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153 More Things to Do in Zero Gravity THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 2005 FilmLiteratureBooks-Travel

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
53 More Things to Do in Zero Gravity
Narrator: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a wholly remarkable book. Perhaps the most remarkable, certainly the most successful, ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor. More popular than The Celestial Homecare Omnibus, better selling than 53 More Things to Do in Zero Gravity, and more controversial than Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters, Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes, and Who Is This God Person Anyway?



2Aldebaran WineLIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteratureBeverage ProductsWine

LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING
Aldebaran Wine
Narrator: "Trillian nodded patiently again, counted to a sufficiently high number, and told herself that the important thing now was just to get Zaphod talking. She prepared, by dint of deactivating all the robot kitchen synthomatics, the most fabulously delicious meal she could contrive - delicately oiled meals, scented fruits, fragrant cheeses, fine Aldebaran wines."


3The AlphaMOSTLY HARMLESS 1992 LiteratureNightlifeNightclubs

MOSTLY HARMLESS
The Alpha
Stavro's original club in New York, now run by his brother Karl, who thought of himself as a German with a Greek mother.


4Ancient PhilologyTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureEducationAcademic Fields

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Ancient Philology
Field of study. According to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Veet Voojagig pursued a brilliant academic career at the University of Maximegalon studying ancient philology, transformational ethics and the wave harmonic theory of historical perception.


5Angst in SpaceLIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteratureVideoMovies-Sci Fi

LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING
Angst in Space
Movie that Wowbagger has only seen 33,517 times.


6Arcturan Mega-ginTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureBeverage ProductsAlcohol

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Arcturan Mega-gin
One of the many ingredients in a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster. "Allow three cubes of Arcturan Mega-gin to melt into the mixture. It must be properly iced or the benzine is lost."


7Arcturan MegafreighterTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 2005 FilmVehiclesSpacecrafts

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Arcturan Megafreighter
Thinking caps are used on Arcturan megafreighters when the captains need to concentrate.


8Arcturan MegafreighterTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureVehiclesSpacecrafts

THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
Arcturan Megafreighter
Star ship model. "You would also have seen a couple of rather dishevelled looking hitch-hikers from Algol who had recently arrived on an Arcturan Megafreighter aboard which they had been roughing it for a few days. They were angry and bewildered to discover that here, within sight of the Hitchhiker's Guide building itself, a simple glass of fruit juice cost the equivalent of over sixty Altairan dollars."


9ArtifactovolLIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteratureCompaniesVehicle Manufacturing

LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING
Artifactovol
Narrator: "Many speak of the legendary and gigantic Starship Titanic, a majestic and luxurious cruise-liner launched from the great shipbuilding asteroid complexes of Artifactovol some hundreds of years ago now, and with good reason."


10Bambleweeny 57 Submeson BrainTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureRetailElectronics Stores

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Bambleweeny 57 Submeson Brain
Part of the Finite Improbability Generator, along with an atomic vector plotter and a strong Brownian Motion producer, usually a really fresh, hot cup of tea.


11Bass DetonatorTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureProductsMusical Instruments

THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
Bass Detonator
Musical instrument employed by the rock band Disaster Area. "Buried deep in concrete bunkers beneath the city of speakers lay the instruments that the musicians would control from their ship, the massive photonajuitar, the bass detonator and the Megabang drum complex."


12Big Bang Burger BarTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureDiningBurger Joints

THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
Big Bang Burger Bar
Restaurant situated at the beginning of time, where Milliways host Max Quordlepleen had been hosting another show..


13The Big Bang Theory - a Personal View by...THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureLiteratureBooks-Science

THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
The Big Bang Theory - a Personal View by Eccentrica Gallumbits
Best selling book, but not as best selling as The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.


14The Bistro IllegalTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureNightlifeNightclubs

THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
The Bistro Illegal
Bar that Ford mentions to Hotblack Desiato, lead singer of rock band Disaster Area.


15BistromathLIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteratureVehiclesSpacecrafts

LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING
Bistromath
Slartibartfast's starship, featuring the Bistromathic drive.


16Bistromathic DriveLIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteratureTechnologyPower Supplies

LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING
Bistromathic Drive
A wonderful new method of crossing vast interstellar distances without all that dangerous mucking about with Improbability Factors.


17BistromathicsLIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteratureEducationAcademic Fields

LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING
Bistromathics
The most powerful computational force known to parascience. Bistromathics itself is simply a revolutionary new way of understanding the behaviour of numbers. Just as Einstein observed that time was not an absolute but depended on the observer's movement in space, and that space was not an absolute, but depended on the observer's movement in time, so it is now realized that numbers are not absolute, but depend on the observer's movementin restaurants.


18Blamwellamum of WoontMOSTLY HARMLESS 1992 LiteraturePerforming ArtsTheater Productions

MOSTLY HARMLESS
Blamwellamum of Woont
Opera performed by the Hallapolis State Opera. "Spaceships and jetcars and helipods crashed and exploded continuously around her, illuminating the night, villainous people in strange hats smuggled dangerous drugs through her, and the combined orchestra and chorus of the Hallapolis State Opera performed the closing March of the AnjaQantine Star Guard from Act IV of Rizgar's Blamwellamum of Woont in a little glade somewhere off to her left."


19Boobiloo Baby FoodsTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureFoodFood Companies

THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
Boobiloo Baby Foods
Food company. "If you enjoy your ride, which will be swift and pleasurable, then you may care to experience some of the other elevators which have recently been installed in the offices of the Galactic tax department, Boobiloo Baby Foods and the Sirian State Mental Hospital, where many ex-Sirius Cybernetics Corporation executives will be delighted to welcome your visits, sympathy, and happy tales of the outside world."


20Brantisvogan BankTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureFinancial CompaniesBanks

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Brantisvogan Bank
Zaphod's bank. "There did, however, remain the question of both the mysterious 60,000 Altairan dollars paid yearly into his Brantisvogan bank account, and of course Zaphod Beeblebrox's highly profitable second-hand biro business."


21Breathe-o-SmartMOSTLY HARMLESS 1992 LiteratureProductsHardware

MOSTLY HARMLESS
Breathe-o-Smart
Ventilation system. "One of the smartest features of the Breathe-o-Smart is that it cannot possibly go wrong. So. No worries on that score. Enjoy your breathing now, and have a nice day."


22Breathe-o-Smart Inc.MOSTLY HARMLESS 1992 LiteratureCompaniesManufacturing

MOSTLY HARMLESS
Breathe-o-Smart Inc.
Makers of the Breathe-o-Smart ventilation system.


23Cafe LouTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureDiningCafes and Delis

THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
Cafe Lou
Cafe in Gretchen Town, New Betel that Ford mentions to Hotblack Desiato, lead singer of rock band Disaster Area.


24The Celestial Home Care OmnibusTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureLiteratureBooks-Instructional

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
The Celestial Home Care Omnibus
Book the narrator mentions that's less popular than the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.


25The Celestial Homecare Omnibus THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 2005 FilmLiteratureBooks-Instructional

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
The Celestial Homecare Omnibus
Narrator: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a wholly remarkable book. Perhaps the most remarkable, certainly the most successful, ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor. More popular than The Celestial Homecare Omnibus, better selling than 53 More Things to Do in Zero Gravity, and more controversial than Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters, Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes, and Who Is This God Person Anyway?



