Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!Harvey.Multics@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA From: Harvey.Multics@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Ford Prefect & SLaTfatF Message-ID: <2410@topaz.ARPA> Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 07:47:55 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.2410 Posted: Thu Jun 27 07:47:55 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Jun-85 02:21:37 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 14 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.