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Science Fiction » alt.fan.douglas-adams » And thanks for the fish...
And thanks for the fish... [message #236553] So, 19 März 2006 14:04
Felix Atagong  
Who -exactly- made the duplicate Earth in So Long... We all suppose it's the
Magrathea, but has that been put in the actual novel? Me don't think so...

Felix

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Re: And thanks for the fish... [message #236554 ] So, 19 März 2006 18:12
Kaare Fiedler Christi  
Felix Atagong wrote:
> Who -exactly- made the duplicate Earth in So Long... We all suppose it's the
> Magrathea, but has that been put in the actual novel? Me don't think so...

Uhm, I never thought the Earth from SLATFATF was made by Magrathea.

The best bet we have on where it came from is chapter 32; in which it is
more than hinted that the new Earth is pulled from enfolded time (?):

"And then the fling of hope, the finding of a shadow Earth in the
implications of enfolded time, submerged dimensions, the pull of
parallels, the deep pull, the spin of will, the hurl and split of
it, the flight. A new Earth pulled into replacement, the dolphins
gone."

(read the chapter for a bit of context)



But my favorite explanation of why the Earth is still there is this
exchange between Ford and Arthur (chapter 39):

"[...] Hey, what happened with all that anyway?"

"Just life," said Arthur, and plucked a beer from a six-pack.

"Oh, that again," said Ford. "I thought it might be something
like that."


Best
Kåre
Re: And thanks for the fish... [message #236555 ] So, 19 März 2006 18:21
Felix Atagong  
"Kaare Fiedler Christiansen" wrote:
> The best bet we have on where it came from is chapter 32; in which it is
> more than hinted that the new Earth is pulled from enfolded time (?):
> "And then the fling of hope, the finding of a shadow Earth in the
> implications of enfolded time, submerged dimensions, the pull of
> parallels, the deep pull, the spin of will, the hurl and split of
> it, the flight. A new Earth pulled into replacement, the dolphins
> gone."

Hmmm, must have missed that one. Probably that explains the third Earth then
as well of the fifth book...
Felix
Re: And thanks for the fish... [message #236558 ] Mo, 20 März 2006 00:40
G C  
Felix Atagong wrote:
> Who -exactly- made the duplicate Earth in So Long... We all suppose it's the
> Magrathea, but has that been put in the actual novel? Me don't think so...
>
> Felix
>
Well, in the movie, it was the pan dimensional mice that contracted Mag
to build mkII. In the novel it seems to be a loose end.


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Re: And thanks for the fish... [message #236559 ] Mo, 20 März 2006 04:15
Tian  
Kaare Fiedler Christiansen wrote:
> Felix Atagong wrote:
>
>> Who -exactly- made the duplicate Earth in So Long... We all suppose
>> it's the Magrathea, but has that been put in the actual novel? Me
>> don't think so...
>
>
> Uhm, I never thought the Earth from SLATFATF was made by Magrathea.
>
> The best bet we have on where it came from is chapter 32; in which it is
> more than hinted that the new Earth is pulled from enfolded time (?):
>
> "And then the fling of hope, the finding of a shadow Earth in the
> implications of enfolded time, submerged dimensions, the pull of
> parallels, the deep pull, the spin of will, the hurl and split of
> it, the flight. A new Earth pulled into replacement, the dolphins
> gone."
>
> (read the chapter for a bit of context)
>
>
>
> But my favorite explanation of why the Earth is still there is this
> exchange between Ford and Arthur (chapter 39):
>
> "[...] Hey, what happened with all that anyway?"
>
> "Just life," said Arthur, and plucked a beer from a six-pack.
>
> "Oh, that again," said Ford. "I thought it might be something
> like that."
>
>
>
I think the real question is "are we on earth or duplicate earth?"

Whichever way you answer that, the next question is "how do you know?"

--
Tian
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I now have great campaign stickers. See one at the above URL.
Email me where to send it if you want one.
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Re: And thanks for the fish... [message #236564 ] Mo, 20 März 2006 20:21
Kaare Fiedler Christi  
Tian wrote:

<snip>

> I think the real question is "are we on earth or duplicate earth?"
>
> Whichever way you answer that, the next question is "how do you know?"

