Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!gatech!ut-sally!barnett From: barnett@ut-sally.UUCP (Lewis Barnett) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Ford Prefect Message-ID: <2186@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 11:20:40 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-sally.2186 Posted: Tue Jun 25 11:20:40 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Jun-85 06:12:35 EDT References: <3139@garfield.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 18 > > 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? > > Jeff Sparkes > garfield!jeff1 The Ford Prefect was apparently a hideously popular auto marketed by the Ford Motor Company in Great Britain. I'm not sure where I heard this, but it may have been the interview with Douglas Adams in a recent MacWorld magazine. Lewis Barnett,CS Dept, Painter Hall 3.28, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX 78712 -- barnett@ut-sally.ARPA, barnett@ut-sally.UUCP, {ihnp4,harvard,seismo,gatech,ctvax}!ut-sally!barnett