26Chinanto/mnigsTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureMenuMixed Drinks

THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
Chinanto/mnigs
Mixed drink / cocktail. "It is a curious fact, and one to which no one knows quite how much importance to attach, that something like 85% of all known worlds in the Galaxy, be they primitive or highly advanced, have invented a drink called jynnan tonnyx, or gee-N'N-T'N-ix, or jinond-o-nicks, or any one of a thousand or more variations on the same phonetic theme. The drinks themselves are not the same, and vary between the Sivolvian chinanto/mnigs which is ordinary water server at slightly above room temperature, and the Gagrakackan tzjin-anthony-ks which kills cows at a hundred paces, and in fact the one common factor between all of them, beyond the fact that the names sound the same, is that they were all invented and named before the worlds concerned made contact with any other worlds."


27CosmovidLIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteratureVideoTV Stations

LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING
Cosmovid
One of the network areas that the computer advises Wowbagger he will be passing through in the next few hours.


28Cruxwan UniversityTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureEducationUniversities

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Cruxwan University
Narrator: "A sudden commotion destroyed the moment: the door flew open and two angry men wearing the coarse faded-blue robes and belts of the Cruxwan University burst into the room, thrusting aside the ineffectual flunkies who tried to bar their way."


29The Daedalus ClubTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureNightlifeClubs

THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
The Daedalus Club
Nightclub. "Flare-riding is one of the most exotic and exhilarating sports in existence, and those who can dare and afford it are amongst the most lionized men in the Galaxy. It is also of course stupefyingly dangerous - those who don't die riding invariably die of sexual exhaustion at one of the Daedalus Club's Apres-Flare parties."


30Deep ThoughtTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureTechnologySupercomputers

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Deep Thought
The computer asked to determine the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything.


31Deep Thought THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 2005 FilmTechnologySupercomputers

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Deep Thought
The supercomputer that provides the answer to the ultimate question about life, the universe and everything, which is "42".



32Deep ThoughtTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureTechnologySupercomputers

THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
Deep Thought
A gigantic supercomputer created to calculate once and for all the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.


33Definit-Kil Photrazon CannonTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureWeaponsWeapons-misc

THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
Definit-Kil Photrazon Cannon
Vogon weapon. "As if to relieve the tension, the Vogons chose that moment to start firing. The ship shook, the ship thundered. Outside, the inch thick force-shield around it blistered, crackled and spat under the barrage of a dozen 30-Megahurt Definit-Kil Photrazon Cannon, and looked as if it wouldn't be around for long."


34Dine-O-ChargeMOSTLY HARMLESS 1992 LiteratureFinancial CompaniesCredit Cards

MOSTLY HARMLESS
Dine-O-Charge
Ford's credit card.


35Disaster AreaTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteraturePerforming ArtsMusic-Rock

THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
Disaster Area
A plutonium rock band from the Gagrakacka Mind Zones - The biggest, loudest rock band in the history of history itself.


36Divinity and Water PoloMOSTLY HARMLESS 1992 LiteratureResearch InstitutesInstitutes

MOSTLY HARMLESS
Divinity and Water Polo
Religious institute. When the Infinite Improbability Drive arrived and whole planets started turning unexpectedly into banana fruitcake, the great history faculty of the University of MaxiMegalon finally gave up, closed itself down and surrendered its buildings to the rapidly growing joint faculty of Divinity and Water Polo, which had been after them for years.


37The Domain of the King Bar & GrillMOSTLY HARMLESS 1992 LiteratureDiningBar and Grills

MOSTLY HARMLESS
The Domain of the King Bar & Grill
A truckstop diner. Somewhere in the middle of nowhere. Quiet.


38Don't Give Me None More of that Old Janx...THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteraturePerforming ArtsSongs

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Don't Give Me None More of that Old Janx Spirit
Ancient Orion mining song about Old Janx Spirit.


39Dr Dan Streetmentioner's Time Traveller'...THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureLiteratureBooks-Reference

THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
Dr Dan Streetmentioner's Time Traveller's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations.
The main work to consult when dealing with the major problem of time travel grammar.


40Duty Free Mega-MarketSO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH 1984 LiteratureRetailDepartment Stores

SO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH
Duty Free Mega-Market
Store at the Port Brasta travel port in Alpha Centauri.


41The EarthTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureTechnologySupercomputers

THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
The Earth
The even bigger computer that had to be built to find out the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.


42EddieTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureTechnologyA.I.

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Eddie
The Heart of Gold's shipboard computer.


43EddieLIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteratureTechnologyA.I.

LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING
Eddie
Shipboard computer on the Heart of Gold.


44EddieTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureTechnologyA.I.

THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
Eddie
The Heart of Gold's shipboard computer.


45Effrafax of WugLIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteraturePerforming ArtsMagicians

LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING
Effrafax of Wug
Famous magician. "The ultra-famous sciento-magician Effrafax of Wug once bet his life that, given a year, he could render the great megamountain Magramal entirely invisible. Having spent most of the year jiggling around with immense Lux- O-Valves and Refracto-Nullifiers and Spectrum-Bypass-O-Matics, he realized, with nine hours to go, that he wasn't going to make it."


46Electronic ThumbTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureProductsProducts-misc

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Electronic Thumb
An electronic sub-etha signalling device.


47Encyclopedia Galactica THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 2005 FilmLiteratureBooks-Reference

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Encyclopedia Galactica
Narrator (regarding the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) It's already supplanted the Encyclopaedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom for two important reasons. First, it's slightly cheaper, and second, it has the words "Don't Panic" printed in large, friendly letters on its cover.



48Encyclopedia GalacticaTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureLiteratureBooks-Reference

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Encyclopedia Galactica
Standard Repository of All Knowledge and Wisdom, Until It Was Replaced By The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy., The.


49Encyclopedia GalacticaLIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteratureLiteratureBooks-Reference

LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING
Encyclopedia Galactica
Book, rival of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.


50Envir-O-Form MachineryMOSTLY HARMLESS 1992 LiteratureProductsProducts-misc

MOSTLY HARMLESS
Envir-O-Form Machinery
Machinery apparently used to make an uninhabitable planet habitable. Used by the Grebulons.


51Essence of QualactinLIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteraturePersonal CareHygiene Products

LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING
Essence of Qualactin
Space suntan oil. Narrator: "Two months later, Zipo Bibrok 5 / 108 had cut the bottoms off his Galactic State jeans, and was spending part of the enormous fee his judgments commanded lying on a jewelled beach having Essence of Qualactin rubbed into his back by the same rather nice member of the jury. She was a Soolfinian girl from beyond the Cloudworlds of Yaga."


52Everything You Never Wanted to Know Abou...THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureLiteratureBooks-Psychology

THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Sex But Have Been Forced to Find Out
Oolon Colluphid's latest blockbusting title.


53The Evildrome BoozaramaTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureNightlifeNightclubs

THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
The Evildrome Boozarama
Bar that Ford mentions to Hotblack Desiato, lead singer of rock band Disaster Area.


