Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihuxi.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!ihuxi!okie From: okie@ihuxi.UUCP (cobb) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Ford Prefect Message-ID: <1226@ihuxi.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 10:57:25 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxi.1226 Posted: Thu Jun 27 10:57:25 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Jun-85 02:10:12 EDT References: <3139@garfield.UUCP> <8490@ucbvax.ARPA> <708@ihlpg.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 10 > 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 conspicuous...? Ever read "Brave New World?" One of the major characters in that book is a man named Ford Prefect... B.K.Cobb ihnp4!ihuxi!okie AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL