OT: Doglas Adams is dead!!!

[ZzZ]

Yes, it's true.

Just read it at the official Douglas Adams website (http://www.douglasadams.com) and Comingsoon.net (http://www.comingsoon.net/cgi-bin/archive/fullnews.cgi?newsid989674673,87829,) ... this is so sad!

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ZzZ

[This message has been edited by ZzZ (edited 12 May 2001).]

[Taqwus]

So long and thanks for all the laughs.

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[Alpha Kodiak]

The world just got a little less funny. Perhaps we should remember some of the really crazy stuff he came up with.

The first contact I had with Hitchhiker's Guide was the BBC television series rather than the book. I remember just flat losing it the first time I saw the Babel Fish bit on the show. When I read the book and later watched the series again, it wasn't so unexpected, but that first time, the idea of sticking a fish in your ear as their Version of the universal translator had me in hysterics.

[Fuerte]

This is bad news indeed.

[Will]

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[Matryx]

May he rest in peace http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon9.gif

[Droplede]

I remember staying up late on Thursday nights as a kid to listen to the rebroadcast of the BBC radio "Hitchhikers" show on NPR, and then rushing out to buy the books as soon as I could. Adams was such a huge influence on my ear for comedy writing -- the pace, the setup, the silly word just for the feel of it.

Bye, Douglas. Hope you brought your towel.

[Atrocities]

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[Suicide Junkie]

I loved those stories, read every one I could find http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon9.gif

[raynor]

I think the BBC Version of the Hitchhiker's Guide was extremely well done. It is not often they do such an excellent job of capturing what's in the book.