In absentia, alas. The author of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy books (b. 11 March 1952, d. 11 May 2001) would have been 55 years old today. So long, and thanks for all the fish.
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Yay!
Ha. “So long and thanks for all the fish”. I love that line, and I say it a lot.
first post?
Happy birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!
i’m not quite old enough to be allowed to read the HGTG books, unfortunately. i’ve seen the movie, but my sis says that it’s not nearly as good as the books. happy b-day, douglas.
There shouldn’t be age limits for books. And I honestly don’t see what might be bad about the books. I was in no way remotely offended. But then, I’m not offended by much. Except chrsitianity and islam.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! squee.
we luv you dougls, oh yes we do
we don’t love anything so much as you (except for maybe muse)
cause you’re not with us, we’re blue
oh douglas we luv you.
WE ARE SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE.
You were taken away too early, just like the characters in your books. May your soul not panic.
Happy Birthday!!!
“And never go anywhere without your towel!”
I don’t know if that’s an exact quote, but it’s close…I think.
Yes, a man taken much before his time.
Happy Birthday, Mr. Adams.
He would have been 55, I think.
I’m surprised nobody’s said, “Don’t Panic!”
Oops, didn’t read the top.
“Life, is like a grapefruit. It’s orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It’s got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast.”
A day of rejoicing, no doubt!
Happy birthday! So long and thanks for all the
fishahem, books!3-not old enough? They’re…..err……mostly harmless.
7/8-I think it’s “Always know where your towel is” but i could be wrong too. Its very possible that it is, in fact, almost but not quite entirely unlike the the real quote. I probably got that one wrong too. I’m not very good at remembering direct quotes. Quotes…..don’t talk to me about quotes. Ok. I know I’m driving everyone crazy. I’ll stop now. I promise.
Yay! We love you, Douglas!
13(3)- Well, the first one is g, but I’d be careful about So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, and a few references in the others.
So long and thanks for all the fish
So long and thanks for all the fish
So sad that it should come to this
We tried to warn you all
But oh dear
You may not share our intellect
Which might explain your disrespect
For all the natural wonders that
Grow around you
So long so long and thanks
For all the fish
The world’s about to be destroyed
There’s no point getting all annoyed
Lie back and let the planet
Dissolve around you
Despite those nets of tuna fleets
We thought that most of you were sweet
Especially tiny tots
And your pregnant women
So long so long so long so long so long
So long so long so long so long so long
So long so long and thanks
For all the fish
If I had just one last wish
I would like a tasty fish
If we could just change one thing
We would all have lungs to sing
Come one and all
Man and mammal
Side by side in
Life’s great gene pool
Ooh ooh
Ah ah
So long so long so long so long so long
So long so long so long so long so long
So long so long and thanks
For all the fish
For the unenlightened, that is the song from the movie. And now for some loverly quotes:
“”In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.”
“He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.”
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
Wasn’t there a rip-off of ths quote somewhere in Pirates of the Caribbean?
“It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.”
“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
Guess what! I was digging through the book closet yesterday, and when I moved aside this huge book about some boring topic, I saw a book called Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams. I was very suprised. I want to no, have to, read it, but first I have a boatload of books for school.
17- It’s the 5th book in what Mr. Adams describes on the cover as the “Increasingly inacurately named hitchhikers trilogy.”
We miss you.
I have a habit of answering 42 to rhetorical questions, and yesterday I wrote it in for a problem I didn’t know the answer to. It never works, though. Why? 42. Worse than “because”, really.
3- “Not quite old enough”??? How old are you? If your age is two digits, you should be fine, at least for the first two or three books.
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! Happy b-day to that hoopy frood!
yo happy b-day
RESISTANCE IS USELESS.
22-Surely you mean museless
22. Resistance is futile. 3. How can you be to young? They are all ok, as long as you cna ignore some stuff. There shouldn’t be an age limit on books.
Yes. Definately should be museless.
(Oh, and did anyone know that it would have been Douglas Adams’ 55th birthday today if he was still alive?)
25-See thread description. Also, yesterday.
*doffs hat* (well, if I were waring a hat, I would off it, but as I’m not let’s just pretend)
*recites into to begingint of book, the money bit*
Thank you, Mr. Adams.
*bows*
4-ditto.
possibly they mention sex? and violence, but only in a satirical way. like seriously dude. if you’re like five, maybe you shouldnt see graphic images of poeple blowing up, or similarly upsetting things. luckily h2g2 has none of those things. so assuming you’re at least five, you’re fine.
By brother is 9, and he read the first two books. I recived the first one as a birthday present from my uncle when I was quite young (maybe about the same age as my aforementioned brother, or a bit older), although I didn’t understand all of it when I read it the first time. Now I think they are hilarious!
Happy belated birthday, Doug. We miss you. Well actually, i can’t technically miss you because i don’t think i read any of your books until you were already dead. We wish you were still alive. Why am i talking to a dead person i never met in the second person? I haven’t read all of Adams’ books, but of the ones i’ve read, i didn’t notice anything particularly offensive. Dirk has a few profane children and people in balloons if i remember correctly, but H2G2 seems clean enough.
happy bday. i
Does everyone know where their towel is?
Happy birthday Mr. Adams! Thanks for all the fish!