Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/15/85; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ucbvax!jwl From: jwl@ucbvax.ARPA (James Wilbur Lewis) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Ford Prefect Message-ID: <8490@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 19:09:33 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8490 Posted: Tue Jun 25 19:09:33 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Jun-85 07:39:00 EDT References: <3139@garfield.UUCP> Reply-To: jwl@ucbvax.UUCP (James Wilbur Lewis) Distribution: net Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 24 >>>From: jeff1@garfield.UUCP (Jeff Sparkes) >>Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers >>Subject: Ford Prefect >>Date: 19 Jun 85 12:36:33 GMT >>Organization: Memorial U. of Nfld. C.S. Dept., St. John's >> >> >> 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 I seem to recall reading somewhere that the Ford Motor Company used to sell a model in Great Britain called....you guessed it...the Ford Prefect! -- Jim Lewis U.C. Berkeley "Sorry for the inconvenience..."