# 10 Years ago today **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 11, 2011, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-years-ago-today/581522 "2011-05-11T14:44:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2011, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-years-ago-today/581522/1 "2011-05-11T14:44:14Z")
We lost Doug Adams. ☹ Does it seem that long ago? I had forgotten the actual date but was reminded this morning when I logged on to Fark. They have a link up to the full version of “Journey of the Sorcerer” by the Eagles. Man, ten years. Imagine what fun he’d be having with today’s technology. I’ve got a nook and am looking for a way to make a “Don’t Panic” cover for it. Anybody seen one anywhere? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2011, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-years-ago-today/581522/2 "2011-05-11T14:47:46Z")
It seems like 3 years ago, tops. I can’t believe he died before 9/11. I mean, that seems a lot longer ago to me. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Methyl\_Ethyl\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Methyl\_Ethyl\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Methyl_Ethyl_Death)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2011, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-years-ago-today/581522/3 "2011-05-11T15:48:58Z")
I’m pretty confident that if he were still with us, that \*Hitchhickers \* movie would have been better. And yes, I’m aware most of the script was done at the time of his death. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-years-ago-today/581522/4 "2011-05-11T15:51:42Z")
There was a small Dopefest in New York the day he died, and \*\*ExTank \*\*made a very nice toast in his memory. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2011, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-years-ago-today/581522/5 "2011-05-11T15:56:07Z")
> [@Methyl\_Ethyl\_Death](#): > > I’m pretty confident that if he were still with us, that \*Hitchhickers \* movie would have been better. > > And yes, I’m aware most of the script was done at the time of his death. Yeah, but I still think they did a decent job. It’s just not a book/show that adapts well to the screen. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2011, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-years-ago-today/581522/6 "2011-05-11T16:21:59Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I can’t believe he died before 9/11. I’ve wondered about that, at the time and since then. I wonder how he would have reacted. > [@](#): > > **Originally posted by Douglas Adams** > There was a terrible ghastly silence. > There was a terrible ghastly noise. > There was a terrible ghastly silence. That pretty much sums up the demise of WTC, for me. It was hardly silent. But it was terrible. And ghastly. Anyway, on a more cheerful note, I was as satisfied with the recent movie version of H2G2 as I ever thought I could be. I’ve said before, I thought it was well cast and well paced; I wish they’d included the towel reference, but at least we got DNA in the last shot. I do remember the audience reaction. ETA to **Mahaloth** : Yeah, and remember, when it was a radio drama, he was deliberately trying to make it something that could not possibly be visualized. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2011, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-years-ago-today/581522/7 "2011-05-11T16:27:30Z")
> [@Reeses\_Monkey](#): > > Man, ten years. Imagine what fun he’d be having with today’s technology. I’ve got a nook and am looking for a way to make a “Don’t Panic” cover for it. Anybody seen one anywhere? > **[Nook screensavers and wallpapers](http://tgswenson.blogspot.com/2011/04/nook-screensavers-and-wallpapers.html)** > > I was very busy trying to find the perfect screensavers and wallpapers for my Nook. So I will be sharing the ones that I found from other w... So my brother said that he saw Stephen Hawkins last month in a Chinese restaurant (not at the end of the universe) in Phoenix, making me fell green with envy. “Well, at least I met Robin Williams” I said… Then he said, “of course there is that, but you forgot the one that I envy you for, you shook hands with Douglas Adams and got a signed copy of his book”. Ah yes, there was that. 🙂 It was shocking to learn a few months later that he passed away. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Methyl\_Ethyl\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Methyl\_Ethyl\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Methyl_Ethyl_Death)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2011, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-years-ago-today/581522/8 "2011-05-11T19:57:31Z")
I fogot to mention I own a leatherbound HGTTG book with a misprint on the spine. It reads: _The Hitchhikers Guide To The Universe_ _Restaraunt At The End Of The Galaxy_[ I]So Long And Thanks For All The Fish\* _Young Zaphod Plays It Safe_ Universe and Galaxy got flip flopped and no one caught it. 🙂 I wonder how much it’s worth. ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-years-ago-today/581522/9 "2011-05-12T13:05:36Z")
Cool! Thanks for the link.