Towel Day (2001/05/25)

Towel Day

Posted by Nick Waterman on 2001/05/25 10:02

Reminder! Today is TOWEL DAY. Be a hoopy frood, and wear your towel, in
memory of Douglas Adams, who dies 2 weeks ago today:

In memory of Douglas Adams, who recently died of a heart attack aged
49, binaryfreedom are proposing that two weeks after his passing (May
25, 2001) be marked as "Towel Day". All Douglas Adams fans are
encouraged to carry a towel with them, conspicuously, for the day.

http://www.binaryfreedom.com/content.php?content_id=46

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Towel Day

Posted by Chris L on 2001/05/24 08:48

Reminder! Today is TOWEL DAY. Be a hoopy frood, and wear your towel, in
memory of Douglas Adams, who dies 2 weeks ago today:

In memory of Douglas Adams, who recently died of a heart attack aged
49, binaryfreedom are proposing that two weeks after his passing (May
25, 2001) be marked as "Towel Day". All Douglas Adams fans are
encouraged to carry a towel with them, conspicuously, for the day.

http://www.binaryfreedom.com/content.php?content_id=46

For an utterly random example, one could wear a tea-towel on one's head. :-p

Chris Lyth (Clyth@)

A king's castle is his home.

Towel Day

Posted by Adam Cummins on 2001/05/26 00:45

For an utterly random example, one could wear a tea-towel on one's head.
:-p

No, for then Dame Anne of Robinson would scorn it!

Adam
The Chairbeing of Doom!!!

Towel Day

Posted by Philip Ayres on 2001/05/26 09:42

For an utterly random example, one could wear a tea-towel on one's head.
:-p

No, for then Dame Anne of Robinson would scorn it!

Apparently wrapping towels around your head is an officially approved use (P25, HHGttG)
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Towel Day

Posted by Philip Ayres on 2001/05/25 13:30

My copy of HHGttG isn't handy at the moment but I seem to recall many uses of
towels are listed there some of which involve clothing.

Incidentally there's a new CD release of Hitch Hikers out from the BBC. It's
still cut in episode 3 - my lodger wanted a copy for his Brother's Birthday so
we got him one off Amazon, I don't compulsively buy each new issue of it to
check. Maybe we aught to mail the Beeb to find out why it's cut .....

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Posted by Jacquie Kelly on 2001/05/25 15:51

Incidentally there's a new CD release of Hitch Hikers out
from the BBC. It's
still cut in episode 3 - my lodger wanted a copy for his
Brother's Birthday so
we got him one off Amazon, I don't compulsively buy each new
issue of it to
check. Maybe we aught to mail the Beeb to find out why it's
cut .....

If that's the normal bit that gets cut (it has a Pink Floyd song in it I
think - I never actually heard the original radio broadcast), it's to do
with copyright - although it's OK to use them in a radio broadcast without
having to ask permission you can't do that once the broadcast is being sold
to the public. One of the interviews with Douglas Adams explained why but I
can't remember exactly where I read it.

Jacquie

Towel Day

Posted by Darren S. on 2001/05/25 16:37

At 08:51 25/05/01 -0600, you wrote:

If that's the normal bit that gets cut (it has a Pink Floyd song in it I
think - I never actually heard the original radio broadcast), it's to do
with copyright - although it's OK to use them in a radio broadcast without
having to ask permission you can't do that once the broadcast is being sold
to the public. One of the interviews with Douglas Adams explained why but I
can't remember exactly where I read it.

Jacquie

I've read something like that too. I think it's in the book Don't Panic but as
my copy fell of a bike on the M4 this week I can't check.

Darren

Towel Day

Posted by Philip Ayres on 2001/05/25 18:13

Darren of Bob said

Jacqui said:

If that's the normal bit that gets cut (it has a Pink Floyd song in it I
think - I never actually heard the original radio broadcast), it's to do
with copyright - although it's OK to use them in a radio broadcast without
having to ask permission you can't do that once the broadcast is being sold
to the public. One of the interviews with Douglas Adams explained why but I
can't remember exactly where I read it.

I've read something like that too. I think it's in the book Don't Panic but as
my copy fell of a bike on the M4 this week I can't check.

Hmmm. Don't recall this from mine but I've got the earlier of the 2 editions. Anyone
got a copy of the Radio scripts ?

Nickwa said:

Phil said

Nick loses HHGttG fan cred by wrongly attributing the theme to the Floyd - it's the

Eagles

! Don't worry I'll slap him for it when we have dinner tomorrow ;-)

Oh belgium man, belgium!

Apparently there's 400 extra words in chapter 10 of in the US edition of Life, The
Universe & Everything explaining about Belgium that are culled from episode 10 of the
radio - Jacqui, can you check this out for us ? The UK edition just uses the F word
which.

I *DID* know that. It's been a long week, including way too much
overtime, including an 11-hour-workday on wednesday, ok? that's my
excuse and I'm sticking to it.

