AG Monday
Don't panic!
Don’t panic! The jokes are still funny, decades after we first heard them. Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy combined dry British humor with science fiction tropes. Why did that chemistry work? Which of the different incarnations of the Hitchhiker’s Guide was the best? And how many Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters could we consume?
Super-computers! Two-headed aliens! The end of the Earth! Bad poetry! Bureaucracy! Out-of-work philosophers! Improbability! It’s all here.
Ancient Geeks is a podcast about two geeks of a certain age re-visiting their youth. We were there when things like science fiction, fantasy, Tolkien, Star Trek, Star Wars, D&D, Marvel and DC comics, Doctor Who, and many, many other threads of modern geek culture were still on the fringes of popular culture. We were geeks before it was chic!
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I read the books long ago, and saw several on my shelf the other day, but have not re-read them even once.
IMO, the jokes were the point, not the characters (though some are funny in their own right), much less the plot (if there was one).
So, among my favorites:
The secret of flight is to aim at the ground and miss.
Bistromath
There was a mishap with a contraceptive and a time machine.
Jinnan Tonix
The screwdriver tree
How to get a table and pay the check at the Restaurant At The End of The Universe.
Oh, I also had the Infocom text game. I got it in a box set of a bunch of Infocom games, including all the Zorks. It came with booklets with maps and invisiclues, but not props.