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# it's not the best hitchhiker book though
but it does have one of my favourite jokes ever in, about the biscuit eating contest on the train. That always gets me.

I was mortified when Douglas Adams died.
(, Fri 16 Apr 2004, 20:54, archived)
# was that with athur and that other bloke!
when arthur thought he was eating his biscuits?? that was fab!
(, Fri 16 Apr 2004, 20:55, archived)
# That
actually happened to him.

He says so in 'The Salmon of Doubt'.
(, Fri 16 Apr 2004, 20:55, archived)
# aye
I read that posthumous work, and just got upset because he was going to write another hitchhiker book and the dirk gently. I'm just praying the new film will be a fitting tribute to his genius and not some halfbaked piece of pap
(, Fri 16 Apr 2004, 20:58, archived)
# It had better be
Or it's napalm time.
(, Fri 16 Apr 2004, 21:00, archived)
# My favourite bit
is the conversation between Marvin and the tank. But I can't remember for sure which book it was in.
(, Fri 16 Apr 2004, 20:58, archived)
# and he depresses the tank!
i love marvin! he's great!
(, Fri 16 Apr 2004, 21:01, archived)
# Every time I hear anyone talk about a'new life'
I think 'Oh no, not another one,' and suppress a snigger.
(, Fri 16 Apr 2004, 21:04, archived)