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Offline Corsair

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on: April 05, 2002, 08:58:30 pm
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0451452615/qid=1018062006/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-2807877-2171919

:lol:
I read this in China, believe me it's hilarious. I think I already posted about it but still, I'll post again on its own topic. Extremely funny, definitely read it.
Wash: This landing's gonna get pretty interesting.
Mal: Define "interesting".
Wash: *shrug* "Oh God, oh God, we're all gonna die"?
Mal: This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then... explode.
 

Offline Grey Wolf

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Reply #1 on: April 05, 2002, 09:28:51 pm
Nah, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is better. If you disagree I'm siccing Marvin the manically-depressed robot on you.
BTW, I'm now officialy a Hitchhikers maniac
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Reply #2 on: April 05, 2002, 09:33:13 pm
Don't forget your towel! :D Another Douglas Adams fan here.
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Offline WMCoolmon

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Reply #3 on: April 05, 2002, 09:37:12 pm
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Originally posted by Grey Wolf 2009
Nah, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is better. If you disagree I'm siccing Marvin the manically-depressed robot on you.
[font size=1]BTW, I'm now officialy a Hitchhikers maniac[/size]

amateur :p
For the record, I haven't read any Douglas Adams books. Well, I guess I picked up the HHGTG once, but I didn't like it.
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Reply #4 on: April 05, 2002, 10:04:56 pm
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Originally posted by WMCoolmon

amateur :p
For the record, I haven't read any Douglas Adams books. Well, I guess I picked up the HHGTG once, but I didn't like it.

BURN HIM!

Seriously, Bored of the Rings is excelent. Dildo is an excellent character. ;)
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Offline Stunaep

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Reply #5 on: April 06, 2002, 02:34:01 am
Um... a simple comment: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf:
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Offline Setekh

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Reply #6 on: April 06, 2002, 03:30:44 am
I might actually buy that. Oh no, freight costs! ;)
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Offline icespeed

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Reply #7 on: April 06, 2002, 03:37:11 am
"I might actually buy that. Oh no, freight costs! "
Setekh

I saw it on sale in the castle towers(nb for thsoe of you who dont live in syd aus: a shopping mall near me and setekh) dymocks. but that was like, three months ago or something.
you could always order it in.

it's interesting. i actually stopped to read it, and then ran out of time cos i had appointments to keep.
its very... twisted...:)
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Offline Odyssey

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Reply #8 on: April 06, 2002, 03:45:34 am
I've read it too...
Agreed, it's twisted in places, but what a parody... Kept me laughing, at least

And I can't believe someone didn't like HHGTG. How could someone not like that? The very thought of someone not liking it scares me...

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Offline Ulundel

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Reply #9 on: April 06, 2002, 04:14:08 am
Well that's a book I like!!! And I'm really sick of those LOTR fans. :)
 

Offline Stunaep

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Reply #10 on: April 06, 2002, 04:18:58 am
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Well that's a book I like!!! And I'm really sick of those LOTR fans. :)


What? why?

LOTR rules.

Yup.
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Offline Ulundel

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Reply #11 on: April 06, 2002, 04:26:50 am
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What? why?

LOTR rules.

Yup.


OK, first it was cool but when I heard everybody (especially nerds) talking about it 67 hours a day, 89 days a week and so on...arrrghhhh!! :doubt:
  

Offline Grey Wolf

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Reply #12 on: April 06, 2002, 08:45:10 am
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Originally posted by Odyssey
HHGTG self-confessed maniac (registered via text on this thread) #2, right here
Welcome to the club. Maybe I'll even send you my Hitchhiker dude model :p
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Offline Zeronet

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Reply #13 on: April 06, 2002, 09:13:48 am
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OK, first it was cool but when I heard everybody (especially nerds) talking about it 67 hours a day, 89 days a week and so on...arrrghhhh!! :doubt:


:wtf:
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Reply #14 on: April 06, 2002, 09:54:36 am
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Well that's a book I like!!! And I'm really sick of those LOTR fans. :)

BURN HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Offline Corsair

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Reply #15 on: April 06, 2002, 10:10:03 am
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BURN HIM!

Seriously, Bored of the Rings is excelent. Dildo is an excellent character. ;)
:nod:
Dildo was definitely the one of the best characters. ;) Gawd, that book was such a fast read, and would have been even faster if I hadn't stopped every 3 seconds to laugh...
And yes, it was very twisted humor, but incredibly funny. :D

Oh and Stunaep: If you posted :wtf: over Dildo, he's the parody to Bilbo (the name rhymes...:D)
Wash: This landing's gonna get pretty interesting.
Mal: Define "interesting".
Wash: *shrug* "Oh God, oh God, we're all gonna die"?
Mal: This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then... explode.
 

Offline Dark_4ce

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Reply #16 on: April 06, 2002, 10:29:55 am
Heheh... I remember Bored of the Rings. I read it when I was in the army, and man did I crack up all the time! People thought I was crazy for a while cause they heard this constant laughing coming from our tent, and then me coming out teary eyed with laughter! :D :lol: Though the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is way better. BOTR is good, no doubt there, but it could have been longer. And how can you beat Marvin? He kicks ass! But the best part in that entire book has to be when Zaphod is thrown into that machine that shows you in an instant how insignificant you are to the universe (by showing you the universe in persepective to you) and thus making you utterly insane. However when Zaphod came out of the machine everyone expected him to be crazy, however he said "Hey! I'm a Pritty cool guy!" With a huge grin, since the machine showed how big of an actual celebrity he was! Or something like that. :lol:
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Offline Ulundel

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Reply #17 on: April 06, 2002, 10:51:14 am
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BURN HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!


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Reply #18 on: April 06, 2002, 11:10:39 am
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But the best part in that entire book has to be when Zaphod is thrown into that machine that shows you in an instant how insignificant you are to the universe (by showing you the universe in persepective to you) and thus making you utterly insane. However when Zaphod came out of the machine everyone expected him to be crazy, however he said "Hey! I'm a Pritty cool guy!" With a huge grin, since the machine showed how big of an actual celebrity he was! Or something like that. :lol:


The Total Perspective Vortex, a machine that extrapolates the entire universe from the quantum forces measured off a piece of Fairy Cake. It gives you perspective: just how tiny and insignifigant you are, a microscopic dot on a microscopic dot on the entirety of the Universe. Men go insane becuase they realize how unimportant they are in the whole scheme of things.

Zaphod stepped out of the Total Persepective Vortex with a grin and ate the fairy cake with a grin on his face. Zaphod however, wasn't in the REAL Total Perspective Vortex. He was in a pocket universe, created for him to enter it with the Heart of Gold so he could give it to Mr. Zarniwhoop. Since that universe was created specifically for Zaphod, he was the most important thing in it. His perspective was more than a little bit skewed. ;)
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Offline Zeronet

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Reply #19 on: April 06, 2002, 04:48:48 pm
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Heheh... I remember Bored of the Rings. I read it when I was in the army, and man did I crack up all the time! People thought I was crazy for a while cause they heard this constant laughing coming from our tent, and then me coming out teary eyed with laughter! :D :lol: Though the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is way better. BOTR is good, no doubt there, but it could have been longer. And how can you beat Marvin? He kicks ass! But the best part in that entire book has to be when Zaphod is thrown into that machine that shows you in an instant how insignificant you are to the universe (by showing you the universe in persepective to you) and thus making you utterly insane. However when Zaphod came out of the machine everyone expected him to be crazy, however he said "Hey! I'm a Pritty cool guy!" With a huge grin, since the machine showed how big of an actual celebrity he was! Or something like that. :lol:


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