# The Google Doodle in in honor of just this guy, you know? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 11, 2013, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-doodle-in-in-honor-of-just-this-guy-you-know/652619 "2013-03-11T07:10:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-doodle-in-in-honor-of-just-this-guy-you-know/652619/1 "2013-03-11T07:10:04Z")
Douglas Adams Google Doodle (in honor of his birthday March 11th). It’s mostly harmless. ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-doodle-in-in-honor-of-just-this-guy-you-know/652619/2 "2013-03-11T07:55:27Z")
I do love the interactive ones. If you wait long enough, Marvin comes out of the elevator. The tape moves if you hover over the right part of it. The Guide displays several (four? five?) entries. Anyone find anything else? ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-doodle-in-in-honor-of-just-this-guy-you-know/652619/3 "2013-03-11T08:07:30Z")
> [@maggenpye](#): > > I do love the interactive ones. > > If you wait long enough, Marvin comes out of the elevator. > > The tape moves if you hover over the right part of it. > > The Guide displays several (four? five?) entries. > > Anyone find anything else? Marvin comes out of the elevator if you hover over the doors. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-doodle-in-in-honor-of-just-this-guy-you-know/652619/4 "2013-03-11T08:10:37Z")
Clicking on the Guide should just take you to Wikipedia. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-doodle-in-in-honor-of-just-this-guy-you-know/652619/5 "2013-03-11T13:15:05Z")
Here’s to Douglas Adams: He was a hoopy frood who knew where his towel was. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-doodle-in-in-honor-of-just-this-guy-you-know/652619/6 "2013-03-11T14:43:59Z")
What’s the Guide entry that starts with the Earth and ends with a guy making a plant die by talking to it? I’m sure it’s easy, but I can’t remember. ---
**Author:** ![mage-girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@mage-girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mage-girl)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-doodle-in-in-honor-of-just-this-guy-you-know/652619/7 "2013-03-11T15:09:22Z")
The doodle makes me a little sad. Partly because Adams is no longer with us, but partly because I took so long to come to terms with being a geek. I remember in high school, a guy I was in the chess club with recommended _Hitchhiker’s_. And all I could think was “nerd”. Keep in mind that I read comic books, wrote fantasy/sf, read Star Trek novels, played video games, and was in the freakin’ chess club. :smack: It took me until the second year of college to start recognizing my own geekiness. I don’t truly count myself as a nerd, since I’m not good at math and science. But I am a HUGE geek. I’m glad I realized what I was, just wish I could have realized it sooner. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-doodle-in-in-honor-of-just-this-guy-you-know/652619/8 "2013-03-11T15:12:18Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > What’s the Guide entry that starts with the Earth and ends with a guy making a plant die by talking to it? I’m sure it’s easy, but I can’t remember. It’s just about Vogons. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-doodle-in-in-honor-of-just-this-guy-you-know/652619/9 "2013-03-11T16:24:52Z")
> [@Filbert](#): > > It’s just about Vogons. Right. In the brief stop I made I got: [ul] [li]Vogons [/li][li]The Babelfish[/li][li]Deep Thought - 42[/li][li]“Mostly harmless”[/li][li]Men study mice, dolphins study men, mice study them all[/li][li]What’s so unpleasand about being drunk (ask a glass of water)[/li][li]God sneezes out the universe[/li][li]Jump to the other side of the galaxy with the Infinite Improbability Drive (with transformation into Penguin and Ball of Yarn)[/li][li]Flying is falling w/o hitting the ground[/li][li]Have your towel with you[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-doodle-in-in-honor-of-just-this-guy-you-know/652619/10 "2013-03-11T16:35:26Z")
> [@mage-girl](#): > > I remember in high school, a guy I was in the chess club with recommended _Hitchhiker’s_. And all I could think was “nerd”. I’m so sorry, but this made me guffaw! This right here made the story! ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-doodle-in-in-honor-of-just-this-guy-you-know/652619/11 "2013-03-11T16:41:35Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > Right. In the brief stop I made I got: > > [ul] > [li]What’s so unpleasand about being drunk (ask a glass of water)[/li][/ul] No, it’s someone drinking a Pan Galactic Gargleblaster. He gets hit by a slice of lemon, wrapped around a large gold brick. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-doodle-in-in-honor-of-just-this-guy-you-know/652619/12 "2013-03-11T19:50:49Z")
John Barrowman’s birthday is today as well. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-doodle-in-in-honor-of-just-this-guy-you-know/652619/13 "2013-03-11T21:23:12Z")
If I had already known Adams’ wife was dead too, I’d forgotten until now (I find it hard to believe that slipped by me, but I honestly don’t remember knowing about it before). I felt very sad to realise Polly Jane Rocket was orphaned at 17, and that neither of her parents even made their 60th birthday. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-doodle-in-in-honor-of-just-this-guy-you-know/652619/14 "2013-03-11T22:15:06Z")
I got all the objects except the thing with the needle that moves up and down. What’s that? ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-doodle-in-in-honor-of-just-this-guy-you-know/652619/15 "2013-03-11T22:49:58Z")
> [@cher3](#): > > I got all the objects except the thing with the needle that moves up and down. What’s that? Probability factor gauge? \*Probability factor of one to one. We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem. \* ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-doodle-in-in-honor-of-just-this-guy-you-know/652619/16 "2013-03-11T23:50:25Z")
Can someone post the perma link please? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-doodle-in-in-honor-of-just-this-guy-you-know/652619/17 "2013-03-12T00:43:54Z")
> [@maggenpye](#): > > I do love the interactive ones. > > If you wait long enough, Marvin comes out of the elevator. > > The tape moves if you hover over the right part of it. > > The Guide displays several (four? five?) entries. > > Anyone find anything else? I haven’t tried every button but it looks like each button brings up a different scene. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-doodle-in-in-honor-of-just-this-guy-you-know/652619/18 "2013-03-12T00:52:28Z")
The tape moves no matter what you do or don’t do. And I’m not sure what buttons you’re referring to; I haven’t found any buttons per se that do anything (even though the one on the joystick-thing really looks like it ought to do something). Oh, and the cup of something almost but not entirely unlike tea ripples if you click it. ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-doodle-in-in-honor-of-just-this-guy-you-know/652619/19 "2013-03-12T00:58:01Z")
> [@maggenpye](#): > > Can someone post the perma link please? > **[Google](http://www.google.com/)** > > Search the world's information, including webpages, images, videos and more. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you're looking for. ? ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-doodle-in-in-honor-of-just-this-guy-you-know/652619/20 "2013-03-12T00:59:32Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > [li]God sneezes out the universe[/li] To be more precise, The Great Green Arkleseizure Theory of Viltvodle VI states that the universe was sneezed out of the nose of The Great Green Arkleseizure, as opposed to creation by a God. Fear the Coming of the Great White Handkerchief. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-doodle-in-in-honor-of-just-this-guy-you-know/652619.md?page=2)