Bit and Pieces

[kant1781]

Mind you It wouldn't bother me in the least if they never married.

No question, fish, no question...

I just hope they are all happy together.

I guess that's what you're supposed to say in such cases.

[Ian]

LOL Dave. Isn't it just!

[fish]

...I guess that's what you're supposed to say in such cases.

Sniff.






A little bit of nostalgia.
This old site is as it was ages ago but it's still worth a visit occasionally, even if it's just to read the articles Rebecka wrote ten (10 ) years ago.
http://users.belgacom.net/gc855995/index.html

[kant1781]

A little bit of nostalgia.
This old site is as it was ages ago but it's still worth a visit occasionally, even if it's just to read the articles Rebecka wrote ten (10 ) years ago.
http://users.belgacom.net/gc855995/index.html

OMG... nostalgia indeed! This is one of those sites that inevitable makes me fantasize.... where is the guy who set it up, ten years ago, and then stopped updating? How come the thing hasn't been deleted? Seems that it has just been forgotten, by its maker and by the guys who provide the webspace too.
Reading through these sites is a bit like walking the streets of a ruined Roman city. Everything's so familiar, but long gone, and depopulated ages ago. And yet, if you look closely, you see that some survivors of that era still walk among us - e.g., among the translators of the Swedish articles are not only Peter Svensson, the originator of the Ur-"5 Years Later"-Script, but also OEB, still the host of this forum.

Do you remember that part of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy where Zaphod, on a completely deserted planet, stumbles upon that old space cruise liner that has just been forgotten there as the crew were waiting for the arrival of small lemon-soaked paper napkins, while the planet around them fell to ruins and was abandoned? And now the ship rusts away in a forlorn lifeless space port while passengers and crew are woken up from their artificial coma by an automated system once a year to be served coffee and biscuits?

It's a bit like that.

[Ian]

lol I did not know that about "OEB"!

Practically everything I love is ancient and near-forgotten. FA is actually more recent than most.

You can imagine how depressed and old that makes me feel.

[fish]

...Do you remember that part of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy where Zaphod, on a completely deserted planet, stumbles upon that old space cruise liner that has just been forgotten there as the crew were waiting for the arrival of small lemon-soaked paper napkins, while the planet around them fell to ruins and was abandoned? And now the ship rusts away in a forlorn lifeless space port while passengers and crew are woken up from their artificial coma by an automated system once a year to be served coffee and biscuits?

It's a bit like that.

Do I remember Hitchhiker?????
I still have all the old audio tapes I recorded from the radio broadcast when it first played here in Oz.
Then came the books.
And the TV series.
And the movie.

Let me test my memory.... Was that the planet especially made for Zaphod to be sent mad as punishment? I think he was supposed to be shown the whole Universe, and then he would see how completely insignificant he was in comparison. That was to going to send him over the edge, but, seeing that it was all made for him all it did was show him that he was the most important being in the whole Universe....

Bit like me really.

Did I get it right?

Think it's time I woke up for more coffee and biscuits.


Nice old sites like that, I love 'em.
It's a bit like a new voyage of discovery each time.

[Ian]

Oh wow. fish is a geek.

[fish]

[Ian]

We're ALL geeks here, fishy.

[fish]

And that's supposed to make me feel better how?

[kant1781]

Let me test my memory.... Was that the planet especially made for Zaphod to be sent mad as punishment? I think he was supposed to be shown the whole Universe, and then he would see how completely insignificant he was in comparison. That was to going to send him over the edge, but, seeing that it was all made for him all it did was show him that he was the most important being in the whole Universe....

Yeah, exactly... He was to be put into the Total Perspective Vortex. I think the planet the TPV was built on was called the Frog Star. But as I remember it (I didn't check, though I'd just have to pick up my copy from the shelf in the next room), it wasn't the planet that had been specifically built for Zaphod. Instead, he had, without being aware, entered a parallel universe, and it was this - the parallel universe - that had been created specifically for him. Or rather, it had been created specifically for Zarniwoop to hide (precisely in that forgotten cruise liner) and wait for Zaphod to show up so that both of them could continue their quest to find the man who rules the universe.

Now who are you calling a geek?

The movie sucked however. Badly.

[Ian]

Geekdom is good.

[fish]

...I didn't check, though I'd just have to pick up my copy from the shelf in the next room...

The movie sucked however. Badly.

Of course, If I had checked mine I would have known that too.

And I agree about the movie, it was dreadful. I thought the radio broadcast was great and the books were even better.

Geekdom is good.

[Ian]

There's no escape. You're one of us now, fish.

One of us! One of us!

[fish]

...One of us! One of us!...

Alex thinks to herself.

He couldn't be!
I'm