Bret Busby wrote:
On Sat, 17 Oct 2009, Daniel wrote:
(P.S. "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In *Five* Parts")
That was dealt with by me, in a message posted to the list, in response
to a similar claim, I believe by you, in mid-July.
My citation was correct.
See the message below.
Please desist in incorrect "corrections", that are not on-topic.
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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992
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On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Bret Busby wrote:
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:11:41 +0800 (WST)
From: Bret Busby <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Really OT - HHGTTG - was Re: OT : was Re: Adding search
engines to seamonkey
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Daniel wrote:
> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:55:24 +1000
> From: Daniel <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Newsgroups: mozilla.support.seamonkey
> Subject: OT : was Re: Adding search engines to seamonkey
> > Bret Busby wrote:
> > On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Philip Chee wrote:
> > > > > Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:10:52 +0800
> > > From: Philip Chee <[email protected]>
> > <snip>
> > > -- > > Bret Busby
> > Armadale
> > West Australia
> > ..............
> > > > "So once you do know what the question actually is,
> > you'll know what the answer means."
> > - Deep Thought,
> > Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
> > "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
> > A Trilogy In Four Parts",
> > written by Douglas Adams,
> > published by Pan Books, 1992
> > > > ....................................................
> > Two things Bret:-
> > 1. Your sig de-limiter is broke (should be dash dash space),
otherwise I could not have quoted it here, and,
> > 2. Hitchhiker's guide is actually a trilogy in five parts.
>
The citation is correct.
The edition was
"published in 1992 by Pan Books
an imprint of Pan MacMillan Ltd
Pan MacMillan, 20 New Wharf Road, London N1 9RR
Basingstoke and Oxford
...
ISBN 0 330 31611 7".
The front cover is a picture of a bathroom wall, with a Philishave (?)
(three-headed) electric shaver on a glass shelf, on
the left, on the right hand end of the glass shelf, is a digital
watch, above that, is a glass hanging on the wall, containg
three toothbrushes, and between the electricity supply socket ito
which the electric shaver is plugged, and the glass
hanging on the wall, is a mirror, containing an image of the Vogon
bulldozer, oriented in the direction of travel from the
top right corner of the mirror, to the bottom left corner of the
mirror. The wall tiles are coloured darkish blue.
See http://www.sfbok.se/asp/artikel.asp?VolumeID=24535 , for an
illustration of the cover of the book.
And, the cited quote is from the topmost paragraph on page 129 of the
cited book. It is the second sentence of the
paragraph.
The first sentence of that paragraph, is
" 'Exactly!' said Deep Thought".
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............
"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992
....................................................
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Drat, my failing memory!
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