Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 +MULTI+2.11; site stc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!mcvax!ukc!stc!bruce From: bruce@stc.UUCP (Bruce Munro) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Ford Prefect Message-ID: <351@stc-a.stc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 06:08:10 EDT Article-I.D.: stc-a.351 Posted: Thu Jun 27 06:08:10 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Jun-85 02:54:58 EDT References: <3139@garfield.UUCP> Reply-To: bruce@stc.UUCP (Bruce Munro) Distribution: net Organization: STC Telecomms. London. Lines: 20 Xpath: stc stc-a 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? It's a type of car, Ford Prefects were around in the 50's and 60's I think. What I could never work out was how Zaphod Beeblebrox knew Ford was called Ford as he hadn't seen him since before Ford arrived on the Earth. -- Regards, Bruce Munro.{root44, ukc, datlog, idec, stl, creed, iclbra}!stc!shimell