OT - Meet Ford Prefect
Neil Gerace wrote:
Pat Flannery wrote:
No, I thought it was supposed to be a alien picking a oddball name for
himself that didn't fit in, like John Bigboote in "Buckaroo Banzai".
The opposite, as it happens. Believing that cars were the dominant
life-form on the planet, he picked the name Ford Prefect so as to blend in.
In the movie, the car that Ford introduces himself to is a Ford Prefect.
Jay
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