allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) (11/25/86)
Quoted from <8678MIQ@PSUVMA> ["Re: Hitchhiker's Guide Trivia"], by MIQ@PSUVMA.BITNET... +--------------- | | In article <12208@watnot.UUCP>, rcgood@watnot.UUCP (Rob Good) says: | | > Who won the award for the most gratuitous use of the word 'fuck' | > in a serious screen play? | | That's easy. Nobody did! +--------------- Wrong. (See below.) +--------------- | Now for another question. Who won the award for the most gratuitous | use of the word "Belgium" in a serious screenplay? +--------------- The same question as before. In the omnibus edition of HHGTTG, Doug Adams says that he had to change it in order to publish the book in the U.S. He used "Belgium" to keep some kind of joke, although a lesser one than the original... ++Brandon -- ++bRando(m)n ---------------- /--/ Brandon S. Allbery HOME: 6615 Center St. #A1-105 / / /|\/ Tridelta Industries, Inc. Mentor, OH 44060-4101 ---- -------- /-++ 7350 Corporate Blvd. +1 216 974 9210 / / /---, ---- Mentor, Ohio 44060 SYSOP: UNaXcess/ncoast / / / / / / +1 216 155 1080 (216) 781-6201 24 hrs. / / / / / / CSNET: ncoast!allbery@Case ARPA: via relay.CS.NET ---- -----~ ---- UUCP: cbatt!cwruecmp!ncoast!{allbery,tdi2!brandon}