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ok ok i protect croman74 because it will shut Starpug up

nejanimb wrote:I love how this thread is filled entirely with people talking about Hitchhiker's guide - assassination itself got totally left in the dust.

I suppose I will have to read this book someday - since apparently it's so good. I was in-and-out watching about half of the movie version - do most people consider that to be a fair adaptation? Can someone give me a brief overview of what the book is actually about, or would that just be blasphemous and the only answer is "read the book"?

And, on topic, well done Starpug with getting that clue so quickly. Even if I had figured out how to get the cipher (how'd you do that, by the way? Do you just try each different kind until it works?), I definitely would not have figured out the sports trivia... haha - I guess that's the price I pay for being an olympiad person - I know nothing about sports.

The Atbash Cipher is a simple substitution cipher that exchanges the first letter of the alphabet with the last letter, the second letter with the next-to-last, and so on.

So,

A-Z
B-Y
C-X
D-W
E-V

And it keeps on going. It's also worth noting that since "e" is the most common letter in the alphabet, V's are very common in Atbash'd messages.

I used atbash in one of my clues

I remember it from The DaVinci Code

nejanimb wrote:I love how this thread is filled entirely with people talking about Hitchhiker's guide - assassination itself got totally left in the dust.

I suppose I will have to read this book someday - since apparently it's so good. I was in-and-out watching about half of the movie version - do most people consider that to be a fair adaptation? Can someone give me a brief overview of what the book is actually about, or would that just be blasphemous and the only answer is "read the book"?

And, on topic, well done Starpug with getting that clue so quickly. Even if I had figured out how to get the cipher (how'd you do that, by the way? Do you just try each different kind until it works?), I definitely would not have figured out the sports trivia... haha - I guess that's the price I pay for being an olympiad person - I know nothing about sports.

Summary of the book: 42, towels, Arthur Dent being thrown all over the universe to random events that really should have never happened.

And the movie is a good adaptation of the book if you consider the fact that it was how the author intended it to be. So far the different versions of the Guide have all been different from one another. It started as a radio series, and the books were different from the radio version, and the movie doesn't really follow the books. But it is a good movie.

nejanimb wrote:I love how this thread is filled entirely with people talking about Hitchhiker's guide - assassination itself got totally left in the dust.

I suppose I will have to read this book someday - since apparently it's so good. I was in-and-out watching about half of the movie version - do most people consider that to be a fair adaptation? Can someone give me a brief overview of what the book is actually about, or would that just be blasphemous and the only answer is "read the book"?

And, on topic, well done Starpug with getting that clue so quickly. Even if I had figured out how to get the cipher (how'd you do that, by the way? Do you just try each different kind until it works?), I definitely would not have figured out the sports trivia... haha - I guess that's the price I pay for being an olympiad person - I know nothing about sports.

I read the book and The Resturant at the End of the Universe and Life, the Universe and Everything Else o wait and part of So Long, and thanks for the fish I don't find the books to be like extremely good, but they're not bad.
so this guy, Arthur Dent, is friends with an alien person who was doing research on Earth, and then the Earth blows up but Arthur and the alien are the only people from Earth to make it( they hitchhiked onto a UFO). Then some random stuff happens and then these people want Arthur's brain because they claim that they had built "planet" Earth(which they said was a supercomputer) in order to solve the question, which was "What is the meaning of Life, the universe and everything else?" So Arthur is the only one from Earth and maybe the answer is in his brain, or is he the only one??? Oh yeah i forgot to mention that Earth was suppose to have an answer to the question in like 2 hrs after it blew up. There is no like main plot but there's random stuff that goes on.

sounds suitable for the Your Daily Random Comment thread

As a semi-obsessed fan of the series (and everything ever written by Douglas Adams; he was a genius), I'd just like to say that regardless of whether you found the movie interesting, and regardless of whether people's (mostly accurate, albeit uninspired) descriptions of the book sound interesting to you, you definitely should read at least the first book. The entire series is fantastic in my eyes, but the first is still the best, and it's the one that people tend to like the most. As for the movie, it was decent, and yes, it was also written by Douglas Adams, and given the nature of everything under the Hitchhiker's Guide label, there was no reason it should be exactly the same as the book or anything else; but still, the movie wasn't anywhere near as good as the books (add to this the fact that some casting director attempting to be PC decided that Ford- who is described in the book as having GINGER hair- should be black, among other bizarre casting choices, and you have one fairly weird movie. Not bad, though).

*cough* Sorry for participating in the hijacking of this thread

Right we really should get back to the point of the thread.

Phenylethylamine wrote:As a semi-obsessed fan of the series (and everything ever written by Douglas Adams; he was a genius), I'd just like to say that regardless of whether you found the movie interesting, and regardless of whether people's (mostly accurate, albeit uninspired) descriptions of the book sound interesting to you, you definitely should read at least the first book. The entire series is fantastic in my eyes, but the first is still the best, and it's the one that people tend to like the most. As for the movie, it was decent, and yes, it was also written by Douglas Adams, and given the nature of everything under the Hitchhiker's Guide label, there was no reason it should be exactly the same as the book or anything else; but still, the movie wasn't anywhere near as good as the books (add to this the fact that some casting director attempting to be PC decided that Ford- who is described in the book as having GINGER hair- should be black, among other bizarre casting choices, and you have one fairly weird movie. Not bad, though).

*cough* Sorry for participating in the hijacking of this thread

The first Hitchhiker's movie was excellent.
The remake....not so much.
The left out the whole ending with the Question of Life.

The books are amazing though.

"Life. Dont talk to me about life".