Shhhh! It's questions like those that will end up replacing the Universe
with something even more bizarre and inexplicable :-)

Best
Kåre
Re: And thanks for the fish... [message #236567 ] Di, 21 März 2006 01:17
spam05  
Kaare Fiedler Christiansen <news [at] kaarefc.dk> hit the keyboard.
Afterwards the following was on the screen:

> Tian wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> I think the real question is "are we on earth or duplicate earth?"
>> Whichever way you answer that, the next question is "how do you
>> know?"
>
> Shhhh! It's questions like those that will end up replacing the
> Universe with something even more bizarre and inexplicable :-)

I thought that already happened :-)

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Re: And thanks for the fish... [message #236568 ] Di, 21 März 2006 01:19
spam05  
G C <79flh [at] mychainev1.net> hit the keyboard.
Afterwards the following was on the screen:

> Felix Atagong wrote:
>> Who -exactly- made the duplicate Earth in So Long... We all suppose
>> it's the Magrathea, but has that been put in the actual novel? Me
>> don't think so...
>> Felix
>>
> Well, in the movie, it was the pan dimensional mice that contracted
> Mag to build mkII. In the novel it seems to be a loose end.

Yes, indeed. This is one place where the storylines are different
though...

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Re: And thanks for the fish... [message #236570 ] Di, 21 März 2006 03:06
Tian  
Kaare Fiedler Christiansen wrote:
> Tian wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> I think the real question is "are we on earth or duplicate earth?"
>>
>> Whichever way you answer that, the next question is "how do you know?"
>
>
> Shhhh! It's questions like those that will end up replacing the Universe
> with something even more bizarre and inexplicable :-)
>
>
(arches eyebrow and gives Kaare a meaningful look) my lips are sealed.
--
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http://tianharter.org
I am proud to report that Bradley University (where I went to
school) has made it to the NCAA Sweet Sixteen. It's been years
since the last time I heard the Braves mentioned on my radio.
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Re: And thanks for the fish... [message #236571 ] Di, 21 März 2006 04:04
Reece  
spam05 [at] zz9.dk (Rasmus =?utf-8?Q?B=C3=B8g?= Hansen) wrote in
news:87wteovec8.fsf [at] grignard.amagerkollegiet.dk:

> G C <79flh [at] mychainev1.net> hit the keyboard.
> Afterwards the following was on the screen:
>
>> Felix Atagong wrote:
>>> Who -exactly- made the duplicate Earth in So Long... We all suppose
>>> it's the Magrathea, but has that been put in the actual novel? Me
>>> don't think so...
>>> Felix
>>>
>> Well, in the movie, it was the pan dimensional mice that contracted
>> Mag to build mkII. In the novel it seems to be a loose end.
>
> Yes, indeed. This is one place where the storylines are different
> though...
>

I thought the point was that Earth is located in what is known as the
"plural zones", that is, it is discontinuous along the probability axis.

In this regard, it is some sort of Schrodingers Planet: it either exists or
doesn't until you actually examine it.

My theory is that the when the Dentian Probability earth was destroyed by
the Vogons, the dolphins were able to look at the WSOGMM in such a way that
the probability equations evaluated into a new earth (which may, or may
not, as the case may be, be the same one that the mice had Magrathea
create: recall that under the Random Utility Theory, the error is assumed
to be independently and gumbel distributed).

At another point in time, the Vogons (aided by the pandemensional book mark
II) was able to look at WSOGMM in a different way and this time the
probabilities evaluated into the earth no longer existing at all points
along the probablity axis :(

Those of us who study the science of cause and effect say that this sort of
thing is probably going on all the time and there is very little anyone can
do about it.


R.



--
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Re: And thanks for the fish... [message #236573 ] Di, 21 März 2006 13:39
aqusenet  
Reece <keeping-wicket [at] spam.hotmail.com> wrote:

> spam05 [at] zz9.dk (Rasmus =?utf-8?Q?B=C3=B8g?= Hansen) wrote in
> news:87wteovec8.fsf [at] grignard.amagerkollegiet.dk:
>
> > G C <79flh [at] mychainev1.net> hit the keyboard.
> > Afterwards the following was on the screen:
> >
> >> Felix Atagong wrote:
> >>> Who -exactly- made the duplicate Earth in So Long... We all suppose
> >>> it's the Magrathea, but has that been put in the actual novel? Me
> >>> don't think so...
> >>> Felix
> >>>
> >> Well, in the movie, it was the pan dimensional mice that contracted
> >> Mag to build mkII. In the novel it seems to be a loose end.
> >
> > Yes, indeed. This is one place where the storylines are different
> > though...
> >
>
> I thought the point was that Earth is located in what is known as the
> "plural zones", that is, it is discontinuous along the probability axis.

yes.

ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha, remember.
Re: And thanks for the fish... [message #236574 ] Di, 21 März 2006 14:07
Felix Atagong  
"Kaare Fiedler Christiansen" and 'Tian' wrote:

>> I think the real question is "are we on earth or duplicate earth?"
>> Whichever way you answer that, the next question is "how do you know?"
> Shhhh! It's questions like those that will end up replacing the Universe
> with something even more bizarre and inexplicable :-)

That is probably why I can't find my stockings in the morning, they always
end up in different places... but I wonder (we can only guess) how DNA
himseld would've dealt with all these worlds, destroyed or not, in book 6...

F
Re: And thanks for the fish... [message #236577 ] Di, 21 März 2006 19:29
Kaare Fiedler Christi  
Aquarion wrote:
> Reece <keeping-wicket [at] spam.hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>>spam05 [at] zz9.dk (Rasmus =?utf-8?Q?B=C3=B8g?= Hansen) wrote in
>>news:87wteovec8.fsf [at] grignard.amagerkollegiet.dk:
>>
>>
>>>G C <79flh [at] mychainev1.net> hit the keyboard.
>>>Afterwards the following was on the screen:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Felix Atagong wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Who -exactly- made the duplicate Earth in So Long... We all suppose
>>>>>it's the Magrathea, but has that been put in the actual novel? Me
>>>>>don't think so...
>>>>>Felix
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Well, in the movie, it was the pan dimensional mice that contracted
>>>>Mag to build mkII. In the novel it seems to be a loose end.
>>>
>>>Yes, indeed. This is one place where the storylines are different
>>>though...
>>>
>>
>>I thought the point was that Earth is located in what is known as the
>>"plural zones", that is, it is discontinuous along the probability axis.
>
>
> yes.

Agreed, if you take Mostly Harmless into account, I agree that's the case.

I almost disliked Mostly Harmless for that particular aspect; though;
since it seems to contradict Ford's claim that history just fits
together like a great jigzaw puzzle, so you can't do anything to change
the future. And that is my favourite theory of time travel.

I remember som Russian scientist, Igor something-or-other, gave a talk
at out university where he adressed time travel from that angle.
Basically, he resolved time travel paradoxes by claiming they didn't
happen, cause they couldn't.

So if, for instance, you went back in time to kill your grandfather, you
wouldn't succeed, basically because it didn't make sense. Maybe you
would trip over your own feet at the crucial moment, or change your
mind, or forget to bring the gun along or something. The point was you
couldn't succeed, because the laws of physics to care of the paradoxes
for themselves.

He did have a few weird paradoxes left, though. He had a perfect plan
for how to make a time machine: You took a wormhole and placed one end
near a heavy body like a white dwarf or something. Then time would move
slower in one end than the other, and all you had to do was move the
slow end somewhere else when you thought the time difference was great
enough. One result of this was that you couldn't go further back than
when the time machine was invented, which explains the lack of visitors.

Now, you couldn't make paradoxes that broke the laws of physics, he
claimed. But you could make a few fun things. He came with some examples
with billiard balls send through a time machine that went back in time
and hit the billiard ball before it entered, and claimed that it simply
wouldn't happen, because it didn't make sense. What could happen without
any paradoxes, though, was that the time machine could spontaously spit
out a billiard ball from one end of the time machine; which then went
back in the other end of the time machine. Everything had been nicely
conserved, and nothing in the laws of physics would stop it from doing
that...

