Douglas Adams Continuum (DAC)

Thursday 15 March 2007
Royal Geographic Society, South Kensington, London
Dr Richard Leakey
“Wildlife Management in East Africa – Is there a future?â€

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Before long now, I'll reach the age where farting will be an essential part of propulsion.
(...don't piss us off)

So, how did it go? Anyone?

DaveH has promised to make a report for us.

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Before long now, I'll reach the age where farting will be an essential part of propulsion.
(...don't piss us off)

Bloody marvellous, i'll tell you all about it tomorrow.

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"Samantha has to nip out to take her German Shepherd to the park to give him a stroke while he licks her face and pants."
-- Humph

(...don't piss us off)

Sorry, I had an assignment for my OU course to hand in on Friday. They have an electronic submission system which allows you work right up to the midnight limit. I sent mine at 21:45, I try and let the deadlines whoosh up but not passed. Anyway I didn’t feel much like typing yesterday.

Much of Douglas’s family were at the lecture; Jane Belson, Polly (about as tall as me), Jane Thrift, plus the little one that stopped her going up Kilimanjaro, Sue Adams, although I didn’t see Douglas’s mother this year. James eventually turned up. Tony and I was standing in the corner of the bar people watching thinking where was he, and when we left to take our seats we bumped into him as he had just arrived. Many of the usual audience were there; Ed Victor and Nick Webb, along with musical friends Wix Wickens and Margot Buchanan, plus Sean Solle and Jim Lynn from The Digital Village. I wanted to ask Robbie Stamp about that post on the IMDB forum but he wasn’t there. Dirk Maggs couldn’t make it either, but I did see him earlier in the day, and more of that when I have doubled checked with him what I can say.

When Tony and I made it into the auditorium in was almost full, and we had to hunt for seats and make do with a pair in the back row, just along from Terry Jones. Clive Anderson was sitting in the reserved area, and I had been lugging my copy of the album An Evening Without (which has some sketches written by a certain Douglas Adams) around London all day in order to get it autographed. He was a little surprised to see this 26 year-old blast from the past, and as it already had inscriptions by Rory McGrath and Griff Rhys Jones he asked if it was my life’s work to get it signed by all the performers, I now have just Jimmy Mulville and Martin Bergman to track down. Clive was in the reserved area he had a job to do this year. After a brief introduction from Save the Rhino co-founder, Dave Stirling, Clive took over and in his typical style talked about Douglas and the charity, describing himself as “Jack of ceremonies, master of noneâ€

Thanks for that, DaveH! Good read, good read.

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Impossible you say? Nothing is impossible when you work for the circus.

Your powers of recall (or at least note-taking) are very impressive young man.

Mine would have started well, .... "met Dave for a beer in the Queens Arms, walked to RGS building, had another beer there, and indeed another..."

.....before blurring a little in the middle and returning with some clarity to...."had another beer in the bar courtesy of that most generous (and thus completely inappropriately-named) Mr Thrift"...

...and then would have tailed off rather weakly.

Well done.

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The drug purportedly affected an area of the brain called "Shatner's Bassoon"

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
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Gor blimey guv, do you do shorthand?

Background info, mmm, biggest turnout for the lectures to date at 610, I knew Richard Leakey would be popular but the guys at Save The Rhino just about spent the last 2 weeks answering phone calls for tickets, yes I turned up late, dumped the car in a diplomatic parking space across the street and got a ticket, yes, Polly is nearly taller than me and I'm not quite sure how I'm gonna face the rest of my life being called "short arse", Robbie Stamp wanted to make it but couldn't (what IMDB post is that?) as did Dirk (more on t'other Dirk another day), Clive Anderson pulled a blinder out of the hat and was on fine form, everyone needs to learn how to glue flip flops together then carve sculptures of animals, and the 2 girls who invited me to a quiet corner with a video camera had not a single ulterior motive between them.

Good to catch up with Dave and Tony, trying to get to QI and Cambridge.

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"Samantha has to nip out to take her German Shepherd to the park to give him a stroke while he licks her face and pants."
-- Humph

(...don't piss us off)

I'd love to attend one of those, sounds like it was a good time.

And James, I believe the IMDb post had something to do with a sequel to the Hitchhiker's film in the pre-production stage, but I'm not positive. I'm sure someone less lazy than me will find the post.

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Personally, I believe joblessness is one of the core prerequisites for creativity. - OZ

Ah, Mr Skivington, another absconder from the asylum I presume.

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"Samantha has to nip out to take her German Shepherd to the park to give him a stroke while he licks her face and pants."
-- Humph

(...don't piss us off)

But, Robbie has already claimed absolutely no knowledge of another movie. I asked him about that imdb post. Garth also denies any knowledge.

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Before long now, I'll reach the age where farting will be an essential part of propulsion.
(...don't piss us off)

Hmm...

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D.
The Thirteenth Triskaidekaphobe
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Hutch!!!...(it's a fair cop)

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The drug purportedly affected an area of the brain called "Shatner's Bassoon"

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
http://s267.photobucket.com/albums/ii297/h2g230/