Jim Henderson wrote:
> I should mention as well, though, that Invis didn't use the proper name 
> of Grunthos' poem, either.  It is in fact "Ode to a small lump of green 
> putty I found in my armpit one midsummer's morning" IIRC (don't have my 
> copy of the scripts handy and I should know this from memory anyways, as 
> frequently as I've listened to the original series).

I knew this. However, as I knew you were a hitch-hiker fan (I think 
we've discussed this before at some point) I couldn't let you get away 
with the slip! ;-)

> My brother and I used to fall asleep listening to episodes of the radio 
> series, and we'd quiz each other on the finer details.  Clearly I've lost 
> my touch a little bit. ;-)

Only one thing to do - refresh the memory!

I was too young to listen to them when they were first broadcast over 
here, but my dad taped them so I grew up listening to them over and 
over. He missed the bridging episode, broadcast out of sequence (I 
believe it's fit the first on the second phase), so when I bought the 
tapes years later it was a revelation!

I recently watched the film again, and it's really astounding how badly 
they buggered up Zaphod's character in that version... pretty good apart 
from that though.

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