i love these books, i havent read all of them yet, but you only have to read the first few pages to know its super amazing (like wolf brother)! the world ends within the first few pages!
((sorry if i'v spelt every thing wrong)
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- Posted by Anraith copar ithe 6 months ago. There are 101 posts. The latest reply is from KMK339.
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Really, they're that good? I've never read them.
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42!!!
Man ebil kitty is gonna have a field day here
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One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about human beings was their habit of continually stating and repeating the obvious, as in It's a nice day, or You're very tall, or Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you alright? At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behaviour. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favour of a new one. If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working. After a while he abandoned this one as well as being obstructively cynical and decided he quite liked human beings after all, but he always remained desperately worried about the terrible number of things they didn't know about.
its so...off topic from the story...adn they keep doing this! just like this forum! topics go here to die....42!
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"The Babel fish," said The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy quietly, "is small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy not from its carrier but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish.
"Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindboggingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
"The argument goes something like this:
I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God,for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'"
But,' says Man,The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'"
Oh dear,' says God,I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic."`Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.
"Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of dingo's kidneys, but that didn't stop Oolon Colluphid making a small fortune when he used it as the central theme of his best-selling book Well That About Wraps It Up For God.
"Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloddier wars than anything else in the history of creation."
now....back on topic...XD
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see, like i said, field day for ebil kitty....
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have a good day..the world's about to end.
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oh no, Anraith Copar Ithe, what demon have you set upon us????
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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mmeh. its MOSTLY HARMLESS!
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Don't spoil it for me I'm going to read it after Anraith Coppar Ithe
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no dont worry the world ends and everyone dies. nah jks that happens in chapter 1.
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Oh thanks.
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yes ek, mostly being the keyword in that particular sentence...
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remember ms gostelow said that she read up to pg 42 before givin up on H2G2?
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lol yup
funny...
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"so long and thanks for all the fish!"
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hey! you stole all the best quoats!
but DON'T PANIC!
"If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now." -
"You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."
[Ford Prefect:] "Why, what did she tell you?"
[Arthur:] "I don't know, I didn't listen." -
Arthur had jammed himself against the door to the cubicle, trying to hold it closed, but it was ill fitting. Tiny furry little hands were squeezing themselves through the cracks, their fingers were inkstained; tiny voices chattered insanely.
Arthur looked up.
"Ford!" he said, "there's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out."
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Ahem, I'm trying not to read the whole book only on this thred.
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I like the field thing where everytime someone has an idea thy get hit in the face by a shovel thing
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thats in the movie...they screwed it up.
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meh..it was still cool
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*slap*
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i9 just orderd the old TV seireise thing of amazon, aparently its really funny becaus the specil effects were so old and stupid, (eg, zaphods second gead is made of papemache and stook next to his real head). and why did zaphod only have one head that alternaited with the second in the new film?
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dunno. the film screwed it up...:(
*slap*
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Anraith copar ithe, can you lend me the book? I'll put Dracula and that other one (shows how good the book is, the fact I can't even remember it's name) on hold, because that book seems so amazing.
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you can read it on the internet. the links are here:
book 1: http://flag.blackened.net/dinsdale/dna/book1.html
book 2: http://flag.blackened.net/dinsdale/dna/book2.html
book 3: http://flag.blackened.net/dinsdale/dna/book3.html
and so on until book 6. just replace the "#" in http://flag.blackened.net/dinsdale/dna/book#.html with the book number. -
*punch EK in already injured jaw*
ha, take that!
*punches again*
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its nex who has a broken jaw. in real life, my jaw is fine.
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