Scientists are a weird bunch :-)

Best
Kåre
Re: And thanks for the fish... [message #236585 ] Mi, 22 März 2006 00:56
spam05  
Kaare Fiedler Christiansen <news [at] kaarefc.dk> hit the keyboard.
Afterwards the following was on the screen:

> Aquarion wrote:
>> Reece <keeping-wicket [at] spam.hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> spam05 [at] zz9.dk (Rasmus =?utf-8?Q?B=C3=B8g?= Hansen) wrote in
>>> news:87wteovec8.fsf [at] grignard.amagerkollegiet.dk:
>>>
>>>
>>>>G C <79flh [at] mychainev1.net> hit the keyboard.
>>>>Afterwards the following was on the screen:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Felix Atagong wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Who -exactly- made the duplicate Earth in So Long... We all suppose
>>>>>>it's the Magrathea, but has that been put in the actual novel? Me
>>>>>>don't think so...
>>>>>>Felix
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Well, in the movie, it was the pan dimensional mice that contracted
>>>>>Mag to build mkII. In the novel it seems to be a loose end.
>>>>
>>>>Yes, indeed. This is one place where the storylines are different
>>>>though...
>>>>
>>>
>>>I thought the point was that Earth is located in what is known as the
>>>"plural zones", that is, it is discontinuous along the probability axis.
>> yes.
>
> Agreed, if you take Mostly Harmless into account, I agree that's the case.
>
> I almost disliked Mostly Harmless for that particular aspect; though;
> since it seems to contradict Ford's claim that history just fits
> together like a great jigzaw puzzle, so you can't do anything to
> change the future. And that is my favourite theory of time travel.
>
> I remember som Russian scientist, Igor something-or-other, gave a talk
> at out university where he adressed time travel from that
> angle. Basically, he resolved time travel paradoxes by claiming they
> didn't happen, cause they couldn't.
>
> So if, for instance, you went back in time to kill your grandfather,
> you wouldn't succeed, basically because it didn't make sense. Maybe
> you would trip over your own feet at the crucial moment, or change
> your mind, or forget to bring the gun along or something. The point
> was you couldn't succeed, because the laws of physics to care of the
> paradoxes for themselves.
>
> He did have a few weird paradoxes left, though. He had a perfect plan
> for how to make a time machine: You took a wormhole and placed one end
> near a heavy body like a white dwarf or something. Then time would
> move slower in one end than the other, and all you had to do was move
> the slow end somewhere else when you thought the time difference was
> great enough. One result of this was that you couldn't go further back
> than when the time machine was invented, which explains the lack of
> visitors.
>
> Now, you couldn't make paradoxes that broke the laws of physics, he
> claimed. But you could make a few fun things. He came with some
> examples with billiard balls send through a time machine that went
> back in time and hit the billiard ball before it entered, and claimed
> that it simply wouldn't happen, because it didn't make sense. What
> could happen without any paradoxes, though, was that the time machine
> could spontaously spit out a billiard ball from one end of the time
> machine; which then went back in the other end of the time
> machine. Everything had been nicely conserved, and nothing in the laws
> of physics would stop it from doing that...

Apparently all that can be boiled down to:

In time travel, things that wouldn't make sense aren't possible,

Does that make sense? If not, would that make the statement invalid in
time travel? Wouldn't that be a time travel paradox invalidating
normal time paradoxes?

> Scientists are a weird bunch :-)

Shhhh, careful. Uncle Lloyd might take that offensive - and I wouldn't
want thermonuclear doom over Denmark!

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Re: And thanks for the fish... [message #236591 ] Do, 23 März 2006 04:07
smarkham01  
Not really up in the air, underground it seems to be. Chapter 24,
HHGTTG (pgs 108-110 in the 1989 edition of The More than Complete HHG -
15th edition??) is pretty explicit. The
Magrathean's who designed and built it, the pan dimensional mice
contracted to have both th efirst and the duplicate built. We, of
course are living on Mk II, unless the experiments went awry. In which
case we might not be living anywhere.
Re: And thanks for the fish... [message #236592 ] Do, 23 März 2006 04:14
smarkham01  
In the 15th ed. of The More Than Complete HHG (Wings Books, 1989),
pages 108-110, the pan dimensional mice are credited with contracting
for and paying for the both Earth MK I and MK II. The Magrathean's are
credited with building both (although MK II is still incomplete in that
chapter).
Re: And thanks for the fish... [message #236593 ] Do, 23 März 2006 07:34
Neil Gerace  
"Felix Atagong" <atagong [at] lycos.com> wrote in message
news:xUSTf.329016$By5.10122333 [at] phobos.telenet-ops.be...
> "Kaare Fiedler Christiansen" and 'Tian' wrote:
>
>>> I think the real question is "are we on earth or duplicate earth?"
>>> Whichever way you answer that, the next question is "how do you know?"
>> Shhhh! It's questions like those that will end up replacing the Universe
>> with something even more bizarre and inexplicable :-)
>
> That is probably why I can't find my stockings in the morning, they always
> end up in different places ...

