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From: Harvey.Multics@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA
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Subject: Re: Ford Prefect & SLaTfatF
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Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 07:47:55 EDT
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From: "Ronald B. Harvey" 

A Ford Prefect is (or rather, was?) a model of car marketed by Ford
for those people between the Atlantic and the North Sea who drive on
the wrong side of the road.

What has always bugged me about Ford's name is that Zaphod knew it
right off... Of course, this can be explained away be using the excuse
that the audience would get confused if Ford had two names. Then again,
Tricia MacMillan (sp) had another name...

Has anyone noticed any discrepancies between British and American
versions of So Long and Thanks?  I just received my Pan paper version
of SLaTfatF, but I haven't previously read the American version.