You have to admire Doug Adam's sense of humour! Now where exactly on this planet have you moved to, Phil?

You know that there is going to be a movie? And now for some vogon-poetry ^_____^

Chris, I'm just left of a big blue bit. He had great humour. To even think of a line like that. It's so off centre that most people can't. Yeah, I saw the trailer for the movie when I went to the cinema the other day. That's kinda what put it back in my mind.

nice ships. I like the shape. Kinda remindes me of giant oil tankers in space :)

Excellent, almost Emperial looking.

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Doh!!! Where's my towel?

Never saw this HHGTTG, but it is certainly a very cool space image.VOTE Oh, wait a minute, this is the forum, not the gallery.

Oh my! That's my favorite quote from that book! Awesome!

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

42

A predictable one....my favourite line was the message sent back by the dolphins (when humans hadn't understood the warning that earth was going to be destroyed to make way for the hyperpass, and the dolphins had all mysteriously disappeared from earth) 'So long, and thanks for all the fish'. ummmmm....minor quibble, those ships aren't hanging in the air, though.

RJ001: Wrong! It wasn't 42. And that was the whole joke. If you watch the final episode you'll see the math wasn't right....

the important thing to remember about flying, is to throw yourself at the ground...and miss..
-Dirk Gently's (I think)..;)

Actually, I thought the answer was 42? It's just the question got corrupted.... When the Golgafrinchans landed on pre-historic earth, they corrupted the program and so the question wasn't the right one. As Arthur and Ford found out from the scrabble set. BUT Deep Thought's original answer of 42 was still correct.

Pakled - The flying was in the later books. I've tried it, it doesn't work.

Phil: Nah! The question was correct but the answer wasn't proving that Deep Thought got it wrong all those years ago.

Sorry mate.... The cave man is playing scrabble and forms the answer Forty Two on the scrabble board. Arthur realises the search for the question is going on all around them. Ford: "Terrific, we've cocked it up, the Golgafrinchans, just by arriving here" Ford: "The cafe men are part of the program but they are dying out because of the Golgafrinchans, therefore, no question." Arthur: "Marvin said the question was printed in my brainwave patterns." Ford: "Alright, wrong question. Still cocked up" Arthur: "But it might give us a clue" They then pull out scrabble tiles and get the question: "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?" Right answer, wrong question. :-)

6 x 9 = 54 I rest my case!

Exactly - Wrong question.

That's it! Where's my teabags.........?

:-) I guess there's no real way to prove which of us is right. But since DNA contradicted himself all the time, I suppose we could both be right. I'm being such a Brit since I've been here. Went into a shop and asked "Excuse me, but could you possibly tell me where you keep your PG Tips?" ;-)

..and what you should have said was..."Gimme teabags..!" and when you go to Aus and ask for sellotape they give you Durex....!