PSA: For the Douglas Adams Fans

Kermode still suffers from "Mark Lamarr Hair". And I like Lamarr.

ouch.

 

No, never heard of her.

Read of her, maybe.

 

We're all funny.

Aren't we, Matron?

 

Well, thnks for the heads up: I'd have missed it otherwise.

Despite my initial dismayed "what /have/ they done to the story? And
that's nowhere near the way Dirk was described in the book[1]" I
actually quite enjoyed it. Quirky and well acted as far as this critic
was concerned.

[1] Yes, yes, it's it's never how we mentally picture it when we read
the book first.















!! POTENTIAL SPOILER ALERT[2] !!!

[2] that's "'potential spoiler' alert", not "potential 'spoiler
alert"' though I guess the phrase is effectiveky associative.































I did guess the thing about the cats pretty quickly.

 

I think I'll dig it out for a read, shortly. So I can shout at the telly
when they bugger it up.

 

It's a lot less bovver to shout at the telly anyway. From 1st
principles, as 'twere

 

If you've never read it, the programme story only bears a passing
resemblance to the book.

 

Pip Luscher === Plus Cipher (was that on purpose?) Then again, Uric
Schlepp is rather good, or Pip Lurches, or Hip Scruple. Rich Supple
would make a good pseudonym.

 

Heh. No, unless my parents had a devious sense of humour.

 

Oh. So the difference between reading or not reading a book doesn't
change the degree of connectedness of the book with another medium?
How boringly un-quantum.

 

Will sir be requiring a child of four to help operate it?

 

No, but I'll have the chicken.

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That was my thought on it. An hour happily spent.

 

Well, there HAS... but it was Joanna Lumley. She found the Master sexy and
they went off together at the end. (The curse of fatal death comic relief
special)

--
| |What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack|
| |in the ground beneath a giant boulder, which you|
| |can't move, with no hope of rescue. |
| Andrew Halliwell BSc |Consider how lucky you are that life has been |
| in |good to you so far... |
| Computer Science | -The BOOK, Hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy.|

 

I'm sorry, he doesn't have a mobile.

 

Purple chis
plush price
such ripple

 

Bah! Curse the Master!

So that's why she never went off with me!

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Esra Sdrawkcab

Where the **** were you when Ogden needed you?

 

He probably had a stock of Polyfilla.

 

[Joanna Lumley]

<insert parrot joke>