Count your coat-hangers some time, and see if you have any extra the next
time you count them :-)
Re: And thanks for the fish... [message #236594 ] Do, 23 März 2006 19:51
afda  
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 00:56:57 +0100, spam05 [at] zz9.dk (Rasmus Bøg Hansen)
wrote:

>Kaare Fiedler Christiansen <news [at] kaarefc.dk> hit the keyboard.
>Afterwards the following was on the screen:
>
>> Scientists are a weird bunch :-)
>
>Shhhh, careful. Uncle Lloyd might take that offensive - and I wouldn't
>want thermonuclear doom over Denmark!

Offensive? Nah. I whole heartedly agree. :-D

Lloyd
--
"In fact, everything between 'herring' and 'marmalade'
appears to be missing" -- Svlad Cjelli
Re: And thanks for the fish... [message #236598 ] Do, 23 März 2006 22:21
Kaare Fiedler Christi  
smarkham01 [at] comcast.net wrote:
> Not really up in the air, underground it seems to be. Chapter 24,
> HHGTTG (pgs 108-110 in the 1989 edition of The More than Complete HHG -
> 15th edition??) is pretty explicit. The
> Magrathean's who designed and built it, the pan dimensional mice
> contracted to have both th efirst and the duplicate built.

Agreed

> We, of
> course are living on Mk II, unless the experiments went awry. In which
> case we might not be living anywhere.

That I don't agree with. Mk II was never finished. The Earth in SLATFATF
isn't the Earth mk II, in my opinion.

Best
Kåre
Re: And thanks for the fish... [message #236604 ] Fr, 24 März 2006 04:57
Neil Gerace  
"Kaare Fiedler Christiansen" <news [at] kaarefc.dk> wrote in message
news:44231153$0$2084$edfadb0f [at] dtext02.news.tele.dk...
> smarkham01 [at] comcast.net wrote:
>> Not really up in the air, underground it seems to be. Chapter 24,
>> HHGTTG (pgs 108-110 in the 1989 edition of The More than Complete HHG -
>> 15th edition??) is pretty explicit. The
>> Magrathean's who designed and built it, the pan dimensional mice
>> contracted to have both th efirst and the duplicate built.
>
> Agreed
>
>> We, of
>> course are living on Mk II, unless the experiments went awry. In which
>> case we might not be living anywhere.
>
> That I don't agree with. Mk II was never finished.


"You know what this means, don't you."
"What?"
"Cock-up."


The Earth in SLATFATF
> isn't the Earth mk II, in my opinion.

I think it's at least Mark III GT. El Nino and the Gulf Stream are the
racing stripes.
Re: And thanks for the fish... [message #246741 ] Mo, 10 April 2006 10:32
spam06  
afda [at] zanoop.org.uk.invalid (Lloyd Gilbert) hit the keyboard.
Afterwards the following was on the screen:

> On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 00:56:57 +0100, spam05 [at] zz9.dk (Rasmus Bøg Hansen)
> wrote:
>
>>Kaare Fiedler Christiansen <news [at] kaarefc.dk> hit the keyboard.
>>Afterwards the following was on the screen:
>>
>>> Scientists are a weird bunch :-)
>>
>>Shhhh, careful. Uncle Lloyd might take that offensive - and I wouldn't
>>want thermonuclear doom over Denmark!
>
> Offensive? Nah. I whole heartedly agree. :-D

Actually, being a chemistry student - I agree very much too.

