# So long and thanks for all the fish... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 12, 2001, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/65196 "2001-05-12T10:46:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2001, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/65196/21 "2001-05-12T13:54:30Z")
Well, shit. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Verrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/46a35a/32.png) [@Verrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Verrain)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2001, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/65196/22 "2001-05-12T14:02:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Arden Ranger \* > \*\*Well, shit. > > ☹ \*\* Couldn’t have put it better myself. I liked him even before I read his books when I saw the Doctor Who work by him. A twisted genius taken too soon. Rest in peace. ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2001, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/65196/23 "2001-05-12T14:14:20Z")
\*"…only the good die young"–Billy Joel \* **TANJ!** Another spot of light gone out Hometownboy8 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mermaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@The\_Mermaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mermaid)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2001, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/65196/24 "2001-05-12T14:15:14Z")
He’s not really dead. He just made a permanent reservation at the Restaurant at the end of the Universe and got a little too close to the Gnab Gib. ---
**Author:** ![OneDollarWilliam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/fbc32d/32.png) [@OneDollarWilliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneDollarWilliam)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2001, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/65196/25 "2001-05-12T14:15:53Z")
I weep for his loss. His books olny changed my life for the better(I met my best friend through them.), and made me the moderately stable intelectual I am today. I have nver cried so had at the death of someone I didn’t know. Truly, this is a blow for all mankind. And to think, I was listening to his technology show “The Hitchhikers Guide to the Future” on BBC 4('s Website) just last week. /me curls up in a fetal position and dies inside. ---
**Author:** ![dodge\_this](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@dodge\_this](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dodge_this)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2001, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/65196/26 "2001-05-12T14:29:27Z")
This is truly sad. Funny enough, I was on the bus on the way home 30 minutes ago, trying to remember when I last read HHGTTG. Now, I come home to this piece of news. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2001, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/65196/27 "2001-05-12T14:48:04Z")
I just heard it too. Bummer. Hope everyone will be cosulting the [HHG](http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/) site to cheer themselves up. ---
**Author:** ![Badge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Badge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badge)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2001, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/65196/28 "2001-05-12T15:00:23Z")
Damn . . . He was a man who always knew where his towel was . . . ---
**Author:** ![Morrison\_s\_Lament](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Morrison\_s\_Lament](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morrison_s_Lament)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2001, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/65196/29 "2001-05-12T15:03:03Z")
Time to close down the outside of the sanitarium ☹ The world has truly lost a unique soul. — G. Raven ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2001, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/65196/30 "2001-05-12T15:06:26Z")
Hey, you sass that hoopy Douglas Adams? You’re right **Badge** ; there was a frood who really knows where his towel was. ---
**Author:** ![OneDollarWilliam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/fbc32d/32.png) [@OneDollarWilliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneDollarWilliam)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2001, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/65196/31 "2001-05-12T15:08:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Colin Wilkinson \* > \*\*I just heard it too. Bummer. > > Hope everyone will be cosulting the [HHG](http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/) site to cheer themselves up. \*\* If you would like to be part of a lasting memorial to Adams’ genius take part in [http://www.h2g2.com](http://www.h2g2.com) H2G2 is a website designed to act as The Hitchikers Guide to the Planet Earth with people from around the globe posting to create the largest index of usefull “realworld” knowledge available. If the teeming millions can’t get behind this I don’t know who can. Please sign up and add your information to this great storehouse of knowledge. /me wanders off to cry some more. ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2001, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/65196/32 "2001-05-12T15:10:01Z")
Sadly not available in six-packs. ---
**Author:** ![heembo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f6c823/32.png) [@heembo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heembo)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2001, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/65196/33 "2001-05-12T15:15:12Z")
☹ Heembo ---
**Author:** ![Gregor\_Samsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@Gregor\_Samsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gregor_Samsa)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2001, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/65196/34 "2001-05-12T15:24:08Z")
That’s a shame. I really enjoyed his writings. I can remember where I was the first time I read any of his words - behind the bar at the Hotel Joseph in Tel Aviv, ca. 1982. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2001, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/65196/35 "2001-05-12T15:48:59Z")
> [@](#): > > I can remember where I was the first time I read any of his words The first time I read _Hitchhiker’s Guide_ was as I was riding a bus from Chicago to L.A. after having spent five weeks bumming around Europe. The book is funny on its own, but more-so after having been “living out of” _Let’s Go: Europe_ for five weeks. ---
**Author:** ![mblackwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@mblackwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mblackwell)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2001, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/65196/36 "2001-05-12T16:03:27Z")
☹ ---
**Author:** ![Erika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/47e85d/32.png) [@Erika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erika)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2001, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/65196/37 "2001-05-12T16:04:36Z")
Gah!!! He’s not allowed to be dead! Really! ::hides face in towel:: ---
**Author:** ![Sassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@Sassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sassy)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2001, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/65196/38 "2001-05-12T16:05:12Z")
☹ ---
**Author:** ![Zaphod\_Beeblebrox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/0ea827/32.png) [@Zaphod\_Beeblebrox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zaphod_Beeblebrox)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2001, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/65196/39 "2001-05-12T16:15:45Z")
This right up there in my top list of worst news ever. ---
**Author:** ![MrVisible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MrVisible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrVisible)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2001, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/65196/40 "2001-05-12T16:17:05Z")
My only consolation is that somewhere out there, God has taken Mr. Adams aside, put an arm around his shoulder, and said, “I apologize for the inconvenience.” It’s a great man that can make that many people laugh so hard, so nicely. I’ll miss him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/65196.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/65196.md?page=3)