MOSTLY HARMLESS Literature 1992. Written by Douglas Adams.

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Total Records: 79 - Medium: LITERATURE

#	Record Name	Group	Category	Subcategory
BOGUS BUSINESS BUREAU
1	The Alpha	BBB	Nightlife	Nightclubs
	The Alpha Stavro's original club in New York, now run by his brother Karl, who thought of himself as a German with a Greek mother.
2	The Assumption of St. Antwelm	BBB	Events	Fairs and Festivals
	The Assumption of St. Antwelm An annual feast celebrated by the local people in Saquo-Pilia Hensha, featuring a game called Hunt the Wocket.
3	The Autumn Passage	BBB	Events	Fairs and Festivals
	The Autumn Passage Festival on the planet Lamuella. "The very best of the meat would be roasted straight away for the feast that marked the Autumn Passage. The celebrations would last for three days of sheer exuberance, dancing and stories that Old Thrashbarg would tell of how the hunt had gone, stories that he would have been busy sitting making up in his hut while the rest of the village was out doing the actual hunting."
4	Blamwellamum of Woont	BBB	Entertainment	Theater Productions
	Blamwellamum of Woont Opera performed by the Hallapolis State Opera. "Spaceships and jetcars and helipods crashed and exploded continuously around her, illuminating the night, villainous people in strange hats smuggled dangerous drugs through her, and the combined orchestra and chorus of the Hallapolis State Opera performed the closing March of the AnjaQantine Star Guard from Act IV of Rizgar's Blamwellamum of Woont in a little glade somewhere off to her left."
5	Breathe-o-Smart	BBB	Goods	Hardware
	Breathe-o-Smart Ventilation system. "One of the smartest features of the Breathe-o-Smart is that it cannot possibly go wrong. So. No worries on that score. Enjoy your breathing now, and have a nice day."
6	Breathe-o-Smart Inc.	BBB	Industrial Companies	Manufacturing
	Breathe-o-Smart Inc. Makers of the Breathe-o-Smart ventilation system.
7	Dine-O-Charge	BBB	Financial Companies	Credit Cards
	Dine-O-Charge Ford's credit card.
8	Divinity and Water Polo	BBB	Research Institutes	Institutes
	Divinity and Water Polo Religious institute. When the Infinite Improbability Drive arrived and whole planets started turning unexpectedly into banana fruitcake, the great history faculty of the University of MaxiMegalon finally gave up, closed itself down and surrendered its buildings to the rapidly growing joint faculty of Divinity and Water Polo, which had been after them for years.
9	The Domain of the King Bar & Grill	BBB	Dining	Restaurants
	The Domain of the King Bar & Grill A truckstop diner. Somewhere in the middle of nowhere. Quiet.
10	Envir-O-Form Machinery	BBB	Goods	Miscellaneous Products
	Envir-O-Form Machinery Machinery apparently used to make an uninhabitable planet habitable. Used by the Grebulons.
11	Fanallan Rum	BBB	Beverage Products	Alcohol
	Fanallan Rum Liquor mentioned when Ford reminisces about the good old days.
12	Hallapolis State Opera	BBB	Music	Orchestras
	Hallapolis State Opera Opera company. "Spaceships and jetcars and helipods crashed and exploded continuously around her, illuminating the night, villainous people in strange hats smuggled dangerous drugs through her, and the combined orchestra and chorus of the Hallapolis State Opera performed the closing March of the AnjaQantine Star Guard from Act IV of Rizgar's Blamwellamum of Woont in a little glade somewhere off to her left."
13	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Gui...	BBB	Literature	Books
	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Guide Mark II The second, more powerful version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy created by Infinidim Enterprises for the Vogons to finish their job of destroying the Earth once and for all.
14	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	BBB	Literature	Books
	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
15	Hrundi Runabout	BBB	Vehicles	Spacecrafts
	Hrundi Runabout Spacecraft. "The third spacecraft, half an hour after that, the little four berth Hrundi runabout, only made it on to the local news."
16	Hunt the Wocket	BBB	Sports	Sports
	Hunt the Wocket Game played at the the annual feast of the Assumption of St. Antwelm, in Saquo-Pilia Hensha.
17	Ident-i-Eeze	BBB	Technology Products	Electronics
	Ident-i-Eeze All-purpose machine-readable card that you can then carry around in your wallet that's encoded with every single piece of information about you, your body and your life.
