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my mother has been revealed to be an icon and has a signed copy of the fifth Hitchhiker's Guide book

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#h2g2 #trilogy of four books and a hastily submitted draft

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We regret that this lost transmission to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Megadodo publications, is still relevant.

Our condolences to students everywhere.

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I interrupt your irregularly scheduled Locked Tomb programming to bring you this brief interlude…

‘The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy’ by Douglas Adams as the Lindisfarne Gospels.

This was the first manuscript recreation I ever did and I had a lot of fun adding in all the little palaeographic details!

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I think staff should bring this one back for the newbies

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Over at h2g2 we have a hampster called Elton. He even has his own bathroom.

The Elton john.

I think staff should bring this one back for the newbies

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https://h2g2.com/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A88008825

It's been a while since we shared things on Tumblr, but here's a story from one of us

It's not particularly gruesome, despite the topic of hysterectomy, and it has funny drawings

#fibroids #hysterectomy #hand drawn #h2g2earthedition #h2g2 #theh2g2post #h2g2.com

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Did you ever get around to posting the results of that Zaphod pronunciation survey?

I'll be real with you anon, the post has gotten so out of hand it would be VERY difficult for me to put together all the data as presentable as I'd have liked. I had around 60 followers and expected maybe 100 unique notes; last I checked it's gone to over a thousand.

What I can tell you is this:

The "zah-FOD" pronunciation is by FAR the most popular pronunciation, with the canonical pronunciation "ZAY-fod" being a distant second.

The book series is the most common entry point for the franchise by a large margin. Second is the 2005 film and the original radio shows are third. Shoutout to all the people who were introduced to the series by their dad reading it or telling them about it.

Several different languages other than English were represented; the most common to turn up was German followed by Czech. Most languages translated Zaphod as "Zafod" or "Safod" with the occasional "Sappod". Languages with a non-latin writing system like Hebrew or Korean tended to transliterate it as "Zap-hod". (They don't all do that, though; the Japanese translation had it as zuhFOD until the retranslation when the film came out and they wrote it as ZAYfod)

The book series is the most common entry point for the franchise by a large margin. Second is the 2005 film and the original radio shows are third. (Shoutout to all the people who were introduced to the series by their dad reading it to them or telling them about it.)

My favourite tag has been "ZAP-HOOD BABY I LOVE BEING WRONG". You're wildly incorrect but love the energy, keep it up.

All in all I learned both some very interesting information about HHG... and that next time I want to do a survey I ought to do it on google forms.

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A heard of flolloping Zem, in search of their swamp

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We're happy to shed more light

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as an Internet Old my knee-jerk is nowai?! but as a science human I’m so glad we finally have some data on this that we can use to push back against the idiotic notion that forced real name policies will somehow improve the quality of discourse according to people who apparently haven’t heard of farcebook

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Hoopy

DON'T PANIC! it's an ambigram!

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We've had issues with login functionality, but it's back now!

And if you would like to support us, there is Merchandise! Have a look, make a friend or yourself happy with a bit of retail therapy

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Driving through Norway’s Fjords

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Surprisingly, this is not a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy reference, but an actual fact. From Burnout: Solve Your Stress Cycle, by Emily and Amelia Nagoski

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