OT - Meet Ford Prefect

So _that's_ where "The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy" name came from:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2010/...thats-english/
A Rolls-Royce this ain't. :-)


Pat

Pat Flannery wrote:
So _that's_ where "The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy" name came
from:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2010/...thats-english/
A Rolls-Royce this ain't. :-)

You didn't know that?


Pat

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Pat Flannery wrote:
So _that's_ where "The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy" name came
from:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2010/...thats-english/
A Rolls-Royce this ain't. :-)

You didn't know that?

No, but we should have expected it, given the source...

--Damon

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"Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)" wrote in
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Pat Flannery wrote:
So _that's_ where "The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy" name came
from:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2010/...thats-english/
A Rolls-Royce this ain't. :-)

You didn't know that?

No, but we should have expected it, given the source...

I finished The Long Dark Teatime for the Soul not too long ago. I was LMAO
before the end of the first page. The Dirk Gently books are always good for
a laugh.

Jeff
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"Take heart amid the deepening gloom
that your dog is finally getting enough cheese" - Deteriorata - National
Lampoon

On 4/28/2010 10:03 AM, Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote:
Pat Flannery wrote:
So _that's_ where "The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy" name came
from:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2010/...thats-english/
A Rolls-Royce this ain't. :-)

You didn't know that?

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".

Pat

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.

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

Neil Gerace writes:

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.

"This friend of his had first arrived on the planet some fifteen Earth
years previously, and he had worked hard to blend himself into Earth
society - with, it must be said, some success. For instance he had
spent those fifteen years pretending to be an out of work actor, which
was plausible enough.

He had made one careless blunder though, because he had skimped a bit
on his preparatory research. The information he had gathered had led
him to choose the name 'Ford Prefect' as being nicely
inconspicuous."

MJ

In sci.space.history Pat Flannery wrote:
So _that's_ where "The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy" name came from:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2010/...thats-english/
A Rolls-Royce this ain't. :-)

Ah, but the model in the ad would qualify (well, be damn close) under
the latest U.S. CAFE requirements. Not shabby for something from '58
Of course, it probably wouldn't meet the current safety requirements.

rick jones
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"when", sometimes "where"; always "how much." - Joubert
these opinions are mine, all mine; HP might not want them anyway...
feel free to post, OR email to rick.jones2 in hp.com but NOT BOTH...

Pat Flannery wrote:
So _that's_ where "The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy" name came from:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2010/...thats-english/
A Rolls-Royce this ain't. :-)

Nicely inconspicuous.