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Re: A Sad Day for Hitchhiker Fans
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Tue, 15 May 2001 19:26:40 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
  Hi everybody,

  Well, it's a dark day for lovers of tongue-in-cheek fiction:

  http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/front/907860

  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?

  sadly,

  LFB

  XFUT-> .o-t.fun, though this really isn't all that fun.

Douglas has just slipped out for a long lunch break.  We'll see him again.

Douglas Adams, 1952-2001
Missing, Presumed Fed



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  Re: A Sad Day for Hitchhiker Fans
 
(...) 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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  A Sad Day for Hitchhiker Fans
 
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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