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Hitchhiker's Guide, Salmon of Doubt

Posted by michael on from the thanks-for-all-the-fish dept.

ReadParse writes "There was a previous story about "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" being released on DVD in January. This turned out to be a Region 2 DVD, but the Region 1 DVD was released on or about April 30th. There are two discs, the first of which is the BBC Miniseries, which was adapted from the BBC radio play. It suddenly occurs to me to submit this story, because mine was just delivered within the past hour. Right now it's the 12th most popular DVD on Amazon." Several people also noted that Adams' final (I guess) book, The Salmon of Doubt, is now hitting the shelves.

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  1. First Haiku Post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Slashdot sucks
    so much
    you shouldn't come back

    1. Re:First Haiku Post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      that ain't no haiku dipshit. 5-7-5. sheesh.

    2. Re:First Haiku Post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Read it here, you moron:

      2. 5-7-5 syllables in 1st-2nd-3d lines.

      Also optional: firstly, even Basho broke that rule. Secondly, we don't write in Japanese -- the average Japanese syllable has different length and bears the different "amount of meaning" as compared to those of other languages; thus "holy 17" can't be saved so formally. When poets write or translate haiku into their language they try to save haiku spirit, and somehow imitate the Japanese form (the length of the lines, the breaks) - but at the same time they take into account the common patterns of their own language so that it sounds natural. This way most of Russian translations of classic Japanese haiku have about 20 syllables; on the other hand, a haiku in English, according to W.Higginson's "The Haiku Handbook", is bet- ter when it's about 12 syllables:

      old pond...
      a frog leaps in
      water's sound

      Basho
  2. 8th post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    2^3! hahahahasvsadioupfhnaweioufhasdf!!!!"$!"$"

  3. Re:Next book? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Did anybody notice that Robert Steinhäuser started his rampage at exactly 11h05 ?

  4. Need a Player by Alien54 · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    I supposed this means I'll actually have to go out and by a DVD Player now, and get into this whole coach potato thing.

    Next thing you know, I'll be getting Cable TV.

    [grmuble grumlbe gerumble]

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  5. Re:Amazon? It's a bit cheaper at.. .. . by colmore · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    No when the revolution comes, Ticketmaster will be the first up against the wall.

    You wanna talk about a monopoly...

    (-1: Offtopic, I don't care, I've got karma to spare)

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