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Win a Part in the Hitchhiker's Guide
jweatherley writes "The BBC are offering someone the chance to win a part in the forthcoming Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie. You just have to send them a picture of somewhere on Earth that deserves to be spared from the Vogons by 25 June - oh and be British!" Python impressions don't count ;)
Oh yes... might as well start with some nice quotes from the book:
... until ... until ... until you've had
"Drink up."
He added, perfectly factually:
"The world's about to end."
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"You barbarians!" he yelled. "I'll sue the council for every
penny it's got! I'll have you hung, drawn and quartered! And
whipped! And boiled
enough."
Ford was running after him very fast. Very very fast.
"And then I'll do it again!" yelled Arthur. "And when I've
finished I will take all the little bits, and I will jump on
them!"
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If they are giving away free Babelfish I am so there.
I knew there was a reason I haven't gone to the dentist in a few years.
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
"You know, it's at times like this when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young!" "Why, what did she tell you?" "I don't know, I didn't listen."
Instead of asking places to be spared, can we ask for places to be obliterated?
I won't say which places, of course. I'll be nice. (unless you ask nicely)
Washington definitely needs to be sp-- oh, wait. Not "speared", then. Never mind.
... THAT must be how Jerome Blake got the part.
I'm usually on the other end of this and now I know how much it sucks. I can't partake because I'm American, arg...I mean bloody hell mate I'm as British as apple pi...umm bangers and mash.
vampirical
Do Perl impressions count?
June 25 is in 3 hours in Britain. Timely.
Perhaps you have a picture of an animal in its natural habitat that blows you away
goatse comes into mind for some reason...
...that the winner is just going to have a really hot, photogenic girlfriend;)
Football involved helmets and tackling. All of my teeth are intact and healthy. Tea is best cold and sweet. Cars belong on the right side of the road. Skin should not be as pasty white as the under side of aquatic mammals.
I guess I'm out! Unless thinking George W. is royal-freaking-idiot would help my cause.
so maybe there's luck that an emigrated Yank could score a roll... Here's hoping, at any rate.
Maybe you've just got to have a real hunger for it...
(where's -1: Groan, right?)
Don't forget to bring a towel!
...
You wanna get high?
I've been thinking and there isn't anywhere that I could make a case for saving
I'll just buy peanuts and learn Dentrassi.
Are we *sure* that isn't the title?
--- What?
so maybe there's luck that an emigrated Yank could score a roll...
Why would you want to score a troll? Eh, what's that? Oh, nevermind then.
"Good news, everyone!"
I would have to say google, they could make a whole description of how google was never actually anywhere it just appeared one day on the internet.
wink:wink nudge:nudge say no more
I've been complaining for a long time, but now I'm finally leaving.
Slashdot is way too U.K.-centric. Where's my news about America (land of the free, home of the brave)? I'm sick and tired of all this "Metres this" and "Stones that" crap.
Give me American, or give me death!
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I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
They must have made a lot of extras to still have any left after 400 years!
*sigh* We saved them from the hun twice last century, and (possibly) once from the bolshevik hoards. We buy Harry Potter books by the shipload, and we put up with Hugh Grant's acting. Doesn't that cut us enough slack to get a shot at being vaporised by vogons?
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
I used to work for a British company and I like Bubble and Squeak. Close enough?
I'd carve "Slartibartfast" into a glacier, pretend its Norway, and take a picture of it. afterall Slartibartfast won an award for Norway...
o The White House
o Britney Spear's Mansion
o Redmond, Washington
o AOL/Disney/RIAA/$EVIL_CORPORATION headquarters
o Whatever company makes vending machines. I swear, I've lost so much to those things...
If my answers frighten you, stop asking scary questions.
Good! I'm looking forward to Abu Hamza as Zaphod!
They even tell you about their contest when precipitous doom or the end of the entry period is too close to do any thing about it.
- Tjp
I am in wallow with my inner money grubbing capitalistic pig. ... Oink!
Did you change your underwear lately???
spared by the vogons, not speared...
; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --
If not then I hope i get a complimentary towel.
And I thought David Brent was a fictional character...
Houses are so expensive because it's within spitting distance of London. Unfortunately, the average salary in Slough is well below the regional average, meaning the town suffers from a very low quality of life. Perhaps that's why I want to commit suicide everytime I go there.
I'd be running over to the linen section of the department store and snapping shots of towels. Lot's of towels. On clearence!
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
Come to think of it... Maybe they could take votes for people the public most wants to see obliterated. I mean, think about the people you could draw to see the movie that way! I mean, we could tell Bush that it's a great publicity stunt- a real good way for him to show what good terms he's on with the Brits- and plus reach those annoyingly liberal geek-types!
Then again... Maybe that isn't such a good idea.
~The Incredible Xan~
"Saying that men can't be lesbians is gender discrimination."
I'm sure we can think of a few.
send them a picture of somewhere on Earth that deserves to be spared from the Vogons
I will assume that Vogons will be doing the judging. (Given that the competition closes in about 24 hours, this is probably correct.) What appeals to Vogons? Administration. Bureaucratic red tape, sealing wax and paperwork. Ugly, drab functionality.
Therefore, I would send in a picture of an administration building on Earth that is the most ugly, greyest, most drab utilitarian administration building in existence, and that also generates great quantities of bureaucratic paper work for no good reason.
That would be worth preserving - to prove to the universe that the Vogons can be matched elsewhere in the galaxy for sheer bloodyminded bureaucracy.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke
It's something almost entirely but not quite unlike 'T'.
but since we 'merkins
OT I know, but I've always understood that a "merkin" was a pubic wig; at least I believe that's the definition in the OED.