54Fanallan RumMOSTLY HARMLESS 1992 LiteratureBeverage ProductsAlcohol

MOSTLY HARMLESS
Fanallan Rum
Liquor mentioned when Ford reminisces about the good old days.


55Fifty-Three More Things to Do in Zero Gr...THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureLiteratureBooks-Travel

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Fifty-Three More Things to Do in Zero Gravity
Book the narrator mentions that's doesn't sell as well as the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.


56Frogstar Scout Robot Class ATHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureTechnologyRobot Models

THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
Frogstar Scout Robot Class A
A small black spider-like object.


57Frogstar Scout Robot Class BTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureTechnologyRobot Models

THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
Frogstar Scout Robot Class B
A larger black spider-like object.


58Frogstar Scout Robot Class CTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureTechnologyRobot Models

THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
Frogstar Scout Robot Class C
Another larger black spider-like object.


59Frogstar Scout Robot Class DTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureTechnologyRobot Models

THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
Frogstar Scout Robot Class D
A gigantic black tank-shaped object.


60Gag HalfruntTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureHealthcareDoctors

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Gag Halfrunt
Zaphod's private brain care specialist.


61Gag HalfruntTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureHealthcareTherapy

THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
Gag Halfrunt
One of the Galaxy's most prominent and successful psychiatrists prepared to spend an awful lot of money when it seemed that the entire future of psychiatry might be at stake.


62Galactic News Corporation THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 2005 FilmVideoTV-News Networks

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Galactic News Corporation
News network that reports on Zaphod's theft of the starship Heart of Gold.



63Galactic State JeansLIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteratureApparelClothing Products

LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING
Galactic State Jeans
Zipo Bibrok 5 / 108's jeans. Narrator: "Two months later, Zipo Bibrok 5 / 108 had cut the bottoms off his Galactic State jeans, and was spending part of the enormous fee his judgments commanded lying on a jewelled beach having Essence of Qualactin rubbed into his back by the same rather nice member of the jury. She was a Soolfinian girl from beyond the Cloudworlds of Yaga."


64Gee-N'N-T'N-ixTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureMenuMixed Drinks

THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
Gee-N'N-T'N-ix
Mixed drink / cocktail. "It is a curious fact, and one to which no one knows quite how much importance to attach, that something like 85% of all known worlds in the Galaxy, be they primitive or highly advanced, have invented a drink called jynnan tonnyx, or gee-N'N-T'N-ix, or jinond-o-nicks, or any one of a thousand or more variations on the same phonetic theme. The drinks themselves are not the same, and vary between the Sivolvian chinanto/mnigs which is ordinary water server at slightly above room temperature, and the Gagrakackan tzjin-anthony-ks which kills cows at a hundred paces, and in fact the one common factor between all of them, beyond the fact that the names sound the same, is that they were all invented and named before the worlds concerned made contact with any other worlds."


65The Googleplex Star ThinkerTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureTechnologySoftware

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
The Googleplex Star Thinker
One of the supercomputers that programmers Lunkwill and Fook mention when Deep Thought describes himself as the second greatest computer in the Universe of Time and Space. "Are you not a greater analyst than the Googleplex Star Thinker in the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity which can calculate the trajectory of every single dust particle throughout a five-week Dangrabad Beta sand blizzard?"


66Grated Arcturan MegadonkeyTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureMenuMenu Items

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Grated Arcturan Megadonkey
Trillian: "Could you pass me that bowl of grated Arcturan Megadonkey?"


67The Great Hyperlobic Omni-Cognate Neutro...THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureTechnologySoftware

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
The Great Hyperlobic Omni-Cognate Neutron Wrangler
One of the supercomputers that programmers Lunkwill and Fook mention when Deep Thought describes himself as the second greatest computer in the Universe of Time and Space. "But are you not a more fiendish disputant than the Great Hyperlobic Omni-Cognate Neutron Wrangler of Ciceronicus 12, the Magic and Indefatigable?"


68GSS AudacyLIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteratureVehiclesSpacecrafts

LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING
GSS Audacy
Galactic Fleet Battleship, spoken of with awe, pride, enthusiasm, affection, admiration, regret, jealousy, resentment, in fact most of the better known emotions.


69GSS DaringLIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteratureVehiclesSpacecrafts

LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING
GSS Daring
Galactic Fleet Battleship, spoken of with awe, pride, enthusiasm, affection, admiration, regret, jealousy, resentment, in fact most of the better known emotions.


70GSS Suicidal InsanityLIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteratureVehiclesSpacecrafts

LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING
GSS Suicidal Insanity
Galactic Fleet Battleship, spoken of with awe, pride, enthusiasm, affection, admiration, regret, jealousy, resentment, in fact most of the better known emotions.


71HactarLIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteratureTechnologySupercomputers

LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING
Hactar
A gigantic spaceborne computer, which to this day is remembered as one of the most powerful ever built.


72Hallapolis State OperaMOSTLY HARMLESS 1992 LiteraturePerforming ArtsMusic-Orchestra

MOSTLY HARMLESS
Hallapolis State Opera
Opera company. "Spaceships and jetcars and helipods crashed and exploded continuously around her, illuminating the night, villainous people in strange hats smuggled dangerous drugs through her, and the combined orchestra and chorus of the Hallapolis State Opera performed the closing March of the AnjaQantine Star Guard from Act IV of Rizgar's Blamwellamum of Woont in a little glade somewhere off to her left."


73The Heart of GoldTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureVehiclesSpacecrafts

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
The Heart of Gold
A brand new state of the art spaceship, stolen at its unveiling on the planet Damogran by Galactic President Zaphod Beeblebrox. The Heart Of Gold is equipped with the new Infinite Improbability Drive.


74The Heart of Gold THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 2005 FilmVehiclesSpacecrafts

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
The Heart of Gold
Starship with the Improbability Drive.



75The Heart of GoldLIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteratureVehiclesSpacecrafts

LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING
The Heart of Gold
Zaphod's starship.


76The Heart of GoldTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureVehiclesSpacecrafts

THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
The Heart of Gold
The most beautiful and revolutionary starship ever built, powered by the Infinite Improbability Drive.


77The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Gui...MOSTLY HARMLESS 1992 LiteratureLiteratureBooks-Reference

MOSTLY HARMLESS
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Guide Mark II
The second, more powerful version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy created by Infinidim Enterprises for the Vogons to finish their job of destroying the Earth once and for all.


78The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyAND ANOTHER THING... 2009 LiteratureLiteratureBooks-Reference

AND ANOTHER THING...
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy


79The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 2005 FilmLiteratureBooks-Reference

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy



80The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1981 TV SeriesLiteratureBooks-Reference

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy


81The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1984 Video GamesLiteratureBooks-Reference

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy


82The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureLiteratureBooks-Reference

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
A wholly remarkable electronic book.


83The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyLIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteratureLiteratureBooks-Reference

LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy


84The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyMOSTLY HARMLESS 1992 LiteratureLiteratureBooks-Reference

MOSTLY HARMLESS
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy


85The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureLiteratureBooks-Reference

THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Guide book / travel book. "The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate."


