I think this is kind of not a Movies and Music topic, but theres nowhere else to put it so i suppose it can be here. Is anyone else (and i know at least one anyone else is) familiar with the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams? I recently read The Salmon of Doubt and oh, how i wish Adams weren't dead. I've found that the trilogy makes interesting conversation for those times when, if your life were a movie, the background music would be crickets chirping to emphasize the awkward silence. So whats your fav. part of the no longer increasingly but still inaccurately named Hitchhiker's trilogy?

Oh wow it's been a long time since I've read those. Long enough for me to forget all the names of the characters. My favorite part, however, is where whatever the main character's name (Arthur something maybe? I dunno.) tells the ship's computer that he wants tea, and it doesn't know how. So then he tells it ALLLLL about tea, and it sits down to try to make some. But then the ship gets attacked, and the computer doesn't do anything because it's still thinking about tea lol :rofl:

Close second: picking Scrabble tiles out of a bag to determine the Ultimate Question.

Hm... this needs a new forum. I am creating a Books forum just for stuff like this.

Moving to Books.

Ahh....good memories of HGTG. I would have to say that my favorite part is listen to the robot complain about the satisified doors on the ship. :P Although when Arthur and that other guy what was his name (?) are first on the ship and they are turning into all different things.

Of course knowing the interesting thoughts of a pot of flowers is always funny.

I like it when Arthur and Ford find out that the human race originated from phone sanitizers, hairstylists, and all the other useless people. Classic stuff! Or when they ride the Perfectly Normal Beasts and end up visiting "The King." HTTG is definitely my favorite series of books.

HGTG is reason enough to use Trillian instead of MSN. DIE MSN DIE!

http://www.trillian.cc

uh, I love trillian, but may I ask what that has to do with HGTG?

Trillian comes from Tricia McMillian, a character in Adams' books. Tsk tsk tsk... you're not a true HGTG fan :P.

uhhh, actually... I've never read the whole thing...

Haven't read the whole thing?!!! Isn't that punishable by death?

-gasp- not read the whole thing?! ah man...you better get on that.

seth- i thought you were an advocate of MSN. or maybe i just remember you saying its better than AIM. -is confused-
--finds comfort in that, as it is normal state of being--

I like the thought that "lab mice" are really doing tests on us, instead of the other way around. its kind of a humbling thought to think that we are only the 3rd most intelligent life forms on the earth. or were the 3rd...i guess that really depends on what dimension we're in.

Yea, I guess it is Ryan.
I'll have to go find a copy of the whole thing soon.

and uh, tell me why you light that mouse-experement-on-us thing??

don't you think its nicely ironic that when we think we're completely in control of everything we really have no grasp of the true reality of the situation? i dunno. i just like things like that...that make you think twice about our belief in the superiority of humans. or maybe i just like mice. :D

I had a quiz bowl tourney yesterday (the 22nd) and one of the bonuses was an HGTG bonus! I cracked up and answered all four... everyone looked at me as if I were weird. :blink:

Nah, they just all missed out on a good book! :D

Well Seth, you are weird, but it has nothing to do with having read HGTG.

Wow. I hate this game. I quit life. :/

ah ah ah...no fair quitting life. its absolutely unacceptable. if you could quit life when it sucks, what point would there be in starting? plus you don't get second chances at life, at least i don't think you do.... and who would run the forum? or be grand mao at MSA reunions? not to mention you wouldn't have anymore birthdays. :fun: as long as there is another birthday in sight there is hope for life. whats better than having a mass of people celebrate the fact that you were born? exactly. nothing. well, ok maybe discovering the true art of sandwich making...but aside from that, nothing. so you hang on to life or i'll have to come down there and tie you to it. :P

completely unrelated: i begin to see why arthur had such a hard time with Thursdays. i don't anticipate academically living through tomorrow.

Ok. after reading some of the things people have said about the Hitchiker books I went to my wonderful local library and decided to see what all the fuss was about. That was last week. Now i'm in the middle of Life, the Universe and Everything. Thanks for a good book/s I've never heard of! :D

My fav. part is when above that planet that makes planets an attack missle is turned into a sperm whale! It's thoughts are halirious!

Does anyone know how to get or already have the radio recordings from the BBC?

LOL.

QUOTE (Whale)

That's a big flat thing. It needs a big name like ow... ownn... ownd... ground! Yeah, that's it, ground! I wonder if it will be my frie...

*quote abruptly cut off as whale becomes VERY good friends with the ground.

Please don't get me started on this subject.... I really do swear by HGTG. Honestly. And the books just keep on getting better and better. I think one of my favorite quotes is from Marvin: "That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting." What a guy... he sure does know how to charm the ladies, eh?
By the way, if you like the HGTG series, Adams' Dirk Gently books are fabulous too. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul.