Hitchhiker's is 42 today

[Nemo Thorx]

> the first episode was broadcast at 10:30 pm on Wednesday, 8 March 1978

42 years later (I'm a few hours early, but let's not quibble about
missing a deadline by a few negative hours) and here we are.

So..... Does it feel like the end of the world to anyone else?

.../Nemo

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earth native

[Nemo Thorx]

Quoting Professor Urban Chronotis from 08 Mar (a Sunday in 2020) at 2225 hours...
>
> Nemo Thorx

> <eternalseptemberREMOV...@nemo.house.cx.invalid> wrote:
> >
> >> the first episode was broadcast at 10:30 pm on Wednesday, 8 March 1978
> >
> > 42 years later (I'm a few hours early, but let's not quibble about
> > missing a deadline by a few negative hours) and here we are.
> >
> > So..... Does it feel like the end of the world to anyone else?
> >
> > .../Nemo
> >
>

> I came across HHGTTG much later (1985?) so it doesn’t seem as long ago. But
> that’s probably a “relative dimension” type thing, so more Doctor (who)
> than Hitchhiker.

Without checking, I would guess mid 80s for me too. At least, for first
awareness. And mid/late 80s for first reading, with personal fandom
growing and blossoming some time in the early 90s.

With checking, most of that is hard to verify in any form, except I DO
remember my first awareness was my dad reading the newly released "So
Long" on a vacation, and him commenting it was the new book in a series
he enjoyed. And whaddya know - that was published Nov 1984, meaning it's
not unreasonable to speculate that that vacation was the Australian
summer of 1984/85 :)

(because I'm a hoarder I do have personal diaries and notebooks from
highschool and if I ever doodled "42" or "Don't Panic", it could be
findable, but I doubt I'm going to go trawling in such a fashion)

In the Guide's 21st year of 1999, I did a photo of my collection. Last
night I did a new version... I'll have them up on imgur some time this
week. Hopefully. Deadlines, deadlines... whoosh!

[Andy Hawkins]

Hi,
In article <20200308130812.NemoThorx_eternals...@nemo.house.cx.invalid>,

Nemo Thorx<eternalseptemberREMOV...@nemo.house.cx.invalid> wrote:
>
>> the first episode was broadcast at 10:30 pm on Wednesday, 8 March 1978
>
> 42 years later (I'm a few hours early, but let's not quibble about
> missing a deadline by a few negative hours) and here we are.
>
> So..... Does it feel like the end of the world to anyone else?

There was a lot of content broadcast to celebrate this. Should be available
via iPlayer for those with access.

Andy

[Greg Warren]

What..... AGAIN ? This will make some psychiatrist & Behavioral Research (Would Be) scientists VERY Unhappy.

In that case we MUST make this existence's TOWEL DAY a real bang for all the Hoopy Froods who can fine where their Towel is REALLY at.

I never really found that '42' was really all that important to ANYONE least of all 'Deep Thought' or for that matter 'Dirt'.

I am in Australia & we received word of the earths destruction way too late! I remember exactly where, when, who & what I was in 1978 in Sydney when the Non commercial Fun Loving Criminals loved our very own 'AUNTIE' = Australian Broadcasting Network (Just one Federal Govt. Television & Radio Network) & whilst the TV station whilst the TV Station Was the ONLY place to get to see the Good Doctor the ABC radio was Strictly Lame... until my cell mate was released he gave me his transistor radio with half flat batteries, ALL I could tune into That Sunday evening was Auntie With a VERY strange Radio Play.

I had heard of such things eg. the infamous War of the Worlds radio play but NOTHING like this! Typically English though. Goons, Goodies, Monty Python Satire. So the ABC shop was the only outlet for the the novelization of the HHGTTG. Relatively No-body had heard of it here without admitting to the facts YES we were on this dreary little planet & YES Guilty of listening to the ABC radio (WE have another one now that that plays ALL types of Music But STILL no Radio Plays.

So I, for one, am extremely happy that poor Douglas was forced to re-create his own work over & Over & over & yet again in multiple media (or is that medias) Prove No good deed goes unpunished.

HHGTTG is by far not Adams only legacy but certainly his cruelest (ask Marvin what Gods (Douglas's) Message was)

'Last chance to see' (not the TV series) But the story of how he became a Nature writer & all how difficult THAT was. I can't get the actual TV series here (Well & truly out of production that one) but without Douglas I would probably be still totally unaware of the Kakapo. I mean 'come on'! we imagine we've got it hard! Britannica describes this unfortunate creature as.... Kakapo, (Strigops habroptilus), also called owl parrot, giant flightless nocturnal parrot (family Psittacidae) of New Zealand.With a face like an owl, a posture like a penguin, and a walk like a duck, the extraordinarily tame and gentle kakapo is one of strangest and rarest birds on Earth.. Heaviest of the world's parrots, the 64-cm (25-inch) kakapo weighs up to 6 kg (13 pounds) and has moss ...Poor fat birds, Even their own kind don't want to know them. But Douglas found one I dont know about its mate.

Starship Titanic had real GPP feature for sure, So did K9 before the RSPCA put a stop to his shenanigans. Douglas was a script writer in Doctor Who for a short while. The Doctor was still the Doctor but K9 was particularly 'Marvin-ish' (esc?)

I have just 'freahened' my towel. It my not have the 'Blazing sun' emblem like those fancy Vogon Towels But it DOES Have on of (if not the) MOST important piece of advice a TOWEL can offer, It has the words (You ready?) DON'T PANIC lovingly embroiled in Large Red letters.

[Kerr-Mudd,John]

On Thu, 04 Jun 2020 12:10:00 GMT, Greg Warren
<gregor...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> On Sunday, March 8, 2020 at 2:12:05 PM UTC+11, Nemo Thorx wrote:
>> > the first episode was broadcast at 10:30 pm on Wednesday, 8 March
>> > 1978
>>
>> 42 years later (I'm a few hours early, but let's not quibble about
>> missing a deadline by a few negative hours) and here we are.
>>
>> So..... Does it feel like the end of the world to anyone else?
>>
>> .../Nemo
>>
>> --
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>> -----------------------------
>> earth native
>
> What..... AGAIN ? This will make some psychiatrist & Behavioral
> Research (Would Be) scientists VERY Unhappy.

[]

Nice rant.



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