>>Aye, I understood that. I wasn't too struck with HGTTG - too many "pan-Galactic ..." and "mega ..." prefixes in it.
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>I think Adams was equally annoyed with the proliferation of such prefixes elsewhere, so he pushed it to absurdity. That's how I read that.

I read it that he was mentally bankrupt of amusing, catchy superlatives, or had forgotten just how many times he used them.

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>- we really laughed once, when nobody else did - nice feeling
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>- we didn't laugh for most of the rest of the movie when everyone else did - nice feeling
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>- we didn't go to the movies since then
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>- we had our point proven: once Disney Co gets its hands on it, it can't be good. Imagine, they even removed the "and disappeared in a puff of logic" bit.


Sound like I was right to avoid it.

BTW, this holiday I stayed in a camp-site in France called "Camping le Vorlen". With the French pronunciation I half expected my tent to be bulldozed :-)