The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[Edwardoka]

... was first broadcast on Radio 4 on March 8th, 1978. Making today officially H2G2's 42nd birthday.

As the UK is currently undergoing covid-19 hysteria and panic buying, it makes me think that the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything (to which the answer is "42") is "How many years after this is broadcast will 'Don't Panic!' written in large, friendly lettering, be both incredibly necessary and almost entirely unheeded?"

 

[Specialeyes]

I suspect that Covid-19 was first contracted from an unexpectedly dirty telephone.

I remember listening to that first broadcast, on the transistor radio I'd received the previous Christmas. It blew my ten-year-old mind.

And thank you for stating that 42 is The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything and not 'the meaning of life' as folks assert with annoying regularity!

 

[winjim]

And thank you for stating that 42 is The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything and not 'the meaning of life' as folks assert with annoying regularity!

Exactly. That would make no sense.

 

[Cycleops]

I suspect that Covid-19 was first contracted from an unexpectedly dirty telephone.

Don't tell me the Chinese have been eating those too,!?

 

[Edwardoka]

I suspect that Covid-19 was first contracted from an unexpectedly dirty telephone.

That link never even occurred to me

 

[Poacher]

Did I ever tell you how I gave Douglas Adams the name of (at least) one of his characters?
I really must write down the details before I become late.
Meanwhile, it's almost time for me to sing the Marseillaise.

 

[Hugh Manatee]

One of the best Christmas presents I have had:

So much entertainment!

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Any ex-Hootooers here?

 

[cyberknight]

Did I ever tell you how I gave Douglas Adams the name of (at least) one of his characters?
I really must write down the details before I become late.
Meanwhile, it's almost time for me to sing the Marseillaise.

late as in the late dentarthurdent ? its a kind of threat

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Is it time for some Vogon poetry!

 

[Edwardoka]

Is it time for some Vogon poetry!

It is always time for Vogon poetry. I'll look some out. I think I left it at the bottom of a locked filing cabinet in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "beware the leopard"

 

[Ming the Merciless]

It is always time for Vogon poetry. I'll look some out. I think I left it at the bottom of a locked filing cabinet in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "beware the leopard"

Would that disused lavatory be in the basement where the planning documents (for the bypass) are located?

 

[cyberknight]

It is always time for Vogon poetry. I'll look some out. I think I left it at the bottom of a locked filing cabinet in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "beware the leopard"

thats the planning application to knock down dents house

 

[perplexed]

In the current climate, Joo Janta Peril Sensitive Sunglasses may be of benefit.

 

[cyberknight]

In the current climate, Joo Janta Peril Sensitive Sunglasses may be of benefit.

im waiting for my gold fish bowl from the dolphins until then a coupe of pan galactic gargle blasters sort me out