Peter Jones

[derannimer]

Pip wrote: 

>The *best* for never understanding a word he was reading (while 
>still doing a superb interpretation) was Peter Jones as the Voice of 
>The Book in Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy.

First of all, I just have to say, I *ADORE* those tapes. I cannot 
express strongly *enough* how much I adore them. 

But second, what's this about Peter Jones never understanding a word 
he read? Er. . . maybe if I were a Brit I'd understand this 
reference. But I'm not, and I don't. Am curious. 


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"I bought some peanuts."-- Ford Prefect

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Zaphod: Ford, hi, how are you? Glad you could drop in.

Ford: *Zaphod,* great to see you, you're looking well! The extra arm 
suits you! Nice ship you've stolen.

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Radio Announcer: Yes, it looks like the Big Z is now finally Big D-E-
A-D.

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Gag Halfront: Vell, look: Zaphod's just zis guy, you know?

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"I *hate* wet paper bags."--Marvin, the Paranoid Android

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"Go Stick Your Head in a Pig"--Motto of the Sirius Cybernetics 
Corporation

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"Not as such. Not *die* as such?"--Trillian

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The Book: 

This is the story of the Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, perhaps 
the most remarkable, certainly the most succesful book, ever to come 
out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor. More popular 
than the _Celestial Home Care Omnibus_, better selling than _Fifty-
three More Things To Do in Zero Gravity_, and more controversial than 
Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters: _Where God 
Went Wrong_, _Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes_, and _Who Is This 
God Person Anyway?_ 

And in many of the more relaxed civilizations on the outer eastern 
rim of the galaxy, the Hitch-Hikers Guide has already supplanted the 
great _Encyclopedia Galactica_ as the standard repository of all 
knowledge and wisdom; for although it has many omissions, contains 
much that is apocryphal--or at least wildly inaccurate--it scores 
over the older, more pedestrian work in two important ways. 

First, it is slightly cheaper; and second, it has the words "Don't 
Panic" inscribed in large, friendly letters on the cover.

To tell the story of the Book, it's best to tell the story of some of 
the minds behind it. . . . 

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Derannimer (who would just like you all to know that she just wrote 
the above from memory. And who is not at all sure that she 
spelled "Oolon Colluphid properly.)