter? And even if it does matter, does it matter that it matters? I
If maths is a problem head down your local supermarket plenty of extra fingers there... fish ones that is. Sorry... poor joke.

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Actually, I wouldn't mind knowing what happened to all the cast, especially David Dixon ! Wow, Ford Prefect was just perfect.
Titch

I was playing aroung with the Drake Equation for determining the probability for extra terrestrial life. I came up with 42.
I think Mr Adams would have been pleased to hear that.
Anyone seen Stephen Hawkins lately ? If you do tell him there is a Bar-B-Que at the house this sunday.

RazorbackX

Repeats of 'Hitchhikers' just finished here - TV version just can't cut it like the radio version though (which pales into insignificance compared to the books).

I jumped out of my 1st floor window to test the "you can fly by falling and forget the fact that you're falling" theory but I guess I was more concerned about hitting the car below. Still - it was worth a try.

Goodbye Douglas - thanks for all the intuition.
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Mmm... I agree that the TV show pales in insignificance to the radio series, and if you think about it, so do the books. They're good, but hardly as ground breaking as the radio series, which is still renowned as the best radio comedy series ever.