For those of you who have the original BBC broadcast, I'm having trouble witha line. When the guys land on Magrathea for the first time, either Arthur or Ford says something about Pink Floyd. It's just a throwaway line, but I'd like to know what he said. Also, what was the name of that Earth girl whose poetry was one of the worst in the world?
sharePaula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex. Wonder if she's a real person. Not a clue bout the other one.
shareThanks. I heard they actually had to change her name because it was the name of a real person.
shareThats right. It was a schoolmates of Douglas called Paul Neil Milne Johnson. According to Douglas he used to write this horrible poetry about "dead swans in stagnant pools".
We can't stop here! This is Bat-country!
From the original radio version
Earlier conversation regarding whalemeat fades out, a bit of Pink Floyd starts to build up in background.
Arthur: Do you realise that robot can hum like Pink Floyd? What else can you do Marvin?
Marvin: Rock & Roll.
FX: Pink Floyd stops & is relaced by fab four 'rock & roll'
LP version
Arthur: Do you realise that robot can hum like Pink Floyd?
Zaphod: can it Marvin
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Hahaha... that's great, I'm listening to Pink Floyd right now as I am writing this down. I'll listen to my tape and see what he says. Why did they change that one line for the LP release?
shareTime & copyright?
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I listened to the tape and Marvin does a 2001-theme parody. At the climax of the duh-Duh-DUH-DUHDUH, Zaphod says "Can it, Marvin."
shareIs that the tape of the radio series? because it had changes from the broadcast version due to copyright problems & libel (the name of the galaxies worst poet was changed after the first broadcast)
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I don't know if there are other different versions. It's a blank tape someone copied for me, so I'm not sure if it's the original version or the LP or what. It's broken up into episodes.
shareyou probably have a copy of the BBC released tapes of the radio broadcast which have several changes from the original radio broadcast again due to coptwright & libel problems.
I got the extract from the scripts.
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"you can't get the wood you know"
What is that from?
"you can't get the wood you know"
What is that from?
It's from the Goon Show by the late great Spike Milligan
Have a look at Puckoon on this site
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I've heard of them. Are any of their stuff available in the U.S.
shareShould be, try the bbc shop
or amazon.com
If you want listen for free try BBC Radio 7
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7
the next broadcast will be 1/12/03 at 12:30 GMT & repeated at 19:30 GMT
there are one or two sites which have MP3 versions of some of the shows which you can download, this is probably breach of copywright.
do a google there are only 51,000+ sites to choose from
have fun
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Thanks, bub
shareDid you enjoy it, it's a bit dated & contains a fair bit of WWII soldier slang & cockney rhyming to get some obsenities past the bbc brass, who did refer to it as the go on show
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I haven't yet listened to it. Is there any site that offers free sound clips? I have a great fear of paying for things over the Internet.
shareScripts are available at
http://www.thegoonshow.co.uk/scripts/index.html
& MP3's at
http://www.thegoonshow.net/
Prepare to question your sanity
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I read a little bit of the scripts and listened to the Christmas Carol show. I don't know, they seemed a little odd and unintelligible to me (and I'm into Python.) Maybe I'm just uninitiated.
shareThey were made in the 1950's & 60's & contain a lot of in jokes & slang, a great deal of plain silliness, but there is a lot that remains funny today. Eg:
Bluebottle: (stuck in cupboard) 'is that you eccles'
Eccles: 'hello bluebottle....where are you?'
B: I'm stuck in the cupboard
E: ohhh!
B: Open the door eccles
E: how do I do that buebottle
B: turn the knob on your side
E: but I haven't got a knob on my side
some of the rhyming slang would need explaining eg:
"we go over to our reporter Hugh Jampton"
you need to know that Hampton Wick is rhymng slang for Pr*ck therefore
Hugh Jampton become Huge Pr*ck
try
http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/list.asp?order=slangtoenglish&letter=H
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