tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21487528.post5812598165470407648..comments2023-08-19T23:23:19.849+10:00Comments on Sentire cum Ecclesia: Little known fact #136,390: The US version of Douglas Adam's Rory AwardSchützhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05026181010471282505noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21487528.post-89458606891919094072008-10-27T17:49:00.000+11:002008-10-27T17:49:00.000+11:00Yes, but not on the part of the screenwriters; on ...Yes, but not on the part of the screenwriters; on the part of the characters they created.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21487528.post-83331934895375644382008-10-25T10:43:00.000+11:002008-10-25T10:43:00.000+11:00Someone recently calculated the number of F-words ...Someone recently calculated the number of F-words in the much-hyped movie <I>In Bruges</I>, and discovered that there were, if memory serves me, 147. Since the movie itself is only 107 minutes long, this suggests a truly stupendous poverty of linguistic invention.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21487528.post-27676530841527243962008-10-25T10:35:00.000+11:002008-10-25T10:35:00.000+11:00It was certainly a great inconvenience to the worl...It was certainly a great inconvenience to the world of humour that he died so young. And it is worth reflecting that Adams and Dawkins were great mates. I can't stand Dawkins' writing, yet I love Adams' work. Yet both were committed to the same atheistic ideology. Perhaps all this proves is that humour is an essential element in any world view.Schützhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05026181010471282505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21487528.post-27318444594348243282008-10-25T09:28:00.000+11:002008-10-25T09:28:00.000+11:00I am a great fan of the Hitchhikers guide to the ...I am a great fan of the Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. Pity that Adams was an atheist as he never came across that way ,more agnostic I thought. His description of how Marvin the paranoid android died I thought was exceptional. Ironic that perhaps God's final words to him may be "I Apologise for the inconvenience"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com