I know you knew that. I've told you at least 5 times for a start ;-)

Journey to the Sorcerer is on the album One of these Nights if anyone else wants to hear
it. I'll assume that everyone knows where to find Oxygene and Shine on you Crazy Diamond
;-)

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Towel Day

Posted by Jacquie Kelly on 2001/05/25 18:36

Apparently there's 400 extra words in chapter 10 of in the US
edition of Life, The
Universe & Everything explaining about Belgium that are
culled from episode 10 of the
radio - Jacqui, can you check this out for us ? The UK
edition just uses the F word
which.

Will do - although don't be surprised if it takes a couple of weeks - I'm in
the middle of the US which doesn't like admitting that anything else in the
galaxy exists! (Colorado does this even more than the rest of the US)

Jacquie

Towel Day

Posted by Jacquie Kelly on 2001/05/27 02:04

Apparently there's 400 extra words in chapter 10 of in the US
edition of Life, The
Universe & Everything explaining about Belgium that are
culled from episode 10 of the
radio - Jacqui, can you check this out for us ? The UK
edition just uses the F word
which.

OK, it's actually in Chapter 22 in the UK version and Chapter 21 in the US
version (God alone know what other changes they've made!). Anyway, it's the
bit where Ford, Arthur, Trillian and Slartibartfast are at the party and the
attached text file has both versions - I didn't want to type it in the email
in case I hit some kind of copyright thing ('cause the emails end up on the
website where anyone can view it).

The UK version has 281 words while the US version has 713 words. Mind you,
I'm pretty sure I've read the extra stuff that's in the US version somewhere
in one of the UK books (or I'm going completely insane through exposure to
too much altitude - remember I'm about 6000-6500 feet up here.)

If you can't read it, though, let me know and I'll send it to you
individually in an email but not to the IFIS list. (Also note, I use my
work email and I won't be reading it as often over the weekend).

Jacquie

Towel Day

Posted by Philip Ayres on 2001/05/27 13:23

Ta for that.

and yes I did slap Nick last night :-)

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Posted by Philip Ayres on 2001/05/25 17:28

If that's the normal bit that gets cut (it has a Pink Floyd song in it I
think - I never actually heard the original radio broadcast), it's to do
with copyright - although it's OK to use them in a radio broadcast without
having to ask permission you can't do that once the broadcast is being sold
to the public. One of the interviews with Douglas Adams explained why but I
can't remember exactly where I read it.

Yup that's the bit. There's a transcript of it in the chat archives somewhere <consults
mail file, cross refs with site>

Go to

www.ifis.org.uk/social/forums/chat/?year=2000&month=Nov

and search on audio.

I'm trying to work out *which* piece of music in the clip is the offending one. There's
3: Shine on you Crazy Diamond by Pink Floyd, Rock and Roll Music (Elvis ?) and Also Sparch
Zarthustra by Strauss. Since DNA was great mates with Dave Gilmour of the Floyd - BTW
the previously mentioned guitar on stage with Floyd incident purportedly occurs on DNA's
42nd Birthday - and Also Sparch Zarthustra is a classical piece I'd go for Rock and Roll
music being the offender.

It doesn't seem to stop the numerous appearances of Jean-Michel Jarre's Oxygene through
Ep3 or indeed the regular appearance of the Eagle's Journey to the Sorcerer as the theme
music.

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Posted by Nick Waterman on 2001/05/25 17:34

Kelly, Jacquie wrote:

Incidentally there's a new CD release of Hitch Hikers out
from the BBC. It's still cut in episode 3

If that's the normal bit that gets cut (it has a Pink Floyd song in it I
think - I never actually heard the original radio broadcast), it's to do
with copyright - although it's OK to use them in a radio broadcast without
having to ask permission you can't do that once the broadcast is being sold
to the public.

... except Douglas Adams got on extremely well with Pink Floyd, and has
permission to use all sorts of their stuff for all sorts of things
(including the theme tune obviously). I sincerely doubt he'd have had
any difficulty whatsoever getting permission to use marvin's brief 10
seconds (if that) of "humming like pink floyd".

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Posted by Philip Ayres on 2001/05/25 17:36

... except Douglas Adams got on extremely well with Pink Floyd, and has
permission to use all sorts of their stuff for all sorts of things
(including the theme tune obviously).

Nick loses HHGttG fan cred by wrongly attributing the theme to the Floyd - it's the Eagles
! Don't worry I'll slap him for it when we have dinner tomorrow ;-)

I sincerely doubt he'd have had
any difficulty whatsoever getting permission to use marvin's brief 10
seconds (if that) of "humming like pink floyd".

It's a bit longer than that - Nick, I'll dig the tape out for you to hear it if you want
to pop back to mine after the meal.

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Posted by Nick Waterman on 2001/05/25 17:54

Nick loses HHGttG fan cred by wrongly attributing the theme to the Floyd - it's the Eagles

! Don't worry I'll slap him for it when we have dinner tomorrow ;-)

Oh belgium man, belgium!

I *DID* know that. It's been a long week, including way too much
overtime, including an 11-hour-workday on wednesday, ok? that's my
excuse and I'm sticking to it.

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