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[edit] Suggestions
- "Here the man in blue crimplene accosted us once more but we patiently explained to him that he could fuck off."
This one seems pretty weak - suggest deleting it.
there's nothing from dirk gently!
- So suggest something!
I don't know what the hell "Fit the Xth" is. My only conjecture is that it's some idiot looking for publicity. In any case, it's pretty annoying, and doesn't occur in the books, so I'm axing it.
- Fit the Xth is the tenth episode of the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the fourth episode of the second series.—137.43.4.16 11:26, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
The radio episodes were numbered "Fit the First", "Fit the Second", and so on. Currently (as in right this moment), the latest episode is Fit the Fifteenth. - Furrykef 02:31, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)
And my only conjecture is that you're some idiot who goes around erasing whatever he doesn't understand.
* "If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action." -Douglas Adams
Is on the Drugs page, but not here. I don't know the original source, so I'm not going to immediately put it back in. If anyone knows whether this quote was from DNA...
"Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet" - this is attributed to Bran Ferren here: http://www.douglasadams.com/dna/19990901-00-a.html
[edit] Hmmmm........uncanny.....
Have you read all of his material?? In fact, there is a bunch of stuff he said that most people don't know......so please....
[edit] Deleting parts of a page?
Hm. The Wiki concept seems to be too 'open' for me. I don't see much sense in contributing if some days later somebody comes along and deletes big parts of what I entered. sunny 07:32, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- It does seem that major portions have been deleted by the last edit from IP 138.78.20.2. Sometimes things are lost inadvertently during attempts at major configuration changes, but all acts of deliberate deletion of quotes should be done with a specified reason. I am now examining what the most recent editors have done, and trying to restore what has been lost in a new edit, and perhaps a new configuration. ~ Kalki 07:50, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- I just reverted the most recent edit, that was made by IP 138.78.20.2, but I am also examining the structure of the article and might make some rearrangements. ~ Kalki 07:58, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
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- Thank you. sunny
That quote:
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
is twice in the page.
[edit] Towel?
I've searched this page for word 'towel' and have found no matches!
It's imposible to cite guide and do not mention a towel.
Clearly not 62.180.31.65 03:40, 20 January 2007 (UTC)DTP
[edit] Yet unconfirmed quotes
Does anybody have a source link or other confirmation that this quote is from Douglas Adams?
"Don't destroy the Earth in the first chapter. You'll need it later." -- Douglas Adams
[edit] page numbers
Do the page numbers apply to most versions of the book, the original, or just a certain copy one editor happened to own? They don't match with my copy, "published by Gollancz in 2005". I think I shall replace them with chapter numbers if no-one objects, as the chapters are generally quite short. Boffy b 22:45, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Citing chapter numbers is almost always a much better practice than using page numbers, which can vary widely between editions. ~ Kalki 23:19, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
[edit] inconsistencies/doubled lines
- "Think of a number, any number." - Asked of the mattress by Marvin
- is also in the "Marvin" section, since Marvin says that and the mattress answers.
- "We apologise for the inconvenience" - God's final message to humans.
- didn't the Vogons say that? I haven't read all the books through yet, but it sounds like the public announcement at the beginning of the first book
(80.109.255.5 19:38, 7 May 2005 (UTC))
- The "We apologise for the inconvenience" is God's Final Message to His Creation, and is indeed not said by the Vogons. - Furrykef 20:15, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
- If memory serves, it was great burning letters in the side of a mountain? You had to climb up to see it, certainly no one said it.
- Marvin was looking through a telescope to see the burning letters (just before he died). I always took the joke to mean that the telescope was in fact out of order, yet Marvin believed, and accepted what he saw as God's final message.
[edit] On Computers - Salmon of Doubt
This quote appears in the article:
- First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.
I've read The Salmon of Doubt and Douglas says pretty much exactly that, but it's much longer. I agree this is a nice concise version, but did Douglas indeed shorten it himself somewhere (source anyone?) or has a wiki editor summarised this? (in which case it's not a quote) —EatMyShortz 11:01, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] How can Adams be dead?
I'm sure I read somewhere that he played an active role in writing the Guide's movie script.
I think he worked on it before he died.
I remember reading somewhere (Salmon of Doubt maybe?) that the movie was supposed to be made 10 or 15 years ago and it just never happened, so id assume they just got his scripts and finished it up/edited it.
[edit] Dirk Gently Merge
An editor suggested that Dirk Gently be merged into this article. Given that there's only one quote on the Dirk Gently page, I don't see a reason why there shouldn't be a merge. Ripberger 23:20, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
