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Re: A Sad Day for Hitchhiker Fans
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Mon, 14 May 2001 21:08:16 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> Hi everybody,
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> Well, it's a dark day for lovers of tongue-in-cheek fiction:
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> http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/front/907860
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> 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 am I
> just a weird bird?
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> sadly,
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> LFB
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> XFUT-> .o-t.fun, though this really isn't all that fun.
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
Eterno-Statically Innacurately Named Hitchiker's Trilogy!"
(Sigh) The cool always die young. On the upside, though, I am sure that as we
speak God is apologizing to him for the inconvenience.
I think his epitaph should be that most immortal of his lines:
"Go stick your head in a pig" (TM, Sirius Cybernetics Corp.)
Eugene Ipavec
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