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New HHGTTG Radio Show Gets Douglas Adams' Voice
trellick writes "The BBC has not only announced that they are to make radio adaptations to The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy's final three books: Life, The Universe and Everything; So Long and Thanks For All the Fish; and Mostly Harmless. Also, Douglas Adams is to himself provide the voice of Agrajag, the character constantly being reincarnated and dying at the (inadvertent) hands of Arthur Dent, since Adams 'always intended to play the part of Agrajag and recorded himself in the part a few years ago.' Wonderful stuff!"
...said Agrajag. Now let's all yell : "Oh yes ! Once again !"
> project his voice back across time and death
Dr Dan Streetmentioner would approve - "Douglas Adams willion have be recorded an excellent radio series!"
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Adams really was a brilliant writer. The "Rob was a rain god" line in So Long and Thanks For All the Fish made me actually fall out of my chair laughing (it was a truly spectacular punchline).
I still use "we demand rigidly defined areas of uncertainty" in software requirements meetings.
The Bush Administration announced today that the next State of the Union Address will be delivered using Ronald Reagan's voice.
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Douglas Adams, the Tupac of British humor
And Agrajag is a fine name. But nothing can hold a candle to "Slartibartfast."
What was the question again?
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Obviously you meant:
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"Great! Just when I finished re-reading the whole collection!"
The books contradict the original radio series, so no change there...
;-))
Is anyone else still pining for the continuation of the plotlines opened in the last episode of the radio series? Arthur on a vendetta against Zaphod, with me left in the middle...
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Strangely, the only thing to go through the mind of the tape recordings as they fell was "oh no, not again." It is believed that if we knew why the recordings thought this, we would know a lot more about the way the universe works.
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At least I'm not missing my "y" and "o" keys.
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Douglas Adams had a website that he posted on. One of his last posts (less than a month before his death) I thought had an interesting connection to /. and electronic forums in general:
"If anybody has any suggestions of features they'd like to see added (or taken away) please say so. We will of course completely ignore them. That's how the new electronic democracy works."
- Douglas Adams talking about updating his website
Viva la Microsoft?
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In related news...
A resident of Tibet by the name of Dug lah-sa Dams was reported to have screamed "Oh no, not again!" before being accidentally run over by a bus load of tourists. The driver of the bus, one Arthur Dent, originally from England, is being held for questioning.
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Why, actually, yes, I did. I was just minding my own business, and this brief interdimensional rift opened up, just for long enough to hear a voice boom down the news of Douglas Adam's death...
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I just invaded Grammar Czechoslovakia and duped Grammar Neville Chamberlain; now it's on to Grammar Poland.
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I mean, who else is going to know what it's like?
And it's so,,,, so... Douglas Adams.
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