By the way, does anybody know where I can get that towel in the picture entitled “Towel Day 2006″? That would be great to get. Thank you.

To quote Ford Prefect: “It might be right, but it’s probably wrong.”

Don’t forget that when Ford and Arthur arrived on prehistoric earth with the occupants of the B-Ark they supplanted to indigenous humans who became extinct. So at that point the whole program got screwed up anyway.

Not forgetting of course that nobody ever knew what the actual question was.

Which reminds us that when Arthur tried to discover the question by randomly pulling out letters from the Scrabble bag he came up with “What do you get if you multiply six by nine.” Pretty much proving that the program had been screwed up.

Oh and @Don’t Panic! There were never two double albums. There was a double album (The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy) and a single (The Restaurant at the end of the Universe). As is normal with Hitch-Hikers they were not the same as any other version, while they broadly covered the same material as the radio series, there were small differences in the double album. There was a major change in the second album where the (IMHO rather weak) Haggunenon sequence from the radio series was replaced by Disaster Area’s stunt ship.

And finally it certainly isn’t the most inaccurate trilogy. As far as I’m aware that title belongs to Robert Rankin’s Brentford Trilogy. Although I’m willing to be corrected on that.

As for the computer game, did you know there were plans for a sequel? Warning: The below link discusses company internal politics and personalities, and in the comments, several people that were involved in the unreleased game weigh in with their observations and stories. If you’re at all interested in this, create a black hole and suspend yourself in it, thereby stopping time, because there’s a ton of material.

http://waxy.org/2008/04/milliways_infocoms_unreleased_sequel_to_hitchh ikers_guide_to_the_galax/

Cake & Tattoo

http://is.gd/4EnAR

I still have my pair of Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses and Microscopic Spacefleet from the Infocom game when I was 12.

I remember we all followed one woman around at a convention because she had it. It turned out her aunt had made it for her. She was a pretty busy aunt after that convention!

But what else would it be? We’ll never know now that Earth has been destroyed 2 days before the completion of the ultimate question, even as I’m writing this message 2 days before the destruction of Earth due to the art of Bistromathics. Also, we might also be able to know if Arthur ever manages to go to the 30-foot high letters of fire on top of the Quentulus Quazgar Mountains in the land of Sevorbeupstry on the planet of Perliumtarn, which is third closest to the sun Zarss in Galactic Sector QQ7 ActiveJ Gamma, and is guarded by the Lajestic Vantrashell of Lob. But, also as we speak, Arthur has forgotten of this name, being the insepid mammal that he is.