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Janette

Post subject: Never heard this before -- source?

Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 7:33 pm

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I read this on a site called LibraryThing.com that contains book reviews. It was a review of Dirk 1:

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During these searches on the net I also found out that the sofa irreversibly stuck on the stairs is based on an incident that happened during Adamsâ€™ college life.

Anybody know where this comes from? Never heard it before...

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Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 7:54 pm

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From Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Gentl ... ive_Agency

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In the novel, a sofa is irreversibly stuck on the staircase to Richard's apartment; according to his simulations, not only is it impossible to remove it, but there is no way for it to have got into that position in the first place. This is probably based on an incident that occurred while Douglas Adams attended St John's College of Cambridge University. Furniture was placed in the rooms overlooking the river in Third Court while the staircases were being refurbished. When the staircases were completed, it was discovered that the sofas could no longer be removed from the rooms, and the sofas remained in those rooms for several decades.

Sorry ... that apostrophe seems to be messing up the linkability and I can't be arsed to figure it out right now ... try cut and paste.

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Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 9:45 pm

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Thanks, mg. You are the maven of all knowledge (IMO)....

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Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 10:34 pm

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I had never read through the entire Wikipedia entry on Douglas, and only just discovered that he and Jane Belson were married on my 34th birthday, November 25, 1991. I'm learning a lot today!

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Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 10:08 pm

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Wikipedia is a friend through thick and thin. Because of the Wiki I know that Al Capone had a birthmark shaped like the International House of Pancakes.

The couch story seems more plausible, IMO.

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Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 10:55 pm

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Lozlan wrote:

Wikipedia is a friend through thick and thin. Because of the Wiki I know that Al Capone had a birthmark shaped like the International House of Pancakes.

The letters?

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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 12:44 am

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Fenchurch wrote:

Lozlan wrote:

Wikipedia is a friend through thick and thin. Because of the Wiki I know that Al Capone had a birthmark shaped like the International House of Pancakes.

The letters?

The entry was a little vague, but a full-building silhouette complete with roadside billboard (assumedly featuring the letters IHOP), parking lot and grinning hostess were implied.

It's also possible that I'm just being silly.

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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 2:11 am

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Lozlan wrote:

It's also possible that I'm just being silly.

There's that too. But it's not as interesting as if you've said that it's real.

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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 3:50 am

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Fenchurch wrote:

Lozlan wrote:

It's also possible that I'm just being silly.

There's that too. But it's not as interesting as if you've said that it's real.

In that case, it's totally not possible at all.

I like being interesting, dammit.

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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 3:22 pm

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but you ARE interesting, Loz... so interesting that I'm going to ask you an indiscreet question: where did the quote at the bottom of your post come from? did you copy it off of a site somewhere?

I think it's hysterical.

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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:15 pm

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It's only through Wikipedia that I know that all left and right handed turns are done in 44.5-degree angles instead of the regularly assumed 45.113-degree.

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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 8:29 pm

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Janette wrote:

I can assure you, it's 100% real. I tugged it off an AOL news message board back when I was still a slave to internet explorer and AOL was my default homepage. About three months ago I switched to Firefox, causing the idiot quotient in my blood to plummet to dangerous levels.

Seriously, I miss all those Dinesh D'Souza articles. :roll:

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Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 1:57 pm

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Janette wrote:

I had never read through the entire Wikipedia entry on Douglas, and only just discovered that he and Jane Belson were married on my 34th birthday, November 25, 1991. I'm learning a lot today!

OMG!!!!
i got married on 25 november 1997 :shock:

divorced 6 years later though :lol:

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