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OT - Meet Ford Prefect
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 -- Greg Moore Ask me about lily, an RPI based CMC. |
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"Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)" wrote in
m: 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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"Damon Hill" wrote in message ... "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)" wrote in m: 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 -- "Take heart amid the deepening gloom that your dog is finally getting enough cheese" - Deteriorata - National Lampoon |
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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 |
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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 -- I don't interest myself in "why". I think more often in terms of "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... |
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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. :-) Nicely inconspicuous. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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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On 4/28/2010 4:39 PM, Neil Gerace wrote:
Nicely inconspicuous. Not as cute as the Nash Metropolitan though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_Metropolitan The cheery two-tone paint schemes just made that car. One of my favorite odd cars is the German Messerschmitt bubble car, which originally was powered by the two-stroke gasoline engine that was housed in the intake cone of the Junkers-Jumo 004 turbojet that powered the wartime Me-262 jet fighter, and was used to spin the turbine up to ignition speed. Pat |
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