http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39717 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sun, 19 May 2013 18:32:35 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39717&page=2#post-114271 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:39:32 +0000 Son of Barnabas 114271@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>And who could forget the poetry of Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz:</p> <p>”O freddled gruntbuggly thy micturations are to me<br /> As plured gabbleblochits on a lurgid bee.<br /> Groop, I implore thee my foonting turlingdromes.<br /> And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles,<br /> Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurlecruncheon, see if I don’t.”</p> <p>(Reminds me of a certain NB contributor) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39717&page=2#post-113994 Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:48:19 +0000 Quaz 113994@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The other year I bought the BBC H2G2 on DVD and showed it to the kids one episode at a time. My son loved it, daughter less so but she's old enough to read the book now and I think she would like it more, she loves words. I'll let you know how it pans out. Weird to think I was her age when I first read it. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39717&page=2#post-113940 Sat, 17 Mar 2012 00:20:57 +0000 FlashArry 113940@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>&lt;&lt; ahem - embarrassed shuffle and stares at feet &gt;&gt;</p> <p>Medici - I was probably as insufferable with my mates when I first jumped on the bandwagon - I could quote huge chunks of the radio show from memory ( voices and all ) and it must have grated like hell. Apologies to all and sundry, thank heavens I finally got distracted by sex.</p> <p>Now I'm distracted by NewsBiscuit. Go figure.</p> <p>- Nice to hear the book makes a good pillow for the YM though </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39717#post-113939 Sat, 17 Mar 2012 00:08:00 +0000 The All New Jeni B 113939@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>medici, I like his style...<br /> 'Arry, I passed on my copy of the full HHGttG including Mostly Harmless to the YM when he was 10. He's read most of the first book, found it really funny, then went off it. Occasionally, I'll find him in bed, fast asleep, face down in it, which I'm not sure is terribly complimentary.<br /> He's the 3rd generation of the family to have the book passed on. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39717#post-113938 Fri, 16 Mar 2012 23:57:11 +0000 medici2471 113938@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>A friend at Uni was a big fan, he kept banging on about HHGttG, so much so that I refused to read a word of it...to this day. Until I was 42, and he emailed me a smile. Twat... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39717#post-113936 Fri, 16 Mar 2012 23:48:31 +0000 FlashArry 113936@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>something about an infinite number of Biscuits and the perfect FP they've cooked up ?</p> <p>The nice thing is that the film - as awful as it was - has prompted our youngest flashette to go read the books - and so it rolls on. Inter-generational Adams quote-offs ! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39717#post-113932 Fri, 16 Mar 2012 23:33:42 +0000 The All New Jeni B 113932@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I think it's interesting that nearly everyone here has a love of HHGttG.<br /> Wonder what the probability drive would make of that... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39717#post-113921 Fri, 16 Mar 2012 22:56:13 +0000 FlashArry 113921@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Haven't read too much of the Dirk Gently stuff, but liking the casting of Stephen Mangan and Darren Boyd though. Weren't they both in <em>Green Wing</em> ?</p> <p>I think Arthur, Ford, Zaphod and the Book all made the transition from radio to TV - I was always a little miffed that the original Trillian didn't.</p> <p>{ still working on the perfect pan-galactic-gargle-blaster though } </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39717#post-113896 Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:57:25 +0000 The All New Jeni B 113896@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>"Oh no! Not Again." </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39717#post-113862 Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:19:59 +0000 Not Amused 113862@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The story of the angry galactic races who combine to send a large force to earth to destroy it but, due a miscalculation in dimensions, get swallowed by a dog. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39717#post-113854 Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:51:30 +0000 Son of Barnabas 113854@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Favourite quote? </p> <p>"42" </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39717#post-112989 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:00:48 +0000 Hoops McCann 112989@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The one great line I remember is something like<br /> "The ships hung in the air the same way a brick doesn't"<br /> Beyond genius! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39717#post-112825 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:39:45 +0000 Quaz 112825@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Sorry, just realise I could still edit this into above. Ignore this, nothing to see here. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39717#post-112824 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:26:53 +0000 Quaz 112824@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Once spotted DA in Islington, but was too in awe to approach him (I was sure he had had enough of that fan "we are not worthy" stuff). Best quote? Pretty much all of it, hard to pick. "What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "You ask a glass of water." must be up there. "Brain the size of a planet" may be his most quoteable catch phrase. I too have been disapointed by what has been done with his stuff (H2G2 movie and Dirk), but then you have to think that he never treated his books as being set in stone. The books, radio, TV and play all change for the medium, and he was happy with that. He'd just adapt it to whatever the medium was and play with that. If anything, he basically invented the concept of Wikipedia and the iPad, melding it with the then emerging internet. All 10 to 30 years ahead. He was mately with Apple, so I don't think the iPad was a coincendce, all geeks from the 70s/80s wanted to build a HHG. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39717#post-112801 Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:37:24 +0000 Nails UK 112801@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Ah yes...I had forgotten about the three states of Schroedinger's Cat according to Gently - Alive, Dead or Bloody Annoyed </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39717#post-112799 Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:28:03 +0000 The All New Jeni B 112799@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Generally a cat, if memory serves. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39717#post-112798 Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:01:42 +0000 Nails UK 112798@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I'm a bit peeved about the Dirk Gently "adaptations" that BBC Four are doing - they seem to be cutting various bits out of the books and then bolting them together in a different way. Imagine doing that with Shakespeare...</p> <p>I'm taken by Dirk's navigational theory about following something that looks as though it knows where it's going, and ultimately "ending up where he needs to be". </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39717#post-112743 Sat, 10 Mar 2012 20:23:34 +0000 The All New Jeni B 112743@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>JFF, I think that he may have had a point.</p> <p>BJ, the film was rank. Went with my friend who was a fellow HHGttG obsessive, and we walked out part-way through. Douglas would have been turning in his grave. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39717#post-112741 Sat, 10 Mar 2012 18:09:26 +0000 dvo4fun 112741@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Jeni - I think you're right there. Who was the voice in the TV version? I may google it later .................... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39717#post-112732 Sat, 10 Mar 2012 15:28:24 +0000 John Ffitch-Rucker 112732@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.<br /> There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”<br /> Absolute genius. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39717#post-112726 Sat, 10 Mar 2012 14:20:45 +0000 beau-jolly 112726@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>However the film sort of missed the mark. I watched it a bit and got increasingly pissed off as they changed the storyline. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39717#post-112725 Sat, 10 Mar 2012 13:56:20 +0000 The All New Jeni B 112725@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I had such a crush on the character of Ford Prefect when I first saw the TV series as a kid.<br /> Now, I just think he's a shallow sleaze.<br /> Yes, wasn't he the only voice from the radio show to go on to do the TV series? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39717#post-112724 Sat, 10 Mar 2012 13:50:13 +0000 dvo4fun 112724@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Genius. Discovered by accident on late night R4, when first broadcast I think, thought it was one of the funniest things I'd ever heard. Yep - I think enough time has passed for a further reading.</p> <p>Loved Peter Jones as the book; perfect casting. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39717#post-112721 Sat, 10 Mar 2012 13:37:42 +0000 The All New Jeni B 112721@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Loads, Slartibartfast's descriptions of his "lovely, frondy, fjords."<br /> The cow at the Restaurant at the end of the universes's description of his tenderest bits...</p> <p>Actually, I'm off to start reading it all again. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39717#post-112717 Sat, 10 Mar 2012 11:34:47 +0000 beau-jolly 112717@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Favorite lines?</p> <p>Come along or you will be late<br /> Late for what?<br /> Late, as in the late Dent, Arthur Dent. It was a threat. I'm not very good at them but I am told they can be very effective. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39717#post-112713 Sat, 10 Mar 2012 11:19:38 +0000 The All New Jeni B 112713@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I spoke to a guy who had known him quite well in Santa Barbara.<br /> He was apparently well liked in the community, but very much kept himself to himself.</p> <p>I make no secret of the fact that I think the guy was a genius, as it says in the article, it was the fact that he could twist the common-place and show the profundity of it.</p> <p>Plus the way in which he came up with the idea of HH has always amused me. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39717#post-112711 Sat, 10 Mar 2012 11:06:15 +0000 beau-jolly 112711@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>His brother used to have a shop opposite mine but now fixes computers. I often see him around town being self-important. Bit of a witless cock really. So different to how I imagine his brother to have been. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39717#post-112709 Sat, 10 Mar 2012 10:45:54 +0000 Scroat 112709@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>He was born the same day as me. I'll raise a glass tomorrow </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39717#post-112679 Fri, 09 Mar 2012 20:14:35 +0000 The All New Jeni B 112679@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Sadly I never met him. I have, however, sat on the private beach attached to his former home in Santa Barbara, watching the dolphins. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39717#post-112672 Fri, 09 Mar 2012 19:45:41 +0000 John Ffitch-Rucker 112672@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Jeni’s met everyone. It goes without saying. </p>