The Sheila Variations

I was just thinking -- what if, the day of the premiere, after we've made all these crazy plans months in advance and I've journeyed far, a Vogon destroyer really *did* arrive and blow up the Earth to make way for a galactic bypass? I mean, wouldn't that be totally ironic?

It would be like rain on your wedding day, I'm thinkin'. Or a free ride ... when you've already paid.

That would be one hell of a promotional campaign, Emily.

Steve Silver says there's this other movie, it's called "Star Wars" or something like that and it's supposedly opening the same day. It'll be great. We can point and laugh at all the people camped outside theaters dressed like Yoda.

A hell of a campaign, Pete, but a ridiculously self-defeating one, eh?

Then again, Hitchhiker fans can be really geeky (*cough* or so I've heard...), so there might be a few people walking around with extra heads and talking books. Who can say.

Huh.. as if this mostly harmless planet would be the main focus of the campaign..

BTW How's that costume coming along, Emily?

I don't do costumes, Pete. But I haven't entirely ruled out wearing a digital watch.

Digital watches, what a neat idea!

heh heh

And how many do you think will be there in dressing gowns and slippers, Emily?

Apart from the bloggers that is.

*ducks*

HA! Do you think any dolphins will show up?

Hmmm, I think it's fate; I'll still be 42 (barely) when it comes out.

Heh

They'll be too busy packing and saying their goobyes.

Erm... 'goodbyes' that is.. sheesh.. Preview!

Well, they'd better thank us for all the fish.

Wedding, nope. Graduation, nope. Christening, nope. In fact I do believe I'll be at the movies that day. Want to come?

Linus - ha! Well, I already have movie-plans that day with a roving group of bloggers and readers. Perhaps we will run into one another.

Look for a raving group of loud-mouths, talking incessantly about Douglas Adams ...

That'll be us.

Just look for a group of ten or so people all wearing digital watches.

I suppose I'm going to have to bring my towel, just in case. Which, when you're named Linus, can be something of a liability.

You don't have to have your towel with you, Linus. You just have to know where it is.

After the movie, you could go for jynnan tonix.

But which orifice is it for, that jynnan tonix?

Uh-oh. Do you have any idea what you have possibly unleashed with this crowd by mentioning the word "orifice", Linus?

I'm getting married at the opening, so this could work out.

Opening of the movie, I mean, not an orifice.