86The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyTHE SALMON OF DOUBT 2002 LiteratureLiteratureBooks-Reference

THE SALMON OF DOUBT: HITCHHIKING THE GALAXY ONE LAST TIME
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy


87The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxySO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH 1984 LiteratureLiteratureBooks-Reference

SO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a powerful organ. Indeed, its influence is so prodigious that strict rules have had to be drawn up by its editorial staff to prevent its misuse. So none of its field researchers are allowed to accept any kind of services, discounts or preferential treatment of any kind in return for editorial favours unless: a. they have made a bona fide attempt to pay for a service in the normal way, b. their lives would be otherwise in danger, c. they really want to. Since invoking the third rule always involved giving the editor a cut, Ford always preferred to much about with the first two."


88Home Brain BoxLIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteratureVideoTV Stations

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Home Brain Box
One of the network areas that the computer advises Wowbagger he will be passing through in the next few hours.


89Horse and Groom PubSO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH 1984 LiteratureNightlifePubs

SO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH
Horse and Groom Pub
London pub near Arthur's house. "It was 10:30 when he arrived, a fact he discovered from the steamed and greasy window of the Horse and Groom pub, in which there had hung for many years a battered old Guiness clock which featured a picture of an emu with a pint glass jammed rather amusingly down its throat."


90The Horse and GroomTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureNightlifeNightclubs

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The Horse and Groom
Pub where Arthur and Ford spend their last few minutes on Earth before it's destroyed.


91Hrundi RunaboutMOSTLY HARMLESS 1992 LiteratureVehiclesSpacecrafts

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Hrundi Runabout
Spacecraft. "The third spacecraft, half an hour after that, the little four berth Hrundi runabout, only made it on to the local news."


92HypermathematicsLIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteratureEducationAcademic Fields

LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING
Hypermathematics
Field of study. Narrator: "The Encyclopedia Galactica has much to say on the theory and practice of time travel, most of which is incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't spent at least four lifetimes studying advanced hypermathematics, and since it was impossible to do this before time travel was invented, there is a certain amount of confusion as to how the idea was arrived at in the first place."


93HypermathematicsTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureEducationAcademic Fields

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Hypermathematics
Field of study whose boundaries have been pushed back by the earnings of the rock band Disaster Area.


94I Left My Leg in Jaglan BetaLIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteraturePerforming ArtsSongs

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I Left My Leg in Jaglan Beta
Song that Arthur couldn't immediately identify, partly because he didn't know the tune, and partly because the band playing it were very tired.


95Ident-i-EezeMOSTLY HARMLESS 1992 LiteratureTechnologyElectronics

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Ident-i-Eeze
All-purpose machine-readable card that you can then carry around in your wallet that's encoded with every single piece of information about you, your body and your life.


96Improbability PhysicsTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureEducationAcademic Fields

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Improbability Physics
Field of study that produced the Infinite Improbability Drive on the Heart of Gold.


97Improbability PhysicsLIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteratureEducationAcademic Fields

LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING
Improbability Physics
Field of study.


98InfiniDim EnterprisesMOSTLY HARMLESS 1992 LiteratureCompaniesEnterprises

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InfiniDim Enterprises
Publishing company that buys out Megadodo Publications, becoming the new owner of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.


99Infinite Improbability DriveTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureTechnologyPower Supplies

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Infinite Improbability Drive
A wonderful new method of crossing vast interstellar distances in a mere nothingth of a second, without all that tedious mucking about in hyperspace.


100Infinite Improbability DriveTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 2005 FilmTechnologyPower Supplies

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Infinite Improbability Drive
Engine featured on the starship Heart of Gold.


101Infinite Improbability DriveMOSTLY HARMLESS 1992 LiteratureTechnologyPower Supplies

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Infinite Improbability Drive
Starship engine. When the Infinite Improbability Drive arrived and whole planets started turning unexpectedly into banana fruitcake, the great history faculty of the University of MaxiMegalon finally gave up, closed itself down and surrendered its buildings to the rapidly growing joint faculty of Divinity and Water Polo, which had been after them for years.


102Infinite Improbability DriveTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureTechnologyPower Supplies

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Infinite Improbability Drive
A new method of crossing interstellar distances in a mere nothingth of a second, without tedious mucking about in hyperspace.


103J.J. Coughlan Limited THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 2005 FilmCompaniesConstruction Companies

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J.J. Coughlan Limited
One of the construction companies that destroys Arthur's house.



104Jinond-o-nicksTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureMenuMixed Drinks

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Jinond-o-nicks
Mixed drink / cocktail. "It is a curious fact, and one to which no one knows quite how much importance to attach, that something like 85% of all known worlds in the Galaxy, be they primitive or highly advanced, have invented a drink called jynnan tonnyx, or gee-N'N-T'N-ix, or jinond-o-nicks, or any one of a thousand or more variations on the same phonetic theme. The drinks themselves are not the same, and vary between the Sivolvian chinanto/mnigs which is ordinary water server at slightly above room temperature, and the Gagrakackan tzjin-anthony-ks which kills cows at a hundred paces, and in fact the one common factor between all of them, beyond the fact that the names sound the same, is that they were all invented and named before the worlds concerned made contact with any other worlds."


105Jodrell BankTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureFinancial CompaniesBanks

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Jodrell Bank
Bank on the planet Earth. "The planet beneath them was almost perfectly oblivious of their presence, which was just how they wanted it for the moment. The huge yellow somethings went unnoticed at Goonhilly, they passed over Cape Canaveral without a blip, Woomera and Jodrell Bank looked straight through them - which was a pity because it was exactly the sort of thing they'd been looking for all these years."


106Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sens...THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureApparelClothing Products

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Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses
Sunglasses specially designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude to danger. At the first hint of trouble they turn totally black and thus prevent you from seeing anything that might alarm you.


107Jynnan TonnyxTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureMenuMixed Drinks

THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
Jynnan Tonnyx
Mixed drink / cocktail. "It is a curious fact, and one to which no one knows quite how much importance to attach, that something like 85% of all known worlds in the Galaxy, be they primitive or highly advanced, have invented a drink called jynnan tonnyx, or gee-N'N-T'N-ix, or jinond-o-nicks, or any one of a thousand or more variations on the same phonetic theme. The drinks themselves are not the same, and vary between the Sivolvian chinanto/mnigs which is ordinary water server at slightly above room temperature, and the Gagrakackan tzjin-anthony-ks which kills cows at a hundred paces, and in fact the one common factor between all of them, beyond the fact that the names sound the same, is that they were all invented and named before the worlds concerned made contact with any other worlds."


108Kill-O-Zap Blaster PistolLIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteratureWeaponsGuns

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Kill-O-Zap Blaster Pistol
Zaphod's gun: "I want you to imagine that I have an extremely powerful Kill-O-Zap blaster pistol in my hand."


109Kill-O-Zap GunTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureWeaponsGuns

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Kill-O-Zap Gun
"At the end of the gangway appeared a heavily armoured and space-suited figure waving a vicious Kill-O-Zap gun."


