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So Long, and Thanks for All the Fibs!
Never ask a newsfroup to do your homework for you
unless you really want to fail . . .
From: RUSCSOCER5 Date: 15 May 2000 12:04:58 GMTI need a one page summmary about the book called so long and thanks for all the fish by douglas adams it would be very helpful if you could e mail me thanks alot
From: Thaths Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 16:18:54 GMTSo Long and Thanks for all the Fish is a travelogue written by Douglas Adams. It is Adams' tribute to the Japanese fishermen who keep the Sushi trade alive in war-torn Tokyo.
The Book begins with Adams parachuting into a small village in rural Japan in 1941. Because of Adams' height (5' 4"), he is able to mix inconspicuously into the Japanese war cabinet. The Japanese navy mistakes Adams' pyjamas for a fancy kimono.
The rest of the book deals with Adams' double life in a Japanese submarine using the nicely inconspicuous name Toyota Camry. Camry also discovers that there is a unexploited market for Jesus, Darwin, Yahweh and GNU/Linux fish in war-torn Japan. Adams' and the Fighting Hellfish flood the market with cheesy plastic fish specially designed for submarines thus helping in aboding a full scale invasion in the closing days of the war.
Thaths (who hates people who cannot do their own homework. Especially when the homework assignment can be so much fun.)
From: Till Westermayer Date: 15 May 2000 23:07:00 +0200[15 May 00: Thaths wrote something]
So Long and Thanks for all the Fish is a travelogue written by Douglas Adams. It is Adams' tribute to the Japanese fishermen who keep the Sushi trade alive in war-torn Tokyo.
The Book begins with Adams parachuting into a small village in rural Japan in 1941. Because of Adams' height (5' 4"), he is able to mix inconspicuously into the Japanese war cabinet. The Japanese navy mistakes Adams' pyjamas for a fancy kimono.
Ruscsocer5, beware! Thaths is trying to fake you. No word written below is true.
The rest of the book deals with Adams' double life in a Japanese submarine using the nicely inconspicuous name Toyota Camry. Camry also discovers that there is a unexploited market for Jesus, Darwin, Yahweh and GNU/Linux fish in war-torn Japan. Adams' and the Fighting Hellfish flood the market with cheesy plastic fish specially designed for submarines thus helping in aboding a full scale invasion in the closing days of the war.
The name Adams' choose was Toyota Corolla - a hint to the satirical qualities of the first-person-narrative author. Corolla tells about the war years and moves on to the story of building up a sushi imperium out of nothing. Of course there is nothing about GNU or Linux in that book. It was written 1976. There's also another book by Douglas Adams, that's called Mostly Harmless[1]. It's about moving from Japan to China, and argues that dolphins are fishes in reality. But I think DNA is wrong in that point.
From: Meg Date: 22 May 2000 14:18:09 GMTOkaaaaay, here you go (mwahahaha)...
So Long And thanks For All The Fish is about a penguin named Stan. Stan lives in Florida, where he spends lots of time on the beach. One day Stan is abducted by aliens, and taken to a planet with no beaches, where he is very miserable, and eventually goes insane.
Stan drives the aliens so crazy with his inane ramblings about The Partridge Family and pineapple upside-down cake that they finally return him to Earth, but accidentally put him in the arctic.
There, Stan meets other penguins for the first time, and utterly fails to hit it off with them, because they've never heard of Florida or aliens or The Partridge Family, to say nothing of pineapple upside-down cake.
Lonely and insane, Stan attempts to make the journey back to Florida, where he thinks he can be happy again. Unfortunately, he doesn't know teh way, and winds up wandering around in Yellowstone National park, where he befriends a Moose named Samantha. Samantha makes a killer pineapple upside-down cake, and loves to watch The Partridge Family, and she and Stan get along swimmingly.
Oh, there are also fish in the story somewhere, hence the title.
[1] The other book referred to is actually called Mostly Hamless, and is an in-depth study of British Rail sandwiches. [Carole, 16 May 2000]