18	InfiniDim Enterprises	BBB	Corporations	Companies
	InfiniDim Enterprises Publishing company that buys out Megadodo Publications, becoming the new owner of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
19	Infinite Improbability Drive	BBB	Technology Products	Power Supplies
	Infinite Improbability Drive Starship engine. When the Infinite Improbability Drive arrived and whole planets started turning unexpectedly into banana fruitcake, the great history faculty of the University of MaxiMegalon finally gave up, closed itself down and surrendered its buildings to the rapidly growing joint faculty of Divinity and Water Polo, which had been after them for years.
20	Life-Support-O-Systems	BBB	Technology Products	Electronics
	Life-Support-O-Systems Systems used to support life on unihabitable planets. Used by the Grebulons.
21	March of the AnjaQantine Star Guard	BBB	Music	Songs
	March of the AnjaQantine Star Guard Opera song, from the opera called Blamwellamum of Woont. "Spaceships and jetcars and helipods crashed and exploded continuously around her, illuminating the night, villainous people in strange hats smuggled dangerous drugs through her, and the combined orchestra and chorus of the Hallapolis State Opera performed the closing March of the AnjaQantine Star Guard from Act IV of Rizgar's Blamwellamum of Woont in a little glade somewhere off to her left."
22	Maximegalon Institute of Slowly and Pain...	BBB	Research Institutes	Institutes
	Maximegalon Institute of Slowly and Painfully Working Out the Surprisingly Obvious The site of the famous Herring Sandwich experiments, where a robot was tricked into an infinite loop whereby it attempted eternally to eat a herring sandwich by picking it up, dropping it, picking it up again, et cetera.
23	Megadodo Publications	BBB	Media Companies	Publishing Companies
	Megadodo Publications Publisher of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Once one of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor, eventually bought out by Infinidim Enterprises.
24	NBS	BBB	Cinema	TV Stations
	NBS TV station that needed a new anchor on account of Mo Minetti leaving the US/AM breakfast show to have a baby.
25	Ol' Janx Spirit	BBB	Beverage Products	Alcohol
	Ol' Janx Spirit Liquor mentioned when Ford reminisces about the good old days.
26	Perfectly Normal Beast Rolls	BBB	Menu	Menu Items
	Perfectly Normal Beast Rolls Menu item at the Domain of the King Bar & Grill.
27	Practical Parenting in a Fractally Demen...	BBB	Literature	Books
	Practical Parenting in a Fractally Demented Universe Book on parenting.
28	Resettlement Advice Centre	BBB	Services	Miscellaneous Services
	Resettlement Advice Centre Centre on Pintleton Alpha where Arthur goes seeking advice on a place to get a life where the people look vaguely like him.
29	RW6	BBB	Vehicles	Spacecrafts
	RW6 Spacecraft that lands on the planet Lamuella. "An RW6 was the sort of thing you only saw in the sort of magazines that were designed to provoke civil unrest."
30	Stavro's	BBB	Nightlife	Nightclubs
	Stavro's The currently fashionable spot for high-flying media people.
31	Temporal Reverse Engineering	BBB	Transportation	Time Travel
	Temporal Reverse Engineering It's a lethal little thing. Looks pretty, talks big, collapses waveforms selectively at will.
32	Ultragolf	BBB	Sports	Sports
	Ultragolf Club membership card in Harl's wallet.
33	The University of MaxiMegalon	BBB	Education	Universities
	The University of MaxiMegalon Starship engine. When the Infinite Improbability Drive arrived and whole planets started turning unexpectedly into banana fruitcake, the great history faculty of the University of MaxiMegalon finally gave up, closed itself down and surrendered its buildings to the rapidly growing joint faculty of Divinity and Water Polo, which had been after them for years.
34	US-AM	BBB	Television	TV Shows
	US-AM TV breakfast show which Tricia McMillan is in New York to try out for.
35	You and Your Planets	BBB	Literature	Books
	You and Your Planets New book by Gail Andrews.
MAKE BELIEVE MAP
36	Anhondo Plains	Map	Nature	Natural Areas
	Anhondo Plains Natural area on the planet Lamuella. "Arthur, regarding perfectly normal beasts of the planet Lamuella: They come from a point just slightly to the east of the Hondo Mountains. They're the big ones behind us here, you must have seen them as you came in, and then they sweep in their thousands across the great Anhondo plains and, er, well that's it really. That's where they come from. That's where they go."
37	Arkintoofle Minor	Map	Outer Space	Planets
	Arkintoofle Minor Planet. The Hingefreel people of Arkintoofle Minor did try to build spaceships that were powered by bad news but they didn't work particularly well and were so extremely unwelcome whenever they arrived anywhere that there wasn't really any point in being there.
