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#34950 - 24/07/2001 19:36 Hitchhiker's Guide
grgcombs
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Registered: 03/07/2001
Posts: 663
Loc: Dallas, TX
I just ripped six CDs of the Hitchhiker's Guide radio show and stuffed it all in the empeg ... that plus over 2200 other mp3s and I'm now about 3 megs away from a full drive.

Anyone feel like trading a couple of 20 gig 3 1/2" (ATA) drives for a big laptop drive (30gig??)

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#34951 - 25/07/2001 08:09 Re: Hitchhiker's Guide [Re: grgcombs]
rockstar
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Registered: 24/11/2000
Posts: 316
damn!! i need to get those hitchikers cd's :)


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#34952 - 25/07/2001 08:18 Re: Hitchhiker's Guide [Re: rockstar]
grgcombs
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Registered: 03/07/2001
Posts: 663
Loc: Dallas, TX
They're hella-fun, but you'll need a budy in the UK to order them for you from the BBC there ... the BBCs outside the UK don't sell them ....

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#34953 - 25/07/2001 08:22 Re: Hitchhiker's Guide [Re: grgcombs]
rockstar
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Registered: 24/11/2000
Posts: 316
no prob, i am a brit living in america.. a lot of family over there still :)


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#34954 - 26/07/2001 00:17 Re: Hitchhiker's Guide [Re: grgcombs]
bonzi
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Registered: 13/09/1999
Posts: 2401
Loc: Croatia
They're hella-fun, but you'll need a budy in the UK to order them for you from the BBC there ... the BBCs outside the UK don't sell them ....


I bought them online and I think it was BBC, but might have been amazon.co.uk. Can't find order confirmation in my old e-mail...

Dragi "Bonzi" Raos
Zagreb, Croatia
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#34955 - 26/07/2001 21:31 Re: Hitchhiker's Guide [Re: bonzi]
xanatos
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Registered: 08/03/2001
Posts: 202
Loc: Denver, CO
Man I hate being an american some times... impossible to get any of the COOL stuff... heh and no friends over in the UK either. Anyone wanna proxy something for me? I'll pay for it over PayPal or something *begs*

Damien Heiser

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#34956 - 27/07/2001 00:14 Re: Hitchhiker's Guide [Re: xanatos]
borislav
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Registered: 30/04/2000
Posts: 420
Loc: Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Man I hate being an american some times... impossible to get any of the COOL stuff...

Amazon.co.uk does deliver to the US. Now if I could find a UK candy store that would do the same...

Borislav


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#34957 - 27/07/2001 01:25 Re: Hitchhiker's Guide [Re: borislav]
pgrzelak
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Registered: 15/08/2000
Posts: 4859
Loc: New Jersey, USA
Greetings!

A UK Candy store??? I am intrigued...

Paul G.
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#34958 - 27/07/2001 04:26 Re: Hitchhiker's Guide [Re: pgrzelak]
borislav
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Registered: 30/04/2000
Posts: 420
Loc: Sunnyvale, CA, USA
A UK Candy store??? I am intrigued...

I somehow managed to get addicted to Nestlé Aero chocolate bars while I was there. For some reason these are not sold in the US and I've been in great pain since I moved here. For years now I've been buying large quantities of them on every visit to the UK, smuggling them into the US (you are not normally allowed to bring any food items into this country) and rationing them carefully until my next visit... I'm not kidding, it's that bad!

I did a quick search online, just in case somebody started selling them here since the last time I checked... and I found quite a few! Some are imported from the UK, others from Canada. The Canadian ones seem to be a bit cheaper but they might well be different. I'm not taking any chances.

Wow. I hope I'm not dreaming.

Borislav




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#34959 - 27/07/2001 05:08 Re: Hitchhiker's Guide [Re: borislav]
pgrzelak
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Registered: 15/08/2000
Posts: 4859
Loc: New Jersey, USA
Greetings!

Interesting! It looks like chocolate that has had gas forced through it, then quick chilled to set. That is, if the picture on the wrapper is correct. Interesting... Hmm...

Paul G.
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#34960 - 27/07/2001 05:48 Re: Hitchhiker's Guide [Re: pgrzelak]
pca
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Registered: 20/07/1999
Posts: 1102
Loc: UK
Yes, they are foamed chocolate. There are mint and orange flavour ones as well.
One of my favourites, even though generally I'm not a huge chocolate fan.

pca

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#34961 - 27/07/2001 05:53 Re: Hitchhiker's Guide [Re: borislav]
davec
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Registered: 18/08/2000
Posts: 992
Loc: Georgetown, TX USA
I was trying to buy one of those from a vending machine in a tube stop in London and they were sold out... I ended up with a Cadbury, not a bad thing, but the Aero looked interesting... I guess I should have just gone to the Kwik-E-Mart... The Dr Pepper tasted strangely familiar, then I read the label, made with real sugar, not corn syrup, just like the Dublin Dr Pepper here in Texas, the oldest Dr Pepper bottling plant in operation, 110 years this year...

