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The AFU and Urban Legend Archive Misc stolen cookie douglas adams
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The AFU and Urban Legend Archive Misc stolen cookie douglas adams
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From: linden@positive.eng.sun.com (Peter van der Linden)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Douglas Adams again avers
Date: 29 Nov 1993 01:51:45 GMT
Douglas Adams (the famous one or not, I have no idea) has sent me e-mail saying again that the "stolen cookie" story really happened to him. He gives permission to post the e-mail, so here it is in its entirety (including the double .sig at the end).
Everything following (up till my .sig) was in Adams's e-mail.
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From: adamsd@CERF.NET (Douglas Adams)
Subject: Re: UL prototype...
Cc: dan.mckinnon@canrem.com (Dan Mckinnon)
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> Mr. Adams, I wonder if you would care to post a comment in
>alt.folklore.urban in response to Peter's comments. He probably doesn't
>know you are "into" computers, music, graphics, world wildlife, and so
>on.
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> Dan.mckinnon@canrem.com
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>PVDL>From: Jym Dyer <jym@remarque.berkeley.edu>
>PVDL>> Douglas Adams maintains that the similar incident (which
>PVDL>> he wrote with Arthur Dent as the protagonist) was based on
>PVDL>> something that actually happened to him!
Yes it did. It happened to me on Cambridge station in the summer of 1976. A couple of years later I told the story on the radio, and then subsequently began to come across all sorts of variations of the story cropping up all over the place. I don't really care whether you believe me or not. I'm simply relating what occurred. If you are predisposed to believe - on no evidence - that I am a liar, there's not a lot I can do about that.
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>PVDL>There are 2 (two) more hallmarks of an urban legend:
>PVDL> 1. In retelling the tale, the speaker always claimed it
>PVDL> happened to him, or a friend of his.
>PVDL> 2. The speaker will not be budged from this claim, and
>PVDL> if challenged, becomes more adamant.
So how would you distinguish this from someone who was telling the truth? If you say that I'm a lemon and I deny that I'm a lemon and you then say that it's characteristic of people who are lemons to deny that they are lemons there's not a lot further we can go is there?
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>PVDL>In the final analysis, it doesn't matter whether Douglas Adams is
>PVDL>big enough to say that the incident stems from something he heard
>PVDL>rather than something he felt:
How do you kow this? Do you have access to some part of my mind that I don't?
>PVDL>On the other hand, you're posting on the Internet, and Adams wouldn't
>PVDL>know Internet from an alt.sewer.
I do know about the InterNet. Presumably the fact that I'm saying this will only confirm to you that I know nothing at all about it. I would say that wouldn't I? Ah. Perhaps I'm an imposter. Why don't you ask me if I am? If I deny it that will prove that I am because that's what imposters always do.
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>PVDL> Peter "thought the Hitch-Hiker's Guide was a good idea taken
>PVDL> a long way too far. It's been a book, a radio show, a
>PVDL> tv show, a play, an opera... about the only artform that
>PVDL> it hasn't been is a tapestry, and there's probably someone
>PVDL> working on it now" vdL.
The Hitch Hiker's Guide has not been an opera. It has however been a tapestry, if you count a woven bath towel as a tapestry. Careful with your facts. That's how myths start.
I don't read the urban myths group - I spend enough time on the Internet as it is. But I'm happy for this Email to be quoted there.
| | | | Douglas Adams | adamsd@cerf.net (current) | | | dna@dadams.demon.co.uk (dormant) |
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'And I could say "Weeooweeooweeooweeooweeooweeooweeoo" and everybody here would know exactly what I was talking about.'
| | | | Douglas Adams | adamsd@cerf.net (current) | | | dna@dadams.demon.co.uk (dormant) |
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'And I could say "Weeooweeooweeooweeooweeooweeooweeoo" and everybody here would know exactly what I was talking about.'
"You sick little monkey! Don't you know Usenet will ruin your MIND?!"
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