I know someone who has the plastic duck from the cover of the HHGTTG book and album.

Cheerio

Marvin's head turned up in that South Bank show about Douglas Adams a few years ago. Apparently it's the only bit of him anyone could find. Seems somehow appropriate.

...and do you know, even though my torso is long gone, I can still feel the pain in all the diodes down its left side.

You'd think I might have died as a result of my decapitation, but no, I'm just left here rotting, with nothing to do but contribute the occasional pearl of wisdom to this otherwise depressingly stupid forum, populated by life-forms so wretchedly unintelligent that they still think irony is a neat idea.

Here I am, brain the size of a planet and you ask me if it would really matter if all the ITV companies were joined together like the BBC!

I approve of the gas bottle though - I think it appreciates the difficulties encountered when trying to type without any fingers (I started this post when there was only one message in the Who for Doctor Who? thread.)

No, don't worry, I'll just roll away and...

Go stick your severed head in a pig.

Do you really think I haven't already tried that?

<looks worried>

As any true HHGTTG fan knows...

"Go stick your head in a pig" is the message given in the local language by the protruding remains of the huge letters spelling out the Sirius Cybernetics Corp's slogan "Share And Enjoy", which collapsed through the offices beneath them on the planet Eadrax.

Starter for 10: what was the slogan SCC used to advertise androids of Mravin's model?

Er- isn't it 'your plastic pal who's fun to be with'?

And while we're on the topic, maybe if Mitch Benn has finished with my copy of 'The Making of HHGTTG' video he could let me know.

Er- isn't it 'your plastic pal who's fun to be with'?

And while we're on the topic, maybe if Mitch Benn has finished with my copy of 'The Making of HHGTTG' video he could let me know.

Damn. Right first time.

OK... (in the books) what was God's last message to creation?

Oh bugger- I *know* it, I bloody know it... Isn't it 'sorry for the'... something or other...?

This is the thing they drag Marvin to see, isn't it?

Anyway none of this is getting my video back from bloody Mitch Benn.

Yeah, Ok, it was "We Apologise For The Inconvenience". Near the end of the not-very-funny 4th book, "So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish"

Right... who was the android archaeologist, who was not mentioned in the books at all?

The only archaeologist in HHG I can think of is Lintilla, played by Rula Lenska.

Okay then, here's one. What were Eccenctrica Gallumbit's embraces likened to?

Aaargh! You got the answer right - and I don't know the answer to your question... I give up...

Full quote:

"Eccentrica Gallumbits - the triple-breasted whore of Eroticon VI. The number of men to have survived a whole night with Eccentrica, whose erogenous zones start some five miles from her actual body and whose embraces are said to be not unlike an earthquake in a well-filled snakepit, is zero."

This comes from the sleeve of the HHG LP put out in about 1979.

Another:

What parts did David Tate play?

God I should know this...
The Commentator, Eddie, The Frogstar Prison Relation Officer, The Captain, The Receptionist, The Lift, The Allitnils and The Computeach
this was of course in the Secondary phase, but I suppose Eddie also applies to the first?

and Brighton and Hove Albion in the semi finals.