The most weird people I know are from university. Right after usenet
perhaps ;-)

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Re: And thanks for the fish... [message #246752 ] Di, 11 April 2006 06:51
Neil Gerace  
"Rasmus "Bøg" Hansen" <spam06 [at] zz9.dk> wrote in message
news:87mzetal00.fsf [at] grignard.amagerkollegiet.dk...
> afda [at] zanoop.org.uk.invalid (Lloyd Gilbert) hit the keyboard.
> Afterwards the following was on the screen:
>
>> On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 00:56:57 +0100, spam05 [at] zz9.dk (Rasmus Bøg Hansen)
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Kaare Fiedler Christiansen <news [at] kaarefc.dk> hit the keyboard.
>>>Afterwards the following was on the screen:
>>>
>>>> Scientists are a weird bunch :-)
>>>
>>>Shhhh, careful. Uncle Lloyd might take that offensive - and I wouldn't
>>>want thermonuclear doom over Denmark!
>>
>> Offensive? Nah. I whole heartedly agree. :-D
>
> Actually, being a chemistry student - I agree very much too.
>
> The most weird people I know are from university. Right after usenet
> perhaps ;-)


If Denmark gets nuked they can thank Niels Bohr for helping to make it
possible :) :)
Re: And thanks for the fish... [message #247311 ] Di, 11 April 2006 13:27
spam06  
"Neil Gerace" <geracen [at] iinet.net.au> hit the keyboard.
Afterwards the following was on the screen:

> "Rasmus "Bøg" Hansen" <spam06 [at] zz9.dk> wrote in message
> news:87mzetal00.fsf [at] grignard.amagerkollegiet.dk...
>> afda [at] zanoop.org.uk.invalid (Lloyd Gilbert) hit the keyboard.
>> Afterwards the following was on the screen:
>>
>>> On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 00:56:57 +0100, spam05 [at] zz9.dk (Rasmus Bøg Hansen)
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Kaare Fiedler Christiansen <news [at] kaarefc.dk> hit the keyboard.
>>>>Afterwards the following was on the screen:
>>>>
>>>>> Scientists are a weird bunch :-)
>>>>
>>>>Shhhh, careful. Uncle Lloyd might take that offensive - and I wouldn't
>>>>want thermonuclear doom over Denmark!
>>>
>>> Offensive? Nah. I whole heartedly agree. :-D
>>
>> Actually, being a chemistry student - I agree very much too.
>>
>> The most weird people I know are from university. Right after usenet
>> perhaps ;-)
>
>
> If Denmark gets nuked they can thank Niels Bohr for helping to make it
> possible :) :)

Yeah, we brought it on ourselves!

Like the time with the spoon incident. Now, was THAT horrible to
watch!

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- just stupid people.
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Re: And thanks for the fish... [message #247313 ] Di, 11 April 2006 19:45
afda  
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:27:29 +0200, spam06 [at] zz9.dk (Rasmus Bøg Hansen)
wrote:

>> If Denmark gets nuked they can thank Niels Bohr for helping to make it
>> possible :) :)
>
>Yeah, we brought it on ourselves!
>
>Like the time with the spoon incident. Now, was THAT horrible to
>watch!

Which, what, er.. huh? What is/was the "the spoon incident"?

Lloyd
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Re: And thanks for the fish... [message #247314 ] Di, 11 April 2006 23:59
orson  
Felix Atagong wrote:

> Who -exactly- made the duplicate Earth in So Long... We all suppose it's the
> Magrathea, but has that been put in the actual novel? Me don't think so...

It was a minor production effort of the Mercury Theatre Group.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Theatre


> Felix
>
> --
> "For Creationists, 'The Flintstones' is a documentary."
> Kevin Padian, National Center for Science Education (USA)

-Orson

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Re: And thanks for the fish... [message #247317 ] Mi, 12 April 2006 01:11
Notifier Deamon  
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Re: And thanks for the fish... [message #247344 ] Do, 13 April 2006 09:01
Neil Gerace  
"Lloyd Gilbert" <afda [at] zanoop.org.uk.invalid> wrote in message
news:kpqn321aaome6cplmhgm8n5op4gljvr43f [at] 4ax.com...
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:27:29 +0200, spam06 [at] zz9.dk (Rasmus Bøg Hansen)
> wrote:
>
>>> If Denmark gets nuked they can thank Niels Bohr for helping to make it
>>> possible :) :)
>>
>>Yeah, we brought it on ourselves!
>>
>>Like the time with the spoon incident. Now, was THAT horrible to
>>watch!
>
> Which, what, er.. huh? What is/was the "the spoon incident"?

