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From: jwl@ucbvax.ARPA (James Wilbur Lewis)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Ford Prefect
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Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 19:09:33 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 25 19:09:33 1985
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>>>From: jeff1@garfield.UUCP (Jeff Sparkes)
>>Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
>>Subject: Ford Prefect
>>Date: 19 Jun 85 12:36:33 GMT
>>Organization: Memorial U. of Nfld. C.S. Dept., St. John's
>>
>>
>>        In Hitchhikers, it says that Ford Prefect had  mistakenly
>>chosen  his  name  to  be "especially inconspicuous".  What is it
>>about the name that makes it overly conpicuous?   It's  a  little
>>strange,  but  not  THAT strange.  Is this some British joke that
>>I'm not aware of?
>>
>>
>>				Jeff Sparkes
>>				garfield!jeff1

I seem to recall reading somewhere that the Ford Motor Company used to
sell a model in Great Britain called....you guessed it...the Ford Prefect!

-- Jim Lewis
   U.C. Berkeley

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