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Hi everybody, Well, it's a dark day for lovers of tongue-in-cheek fiction: (URL) Douglas Adams, humorist, dead at 49. :( I may just have to build some Vogon-themed .space creations in his memory. Anyone else have my fond memories of Hitchhiker, or (...) (23 years ago, 12-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.space) !!
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(...) ::weeping:: -- Richard (23 years ago, 12-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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The official site is down, but see the Tributes link: (URL) goes one hoopy frood." Thanks for the memories... Matt (...) (23 years ago, 12-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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I'll drink a pan-galactic gargleblaster in his memory. Bummer. The original radio play is the best version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Adams was fond of reworking it and representing it endlessly, but the story got invariably weaker as (...) (23 years ago, 12-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I think he would tell us all "Don't Panic" :^( ~Grand Admiral Muffin Head (23 years ago, 12-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) The Hitchhiker, Star Wars and Lego make me froody since I was no taller than my towel. So long Douglas Adams, and thanks for all the fish. If you´re weird, count me in, dö (23 years ago, 12-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) the ultimate *question*... (...) You're not alone... -Shiri (23 years ago, 13-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Hmm, my yellow bricks aren't used up in any other creations right now...but first I should finish the space plane (maybe the steward(esse)s will pass out lemon scented moist towelettes.) --Bram Bram Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu (URL) (23 years ago, 13-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) The news makes me feel as sad as Marvin. Rich -- Have Fun! C-Ya! Legoman34 ***** Legoman34 (Richard W. Schamus)... (My views do not necessarily express the views of my employer...) BRICKFEST 2001 IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER... START MAKING PLANS (...) (23 years ago, 13-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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I met him once - what a nice (and exceedingly tall) guy It came as quite a shock from left field. He will be missed. I heard him once say that he wanted his epitath to read - "Mostly Harmless" (...) (23 years ago, 14-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) "No, wait! What's this switch?" "What switch?" "There's no switch; I was only joking." -Tom McD. when replying, "So long, and thanks for all the fish!" :'-) (23 years ago, 14-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) No.........! I really wanted there to be a 6th book in the Hitchiker's Guide 'Trilogy'. I wish it were April 1st and this was some sick joke. He will be missed. Not even Marvin could be any sadder. (...) No, it isn't, but I don't think (...) (23 years ago, 14-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Agreed. The last two books carried the tagline "Volume *N* In The Increasingly Inaccurately Named Hitchiker's Trilogy!" I suppose they'll have to change that to "... In The No Longer Increasingly But Now Instead Permanently And (...) (23 years ago, 14-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Well Douglas, I'll be seeing you at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Save me a table with a view and order yourself a pan-galactic gargleblaster. Hopefully you will catch a glimpse of Hotblack! So long, and thanks for all the fish! (...) (23 years ago, 14-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I suspect that some of you will sincerely enjoy his "other" series, Dirk Gently's Hollistic Detective Agency. Chances are that Adams last thought was, "How odd..." -Aaron- (23 years ago, 14-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I'm shocked! I feel like that poor plummeting petunia suddenly turned into a whale, and then... well, you know the rest. :( Condolences to the family... Tanya (23 years ago, 15-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) When I saw the news it was like waking up next to a Vogon: unexpected in a horrible way. I'm glad I came up with the crew of the "Heart of Gold" a few weeks ago, I don't think I'd have the heart for it now. --DaveL (23 years ago, 15-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) What can I say? Maybe it is appropriate to say "so long, and thanks for all the fun..." Why the good guys always go early? ..:-( Selçuk (23 years ago, 15-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Douglas has just slipped out for a long lunch break. We'll see him again. Douglas Adams, 1952-2001 Missing, Presumed Fed (23 years ago, 15-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) "Oh no..., not again." Thanx for humouring us, D.A. Cheers :| KDJ ___...___ Mouse #203, Windsor, Ontario, Canada (23 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) That'd be the problem, see. Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. That being said, I suspect he's really just taking a year off dead for tax reasons. -JDF (23 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Dang. My friend and I are working on a LEGO animation using the radio show and we were going to show it to him. I wonder if the Hitchiker movie will still be in the works. Ian (23 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Appearing in today's Los Angeles Times on page 1 of the Sothern California Living section, is a tribute to Douglas Adams: (URL) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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