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B.2. Douglas Adams and computers
B.2.3.
Computer game: Bureaucracy
B.2.4.
Computer game: The Restaurant at the End of
the Universe
B.4. Douglas Adams and Doctor Who
B.5. What Douglas Adams has written
E.2. The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy
E.3. Young Zaphod Plays It Safe
E.4. Life, the Universe and
Everything
E.6. "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?" / but it's not forty-two!
L.2. Original music in the radio & TV series
L.3. Other peoples' music in the radio series, TV series and books
N.2. Why is it sometimes referred to
as a 'newsfroup'?
N.3. Phrases worse than 'Belgium'
N.4. How not to panic in forty-two
different languages
N.5. Who are all you weird people?!
N.6. What is the message tagging (eg.
"[B]") about?
X.2. Where did the phrase Long
Dark Tea-Time of the Soul come from?
X.3. Is the Islington telephone number
for real?
X.5. Names in real life?
X.6. Printing inconsistencies
X.7. How much does Milliways really
cost?
X.8. What's the theme music from The
Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy called and where
can I get it?
X.9. Why towels?
X.10. The Cosmic Cutie (the little
green guy)
X.11. Monty Python's Meaning of
Life / Liff?
X.12. Pink Floyd's Division Bell
X.13. The Real Hitch Hiker's
Guide To The Galaxy
X.14. Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster
recipes
X.15. Marvin the Paranoid Rock Star
X.16. Where could I find a book report
on Hitch Hiker's Guide...?
X.17. Can I have a pie?
X.42. Number games
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