The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[perplexed]

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

Or you could go for a Jynnan Tonnyx?

 

[Tenkaykev]

Douglas Adams was spot on with the meaning of life.
Unfortunately due to a typesetting error the books give the answer as 42 whereas it was meant to be 4.2 which is the alcohol percentage printed on the labels of the bottles of IPA I've been supping 🍺👍

 

[Bazzer]

Brilliant radio series. The joy of your imagination painting the scenery to the characters and scenes provided by Douglas Adams. None of my mates at the time "got" it.
Still love the mice not being experimented upon, but were hyper intelligent pan dimensional beings.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Douglas Adams was spot on with the meaning of life.
Unfortunately due to a typesetting error the books give the answer as 42 whereas it was meant to be 4.2 which is the alcohol percentage printed on the labels of the bottles of IPA I've been supping 🍺👍

Drink 10, then you'll understand

 

[Specialeyes]

Douglas Adams was spot on with the meaning of life.

I rest my case...


The Meaning of Liff, now that's another matter altogether. I live near Shoeburyness (abs. n.) The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom.

 

[cyberknight]

Or you could go for a Jynnan Tonnyx?

but you could end up with lukewarm water dependant on spelling and planet a gargle blaster is liable to disinfect you or kill you

 

[Smokin Joe]

I got the full series of books on ebay a few years ago and forgot all about them. I'll have to dig them out for a read.

 

[Proto]

BBC are broadcasting the original radio programmes shortly, I believe. 😁

I bought the scripts years ago. Brilliant. Still available by the look of it.

View: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hitchhikers-Guide-Galaxy-Original-Scripts/dp/0330419579/ref=nodl_

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Oh freddled gruntbuggly,
Thy micturations are to me, (with big yawning)
As plurdled gabbleblotchits,
in midsummer morning
On a lurgid bee,
That mordiously hath blurted out,
Its earted jurtles, grumbling
Into a rancid festering confectious organ squealer. [drowned out by moaning and screaming]
Now the jurpling slayjid agrocrustles,
Are slurping hagrilly up the axlegrurts,
And living glupules frart and stipulate,
Like jowling meated liverslime,
Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes,
And hooptiously drangle me,
With crinkly bindlewurdles,mashurbitries.
Or else I shall rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon,
See if I don't!

 

[Specialeyes]

I thought that some of the metaphysical imagery was really particularly effective.

 

[perplexed]

Whatever happens, I know where my towel is.

 

[Landsurfer]

The problem is that the ANSWER .... is .. it's not 42 .....
Only after the Hubble Telescope was launched was the ANSWER found to be 43 ...
The coefficient of expansion of the Universe ....

The Bable Fish .. or the iPhone XS .... as we call it now ...... Real time language translation ... to your wireless ear pods .....

 

[Edwardoka]

Oh freddled gruntbuggly,

I can recite the radio/tv version from memory. I do not recognise this version. Books?
I may have once recited it down the phone to someone in America. (I did not then offer to put my head in a bucket of water for them...)

 

[cookiemonster]

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

Ah, Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters. Like being mugged, expensive and bad for the head,

 

[PaulSB]

I well remember how most of my friends would leave the pub early to get home in time for Hitchhiker's. I think it was 11.00pm on Thursdays??

I still have the original series on cassette!! I made copies for my kids when they were old enough to appreciate it.