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Re: Frog
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Thu, 11 Feb 1999 18:28:37 GMT
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> Well... I'm not sure if this is a spoiler or not. I think not, because
> I think it's book 3... yes, it is.
> It's the answer the caveman gets when playing with the improvised
> scrabble stones, but of course this is 2 million years before the
> Earth gets demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass. Which
> coincidentally is 5 minutes before, according to Deep Thought's
> calculations, the question should have been calculated. Of course, the
> crashing of the Golgafrincham's ship interfered with this scheme. You
> can't very well expect a computer that's been bombarded by a
> close-range ERRB Nuke to come up with the right answer, much less one
> bombarded with telephone sanitizers. :)
Oh, yeah..I get it. When I saw the word "preliminary", the first thing that came
to my mind was "Is there a secondary?", not that it was given 8 million years
ago (so it is preliminary)..or..is being given 8 m years ago?..:-).
> > and another one something like "Holy Investigation Office" (3) (just quick
> > and dirty translation from Turkish Name).
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> Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, most likely.
Oh yes, just this but translated as "Kutsal Dedektiflik Bürosu" which means
"Holy Investigation Agency". I just seacrhed for the holistic, and saw the
stupidity of translator. (there isn't any word corresponding to holictic in
Turkish, though)
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> Okay, Are you ready? I'll give you the bibliography AFAIKI.
>
> Hitch Hiker's books:
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> 1. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Also known as The
> Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy, in, I think the American edition)
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> 2. The Restaurant At The End Of the Universe
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> 3. Life, The Universe and Everything
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> 4. So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish
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> 5. Mostly Harmless
Have all them, Turkish translations of course.
> The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
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> With Mark Carwardine:
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> Last Chance to See....
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> Don't have the faintest idea what that's about.
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> With John Loyd:
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> The Meaning of Liff
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> The Deeper meaning of Liff
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> These are books, in which meanings are assigned to weird place names
> for things that should have a word, but haven't. Do you know that
> feeling, when you walk into the kitchen, and you think: "why did I
> come in here again?" - that's: "Woking". I have personally never been
> able to find either in a book-store, tho, and I doubt you'll hjave
> more luck :-(
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> Oh, and I have a delightful Biography by Neil Gaiman:
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> Don't Panic: Douglas Adams & The HHGttG. (well, they spelled it out
> full, but I'm getting tired from typing :)
Hmm, I'll search for those.
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> That's my list, of course that's out of date at least by Starship
> Titanic.
I've just learned (from amazon.com) that it is not by Douglas Adams, but written
by Tery Jones, and based on a game designed by Douuglas Adams. Some people like
it (according to reviews - including me) but much more them siad nothing good
about it. Maybe I would be on the same camp, if I read hhgttg series first, I
don't know. Just to say in brief, I like the book.
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> > (..) While performing spell check, dictionary suggested replacing "Starship"
> > with "Steamship"..I thought MS was innovative..:-)
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> "There's Klingons on the starboard side, starboard side, of the
> steamship Enterprise."
>
> Do you have a sound card on your computer?
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> Jasper
Of course I have. Actually computer components are one of the very very few
things that are not produced in Turkey, but can be obtained for better prices. I
brought this adventage with my "computer building" ability and nice friends from
a computer dealer (from which I can get parts for distributer prices, and get
rid of my replaced ones for prices near to brand new parts) so every time I
could have nearly competing computer systems, except maybe CPU power (PII CPU's
and boards when bundled are somehow out of my budget now, so I'll stand for a
K6II in a very near future. I heard you were talking about those hhgttg sound
files, but isn't 190 mb somehow a big quantity for a 33.6 dial-up user?..:-)
(yes I have all of the fibble snork, lugnet/paýuse, kl.net, technica reference,
Huw Millington's site, Hoerst Lehner's Catalog Site on my hdd/CDs, but they were
all lego, ok?..:-)
Selçuk
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| (...) Yeah... I do it the parts way too. Someday soon, I'm gonna get me a celeron 300a on a Abit BH6 board and run slightly faster than a P-II 450 :) - I'm saving up for it. (...) Yeah.... It's 140 meg, tho. (...) I'll burn you a CD and send it to (...) (26 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| Jasper Janssen wrote in message <36ccaaf5.56473925@l...et.com>... (...) Not that easy, takes 10M years to come by...:-) Selçuk (1) Preliminary answer?..now I'm at the middle of fourth book, and probably will start fifth one this weekend...:-) nice (...) (26 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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