Dave Clark
Austin, Texas
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#34962 - 27/07/2001 13:19 Re: Hitchhiker's Guide [Re: xanatos]
bonzi
pooh-bah

Registered: 13/09/1999
Posts: 2401
Loc: Croatia
Here are the relevant links from amazon.co.uk:

Primary Phase (Fit the First - Fit the Sixth)
Secondary Phase (Fit the Seventh - Fit the Twelfth)

The sets are 16 GBP (~ $23) each (plus shipping).

Enjoy!

Dragi "Bonzi" Raos
Zagreb, Croatia
Q#5196, MkII#80000376, 18GB green
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#34963 - 28/07/2001 08:04 Re: Hitchhiker's Guide [Re: bonzi]
MrFarm
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Registered: 25/09/2000
Posts: 43
Loc: Guildford
Is there anywhere i can buy oreos in bulk in the UK?? Thats one thing i have always missed from USA.. :(


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#34964 - 28/07/2001 18:26 Re: Hitchhiker's Guide [Re: MrFarm]
Geoff
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Registered: 21/08/1999
Posts: 381
Loc: Northern Ireland
Can you get Twinkies in the UK? I know they're probably very bad for you, but I brought a few back from Canada last year and they were almost all devoured before I was unpacked!! Of course, if there's a health and safety law banning them from this side of the Atlantic, then I have no idea what I'm talking about!

Back on topic, the Hitchhikers TV series is being repeated on BBC2 over the next couple of weeks in the UK starting at 11.20pm on Monday!

Geoff
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#34965 - 29/07/2001 07:29 Re: Hitchhiker's Guide [Re: Geoff]
rob
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Registered: 21/05/1999
Posts: 5335
Loc: Cambridge UK
You can get both Oreos and Twinkies from Harvey Nick's (food hall, top floor) and a number of other department stores with imported food sections. You'll pay a fortune though! I usually get lumbered with bringing back value packs of Oreos when I have to visit the US.

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#34966 - 29/07/2001 09:52 Re: Hitchhiker's Guide [Re: rob]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31597
Loc: Seattle, WA
I can't believe they don't have Oreos in the UK. That's just not right. Somebody talk to Nabisco.

On the other hand, you guys get those air-chocolate bars, so we must be "even" or something.

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#34967 - 29/07/2001 16:30 Chocolate with air? WTF [Re: tfabris]
gbeer
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Registered: 17/12/2000
Posts: 2665
Loc: Manteca, California
It's nice to see that, on occasion Americans arn't the most gullible folks around. Imagine buying a chocolate bar where some of the chocolate has been replaced by air, instead of the more normal things like almonds, peanuts, pecans and such.

Glenn

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#34968 - 29/07/2001 17:27 Re: Chocolate with air? WTF [Re: gbeer]
Geoff
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Registered: 21/08/1999
Posts: 381
Loc: Northern Ireland
Maybe it's not air... maybe it's an hallucinogenic gas

(Now THAT would boost sales...)

Geoff
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#34969 - 29/07/2001 17:29 Re: Chocolate with air? WTF [Re: gbeer]
muzza
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Registered: 21/07/1999
Posts: 1765
Loc: Brisbane, Queensland, Australi...
but it's the bubbles of nothing that make it really something

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#34970 - 30/07/2001 14:07 O R E O [Re: rob]
SuperQ
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Registered: 13/06/2000
Posts: 429
Loc: Berlin, DE
maybe if all the empeg owners wraped up a box of Oreos and shiped them over, the v2.0 development process would speed up :)

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#34971 - 30/07/2001 15:26 Hitchhiker's Guide on BBC2 [Re: grgcombs]
Jazzwire
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Registered: 09/06/1999
Posts: 483
Loc: Guernsey
For those of you in the UK, The TV show just started right now on BBC2..

Sorry to those of you in the rest of the world... =)

Jazz
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#34972 - 30/07/2001 20:13 Re: O R E O [Re: SuperQ]
kazama
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Registered: 11/11/2000
Posts: 202
Loc: Boston, MA
I'd be all over that. Anything to keep the developers happy short of buying a second Empeg I would be all for. [smile}


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#34973 - 31/07/2001 22:06 Oreoware? [Re: kazama]
gbeer
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Registered: 17/12/2000
Posts: 2665
Loc: Manteca, California
Seem's to me I heard of at least one software development project that is powered by beer and pizza at their local dive. Those wishing to make contributions to the project send it to a special account at the pizza hall.

Sort of a pizzaware approach.

--Glenn

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#34974 - 01/08/2001 01:54 Re: Oreoware? [Re: gbeer]
Roger
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Registered: 18/01/2000
Posts: 5683
Loc: London, UK
That'd be Samba: http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/faq/sambafaq-1.html#ss1.9


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