# Hitchhiker's Guide fans, I would like a moment of your time **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 23, 2005, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-fans-i-would-like-a-moment-of-your-time/313823 "2005-07-23T18:29:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2005, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-fans-i-would-like-a-moment-of-your-time/313823/1 "2005-07-23T18:29:21Z")
…to brag! Because I have just acquired, through months of patient searching, bargaining, haggling, international intrigue, and intergalactic destruction, a mint-condition leather-bound set of the five volumes of the _Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy_ trilogy, _signed by Douglas Adams_. Just like [this one here](http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6534561994&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1), but not for nearly as much money. (This poor chump has been trying to sell his for more than three months now. I offered to take them off his hands if he dropped the ridiculous price, but he wouldn’t budge. Sucks for him, cause now I got my own!) You may proceed to worship me now. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some reading to do. ---
**Author:** ![legion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/838e76/32.png) [@legion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legion)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2005, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-fans-i-would-like-a-moment-of-your-time/313823/2 "2005-07-23T18:52:08Z")
What did you pay? ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2005, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-fans-i-would-like-a-moment-of-your-time/313823/3 "2005-07-23T19:28:56Z")
I got all five books in one volume plus the Zaphod short story for seven dollars. I bet it reads just the same as your dead cow books. So no, no worship from me, unless thinking “sucker” constitutes worship. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2005, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-fans-i-would-like-a-moment-of-your-time/313823/4 "2005-07-23T19:31:38Z")
I raise a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster in your honor. ---
**Author:** ![legion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/838e76/32.png) [@legion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legion)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2005, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-fans-i-would-like-a-moment-of-your-time/313823/5 "2005-07-23T19:42:17Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > I got all five books in one volume plus the Zaphod short story for seven dollars. I bet it reads just the same as your dead cow books. So no, no worship from me, unless thinking “sucker” constitutes worship. Five and a half books in one wrist spraining volume? Seven bucks? I’m wondering just who the sucker is here. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2005, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-fans-i-would-like-a-moment-of-your-time/313823/6 "2005-07-23T19:50:38Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > I got all five books in one volume plus the Zaphod short story for seven dollars. I bet it reads just the same as your dead cow books. So no, no worship from me, unless thinking “sucker” constitutes worship. Hey, man. Some guys kill hookers, I collect expensive books. It’s a weakness. ---
**Author:** ![LeeshaJoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@LeeshaJoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeeshaJoy)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2005, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-fans-i-would-like-a-moment-of-your-time/313823/7 "2005-07-23T22:20:11Z")
Dangit, I was feeling good about getting a deal on the Marvin the Paranoid Android doll I bought yesterday, and now you’re making me all jealous.