Fish,

It's from the movie "Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy".  When you have
grandchildren, you get to see the neat movies again;)

John K. Luedeman
Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Sciences and Teacher Education
Clemson University
864 882-6735 (H)
864 656-5129 (O)


-----Original Message-----
From: SCUBA or ELSE! Diver's forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Reef Fish
Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 2:37 PM
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Subject: Re: [SCUBA-SE] The Dumbing Down of Diving

On Fri, 3 Jun 2005 08:40:06 -0400, Huw Porter <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 13:42:54 -0700, David Hale <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>
>>--- Huw Porter <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> It sounds to me as though Viv was particularly
>>> unlucky.  :-(
>>>
>>
>>She would only have been unlucky if the DMs had tried
>>to read her some Vogon poetry.    :D
>
>Oh no, not again!

I wasn't able to find any reference to Vogon in SE except what's
in the present thread.  So, I assume it's from the current movie
"Star War 3" which probably has some relation to the poetry
written by Vogons, a fictional race in Douglas Adams' The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

I saw a snippet of the "Star War 3", which was the only snippet
I had ever seen or read about any of the "Star War" movie hypes.
I even posted this on a separate OT in rec.scuba.locations:



A Dysfunctional Gang member asked> Mandarin, Cantonese or Hakka?

======= begin excerpt
The ADS, Dysfunctional kid snipped HALF of my one-liner!
It originally read,

RF>  No.  Much better in Chinese!  And give them the Kung Fu Hustle.

http://www.sonyclassics.com/ku-ngfuhustle/splash/no1killers/
http://www.sonyclassics.com/ku-ngfuhustle/splash/landlady/

Anyone who knew any of those dialects would have known that the
movie was entierly spoken in Cantonese, with English subtitles.


Kung Fu Hustle opened the same time as "Star War 3" and both got
"A-" review in most newspaper reviews.  Kung Fu Hustle was quite
subtlely FUNNY and had as much high-tech filming as Star Wars.

I watched "Star War 3" while I was waiting the "Cinderella Man"
movie to begin.

http://www.moviemansguide.com/-special_features/2005summerpre-view_june...

Never watched any Star War movies before.  I was completely bored by
Star War 3 after the first 20 minutes, and had to sit through another
boring 15 minutes before the Cinderella Man movie started.

The Star War 3 movie theatre was near EMPTY.  When it opened (a
couple of weeks ago?) the hype was that someone camped out for three
days to buy the first ticket.  I think the movie AD agency paid him
a handsome sum for that publicity stunt.  The movie STUNK.  :-)


The Cinderella Man was a GREAT movie.

The Kung Fu Hustle was a very entertaining and "surprising" movie
(didn't know it was in Cantonese until the movie started) well worth
watching and catch some delay laughs after you get home.
========== end excerpt

I guess I should thank god or Zeus that no Vogon poetry was heard
during those boring 35 minutes I watched the "Star War 3" eh?

The movie theatre was NEARLY EMPTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   I think that
said much about the ad hype, and raised my assessment of the
average IQ of the folks in Choo Choo.   :-)))))))))

-- Bob.