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Guest Jabba The Hunt

One douglas adams believes that the Ford Prefect joke was wasted on many americans and they just took it as a misspelling of perfect. I just thought I would ask is this is correct or not.

 

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Douglas Adams believes that the 'Ford Prefect' joke was wasted on many Americans because they just took it as a misspelling of 'perfect'. I just thought I would ask is this is correct or not.

 

Just afew minor modifications and it makes sense!

 

 

 

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Guest Jabba The Hunt

The name of the character from the hitch hikers gudie to the galaxy is called Ford Prefect - This was a saloon car when the book was writen however it never made it to america. You can now see that ford prefect misunderstood the dominate life form!

 

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Apparently none of us have ever read a Douglass Adams book.

 

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Was I supposed to eat the heads too? 'Cause I took nooo prisioners!

 

Once again, evil is defeated through the use of decorative agricultural technology!

 

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A while ago my sig was "42?" you all said that you know what this meant e.g the answer to life the universe and everything. I thought that most people on this board knew what I was talking about I now see that I was wrong

 

p.s. my knew sig is the sloogon for the resuarant at the end of the universe!

 

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Guest Coffeebean_uk

Personaly I think that American humor has no place in british culture. (Sorry all you yanks.) But all of the amarican writers etc. are ruining our industry.

 

 

 

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Well, America still hasn't recovered from Monty Python being aired on PBS in the seventies. This 'pollution' thing works both ways, yunnow...

 

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It takes a VERY special type of American to make heads or tales of "English" comedy.

 

And none of you POSER Rowan Atkinson fans counted.... biggrin.gif I was watching Mr. Bean on PBS three years before they were going to make a movie...

 

And I don't see HOW American comedy could possibly drag British Comedy down...i've seen a lot of BOTH. British comedy, like their food, sucks.

 

[This message has been edited by Nute Gunray (edited January 10, 2001).]

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I think that people are reading way too much into the whole name thing. I think that Douglas Adams was a genius, but you have to have a very dry sense of humor to get his books. By the way, I happen to like some of Monty Python's stuff, although it can get pretty dumb!! Some american humor is pretty stupid too though. Ex. Southpark. Need I say more?? Canadian humor is where it's at. (The Royal Canadian Air Farce!!) tongue.gif

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