Douglas Adams Continuum (DAC)

how about a collected script book of all the Adams-Smith-Adams material that they performed at Cambridge, in the revues they did. sketches such as "Point taken" and so on. they must have done loads. DaveH recently told me of the lighthouse sketched involving 2 keepers dividing up the lighthouse after a row. and going all the way up to "Kamikaze" the sketch the got him the job of writing h2g2.

would this be possible? or is the "copyright issue / problematic task of gathering the material together after so long" so hideously complicated that it would destroy the universe?

as ever, your thoughts please...

I'd buy it!

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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
(Douglas Adams, "Last Chance to See")

Yes, me too!

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Before long now, I'll reach the age where farting will be an essential part of propulsion.
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Funnily enough just the other week I went through a load of his footlights stuff, it's all there, scripts, notes, flyers, reviews. Only flicked through as I was looking for something else.

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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)

Off you go to Ed, then. Chop chop, toot sweet.

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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)

Whatever you say cap'n.

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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)

Wow! Omnipotence!

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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)

Hold the bus James!

How did the Frankfurter go down last week? Have we heard?

Fear not Kevin, a somewhat flippant "whatever yopu say cap'n", one day, but not this one.

We've just shifted our mail servers and the tw@ts unplugged the old one before telling anyone the codes for the new one, so I've been a bit in the dark mail wise of late. At least I hope that is why I have heard nothing.

Will chase.

J

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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)

Oi! Stop being secret and hush-hushy, or I'll ban both your arses from here to Draculas castle. See if I...well, I won't.

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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)

Yeh. It can happen to men of a certain age. But not to worry! I'll forward a few emails with a cure!

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love is a wet spot on the mattress of my life! Tracy Lundgren

after our performance a bunch of little kids were in awe of the size of my bassoon. Appogg

Hi, I am very interested.
If there was a book I would buy two right away (one spare, you never know).
Otherwise, anyone can help me? Where can I find pieces and bits?
I also heard talikings about one sketch called Kamikaze which must be very witty! Where do I read it?
Thanks a load.
Amubello

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He died, and I did not catch it.

The Kamikaze sketch was written around Eastertime 1976 for the Footlights production later that year. It is co-authored by DNA and Chris Keightley (who was president of Footlights then). After Footlights it was performed on the album An Evening Without, a revue performed by Clive Anderson, Rory McGrath, Martin Bergman, Jimmy Mulville and Griff Rhys Jones. It was also performed on the radio 4 series, The Burkiss Way, and this version can be found on the Douglas Adams at the BBC CD.

A script (I presume the original Footlights one) for it can be found in Neil Gaiman's book, Don't Panic: The Official Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion, and a slightly different script, I think the Burkiss Way one, is in The Utterly, Utterly Amusing and Pretty Damn Definitive Comic Relief Revue Book.

Dave H for God.

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love is a wet spot on the mattress of my life! Tracy Lundgren

after our performance a bunch of little kids were in awe of the size of my bassoon. Appogg

Thank you very much.
Will make a note for next time I am in an English bookshop.

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He died, and I did not catch it.

Only God?

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This has been another random act of nonsense.

Dave H actually is God, He's just not aware of it.

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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
(Douglas Adams, "Last Chance to See")

I don't want to be God. God does not exist. I maintain that I exist, therefore I am not God.
Anyway, to divert us back to the subject of early Douglas Adams work here is an article based on an interview with Rory McGrath from the beginning of the year.

Rory McGrath was not quite a contemporary of Douglas at Cambridge. He went up to Emmanuel in 1974 the term after Adams graduated, however, when Douglas returned to direct the 1976 Footlights revue he was one of the writers, and developed a friendship that lasted over the years, and spawned some of the jokes in Hitchhikers. He worked with Douglas in the late 1970s and was a friend until Adams’s death.

“I first met Douglas in the Easter holidays, or whatever it’s called in Cambridge, of 1976â€

You the man, Dave, you the man

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Robin: Gee, Batman. Belgravia's such a small country. We'd beat them in a few hours.

Batman: Yes, and then we'd have to support them for years.

Thanks Dave. I enjoyed reading that.

The way that Rory's been behaving, he must be on his last beard.

Only the truly divine would deny their divinity. So, therefore, if you say you are not God and God does not exist, then you are truly God.

QED.

Now, would someone help me cross the street?

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This has been another random act of nonsense.

Just wanted to drop in my two (or three, or perhaps even four) cents...I would buy this book in an instant. I spent quite a bit of time some years ago collecting all the unpublished DNA (from various internet sources) that I could scrounge up...the resultant word file is well over 100,000 words long, including the entirety of his posts on the official site. I long thought about posting a link to the collection here, actually.

As for this collection...I'm keeping all of my fingers crossed in vain anticipation. I figure that some vague Douglas collection will be published in the seemingly distant future...but sooner would certainly be better.

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