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On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:47:40 +0100, Bill Pragnell wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:26:16 +0100, Bill Pragnell wrote:
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>>> "Listen three eyes, don't try to outweird me, I get stranger things
>>> than you free with my breakfast cereal."
>>
>> One of my favourite lines of all time. :-)
>>
>> "You ain't seen nothin' yet - I can take this floor out, too, no
>> problem!"
>
> "What a depressingly stupid machine."
"The building's on fire..."
Jim
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Arttu Voutilainen wrote:
> Hey cool, I thought I was the only youngster here ;)
Well, I *was* a youngster when I first came here... o_O
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
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On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:50:54 +0100, Bill Pragnell wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:34:24 +0100, Bill Pragnell wrote:
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>>> Jim Henderson wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:18:07 -0400, Jim Charter wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> "Youth is wasted on the young" -George Bernard Shaw
>>>> "Life is wasted on the living" - Zaphod Beeblebrox IV
>>> "Very good. Very deep. Right now I need aphorisms like I need holes in
>>> my heads."
>>
>> "So you see young Zaphod, when thinking of ways to describe what you
>> are making of your life, I find the prhase 'pig's ear' tends to spring
>> to mind."
>
> "Um, ah, where was I?"
> "Pontificating."
> "Ah, yes."
"Well, let me tell you a little story..."
>> Been listening to it in the car - again - the last few weeks.
>
> I must have listened to them a hundred times. I especially like the
> secondary phase because it has so many plot elements that have never
> been reused anywhere else, so it always feels really fresh.
My younger brother and I used to quiz each other on various minutiae from
the primary and secondary phases. I used to be able to quote it verbatim
without the use of scripts. I still do recite most of it with the
series, including the credits, and the little quip after most of the
episodes.
But the sorts of questions Steve and I would ask each other would have
considered "what was the improbability factor that Ford and Arthur were
rescued by the Heart of Gold at?" to be a simple questions. (2^267709:1
against - possibly much higher)
More along the lines of:
How many times had Lintilla been cloned?
What was the ratio of Lintilla clones to lonely business executives that
was maintained to keep the laws of supply and demand in balance?
Which escape capsule did Ford and Arthur get into in the Hagunnenon ship?
In the end of the first episode, there's a chord played played after
Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz issues his ultimatum to Ford and Arthur. What is
the piece of music that chord comes from, and who was the composer?
> "How did you nutters get in here?"
> "Well, what it is, you see, is, well, we flew in. Yes, definitely, we
> flew in."
> "Well, bloody fly out again."
Listened to that bit on the drive in this morning. Fit the Twelfth
finished just as I pulled into my parking spot.
There is a benefit to a 45-minute+ drive in the morning. :-)
"VarNtvar...."
"Varntvar. He's a priest. Does marriages, and other things, but mostly
marriages."
Jim
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On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:06:43 +0100, Orchid XP v3 wrote:
> Arttu Voutilainen wrote:
>
>> Hey cool, I thought I was the only youngster here ;)
>
> Well, I *was* a youngster when I first came here... o_O
Heh, you still are...you still are. ;-)
Jim
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> On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:06:43 +0100, Orchid XP v3 wrote:
>> Well, I *was* a youngster when I first came here... o_O
>
> Heh, you still are...you still are. ;-)
Yeah. Just now it's only in my head. :-/
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
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On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:58:18 +0100, Orchid XP v3 wrote:
>> On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:06:43 +0100, Orchid XP v3 wrote:
>>> Well, I *was* a youngster when I first came here... o_O
>>
>> Heh, you still are...you still are. ;-)
>
> Yeah. Just now it's only in my head. :-/
Oh, no, it's not just in your head. You may *feel* old at 26 (or
whereever you happen to be - I forget), but take it from those who are
older, if you think you're old now, just wait....
Getting older is mandatory; growing up, however, is optional. :-)
Jim
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Jim Henderson wrote:
> But the sorts of questions Steve and I would ask each other would have
> considered "what was the improbability factor that Ford and Arthur were
> rescued by the Heart of Gold at?" to be a simple questions. (2^267709:1
> against - possibly much higher)
Hmm, I couldn't have answered that, but I suppose if you know the
Islington area code you're halfway there ;-)
> More along the lines of:
>
> How many times had Lintilla been cloned?
Millions, as I recall, and, typically for Adams, a terribly specific number.
> What was the ratio of Lintilla clones to lonely business executives that
> was maintained to keep the laws of supply and demand in balance?
Crikey, this merely rings a bell.
> Which escape capsule did Ford and Arthur get into in the Hagunnenon ship?
Ah, a fifty-fifty. Very generous! Um, left? My imagination says right
and for some reason my imagination always gets left and right wrong.