Whatever it was, I'm sure it just left the frogs standing.
Re: And thanks for the fish... [message #247352 ] Fr, 14 April 2006 05:03
Sid  
afda [at] zanoop.org.uk.invalid (Lloyd Gilbert) wrote in
news:kpqn321aaome6cplmhgm8n5op4gljvr43f [at] 4ax.com:

>>Like the time with the spoon incident. Now, was THAT horrible to
>>watch!

> Which, what, er.. huh? What is/was the "the spoon incident"?

There is no spoon incident.

Sid
Re: And thanks for the fish... [message #247355 ] Fr, 14 April 2006 05:13
Dave Adalian  
"Sid" <sidESSSPAMMMMM [at] MMMMMMAPSSSSEnerte.net> wrote in message
news:4a8hobFrud3hU5 [at] individual.net...
> afda [at] zanoop.org.uk.invalid (Lloyd Gilbert) wrote in
> news:kpqn321aaome6cplmhgm8n5op4gljvr43f [at] 4ax.com:
>
>>>Like the time with the spoon incident. Now, was THAT horrible to
>>>watch!
>
>> Which, what, er.. huh? What is/was the "the spoon incident"?
>
> There is no spoon incident.
>
> Sid

You're one of THEM?! Of course there's spoon incident!!!

-- Dave
http://starry-starry-nights.blogspot.com/
Re: And thanks for the fish... [message #249547 ] Mi, 19 April 2006 01:53
Giles  
> Felix Atagong wrote:
>
> > Who -exactly- made the duplicate Earth in So Long... We all suppose it's the
> > Magrathea, but has that been put in the actual novel? Me don't think so...

I always asumed it was the dolphins, hence all the
(ashtrays/fishbowls/I forget) with 'So long and thanks for all the
fish' written on them - but it's been a while since I read it, so I
could be wrong.
Re: And thanks for the fish... [message #261542 ] Do, 04 Mai 2006 14:26
spam06  
"Neil Gerace" <geracen [at] iinet.net.au> hit the keyboard.
Afterwards the following was on the screen:

> "Lloyd Gilbert" <afda [at] zanoop.org.uk.invalid> wrote in message
> news:kpqn321aaome6cplmhgm8n5op4gljvr43f [at] 4ax.com...
>> On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:27:29 +0200, spam06 [at] zz9.dk (Rasmus Bøg Hansen)
>> wrote:
>>
>>>> If Denmark gets nuked they can thank Niels Bohr for helping to make it
>>>> possible :) :)
>>>
>>>Yeah, we brought it on ourselves!
>>>
>>>Like the time with the spoon incident. Now, was THAT horrible to
>>>watch!
>>
>> Which, what, er.. huh? What is/was the "the spoon incident"?
>
> Whatever it was, I'm sure it just left the frogs standing.

No, they went to war. Incidentally they had tea instead.

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Re: And thanks for the fish... [message #261543 ] Do, 04 Mai 2006 14:27
spam06  
"Dave Adalian" <dpalta AT comcast.net> hit the keyboard.
Afterwards the following was on the screen:

> "Sid" <sidESSSPAMMMMM [at] MMMMMMAPSSSSEnerte.net> wrote in message
> news:4a8hobFrud3hU5 [at] individual.net...
>> afda [at] zanoop.org.uk.invalid (Lloyd Gilbert) wrote in
>> news:kpqn321aaome6cplmhgm8n5op4gljvr43f [at] 4ax.com:
>>
>>>>Like the time with the spoon incident. Now, was THAT horrible to
>>>>watch!
>>
>>> Which, what, er.. huh? What is/was the "the spoon incident"?
>>
>> There is no spoon incident.
>>
>> Sid
>
> You're one of THEM?! Of course there's spoon incident!!!

Indeed. And the last one was particular vicious.

--
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Expect the unexpected.
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Re: And thanks for the fish... [message #261544 ] Do, 04 Mai 2006 14:28
spam06  
Kenny Hutchings <askmenicely [at] dodgeit.com> hit the keyboard.
Afterwards the following was on the screen:

> In article <kpqn321aaome6cplmhgm8n5op4gljvr43f [at] 4ax.com>,
> afda [at] zanoop.org.uk.invalid says...
>> On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:27:29 +0200, spam06 [at] zz9.dk (Rasmus Bøg Hansen)
>> wrote:
>>
>> >> If Denmark gets nuked they can thank Niels Bohr for helping to make it
>> >> possible :) :)
>> >
>> >Yeah, we brought it on ourselves!
>> >
>> >Like the time with the spoon incident. Now, was THAT horrible to
>> >watch!
>>
>> Which, what, er.. huh? What is/was the "the spoon incident"?
>>
>
> Careful what you say here. You may educate Uncle Lloyd on how to
> construct a devastating WMD involving spoons.

