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This is the Message Centre for The h2g2 Dev Team << 3 Froods And ??? Subject: Lovely! Posted Jun 15, 1999 by Peta This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 21 Maybe that's why he thought it was a bit tight! Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Lovely! Posted Jun 15, 1999 by Global Village Idiot This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 22 I'm sure he'd prefer something with far longer arms... (come on, somebody!) Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Lovely! Posted Jun 15, 1999 by Peta This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 23 The coat had long arms too. They tie in a bow at the back. Subject: Lovely! Posted Jun 15, 1999 by Jim Lynn This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 24 ...but which was probably quite incapable of drinking the coffee. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Lovely! Posted Jun 15, 1999 by Ant This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 25 Unlike a certain Kate, we know. Who can drink gallons of the stuff. Subject: Lovely! Posted Jun 16, 1999 by Peta This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 26 Coffee? Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Lovely! Posted Jun 16, 1999 by Global Village Idiot This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 27 Thanks, Jim. Peta - it's a radio show quote (might be in the books - they're now in a crate, so I can't check). In the guide entry for the Hagunnenon (the super-evolutionary beings) it talks about how if, over lunch, they can't quite reach the coffee spoon, they're liable to evolve into something with far longer arms - but which is probably quite incapable of drinking the coffee. Trillian then unwittingly echoes the comment referring to what they believe is the Admiral's chair, but which soon proves to be the Admiral. Maybe you had to be there Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Lovely! Posted Jun 16, 1999 by Jim Lynn This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 28 I think the hagunemnon only appeared in the radio series. They were replaced by the Disaster Area stunt-ship in the book, record and TV series. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Lovely! Posted Jun 16, 1999 by Global Village Idiot This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 29 Certainly in terms of that part of the plot (the ship in which they leave Milliways) that was the case. I couldn't remember if the idea of spontaneous evolution had cropped up again - but I suppose this particular joke only worked in the context. Anyway, I've learned from the Floor42 crew that my knowledge is less than encyclopaedic! My only defence against some of them is that I read it all so much longer ago .... Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Lovely! Posted Jun 16, 1999 by Spartus This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 30 You could always read them again, you know. Yes, I know, moving and marriage and crates stand in the way at the moment, but there's always later. Yes, I like later. I'm guessing by your statement that you attempted Kate's impossibly hard trivia quiz, right? I tried to re-take it the other night to improve my score and quit about a third of the way through, thoroughly disheartened. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Lovely! Posted Jun 16, 1999 by Global Village Idiot This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 31 Yeah, I tried it. And when I figured I'd only get 48 even if every answer I'd produced was correct, I decided not to submit. I listen to the radio series regularly - one disc or another pretty much lives in the car CD player - and I read the first three books a few times because I was at school when they came out. Since then I've been working and told myself I was too busy to read any book more than once - and I guess I lost the obsessiveness teenage boys have for anything which can sublimate all that sexual energy bursting out of them. I have to admit my Dirk Gently scores were frankly pathetic - maybe I could recall the details under hypnotism, but I never absorbed it the way I did the Guide. Now if there had been questions about Last Chance To See, I'd have stood a chance... Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Lovely! Posted Jun 17, 1999 by Peta This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 32 I just bought tapes of the radio series to listen to when I go on holiday - driving down to the Pyrenees. Will have completed refresher course by end of August. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Lovely! Posted Jun 17, 1999 by beeline This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 33 I've just started re-reading Hitch-hikers for the first time in about 12 years. It's just so nice to be back - like listening to a great 80s song that makes you feel young and carefree again! Has anyone else got one of these little Collectors' Editions which are about 12cm x 22cm, hardback and all with printed autographs in them? They're lovely and pocket-sized. Mine has a real autograph in it too! Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Lovely! Posted Jun 17, 1999 by Peta This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 34 whose printed autographs are in it - apart from the obvious? And where /when did you get the real one? Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Lovely! Posted Jun 17, 1999 by beeline This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 35 Sorry, I meant that all the books had autographs (of DNA) printed in them. I got mine at a debate he contributed to a year or two ago in one of London University's lecture halls. Can't remember much about the talk, though I seem to recall it was about extraterrestrial intelligence or evolution of technology or something exotic along those lines. I even had a brief chat with him about our old school and a couple of the masters there. Bloody nice chap. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Lovely! Posted Jun 17, 1999 by Spartus This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 36 Peta--I saw a few of them at the Borders on Oxford Street last week, if I know what bee's talking about. I would've bought them, but I was already buying 2 omnibus copies. Stop looking at me like that. One was a gift. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Lovely! Posted Jun 17, 1999 by Peta This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 37 Subject: Lovely! Posted Jul 4, 1999 by RiffRaff This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 38 Someone published the radio series on CD??? Where can I get it? Where?? AAaaiiiiiieeeeee!!! Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Lovely! Posted Jul 4, 1999 by Ant This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 39 Now this depends in which country you live in... Amazon.co.uk stock it, although I don't know whether they've got any at the moment but they will ship internationally I think. But you can buy it from the BBC online shop too if you have a UK address. 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