110Kill-O-Zap GunTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureWeaponsGuns

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Kill-O-Zap Gun
The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. "Make it evil," he'd been told. "Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with."


111Know-Nothing-Bozo the Non-Wonder DogSO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH 1984 LiteraturePerforming ArtsAnimal Acts

SO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH
Know-Nothing-Bozo the Non-Wonder Dog
Dog that starred in commercials. "Will Smithers, for instance, the owner of Know-Nothing-Bozo the Non-Wonder Dog, an animal so stupid that it had been sacked from one of Will's own commercials for being incapable of knowing which dog food it was supposed to prefer, despite the fact that the meat in all the other bowls had had engine oil poured over it."


112Krikkit OneLIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteratureVehiclesSpacecrafts

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Krikkit One
The first spaceship ever built by the people of Krikkit, a crazy piece of near junk.


113Lalamatine DistrictTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureRetailShopping Centers

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Lalamatine District
Shopping district near the Hitchhiker's Guide offices.


114Life Begins at Five Hundred and FiftyTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureLiteratureBooks-Psychology

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Life Begins at Five Hundred and Fifty
Popular book, but not quite as popular as The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.


115Life-Support-O-SystemsMOSTLY HARMLESS 1992 LiteratureTechnologyElectronics

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Life-Support-O-Systems
Systems used to support life on unihabitable planets. Used by the Grebulons.


116Lux-O-ValvesLIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteratureTechnologyElectronics

LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING
Lux-O-Valves
Technology that the magician Effrafax utilized attempting to make a mountain disappear. "The ultra-famous sciento-magician Effrafax of Wug once bet his life that, given a year, he could render the great megamountain Magramal entirely invisible. Having spent most of the year jiggling around with immense Lux- O-Valves and Refracto-Nullifiers and Spectrum-Bypass-O-Matics, he realized, with nine hours to go, that he wasn't going to make it."


117Madagascar THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 2005 FilmNightlifeNightclubs

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Madagascar
When Trish proposes leaving the party and going to Madagascar, Arthur asks if that's that new club on Dean Street.



118Magrathean Public ArchiveTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 2005 FilmMediaWebsites

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Magrathean Public Archive


119March of the AnjaQantine Star GuardMOSTLY HARMLESS 1992 LiteraturePerforming ArtsSongs

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March of the AnjaQantine Star Guard
Opera song, from the opera called Blamwellamum of Woont. "Spaceships and jetcars and helipods crashed and exploded continuously around her, illuminating the night, villainous people in strange hats smuggled dangerous drugs through her, and the combined orchestra and chorus of the Hallapolis State Opera performed the closing March of the AnjaQantine Star Guard from Act IV of Rizgar's Blamwellamum of Woont in a little glade somewhere off to her left."


120Matter Transference BeamTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureTravelTransportation Technology

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Matter Transference Beam
Technology behind the Electronic Thumb. Ford: "If you've never been through a matter transference beam before you've probably lost some salt and protein. The beer you had should have cushioned your system a bit."


121Maxi-Slorta Hypernuclear DevicesLIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteratureWeaponsWeapons-misc

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Maxi-Slorta Hypernuclear Devices
Weapon wielded by Krikket's millions of flying battle machines.


122Maximegalon Institute of Slowly and Pain...MOSTLY HARMLESS 1992 LiteratureResearch InstitutesInstitutes

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Maximegalon Institute of Slowly and Painfully Working Out the Surprisingly Obvious
The site of the famous Herring Sandwich experiments, where a robot was tricked into an infinite loop whereby it attempted eternally to eat a herring sandwich by picking it up, dropping it, picking it up again, et cetera.


123The Maximegalon Museum of Diseased Imagi...THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureEntertainmentMuseums

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The Maximegalon Museum of Diseased Imaginings
Museum. "The bath stood on a six foot pedestal of rough hewn blue water crystal and was of a baroque monstrosity not often seen outside the Maximegalon Museum of Diseased Imaginings."


124McKeena's All-Weather HaulageSO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH 1984 LiteratureServicesShipping and Storage

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McKeena's All-Weather Haulage
Transport service. "Russell swore and steered intently for a few seconds as the sky blattered at them. He worked out his anger by rashly accelerating to pass a lorry marked, McKeena's All-Weather Haulage."


125Megabang Drum ComplexTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureProductsMusical Instruments

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Megabang Drum Complex
Musical instrument employed by the rock band Disaster Area. "Buried deep in concrete bunkers beneath the city of speakers lay the instruments that the musicians would control from their ship, the massive photonajuitar, the bass detonator and the Megabang drum complex."


126Megadodo PublicationsLIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteratureCompaniesPublishing Companies

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Megadodo Publications
Publishing company that took over the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.


127Megadodo PublicationsMOSTLY HARMLESS 1992 LiteratureCompaniesPublishing Companies

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Megadodo Publications
Publisher of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Once one of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor, eventually bought out by Infinidim Enterprises.


128Merida Class SpacecraftLIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteratureVehiclesSpacecrafts

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Merida Class Spacecraft
After picking up a computer driven distress call, the Heart of Gold crew encounters a Merida class spacecraft, the pilot of which is a journalist with the Siderial Daily Mentioner covering a trial on the planet Argabuthon.


129The Milliard GargantubrainTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureTechnologySoftware

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
The Milliard Gargantubrain
One of the supercomputers that programmers Lunkwill and Fook mention when Deep Thought describes himself as the second greatest computer in the Universe of Time and Space. "Are you not a greatest computer than the Milliard Gargantubrain which can count all the atoms in a star in a millisecond?"


130MilliwaysTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureDiningRestaurants-misc

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Milliways
"OK baby, hold tight," said Zaphod. "We'll take in a quick bite at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe."


131MilliwaysLIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteratureDiningRestaurants-misc

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Milliways
The restaurant at the end of the universe. A Thunder God to Trillian: "Didn't I see you at Milliway's?"


132MilliwaysTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureDiningRestaurants-misc

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Milliways
Restaurant at the end of the universe that can only be visited via time travel. "If you've done six impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe."


133Mr. Reg Nullify and His Cataclysmic Comb...THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteraturePerforming ArtsMusicians-misc

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Mr. Reg Nullify and His Cataclysmic Combo
Band appearing at Milliways, the restaurant at the end of the universe.


134Multi-cluster Quark DriveTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureTechnologyPower Supplies

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Multi-cluster Quark Drive
Star ship drive. Zaphod: "Just look at it, multi-cluster quark drive, perspulex running boards. Got to be a Lazlar Lyricon custom job."


135The Multicorticoid Perspicutron Titan Mu...THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureTechnologySoftware

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The Multicorticoid Perspicutron Titan Muller
One of the supercomputers that programmers Lunkwill and Fook mention when Deep Thought describes himself as the second greatest computer in the Universe of Time and Space. "You're surely not thinking of the Multicorticoid Perspicutron Titan Muller are you? Or the Pondermatic?"


136Multifunctional BattleclubsLIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteratureWeaponsWeapons-misc

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Multifunctional Battleclubs
Weapon wielded by Krikket's millions of flying battle machines.


137My Favorite Bathtime GurglesTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureLiteraturePoetry

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My Favorite Bathtime Gurgles
12 book epic poem by the Azagoths of Kria's Poet Master Grunthos.


138NBSMOSTLY HARMLESS 1992 LiteratureVideoTV Stations

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TV station that needed a new anchor on account of Mo Minetti leaving the US/AM breakfast show to have a baby.


139NeomathematicsTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureEducationAcademic Fields

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Neomathematics
Field of study at the the University of Maximegalon.


140Nutri-Matic Drinks SynthesizerTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureHome FurnishingKitchen Appliances

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Nutri-Matic Drinks Synthesizer
Appliance on the Heart of Gold starship that claimed to produce the widest possible range of drinks personally matched to the tastes and metabolism of whoever cared to use it. When put to the test, however, it invariably produced a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.


141The Nutri-MaticTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureHome FurnishingKitchen Appliances

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The Nutri-Matic
Appliance made by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.


142Nutrimatic Drink DispenserLIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteratureHome FurnishingKitchen Appliances

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Nutrimatic Drink Dispenser
Appliance aboard the Heart of Gold.


143Octraventral HeebiephoneLIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteratureProductsMusical Instruments

LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING
Octraventral Heebiephone
Musical instrument. Narrator: "Slartibartfast had hoped for an easy retirement. He had been planning to learn to play the octraventral heebiephone - a pleasantly futile task, he knew, because he had the wrong number of mouths."


144Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Fou...THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureLiteraturePoetry

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Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning
A Vogon poem.


145Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Fou... THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 2005 FilmLiteraturePoetry

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Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning
Azgoth poem that the Guide mentions.

 
 
 
 

146Old Elms HospitalSO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH 1984 LiteratureHealthcareHospitals

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Old Elms Hospital
Hospital where Arthur foes looking for Fenella.


147Old Janx SpiritTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureBeverage ProductsAlcohol

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Old Janx Spirit
One of the many ingredients in a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, immortalized in an ancient Orion mining song.


148Old Janx SpiritTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureBeverage ProductsAlcohol

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Old Janx Spirit
Alcohol brand that Zaphod mentions.


149Old Pink Dog BarSO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH 1984 LiteratureNightlifeBars

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Old Pink Dog Bar
Bar on the lower South Side of Han Dold City.


150Ol' Janx SpiritMOSTLY HARMLESS 1992 LiteratureBeverage ProductsAlcohol

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Ol' Janx Spirit
Liquor mentioned when Ford reminisces about the good old days.


151Ol' Janx SpiritSO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH 1984 LiteratureBeverage ProductsAlcohol

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Ol' Janx Spirit
"He sat on a step, took from his satchel a bottle of that Ol' Janx Spirit and a towel. He opened the bottle and wiped the top of it with the towel, which had the opposite effect to the one intended, in that the Ol' Janx Spirit instantly killed of f millions of the germs which had been slowly building up quite a complex and enlightened civilization on the smellier patches of the towel."


152Omni-Destructo Zap RaysLIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteratureWeaponsWeapons-misc

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Omni-Destructo Zap Rays
Weapon wielded by Krikket's millions of flying battle machines.


153Pan Galactic Gargle BlasterTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureMenuMixed Drinks

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Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster


154Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 2005 FilmMenuMixed Drinks

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Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster
The best drink in existence.



155Pan Galactic Gargle BlasterTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureMenuMixed Drinks

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Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster
Zaphod compares the Total Perspective Vortex to drinking a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster.


156Paralyso-Matic bombTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureWeaponsExplosives

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Paralyso-Matic bomb
Device that Zaphod uses to steal the Heart of Gold, which freezes the crowd.


157Perfectly Normal Beast RollsMOSTLY HARMLESS 1992 LiteratureMenuMenu Items

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Perfectly Normal Beast Rolls
Menu item at the Domain of the King Bar & Grill.


158Photon DriveTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureTechnologyPower Supplies

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Photon Drive
In addition to the wonderful new Infinite Improbability Drive, the Heart of Gold starship came equipped with a conventional photon drive.


159PhotonajuitarTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureProductsMusical Instruments

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Photonajuitar
Musical instrument employed by the rock band Disaster Area. "Buried deep in concrete bunkers beneath the city of speakers lay the instruments that the musicians would control from their ship, the massive photonajuitar, the bass detonator and the Megabang drum complex."


160Planet HopperTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureVehiclesAircrafts

THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
Planet Hopper
Vehicle. "The star buggy was a small ship - a totally misnamed one in fact, because the one thing it couldn't manage was interstellar distances. Basically it was a sporty planet hopper dolled up to something it wasn't."


161Playbeing MagazineTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureMediaMagazines-Adult

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Playbeing Magazine
Although it is excruciatingly rich, horrifyingly sunny and more full of wonderfully exciting people than a pomegranate is of pips, it can hardly be insignificant that when a recent edition of Playbeing magazine headlined an article with the words "When you are tired of Ursa Minor Beta you are tired of life", the suicide rate quadrupled overnight.


162Poetry Appreciation ChairTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureHome FurnishingFurniture

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Poetry Appreciation Chair
The Vogons strap Ford and Arthur into Poetry Appreciation Chairs. "The sweat stood out cold on Ford Prefect's brow, and slid round the electrodes strapped to his temples. These were attached to a battery of electronic equipment - imagery intensifiers, rhythmic modulators, alliterative residulators and simile dumpers - all designed to heighten the experience of the poem and make sure that not a single nuance of the poet's thought was lost."


163The Point of View Gun THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 2005 FilmWeaponsGuns

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The Point of View Gun
Gun commissioned by the Intergalactic Consortium of Angry Housewives, who wanted their husbands to see things from their point of view.



164The PondermaticTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureTechnologySoftware

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
The Pondermatic
One of the supercomputers that programmers Lunkwill and Fook mention when Deep Thought describes himself as the second greatest computer in the Universe of Time and Space. "You're surely not thinking of the Multicorticoid Perspicutron Titan Muller are you? Or the Pondermatic?"


165Port BrastaSO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH 1984 LiteratureTravelSpaceports

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Port Brasta
Travel port in Alpha Centauri.


166Practical Parenting in a Fractally Demen...MOSTLY HARMLESS 1992 LiteratureLiteratureBooks-Parenting

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Practical Parenting in a Fractally Demented Universe
Book on parenting.


167Qualactin Hypermint ExtractTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureBeverage ProductsTea

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Qualactin Hypermint Extract
Beverage mentioned in the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster recipe. "Over the back of a silver spoon float a measure of Qualactin Hypermint extract, redolent of all the heady odours of the dark Qualactin Zones, subtle sweet and mystic."


168Refracto-NullifiersLIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteratureTechnologyElectronics

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Refracto-Nullifiers
Technology that the magician Effrafax utilized attempting to make a mountain disappear. "The ultra-famous sciento-magician Effrafax of Wug once bet his life that, given a year, he could render the great megamountain Magramal entirely invisible. Having spent most of the year jiggling around with immense Lux- O-Valves and Refracto-Nullifiers and Spectrum-Bypass-O-Matics, he realized, with nine hours to go, that he wasn't going to make it."


169Resettlement Advice CentreMOSTLY HARMLESS 1992 LiteratureServicesServices-misc

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Resettlement Advice Centre
Centre on Pintleton Alpha where Arthur goes seeking advice on a place to get a life where the people look vaguely like him.


170RW6MOSTLY HARMLESS 1992 LiteratureVehiclesSpacecrafts

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Spacecraft that lands on the planet Lamuella. "An RW6 was the sort of thing you only saw in the sort of magazines that were designed to provoke civil unrest."


171S&J Bohan Construction Ltd THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 2005 FilmCompaniesConstruction Companies

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S&J Bohan Construction Ltd
One of the construction companies that destroys Arthur's house.



172The Sens-O-ShowerLIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteratureHome FurnishingBathroom Furnishings

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The Sens-O-Shower
Narrator: "By the time the applause in the court had died down, Judiciary Pag was already in the Sens-O-Shower with a rather nice member of the jury that he'dslipped a note to half an hour earlier."


173The Siderial Daily Mentioner's Book of P...LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteratureLiteratureBooks-History

LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING
The Siderial Daily Mentioner's Book of Popular Galactic History
Book. "Important facts from Galactic history, number one - reproduced from the Siderial Daily Mentioner's Book of popular Galactic History: The night sky over the planet Krikkit is the least interesting sight in the entire Universe."


174Sirian State Mental HospitalTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureHealthcareHospitals-Mental Health

THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
Sirian State Mental Hospital
Mental hospital. "If you enjoy your ride, which will be swift and pleasurable, then you may care to experience some of the other elevators which have recently been installed in the offices of the Galactic tax department, Boobiloo Baby Foods and the Sirian State Mental Hospital, where many ex-Sirius Cybernetics Corporation executives will be delighted to welcome your visits, sympathy, and happy tales of the outside world."


175Sirius Cybernetics CorporationTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureCompaniesRobotics Companies

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Sirius Cybernetics Corporation
Company that made the Heart of Gold spaceship.


176Sirius Cybernetics CorporationTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 2005 FilmCompaniesRobotics Companies

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Sirius Cybernetics Corporation
Technology corporation that built the starship Heart of Gold.


177Sirius Cybernetics CorporationTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureCompaniesRobotics Companies

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Sirius Cybernetics Corporation
Makers of Heart of Gold starship, and Infinite Improbability Drive.


178Sirius Cybernetics CorporationSO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH 1984 LiteratureCompaniesRobotics Companies

SO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH
Sirius Cybernetics Corporation


179Slim's Throat EmporiumTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureNightlifeNightclubs

THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
Slim's Throat Emporium
Bar that Ford mentions to Hotblack Desiato, lead singer of rock band Disaster Area.


180Some More of God's Greatest MistakesTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureLiteratureBooks-Religious

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes
Book in Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters the narrator mentions that's not as controversial as the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.


181Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 2005 FilmLiteratureBooks-Religious

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes
Narrator: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a wholly remarkable book. Perhaps the most remarkable, certainly the most successful, ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor. More popular than The Celestial Homecare Omnibus, better selling than 53 More Things to Do in Zero Gravity, and more controversial than Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters, Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes, and Who Is This God Person Anyway?



182Song Cycles of VassilianTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteraturePerforming ArtsSongs

THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
Song Cycles of Vassilian
Songs sung by the Great Circling Poets of Arium on the planet Golgafrincham.


183The Songs of the Long LandLIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteratureLiteraturePoetry

LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING
The Songs of the Long Land
Poems. Narrator: "There is, or was, a poet. His name was Lallafa, and he wrote what are widely regarded throughout the Galaxy as being the finest poems in existence, the Songs of the Long Land."


184The Space-time WashLIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteratureMaintenanceLaundry Services

LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING
The Space-time Wash
Vogon laundromat. Joke Arthur makes when Ford attempts to explain the concept of the disturbances that he detects.


185Spectrum-Bypass-O-MaticsLIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteratureTechnologyElectronics

LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING
Spectrum-Bypass-O-Matics
Technology that the magician Effrafax utilized attempting to make a mountain disappear. "The ultra-famous sciento-magician Effrafax of Wug once bet his life that, given a year, he could render the great megamountain Magramal entirely invisible. Having spent most of the year jiggling around with immense Lux- O-Valves and Refracto-Nullifiers and Spectrum-Bypass-O-Matics, he realized, with nine hours to go, that he wasn't going to make it."


186Squornshellous SwamptalkLIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteratureLiteratureBooks-Reference

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Squornshellous Swamptalk
Dictionary containing the word "vollue".


187Star BuggyTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureVehiclesMotor Vehicles

THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
Star Buggy
Vehicle. "The star buggy was a small ship - a totally misnamed one in fact, because the one thing it couldn't manage was interstellar distances. Basically it was a sporty planet hopper dolled up to something it wasn't."


188Starbix THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 2005 FilmFoodBreakfast Cereal

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Starbix
Breakfast cereal Zaphod eats out of the box on the starship Heart of Gold.



189Starbix THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1981 TV SeriesFoodBreakfast Cereal

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Starbix
Breakfast cereal. "Nasty But Nutritious", "The Serious Cereal".


190Starship TitanicLIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteratureVehiclesSpacecrafts

LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING
Starship Titanic
Narrator: "Many speak of the legendary and gigantic Starship Titanic, a majestic and luxurious cruise-liner launched from the great shipbuilding asteroid complexes of Artifactovol some hundreds of years ago now, and with good reason."


191Stavro'sMOSTLY HARMLESS 1992 LiteratureNightlifeNightclubs

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Stavro's
The currently fashionable spot for high-flying media people.


192Sub-Cyclic Normality Assert-iTronTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureWeaponsWeapons-misc

THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
Sub-Cyclic Normality Assert-iTron
Vogon weapon. "Aboard the Vogon ship, Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz was puzzled. He had expected a chase, he had expected an exciting grapple with tractor beams, he had expected to have to use the specially installed Sub-Cyclic Normality Assert-iTron to counter the Heart of Gold's Infinite Improbability Drive, but the Sub-Cyclic Normality Assert-i-Tron lay idle as the Heart of Gold just sat there and took it."


193Sub-Etha Sens-O-MaticTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureProductsProducts-misc

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Sub-Etha Sens-O-Matic
Small black device that alerts hitchhikers to passing spacecraft, by monitoring ships' Sub-Etha signals.


194Sub-Etha Sens-O-MaticLIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteratureProductsProducts-misc

LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING
Sub-Etha Sens-O-Matic
Ford's hitchhiking device that tracks passing spacecraft.


195Sub-Etha Sens-O-MaticTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureProductsProducts-misc

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Sub-Etha Sens-O-Matic
Device that alerts hitchhikers to passing spacecraft, by monitoring ships sub-etha signals.


196Take Me ApartTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteraturePerforming ArtsSongs

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Take Me Apart
Song chanted by huge crowds outside the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Teleport Systems factory on Happi-Werld III.


197Temporal RelastaticsTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureTravelTime Travel

THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
Temporal Relastatics
Technology that enables Milliways to exist outside of time. "The Restaurant continued existing, but everything else had stopped. Temporal relastatics held it and protected it in a nothingness that wasn't merely a vacuum, it was simply nothing - there was nothing in which a vacuum could be said to exist."


