"It's always possible that some Reg readers don't know who Douglas Adams was."

That's like saying that it's always possible that some Reg readers haven't seen Star Wars - surely neither is a serious possibility...

Bring on the £42 note!

Sounds like the perfect tribute to me. Although I'm not sure what the man who wrote this would think about it:

“This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.”

H2G2 was around long before Wackypedia.

I wonder if Douglas Adams would have approved?

Not a bad little thread for the 3rd most intelligent species on the planet.

Not just around alot longer than Wikipedia, the idea that the actual Guide originally was written by a bunch or ordinary people travelling round the universe quite possibly inspired the whole ideas of Wikis in the first place.

shouldn't the £42 note be a leaf? And to curb the inevitably massive level of inflation we'd have to burn down all the trees...

...a bypass after the great man?

I think you will find that there were two films, not to mention the Computer Game.

"That's like saying that it's always possible that some Reg readers haven't seen Star Wars - surely neither is a serious possibility..."

As a big fan of Mr. Adams' work, I fit into one of these categories. However; I've never seen Star Wars (or at least all the way through), for reasons of laziness.. in other words, I've fell asleep during the films. Also, other than the flight sequences (mostly robbed from 633 Squadron) and 'light' sabre fights (insert numerous swash-buckling or-the-like films circa 1920s onwards) they're relatively boring adventure films.

I'd much rather watch something like Indiana Jones, The Battleship Potemkin or Metropolis. They're much better films depicting the genres of adventure, the fight of independence versus imperialism and sci-fi. Then again, I'm not knocking the Star Wars films, just not of the opinion they're as ground-breaking as everyone seems to think they are. I'll get my coat, after all, it is Friday..

Please not the triangular coins - I refuse to deal in piddling small change.

*hands him his coat*

I think you'll need this in the next few mins. It's not flameproof, but might buy you a few seconds as the taxi arrives.

like 'the dude', the hhgttg book was perfect for its time and place in history. Plus, its a cult thing. Cearly there is a fair degree of overlap between reg readers/athiests/geeks/people who aren't retarded and people who enjoy hhgttg.

So tbh, anyone who says he's over-rated is totally not in the 'in-group' and should be executed immediately for incitement of religious hatred.

"We should do more than name a street. He should be on our banknotes."

Perhaps he could be put on a one penny coin - stored in the deepest vaults of the Bank of England, down a staircase, in a disused toilet with "beware of the leopard" written on the door, in a little box with Douglas Adams' name on it.

Trillions of years from now this penny will have accured enough compound interest for Adams to afford a seat at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, where he can watch creation end ad inifinitum. That's where I like to think he will end up, sitting at a nice table, sipping whatever it is he liked to drink, signing autographs etc, giving people tips on how to finish old Infocom games. Trying hard not to think about the "Hitch-Hiker's" film.

Adams isn't over rated - most people have never heard of him.

HHGTTG was very funny, the follow-ups decent. Dirk Gently's was OK, Mostly Harmless was bollocks.

dirk gently is better

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dirk-Gently-Omnibus-Douglas-Adams/dp/0434009199/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197036511&sr=8-3

I will get my anaraok

..would no doubt end-up being as appalingly tasteless as the English tribute to the Krilkit xenocide.

No, not the anorak, mate; mine's is the shabby dressing-gown.

"How about naming a bypass after the great man?"

That's a pretty awesome idea. How about Newbury Bypass? That destroyed an incredible amount of the environment and is falling apart. Suitably fitting?

Best contact the Highways Agency about it, although they will no doubt need various forms filled out in triplicate.

Now would be a really good time to build those "3" ships and send all the important politicians, lawyers, and telephone sanitizers off on the first one to "get everything ready for the rest of us"

Don't you mean "KRIKKIT" xenocide?

I think you'll find that dressing-gown is mine, actually....

a man's gotta know where his towel is !!

I agree gotta have the button DON'T PANIC

Real geeks read Asimov.

To one of the great philosophers of our time. Someone who understood 'The Meaning Of Liff '

...and share my "office" with a half-dozen tracked shelving units holding various plans and support docs.

One day I stuck a "Beware of the Leopard" sign on my door and it positively depresses me how MANY people I have to explain it to.

Two films the man said. What two films???

There was one. That awful one.

I remember watching the HHGTTG tv series out-takes at a little known hotel in Blackpool in the 80s. Kevin Davies, the mouse keeper, was a hoot!

Tried to sell me cell sheets of the cartoon sequences.

Wish I had...

I've still got my Zaphod Beeble Bear. (Imagine a toy teddybear with 2 heads and 3 arms.) Used to give small children nightmares did that bear.

I'll go back in my closet now...

That's the very last street to rename. You need to rename one perpendicular to it --- 4 households would be so lucky to live at the intersection of D.Adams & 42nd.

And the boffin/geek icon because you need to be one to navigate h2g2 and remain sane?

The 4th Avenue renaming was recently abandoned. It was the second time in two years that the city decided to rename a street on an apparent whim, over the objections of just about everyone on it. This site appears to be a joke inspired by it.

As a lad raised Macclesfield, I have actually driven through Lower Peover.

I have on more than one occasion smiled ruefully to myself as I go to relieve myself at the onset of one!

Naturally my partner has no inkling as to the cause of my amusement, and I haven't tried to explain.

(Paris icon, as I can imagine noone I'd like to experience one with more).

But given the amount of heat that Martin Luthur King, Rosa Parks and Cesar Chavez have generated in Portland, I am so glad to see this progressing nicely - besides, we are planning on storming the City Hall with Vogon Poetry if they try to block us. (teach them!!)

Diana, Portland, Oregon

It's the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. On the book they hyphenated it to fit the cover.

Now I risk having my own arm wrenching itself off from my body and beating me to death for such an act of pedantry.

Just been re-listening to the radio series. Most definitely the best format, and best listened to in the dark.

Douglas Adams should be beatified.