SLARTIBARTFAST...ANAGRAM?
9132...@vax1.dcu.ie
anagram of 'Artiblastfarts'?
Just wonderin'.
MOSSY.
Cian O Kiersey
>Has anyone ever noticed how 'Slartibartfast' is an
>anagram of 'Artiblastfarts'?
And backwards its 'Tsaftrabitrals', isn't _that_ a coinsidence.
:-P
Cian.
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PETER WIEBE BURKA
>From: 9132...@vax1.dcu.ie
>Subject: SLARTIBARTFAST...ANAGRAM?
>Date: 17 Feb 94 15:36:33 GMT
And Ford Prefect is an anagram for Crop Defeter.
Has DNA placed other subliminal messages throughout his books? Is this a
plot? What anagram could be found by rearranging all the letters in all of
his books? A Satanic manual, perhaps? ;-)
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michael moncur
>Has anyone ever noticed how 'Slartibartfast' is an
>anagram of 'Artiblastfarts'?
No, but I've noticed that it's an anagram of "Fast Tribal Rats".
michael "Setec Astronomy" moncur
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Barry E James
coki...@unix1.tcd.ie "Cian O Kiersey" writes:
> >Has anyone ever noticed how 'Slartibartfast' is an
> >anagram of 'Artiblastfarts'?
>
> And backwards its 'Tsaftrabitrals', isn't _that_ a coinsidence.
And if you count the letters and multiply by 3 you get 42 - WOW what
a coincidence (Yawn).
AND yes, if you rearrange all the consituent letters of the first four
books appropriatley (allowing repititions, deviations and hesitation as
necessary) you get the text of the book of Revelation with
just the letters "a n d I d o n t t h i n k s o" remaining.
Anyone want to proove me wrong!
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Stephen M. Grafton
In <1994Feb17....@vax1.dcu.ie> 9132...@vax1.dcu.ie writes:
>Has anyone ever noticed how 'Slartibartfast' is an
>anagram of 'Artiblastfarts'?
And backwards its 'Tsaftrabitrals', isn't _that_ a coinsidence.
I reckon he wanted to call him FartyBastard or some such, but the producers wouldn't
let him, so he made something up which sounded similar.
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D J Batey
I seem to remember hearing somewhere that Slartibartfast was
originally going to be called Fartifuckballs, until the Beeb vetoed
it...
W.E.Stetson
>Subject: Re: SLARTIBARTFAST...ANAGRAM?
>Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 19:33:42 GMT
>In <1994Feb17....@vax1.dcu.ie> 9132...@vax1.dcu.ie writes:
>>Has anyone ever noticed how 'Slartibartfast' is an
>>anagram of 'Artiblastfarts'?
>And backwards its 'Tsaftrabitrals', isn't _that_ a coinsidence.
Anyone counted up the number of posts generated by this?
Andy Hawkins
: > I reckon he wanted to call him FartyBastard or some such, but the
I'm not sure that it was the Beeb that vetoed it, he just wanted a name that
sounded rude but actually wasn't. Phartifukborlz (as quoted from the radio
scrips book) was the start point and he just changed a few syllables to get
Slartibartfast.
Andy
Kalle Kivimaa
>I seem to remember hearing somewhere that Slartibartfast was
>originally going to be called Fartifuckballs, until the Beeb vetoed
From Don't Panic:
DA on names: "Slartibartfast was a joke aimed at the secretary.
Remember S. saying 'My name is not important' as one of the very
first lines in the radio." or something like that.
S. is not an easy name to type until you learn it by heart....
Wolfgang Schelongowski
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> "Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true."
> -- Bertold Brecht
IMHO that's by Niels Bohr, physicist (Nobel Prize etc.).
Brecht was a playwright and not so much interested in theories.
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MAD Mosher
: I seem to remember hearing somewhere that Slartibartfast was
: originally going to be called Fartifuckballs, until the Beeb vetoed
: it...
Yeah - it's in the radio scripts book. I think it'll be in the footnotes
or introduction for Fit the Third (this is where Farti...sorry Slarti
appears first, I think - sheesh, my memory sucks....)
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Keith Ludeman
Heelal, En De Rest") the name Slartibartfast is changed to Magdiragdag.
Is there any linguistic reason for this, such as possibly "Slartibartfast"
being some major Dutch insult or something? When talking with DNA at a
book signing in Dallas some years back, I asked him about this and he
promptly responded "Who wrote THIS book?" to which I answered, "It has
your name on it...see...right here." "Oh, I guess I did..."was his
reply, but not knowing the book had been published in Dutch, he was
lacking an answer as to why the name change. Anybody out there of Dutch
origin have any answers for this?
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R. Dijkhuis
>In my Dutch copy of "Life, the Universe, and Everything" ("Het Leven, Het
>Heelal, En De Rest") the name Slartibartfast is changed to Magdiragdag.
>Is there any linguistic reason for this, such as possibly "Slartibartfast"
>being some major Dutch insult or something? When talking with DNA at a
Dunno. I read the translation of HHGTTG (Het Transgalactisch
Liftershandboek) AFTER reading the original, and I found that the
translation, though very creative, was also seriously flawed. This was one
of the apparently unnecessary changes that puzzled me.
Reinder
I don't have any sympathy for crustaceans. They're so stupid.
--Jocelyn Mary Ramsay
Seppo J Niemi
> S. is not an easy name to type until you learn it by heart....
Actually this has nothing to do with the original thread, but the
above remark brought this to my mind.
A while ago we attached a new printer to our network. I asked the
people for whom it was installed, what they would like to call it.
They couldn't think of a suitable name, so I could freely choose one.
Now the printer is called slartibartfast! The people around here just
love me - imagine having to type 'enscript -Pslartibartfast' each time
you want to have something on paper. The positive outcome of this is
that, when it needs a considerable amount of effort to type the name
of the printer, you think twice before you actually print anything. It
means a lot of saved money each year, when people don't print any
stupid documents just for the fun of it.
Unfortunately most people around here are clever enough to make an
alias for the command, and eventually I had to make an alias 'sl' for
the printer. That's where it all fell apart, but it was fun as long
as it lasted.
//zaphod
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|> In article <cokirsey....@unix1.tcd.ie> coki...@unix1.tcd.ie (Cian O Kiersey) writes:
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|> In <1994Feb17....@vax1.dcu.ie> 9132...@vax1.dcu.ie writes:
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|> >Has anyone ever noticed how 'Slartibartfast' is an
|> >anagram of 'Artiblastfarts'?
|>
|> And backwards its 'Tsaftrabitrals', isn't _that_ a coinsidence.
|>
|>
|> I reckon he wanted to call him FartyBastard or some such, but the producers wouldn't
|> let him, so he made something up which sounded similar.
|> --
Apparently he came up with a collection of syllables which were wholly
inappropriate for broadcast and then changed them until he could get away with it.
According to "Don't Panic" by Neil Gaiman the original name was PHARTIPHUKBORLZ.
Hope that helps.
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needed some cleaning up.
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Example :
A gynaecologist when making next appointment : je vous laisse le choix dans la date -> ... le doigt dans la chatte. where “ch” swaps with “d”
I let you choose the date (goes:) I let the finger in the fanny. Drops flat in English of course, lost in translation.
See the nun joke in which “soul is full of hope -> hole full of soap” is of the same make though not concealed.