"So Long and Thanks for All the Fish" was the penultimate book in the super-enhanced trilogy HHGTTG, book Four of Five of the trilogy++.
This is why the movie begins as it does with dolphins performing. Earth was indeed destroyed, but as all good programmers do when working with large important computer programs and hardware, there was provision for a back up. Good planning on the mice's part. (See, the mentioning the backup part brings this close to being mainframe related as the Earth was a large computer and humans were part of the program to figure out what the ultimate question was to which "42" was the answer.) My your skies be free of Vogons, Peter -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 5:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Thanks for eveything >>You're welcome for all the fish! >[OK, who gets the allusion?] Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy By the late Douglas Adams The last in the series was (IIRC): So Long, and Thank You for all the Fish In that one, they discovered that Earth had not been destroyed after all. Others: 42! The answer to the meaning of life and everything else. When in doubt. PANIC!! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