Oh my. Thermonuclear doom made from spoons. Sounds ghastly.

--
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May the smurf be with you... Always.
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Re: And thanks for the fish... [message #261545 ] Do, 04 Mai 2006 19:56
Tian  
Rasmus Bøg Hansen wrote:
> "Dave Adalian" <dpalta AT comcast.net> hit the keyboard.
> Afterwards the following was on the screen:
>
>
>>"Sid" <sidESSSPAMMMMM [at] MMMMMMAPSSSSEnerte.net> wrote in message
>>news:4a8hobFrud3hU5 [at] individual.net...
>>
>>>afda [at] zanoop.org.uk.invalid (Lloyd Gilbert) wrote in
>>>news:kpqn321aaome6cplmhgm8n5op4gljvr43f [at] 4ax.com:
>>>
>>>
>>>>>Like the time with the spoon incident. Now, was THAT horrible to
>>>>>watch!
>>>
>>>>Which, what, er.. huh? What is/was the "the spoon incident"?
>>>
>>>There is no spoon incident.
>>>
>>>Sid
>>
>>You're one of THEM?! Of course there's spoon incident!!!
>
>
> Indeed. And the last one was particular vicious.
>
I feel like I'm being spoonfed spoons in pixels...

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Re: And thanks for the fish... [message #262285 ] Sa, 06 Mai 2006 12:26
Kaare Fiedler Christi  
Rasmus Bøg Hansen wrote:
> Kenny Hutchings <askmenicely [at] dodgeit.com> hit the keyboard.
> Afterwards the following was on the screen:
>
>> In article <kpqn321aaome6cplmhgm8n5op4gljvr43f [at] 4ax.com>,
>> afda [at] zanoop.org.uk.invalid says...
>>> On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:27:29 +0200, spam06 [at] zz9.dk (Rasmus Bøg Hansen)
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> If Denmark gets nuked they can thank Niels Bohr for helping to make it
>>>>> possible :) :)
>>>> Yeah, we brought it on ourselves!
>>>>
>>>> Like the time with the spoon incident. Now, was THAT horrible to
>>>> watch!
>>> Which, what, er.. huh? What is/was the "the spoon incident"?
>>>
>> Careful what you say here. You may educate Uncle Lloyd on how to
>> construct a devastating WMD involving spoons.
>
> Oh my. Thermonuclear doom made from spoons. Sounds ghastly.

At least it wasn't sporks!

Best
KÃ¥re
Re: And thanks for the fish... [message #262288 ] Sa, 06 Mai 2006 12:39
spam06  
Kaare Fiedler Christiansen <news [at] kaarefc.dk> hit the keyboard.
Afterwards the following was on the screen:

> Rasmus Bøg Hansen wrote:
>> Kenny Hutchings <askmenicely [at] dodgeit.com> hit the keyboard.
>> Afterwards the following was on the screen:
>>
>>> In article <kpqn321aaome6cplmhgm8n5op4gljvr43f [at] 4ax.com>,
>>> afda [at] zanoop.org.uk.invalid says...
>>>> On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:27:29 +0200, spam06 [at] zz9.dk (Rasmus Bøg Hansen)
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> If Denmark gets nuked they can thank Niels Bohr for helping to
>>>>>> make it possible :) :)
>>>>> Yeah, we brought it on ourselves!
>>>>>
>>>>> Like the time with the spoon incident. Now, was THAT horrible to
>>>>> watch!
>>>> Which, what, er.. huh? What is/was the "the spoon incident"?
>>>>
>>> Careful what you say here. You may educate Uncle Lloyd on how to
>>> construct a devastating WMD involving spoons.
>> Oh my. Thermonuclear doom made from spoons. Sounds ghastly.
>
> At least it wasn't sporks!

Yeah, *that* would have been ghastly! Also, that would probably have
been an abomination of God's Creation. And stuff.

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There is no insanity, just different perceptions of reality.
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