X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fbb9d,9f510cd13de2d782 X-Google-Attributes: gidfbb9d,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-07-13 12:37:13 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!sashimi.wwa.com!gagme.wwa.com!not-for-mail From: barth@wam.umd.edu (Doctor Demento) Newsgroups: rec.arts.ascii Subject: Re: Talk: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (was: Line: Blob) Date: 13 Jul 1994 14:06:38 -0500 Organization: University of Maryland College Park Lines: 31 Sender: boba@gagme.wwa.com Approved: boba@gagme.wwa.com Message-ID: <301dvu$alk@gagme.wwa.com> References: <2uobd7$dhi@gagme.wwa.com> <2uqalu$jcj@gagme.wwa.com> <2usd6d$par@gagme.wwa.com> <2vae5e$op4@gagme.wwa.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gagme.wwa.com ..And Cthulu smiled when he saw that Greg Berigan had written: : quozl@netcom.com (D.M. "Quozl" Falk) wrote: : >Greg Berigan (gberigan@cse.unl.edu) wrote: : : >>Actually, this is an altered version of the green planet-face from The : >>Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. (I don't think an actual name for it was : >>given.) The correct version is: : >It's a laughing green arkleseizure. (Yes, that's what it is... an : >arkleseizure....) : Can't be. It has no nose with which to have sneezed out the whole : Universe, and it doesn't match the depiction of the Great Green Arkleseizre : in the cave drawings of the Jatravartids of Viltvodle 6. : -- : "[USENET] is a wonder when it comes to totally uncensored communication. : Words are the body we form, the voice we give, and the needs expressed. : All that is missing is touch." -- Panther Actually, the semi-official name for it (regularly referred to in the Douglas Adams group, and DA himself has been known to use the term) is "the cosmic cutie". -- Kevin Barth barth@wam.umd.edu