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On Sat, 08 Aug 2009 11:18:25 +0100, Stephen wrote:
> On 7 Aug 2009 14:14:58 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
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>>>>It's a good thing my parents didn't like it, then - otherwise I'd be
>>>>so unhip my bum might fall off. ;-)
>>>>
>>>>
>>> LOL
>>
>>This is what happens when you're a fan of Douglas Adams. ;-)
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> Dying, was the only deadline he did not miss. :(
It's the only one he achieved ahead of schedule, sadly. 49 is too
early. :(
> It has been years since I've read anything by him.
I listen to Hitchhiker's at least once a year. I know the primary and
secondary phases well enough to recite along with the recordings.
He had such a way with metaphors and the English language as a whole -
"they hung in the air in exactly the same way that bricks don't", for
example.
Jim
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