> In the end of the first episode, there's a chord played played after
> Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz issues his ultimatum to Ford and Arthur. What is
> the piece of music that chord comes from, and who was the composer?
I thought it was a radiophonic effect. Sounds like an organ, so I'll say
Bach.
>> "How did you nutters get in here?"
>> "Well, what it is, you see, is, well, we flew in. Yes, definitely, we
>> flew in."
>> "Well, bloody fly out again."
>
> Listened to that bit on the drive in this morning. Fit the Twelfth
> finished just as I pulled into my parking spot.
:D
> There is a benefit to a 45-minute+ drive in the morning. :-)
I currently walk to work, but if I ever face a commute this will be my
strategy also.
> "VarNtvar...."
> "Varntvar. He's a priest. Does marriages, and other things, but mostly
> marriages."
:D
"I have worked out that if I stick my left hand into my right ear I can
electrocute myself."
"What?"
"Terminally."
"Is that so."
"I can do it at a moment's notice. Just give the word."
"Just cool it, Marvin."
...
"I think I'll go and hide."
PS we seem to have hijacked this thread in a direction nobody could have
predicted
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Jim Henderson wrote:
> Getting older is mandatory; growing up, however, is optional. :-)
I'll remember that one next time my mum throws a temper tantrum...
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
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On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 10:47:36 +0100, Bill Pragnell wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> But the sorts of questions Steve and I would ask each other would have
>> considered "what was the improbability factor that Ford and Arthur were
>> rescued by the Heart of Gold at?" to be a simple questions. (2^267709:1
>> against - possibly much higher)
> Hmm, I couldn't have answered that, but I suppose if you know the
> Islington area code you're halfway there ;-)
>
>> More along the lines of:
>>
>> How many times had Lintilla been cloned?
> Millions, as I recall, and, typically for Adams, a terribly specific
> number.
578 thousand million times. :-)
>
>> What was the ratio of Lintilla clones to lonely business executives
>> that was maintained to keep the laws of supply and demand in balance?
> Crikey, this merely rings a bell.
It's a bit of a trick question - the cloning machine was making 6 copies
of Lintilla for a Brantasvogon escort agency while another was making 500
lonely business executives to keep the laws of supply and demand working
profitably. The ratio, therefore, is 6:500. :-) The "trick" is that
most would think of the much larger number (578 thousand million)
>> Which escape capsule did Ford and Arthur get into in the Hagunnenon
>> ship?
> Ah, a fifty-fifty. Very generous! Um, left? My imagination says right
> and for some reason my imagination always gets left and right wrong.
They got into the right-hand one. Ford tells Zaphod "You and the others
take the left-hand one". :-)
>> In the end of the first episode, there's a chord played played after
>> Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz issues his ultimatum to Ford and Arthur. What
>> is the piece of music that chord comes from, and who was the composer?
> I thought it was a radiophonic effect. Sounds like an organ, so I'll say
> Bach.
Nope, far, far too dissonant for Bach. Its Lontano, from A Modern Mass
for the Dead by Ligeti.
>>> "How did you nutters get in here?"
>>> "Well, what it is, you see, is, well, we flew in. Yes, definitely, we
>>> flew in."
>>> "Well, bloody fly out again."
>>
>> Listened to that bit on the drive in this morning. Fit the Twelfth
>> finished just as I pulled into my parking spot.
>
> :D
I always like when that happens, and it happens more often than it seems
it should by chance.
>> There is a benefit to a 45-minute+ drive in the morning. :-)
> I currently walk to work, but if I ever face a commute this will be my
> strategy also.
>
>> "VarNtvar...."
>> "Varntvar. He's a priest. Does marriages, and other things, but
>> mostly marriages."
>
> :D
>
> "I have worked out that if I stick my left hand into my right ear I can
> electrocute myself."
> "What?"
> "Terminally."
> "Is that so."
> "I can do it at a moment's notice. Just give the word." "Just cool it,
> Marvin."
> ...
> "I think I'll go and hide."
"Pausing only to reconstruct the whole infrastructure of integral
mathematics in his head, he went about his humble task, never thinking to
ask for reward, recognition or even a moment's ease from the terrible
pain in all the diodes down his left side. Fetch Beeblebrox they say,
and forth he goes..."
> PS we seem to have hijacked this thread in a direction nobody could have
> predicted
It would seem so. :-)
Jim
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On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:09:08 +0100, Orchid XP v3 wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>
>> Getting older is mandatory; growing up, however, is optional. :-)
>
> I'll remember that one next time my mum throws a temper tantrum...
Probably best from a distance. ;-)
Jim
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