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Gifts for Douglas Adam fans
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Alt, just in case the person I'm gifting this too lurks PA.
Like the title says, I'm trying to think of stuff to give a big Douglas Adam fan. I discovered the only book of his they haven't read, so I'll get that, and probably some of the audio recordings they have. Anything else I could throw in? Trinkets, or bigger stuff, I want to make it an Adam's theme basket of present.
Like the title says, I'm trying to think of stuff to give a big Douglas Adam fan. I discovered the only book of his they haven't read, so I'll get that, and probably some of the audio recordings they have. Anything else I could throw in? Trinkets, or bigger stuff, I want to make it an Adam's theme basket of present.
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-Terry Pratchett
Hah, the first thing I thought of when I saw the title was a towel too. The particular one from Thinkgeek is here, though.
I was going to suggest maybe a small Babelfish, but Google seems to indicate they don't exist (toys, I mean). Maybe if you found a small plush yellow fish to pass off as one?
[Edit] - massively beat'd.
There was also the old Starship Titanic game if you can find it. Never played it or heard anything about it except a couple ads in PC Gamer back in 1998 or so, but it was designed by Douglas Adams. There's a Starship Titanic novel based on the game by Terry Jones which I also haven't read, but it does tie into the theme.
The Meaning of Liff is kind of a silly Farmer's Almanac (it's a satire OF a Farmer's Almanac if I recall correctly which is like a double-satire) but I found it funny.
If he/she has this book already or this is the book you are referring to, then I apologize for wasting your time.
http://www.amazon.com/Deeper-Meaning-Liff-Dictionary-Yet-But/dp/0307236013/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1229044557&sr=8-1
The Deeper Meaning of Liff
He co-wrote it with John Lloyd, which is why it may not have shown up. There's also this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Last-Chance-See-Douglas-Adams/dp/0345371984/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1229044557&sr=8-2
called Last Chance To See which I think is actually a geography book, but I never read it, so I don't know anything about it. He cowrote this one with Mark Carwardine.
The BBC also did a recent (wow, actually, this was four years ago now, fuck) radio dramatisation of the later Guide books which he may not have.
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Wearing a rhino costume.
[Edit] - or maybe that was Salmon of Doubt. I forget.
Last Chance to See is indeed an excellent book. So is the out-of-print collection of the complete Hitchhiker's radio scripts. I can also recommend this book of essays about the series.
He'd probably like Adams' computer games: Hitchhiker's Guide, Bureaucracy, and Starship Titanic. If you can find boxed copies of the Infocom games (HHGTTG and Bureaucracy) they came with all sorts of awesome crap in the box. Starship Titanic sucks balls, but if he's a big Adams fan he'll still enjoy it.
I'm sure they released all sorts of merch to coincide with the recent movie if you look around.
-Terry Pratchett
A bathrobe to go with the towel is good too.
The pages on trying to waterproof a microphone in China is particularly funny.
The only danger there is that they might think it's just a towel, and not an Adams reference. Although a guess a note saying 'make sure you always know where it is' would work.
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That's what I mean by grandiose presentation. Heck, you could also have a case of beer, then demand that they grab the towel and start drinking.
The only appropriate thing to do is soak one corner in barbecue sauce, another in liquified wheat germ, and another in anti-depressants.
probably out of the price range, but when i thoughti lost my ipod i was going to get a black nano with Don't panic engrave on the back
And another in tea, and another in the remains of a pan-galactic gargle-blaster (you don't want the full effects.)
But that would require a towel that has at least one corner permanently stuck in a spatial distortion field that's linked to one of the plural zones.
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I have a black nano, and this may be the finest idea I've heard all day.
This
How many Dirk Gently books were there? I see that amazon actually has a couple in stock. I have been wanting to pick them up for a while now and it would be nice to have all of them
I believe there were only two, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.