X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,ac441ba45ce33e22 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-09-11 19:12:56 PST Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Path: nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!news.service.uci.edu!unogate!mvb.saic.com!eskimo!beta From: beta@eskimo.com (Nick Moffitt) Subject: Re: REQUEST: Ascii of Cosmic Cutie.... Message-ID: Organization: Eskimo North (206) For-Ever References: <34m803$23pt@nic.smsu.edu> Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 03:59:58 GMT Lines: 55 Colin_Douthwaite@equinox.gen.nz (Colin Douthwaite) writes: >Ferris Jeffrey A (jaf289s@nic.smsu.edu) wrote: >: If anyone out there has the ascii of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's >: big green guy, please, please, please email it to me...I had one, but >: my files were erased over the summer. *sigh* >If you mean that delightful Vogon Captain - ME TOO !!! >I don't have the picture but here's some Vogon poetry, enjoy: >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >VOGON POETRY >============ >"Oh freddled gruntbuggly, thy nacturations are to me!" >"As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee." >"Groop I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes." >"And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles, or I will >rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't!" >"Fripping lyshus wimbgunts, awhilst moongrovenly kormzibs." >"Bleem miserable venchit! Bleem forever mestinglish asunder frapt." >"Gashee morphousite, thou expungiest quoopisk!" >"Gerond withoutitude form into formless bloit, why not then? Moose." > - Douglas Adams et al ?? >Gashee morphousite, gashee freddled gruntbuggly, >Drangle me not with grundled fronglebits, >Plurdle me neither with thy fractile globberwurgling >Or asunder frapping into vroidled shroup awaits thee, burgid 'buggly. >Cringle not, Moose. >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >Wishing you many crinkly bindlewurdles, >Bye, Yeah, the first stanza is from the book, and the second is from the radio SCRIPT (they told the guy "Read this in the background" and he only made it to one stanza there, so the radio show only has the first verse as well.) or the infocom game, take your pick. But since infocom worked with Douglas addams (He wrote the game, they coded it) it's all his stuff anyway and belongs no matter what anyone says. -- | The Beta Pirate | beta@eskimo.com | Nick Moffitt | Niko Suave' | "Do you smoke after sex?" COMPUTERS ARE JUST SMOKE AND MIRRORS. "Dunno, never checked." I CAN PROVE IT TO YOU VERY EASILY. WHEN YOU LET THE SMOKE OUT, IT STOPS WORKING. (QED)