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From: yrdbrd@bmcg.UUCP (Larry J. Huntley)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Ford Prefect
Message-ID: <1722@bmcg.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 17:13:16 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 27 17:13:16 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 1-Jul-85 06:26:04 EDT
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Reply-To: yrdbrd@bmcg.UUCP (Larry J. Huntley)
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Organization: Burroughs Corp. ASG, San Diego, CA.
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Summary: 

In article <3139@garfield.UUCP> jeff1@garfield.UUCP (Jeff Sparkes) writes:
>
>        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
>
"Ford Prefect" is the name of an automobile built by English Ford.
Choosing this for a name has the same effect as an American author
naming a character "Chevrolet Malibu" or (as in Frank Zappa's case)
"Studebaker Hawk."

'brd

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