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Post by -(aaK)- Deltz on Feb 17, 2004 2:26:49 GMT
Not so much a joke as a funny book by Douglas Adams. A dictionary of things that there aren't any words for yet. Amersham (n.) The sneeze which tickels but never comes. (Thought to derive from the Metropolitan tube station of the same name where the rails always rattle but the train never arrives.) Affcot (n.) The sort of fart you hope people will talk after. Blithbury (n.) A look someone gives you which indicates that they're much too drunk to have understood anything you've said to them in the last 20 minutes. Clunes (n.) People who just won't go. Dunino (n.) Someone who always wants to do whatever you want to do. Falster (n.) A long-winded, dishonest and completlely incredible excuse used when the truth would have been completely acceptable. Lemvig (n.) A person who can be relied upon to be doing worse than you. Lostwithiel (n.) The deep and peaceful sleep you finally fall into two minutes before the alarm goes off. Can't be asked to type the whole book out .........
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Icarion
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Post by Icarion on Feb 17, 2004 14:54:33 GMT
I have this book It's great!
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Post by -(aaK)- Deltz on Feb 17, 2004 14:58:21 GMT
Cool Another Douglas Adams fan..... Found it again the other day and was cracking up reading it last night......
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Icarion
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Post by Icarion on Feb 17, 2004 15:04:10 GMT
Oh yes, Douglas Adams rules The HitchHikers trilogy of five are probably my favourite books ever. It's such a shame that he never wrote the 6th book he had planned BTW did you know there's a HHG film coming soon? It's going to be great, judging from the casting so far!
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Post by -(aaK)- Deltz on Feb 17, 2004 15:13:02 GMT
Yea The Hitchhiker's Guide to the galaxy rules.. So do the Dirk Gentley books. Have you read The Salmon of Doubt? where they went through what was left on his macintosh.. Great book, just sad he couldn't have written more... I'd heard they were making the movie, but didn't realise they were actually doing something, being as they have had ages to do it.... Have to have a look for it now, cheers.....
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Icarion
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Post by Icarion on Feb 17, 2004 15:22:56 GMT
Yes, I have read all his stuff apart from Last Chance to See. I do like the Dirk gently novels, and I love the Salmon of Doubt! *sigh* What a guy!
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Post by -(aaK)- Deltz on Feb 17, 2004 15:39:06 GMT
Yea think thats the only one i haven't read. One of the best without a doubt.... I love the letter he wrote in salmon of doubt to Walt Disney pictures, where he gives them a list of contacts so big there's no way they can't get hold of him....including his neighbours, Class.
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Post by Buzz on Feb 17, 2004 17:15:31 GMT
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