198Temporal Reverse EngineeringMOSTLY HARMLESS 1992 LiteratureTravelTime Travel

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Temporal Reverse Engineering
It's a lethal little thing. Looks pretty, talks big, collapses waveforms selectively at will.


199Thinking CapTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 2005 FilmTechnologyElectronics

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Thinking Cap
Zaphod's lemon-powered helmet, used when ship captains needed to concentrate.


200ThinkpixLIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteratureVideoTV Stations

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Thinkpix
One of the network areas that the computer advises Wowbagger he will be passing through in the next few hours.


201Time TurbinesTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureTravelTime Travel

THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
Time Turbines
Technology that enables Milliways to exist, "Seen from the outside, which it never is, the Restaurant resembles a giant glittering starfish beached on a forgotten rock. Each of its arms houses the bars, the kitchens, the forcefield generators which protect the entire structure and the decayed planet on which it sits, and the Time Turbines which slowly rock the whole affair backwards and forwards across the crucial moment."


202The Times THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 2005 FilmMediaNewspapers-Times

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
The Times
Earth newspaper with headline: Dolphins Vanish.



203The Total Perspective VortexTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureTechnologyElectronics

THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
The Total Perspective Vortex
Machine built with the intention of showing beings the infinity of creation, which became used as a method of torture.


204Transformational EthicsTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureEducationAcademic Fields

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Transformational Ethics
Field of study. According to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Veet Voojagig pursued a brilliant academic career at the University of Maximegalon studying ancient philology, transformational ethics and the wave harmonic theory of historical perception.


205Tri D CameraTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureTechnologyAudiovisual Devices

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Tri D Camera
Type of camera filming Zaphod on Damogran.


206Tri-jetTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureVehiclesSpacecrafts

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Tri-jet
Scooter designed for stratosphere work.


207Tzjin-anthony-ksTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureMenuMixed Drinks

THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
Tzjin-anthony-ks
Mixed drink / cocktail. "It is a curious fact, and one to which no one knows quite how much importance to attach, that something like 85% of all known worlds in the Galaxy, be they primitive or highly advanced, have invented a drink called jynnan tonnyx, or gee-N'N-T'N-ix, or jinond-o-nicks, or any one of a thousand or more variations on the same phonetic theme. The drinks themselves are not the same, and vary between the Sivolvian chinanto/mnigs which is ordinary water server at slightly above room temperature, and the Gagrakackan tzjin-anthony-ks which kills cows at a hundred paces, and in fact the one common factor between all of them, beyond the fact that the names sound the same, is that they were all invented and named before the worlds concerned made contact with any other worlds."


208The Ultra-Complete Maximegalon Dictionar...LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteratureLiteratureBooks-Reference

LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING
The Ultra-Complete Maximegalon Dictionary of Every Language Ever


209The Ultra-Complete Maximegalon Dictionar...LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 1982 LiteratureLiteratureBooks-Reference

LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING
The Ultra-Complete Maximegalon Dictionary
Dictionary containing the word "vollue".


210The University of MaximegalonTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureEducationUniversities

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
The University of Maximegalon
University that Veet Voojagig attended, who pursued a brilliant academic career studying ancient philology, transformational ethics and the wave harmonic theory of historical perception, and then, after a night of drinking Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters with Zaphod Beeblebrox, became increasingly obsessed with the problem of what had happened to all the biros he'd bought over the past few years.


211The University of MaxiMegalonMOSTLY HARMLESS 1992 LiteratureEducationUniversities

MOSTLY HARMLESS
The University of MaxiMegalon
Starship engine. When the Infinite Improbability Drive arrived and whole planets started turning unexpectedly into banana fruitcake, the great history faculty of the University of MaxiMegalon finally gave up, closed itself down and surrendered its buildings to the rapidly growing joint faculty of Divinity and Water Polo, which had been after them for years.


212The University of MaximegalonTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureEducationUniversities

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The University of Maximegalon
Home of the professor and writer of the General and Special Theories of rock band's Disaster Area Tax Returns.


213Unprobability FieldTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureTechnologyElectronics

THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
Unprobability Field
Technology that protects the world of the man who rules the universe.


214US-AMMOSTLY HARMLESS 1992 LiteratureVideoTV Shows-misc

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US-AM
TV breakfast show which Tricia McMillan is in New York to try out for.


215Vertical People TransportersTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureTravelTransportation Technology

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Vertical People Transporters
Modern elevator built by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.


216The Vogon Constructor FleetTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureCompaniesConstruction Companies

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The Vogon Constructor Fleet
Construction team in charge of destroying the planet Earth.


217The Wave Harmonic Theory of Historical P...THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureEducationClasses

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
The Wave Harmonic Theory of Historical Perception
Field of study. According to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Veet Voojagig pursued a brilliant academic career at the University of Maximegalon studying ancient philology, transformational ethics and the wave harmonic theory of historical perception.


218Well, that About Wraps It Up for GodTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureLiteratureBooks-Religious

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Well, that About Wraps It Up for God
The best selling book by Oolon Cooluphid.


219Where God Went WrongTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureLiteratureBooks-Religious

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Where God Went Wrong
Book in Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters the narrator mentions that's not as controversial as the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.


220Where God Went Wrong THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 2005 FilmLiteratureBooks-Religious

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Where God Went Wrong
Narrator: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a wholly remarkable book. Perhaps the most remarkable, certainly the most successful, ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor. More popular than The Celestial Homecare Omnibus, better selling than 53 More Things to Do in Zero Gravity, and more controversial than Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters, Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes, and Who Is This God Person Anyway?



221Who Is This God Person Anyway?THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureLiteratureBooks-Religious

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Who Is This God Person Anyway?
Book in Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters the narrator mentions that's not as controversial as the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.


222Who Is This God Person Anyway? THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 2005 FilmLiteratureBooks-Religious

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Who Is This God Person Anyway?
Narrator: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a wholly remarkable book. Perhaps the most remarkable, certainly the most successful, ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor. More popular than The Celestial Homecare Omnibus, better selling than 53 More Things to Do in Zero Gravity, and more controversial than Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters, Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes, and Who Is This God Person Anyway?



223Xanthic Re-Structron Destabilized Zenon ...THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE 1980 LiteratureWeaponsWeapons-misc

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Xanthic Re-Structron Destabilized Zenon Emitters
Weapon that the Frogstar battle machine mentions to Marvin.


224You and Your PlanetsMOSTLY HARMLESS 1992 LiteratureLiteratureTextbooks

MOSTLY HARMLESS
You and Your Planets
New book by Gail Andrews.


225ZamphuorTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 1978 LiteratureBeverage ProductsAlcohol

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Zamphuor
Beverage mentioned in the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster recipe. "Drop in the tooth of an Algolian Suntiger. Watch it dissolve, spreading the fires of the Algolian Suns deep into the heart of the drink. Sprinkle Zamphuor. Add an olive."


226Zirzla Robot StarcruisersSO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH 1984 LiteratureVehiclesSpacecrafts

SO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH
Zirzla Robot Starcruisers
Starships Ford sees silhouetted in front of the star Xaxis.



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