"So long, and thanks for all the fish!"

[Alan Baragona]

Yes, it was in the radio script first.  The entire series is available on
CD.

Alan Baragona

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Wilton" <dave at WILTON.NET>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 9:21 PM
Subject: Re: "So long, and thanks for all the fish!"


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> Yes, it is from Adams. IIRC the phrase first appears in his 1979 book
> "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." The material for the book also
> appeared
> in a 1978 BBC4 radio series, but I don't know if the phrase appeared in
> the
> radio show.
>
> "Curiously enough, the dolphins had long known of the impending
> destruction
> of the planet Earth and had made many attempts to alert mankind of the
> danger; but most of their communications were misinterpreted as amusing
> attempts to punch footballs or whistle for tidbits, so they eventually
> gave
> up and left the Earth by their own means shortly before the Vogons
> arrived.
>
> "The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly
> sophisticated attempt to do a double-backwards-somersault through a hoop
> whilst whistling the 'Star Sprangled Banner', but in fact the message was
> this: So long and thanks for all the fish."
>
> --Dave Wilton
>  dave at wilton.net
>  http://www.wilton.net
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]On Behalf
>> Of Bapopik at AOL.COM
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 5:47 PM
>> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>> Subject: "So long, and thanks for all the fish!"
>>
>>
>> The Fulton Fish Market has moved to the Bronx. "So long, and
>> thanks for all
>> the fish!" is a popular headline this week.
>> ..
>> Does this come from Douglas Adams?
>> ...
>> ...
>> _Amazon.com: So Long, and Thanks for All  the Fish: Books: Douglas Adams_
>> (http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=1&q=http://www.amazon.com/ex
> ec/obidos/tg/det
> ail/-/0345391837?v=glance&e=912)
> Amazon.com: So Long, and Thanks for All the  Fish: Books: Douglas Adams by
> Douglas
> Adams.
> www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/  tg/detail/-/0345391837?v=glance - 84k -
> _Cached_
> (http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:mM1LktiAJX4J:www.amazon.com/exec/obidos
> /t
> g/detail/-/0345391837?v=glance+"thanks+for+all+the+fish"&hl=en&start=1&ie=UT
> F-
> 8)  - _Similar pages_
> (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=related:www.amazon.com/ex
> ec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345391837?v=glance)
> ...
> ...
> _Hitchhiker rumor_
> (http://groups.google.com/group/net.sf-lovers/browse_thread/thread/ac1598687
> ede25ed/ca1d26e30dc0cd60?lnk=st&q="thanks+for+all+the+fish"&r
> num=152#ca1d26e30dc0cd60)
> Supposedly, Adams is  wearily writing a fourth book, called "So Long, and
> Thanks
> for  all the Fish". Can anyone confirm or deny this rumor ?  ...
> _net.sf-lovers_ (http://groups.google.com/group/net.sf-lovers?lnk=sg)  -
> Oct
> 14  1983, 1:27 am by P... at CIT-20.ARPA@sri-unix.UUCP - 2 messages - 2
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