Douglas Adams would have been 71 today. He passed away ten years ago.
I think his classic HHGTTG is dated these days but when I first read it over 30 years ago it was the funniest stuff I’d ever come across. There’s still some brilliant ideas in his work.

I tips me lid ….

Spiny Norman said:

Douglas Adams would have been 71 today. He passed away ten years ago.
I think his classic HHGTTG is dated these days but when I first read it over 30 years ago it was the funniest stuff I’d ever come across. There’s still some brilliant ideas in his work.

I tips me lid ….

It says 61 on the google logo

morrie said:

Spiny Norman said:

Douglas Adams would have been 71 today. He passed away ten years ago.
I think his classic HHGTTG is dated these days but when I first read it over 30 years ago it was the funniest stuff I’d ever come across. There’s still some brilliant ideas in his work.

I tips me lid ….

It says 61 on the google logo

I thought he’d prefer 42.

morrie said:

Spiny Norman said:

Douglas Adams would have been 71 today. He passed away ten years ago.
I think his classic HHGTTG is dated these days but when I first read it over 30 years ago it was the funniest stuff I’d ever come across. There’s still some brilliant ideas in his work.

I tips me lid ….

It says 61 on the google logo

Yep. Born same year as me.

Douglas Noel Adams – 11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001.

fsm said:

Douglas Noel Adams – 11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001.

just a tad over 13 months older than me.

I first got into his stuff by working shiftwork in 1981. There was only three of us working on night shifts, and one of them had the BBC HHGTTG tapes.

Spiny Norman said:

Douglas Adams would have been 71 today. He passed away ten years ago.
I think his classic HHGTTG is dated these days but when I first read it over 30 years ago it was the funniest stuff I’d ever come across. There’s still some brilliant ideas in his work.

I tips me lid ….

yeh thats a good wrap up Bill.. I thought it was funny stuff when I was a kid, but I look back now and wonder what all the fuss was about…

Dropbear said:

Spiny Norman said:

Douglas Adams would have been 71 today. He passed away ten years ago.
I think his classic HHGTTG is dated these days but when I first read it over 30 years ago it was the funniest stuff I’d ever come across. There’s still some brilliant ideas in his work.

I tips me lid ….

yeh thats a good wrap up Bill.. I thought it was funny stuff when I was a kid, but I look back now and wonder what all the fuss was about…

I still found it funny in the early noughties when I read it.

I haven’t read it yet so no spoilers.

Peak Warming Man said:

I haven’t read it yet so no spoilers.

Still catching up with the second testament?

I used to catch bits and pieces of the radio play on JJ and was very intrigued.

Travelling north on holiday I picked up a copy of the first book on a stop in Taree. When we got to Noosa in sunny Qld it was pissing down rain and we got a stationary van for the night.

Then I opened the book…

The many different iterations across different media CAN CAUSE CONFUSION.

But DON’T PANIC!

Time is an illusion. Morning coffee time doubly so.

I found “Resturant at the end of the Universe” first and read that, then “Hitch hikers guide” next then heard it was going to be televised and I thought that wouldn’t work but fortuneately I was wrong.
Sad that he is no longer with us.