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I'm late for Towel Day, but... (Hitchhiker's Guide Spoof)

Posted by ThriftShopRomantic • 5/27/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: douglas adams, hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, know where your towel is, towel day

I know Towel Day, in honor of author Douglas Adams and his Hitch-hiker's Guide books, was Monday, so I'm a little late for it...

But you might understand my lateness after you read my tale of Blobs in the Space-Time Continuum, Strangely Behaving Coffeemakers, and transformed coworkers...

www.cabbagesnkings.net/2009/05/office-space-on-end-of-space-time.html

It's lucky I made it back safely at all!

So, for fans of the book, I'm curious-- when was it you first read Hitch-hiker's Guide, and do you have any other favorite authors in that genre?

(Me, I'm also fond of Terry Pratchett and Jasper Fforde.)

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5/27/09

busylizzy

Back in the late 70's or early 80's my bf and I listened to a BBC radio play of Hitch-Hikers. We listened to every episode, not knowing what we were getting ourselves into. We were in California at the time. Then my bf found the book and read it. So strange and so funny!

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1. 5/27/09
  
  ThriftShopRomantic
  
  I've never gotten to hear the radio plays, but I did get to see the early movie from the 80s. Not great special effects, but still entertaining.
5/27/09

dsriharsha

Better late than never..

I read the Hitchhikers 2 years ago and been praising Douglas Adams' genius ever since..

I love Neil Gaiman's stuff.. a lot of people have suggested Pratchett as a good read but I am yet to lay my hands on a Discworld book..

Will surely check out your blog post shortly

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1. 5/27/09
  
  ThriftShopRomantic
  
  Oh yes, Gaiman has done some good stuff, certainly. Hopefully you'll get to stumble onto some Pratchett and see what you think.
2. 5/27/09
  
  dsriharsha
  
  I do have some Pratchett books with me but I don't have the time to read them.. I am on a reading spree of Naruto manga.. a must read
5/27/09

gtally

I like all the authors mentioned above, but would also have to add Alan Moore to the list for creative, genre-busting stories.

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1. 5/27/09
  
  dsriharsha
  
  V for Vendetta is a masterpiece..
  
  My rating of graphic novels
  Sandman > V for Vendetta > Watchmen
  the three best
2. 5/27/09
  
  gtally
  
  I agree!
5/27/09

dmwmd

First heard the radio play on cassette tape (remember those) in'94 at some student friends' house. Bought the CDs and all the books some years later as I was so completely taken by Douglas Adams' crazy imagination.
Another favourite hilarious author Ben Elton!

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1. 5/27/09
  
  ThriftShopRomantic
  
  Ben Elton's name is familiar to me, but I haven't read him.... Now I need to flee and do some research on that!
  
  And yes, indeed, I do remember cassette tapes. I also recall the Guide being a computer game, but only as a "type in instructions sort of Choose Your Own Adventure" DOS program.
  
  It still was a lot of fun.
2. 5/27/09
  
  aningeniousname
  
  Ben Elton wrote Blackadder with Richard Curtis. I read one of his books once and totally hated it, it was very formulaic and confirmed my suspicions about him.
3. 5/27/09
  
  ThriftShopRomantic
  
  AH! That's why I know it, from the Blackadder credits...
5/27/09

aningeniousname

I thought towel day was the day turban wearers from around the world gather to wear turbans and share tales of turbans lost in glorious turban based action.

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1. 5/27/09
  
  ThriftShopRomantic
  
  Ah, typical aardvark ignorance... So confused about what's going on beyond the Aardvarkian Global Community...
  
  (shakes head)
2. 5/27/09
  
  aningeniousname
  
  I can't keep up with every fad and trend around the globe I wouldn't have time to primp myself.
  This "look" don't happen by accident it takes a 14 hard hours a day and a team of thirty just to do the preparation.
3. 5/27/09
  
  ThriftShopRomantic
  
  I imagine it requires a lot of exfoliation with battery acid to maintain that fresh, light purple complexion of yours.
4. 5/27/09
  
  aningeniousname
  
  Lavender!
5. 5/27/09
  
  ThriftShopRomantic
  
  Oh, pardon me... 'lavender'... These designer couture aardvarks these days... Sheesh...
6. 5/27/09
  
  aningeniousname
  
  Well purple is so 1986! Lavender is the new black or beige...or whatever the new black was before lavender was the new black.
  That's why Obama calls himself a lavender American.
7. 5/27/09
  
  ThriftShopRomantic
  
  Ah, I wondered about that in a few of his speeches...
5/27/09

libdrone

great post as usual, Jenn. I loved those Hitchiker books as a teenager and did Try to read a bio of Douglas Adams, but find my interest has quite paled as an adult

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1. 5/27/09
  
  ThriftShopRomantic
  
  I can see where that might happen, sure. Things you love as a kid don't always hold up to adulthood.