“The Babel fish is small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe.” 🐠

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"In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn’t cope with, and that terrible listlessness that starts to set in about 2:55, when you know you’ve taken all the baths that you can usefully take that day..."

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It's the 42nd anniversary of the very first BBC radio broadcast of Douglas Adams’s space-comedy which went from cult phenomenon to one of the most enduringly popular shows, and book series, of all time

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I feel like not enough people are making a big deal of Hitchhikers Guide being 42 today. I've loved it since I was a child and I always will, weirdly I've done next to no fan art for it so here's my abandoned attempt from 2011 to capture the original wildly narcisstic president!

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So sad to hear that Terry Jones has died. He was our guest Voice Of The Book on 19th July 2012 during the first Hitchhikers stage tour, and it was an honour to have him aboard. Hope he's enjoying a large gargleblaster with Douglas now.

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a few years after the death of the caretaker of the resting place of the immortal one, a few hikers, peregrines and travelers started to tell stories about a ghostly figure who followed them at the distance laughing while jumping from tree to tree

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‘n’ some hitchhikers...

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Anyway here is me as an avatar of The Lonely
-big rig driver who picks up unlucky hitch hikers and drops them off in the middle of nowhere
-friendly but quiet outwardly
-always has an unlit cigarette on him(lights it and blows the smoke @ victims transporting them to The Lonely)

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Tiny hitchhikers

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In a cottage dating from the 17th century, the Judsons started serving refreshments to hikers at Newholme Dean nr Aged 89, inventor & MP Sir Isaac Holden signed the visitors’ book on a walk in 1896. The last cuppa was sipped in the 1960s

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Finally back to work on new sticker designs.
Here's Betelgeuse and Marvin the Paranoid Android!

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When you go to collect some eel grass for your pipefish and find these hitch-hikers when you get back to the lab! (Hernissenda crassicornis for those interested 😉)

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First Friday in

On view: Lasting Formations: Nature’s Glow by Shadeh Begian

The pieces are inspired by rock formations that motivate adventurers, hikers, climbers and nature lovers to become more connected with … https://t.co/FNQE5bis2j

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Day 28 - Ride

Bedbug.

Parasitic insects that feed on human blood. They're known as hitchhikers since they travel on clothing & belongings. They're not known to carry disease, but their bites can cause allergic reactions.

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The weredragon howls into the night, reminding the creatures of the forest (and hikers) where they'll be found inside should they cross paths...

6 of 20 of the weres for Were-a-Thon 2019! For !

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