38	Bartledan	Map	Outer Space	Planets
	Bartledan Planet where Arthur moves that has oxygen, green hills, a renowned literary culture, and people that look like Arthur.
39	The Bjanjy Territories	Map	Geographic Areas	Territories
	The Bjanjy Territories Location mentioned on the radio. "Next month's Royal Wedding between Prince Gid of the Soofling Dynasty and Princess Hooli of Raui Alpha will be the most spectacular ceremony the Bjanjy Territories has ever witnessed."
40	The Bwenelli Atoll	Map	Water	Bodies of Water
	The Bwenelli Atoll Location on the planet Fanalla, mentioned when Ford reminisces about the good old days. "They worked out of a hut on the Bwenelli Atoll on Fanalla before the Riktanarqals and the Danqueds vertled it."
41	Fanalla	Map	Outer Space	Planets
	Fanalla Planet mentioned when Ford reminisces about the good old days. "They worked out of a hut on the Bwenelli Atoll on Fanalla before the Riktanarqals and theDanqueds vertled it."
42	Frastra	Map	Outer Space	Planets
	Frastra Planet with fire storms, and life that begins at 40,000 degrees.
43	Frogstar	Map	Outer Space	Planets
	Frogstar Planet/army that attacked the headquarters of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Originally from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
44	Gagrakacka Mind Zones	Map	Outer Space	Interstellar Objects
	Gagrakacka Mind Zones When any of the editors finally staggered in from lunch they would exclaim, "What is this feeble crap that X" - where X was the name of the field researcher in question - "has sent us from half-way across the bloody Galaxy? What's the point of having somebody spending three whole orbital periods out in the bloody Gagrakacka Mind Zones, with all that stuff going on out there, if this load of anaemic squitter is the best he can be bothered to send us. Disallow his expenses!"
45	Hawalion	Map	Urban Areas	Cities-Outer Space
	Hawalion The village of oracles on the planet Hawalius.
46	Hawalius	Map	Outer Space	Planets
	Hawalius Planet on the outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, consisting of oracles and seers and soothsayers and also take-away pizza shops, because most mystics were completely incapable of cooking for themselves.
47	Hondo Mountains	Map	Nature	Mountains
	Hondo Mountains Mountain range on the planet Lamuella. "Arthur, regarding perfectly normal beasts of the planet Lamuella: They come from a point just slightly to the east of the Hondo Mountains. They're the big ones behind us here, you must have seen them as you came in, and then they sweep in their thousands across the great Anhondo plains and, er, well that's it really. That's where they come from. That's where they go."
48	Lamuella	Map	Outer Space	Planets
	Lamuella Remote planet Arthur visits where most villagers had never even seen a spaceship, certainly not one that was all in one piece.
49	NowWhat	Map	Outer Space	Planets
	NowWhat Planet named after the opening words of the first settlers to arrive there after struggling across light years of space to reach the furthest unexplored outreaches of the Galaxy.
50	OhWell	Map	Urban Areas	Cities-Outer Space
	OhWell Main town on the planet NowWhat.
51	Persephone / Rupert	Map	Outer Space	Planets
	Persephone / Rupert Tenth planet discovered in our solar system, out beyond the orbit of Pluto. Nicknamed Rupert.
52	Pintleton Alpha	Map	Outer Space	Planets
	Pintleton Alpha Planet, home of the Resettlement Advice Centre, where Arthur goes seeking advice on a place to get a life where the people look vaguely like him.
53	Poffla Vigus	Map	Geographic Areas	Territories
	Poffla Vigus Country mentioned on the radio. "Tomorrow, the Vice-President of Poffla Vigus, Roopy Ga Stip, will announce that he intends to run for President."
54	Portland Place	Map	Transit Routes	Thoroughfares
	Portland Place Street. "Ford and Arthur had come screaming down out of the stratosphere and parked neatly on Portland Place."
55	Raui Alpha	Map	Geographic Areas	Territories
	Raui Alpha Country mentioned on the radio. "Next month's Royal Wedding between Prince Gid of the Soofling Dynasty and Princess Hooli of Raui Alpha will be the most spectacular ceremony the Bjanjy Territories has ever witnessed."
56	Santraginus V	Map	Outer Space	Planets
	Santraginus V Planet with seas containing fish that never seem to care whatever the heck kind of direction they swim in.
57	Saquo-Pilia Hensha	Map	Urban Areas	Cities
	Saquo-Pilia Hensha Home of The Assumption of St. Antwelm, an annual feast celebrated by the local people in Saquo-Pilia Hensha.
58	Soofling Dynasty	Map	Geographic Areas	Territories
	Soofling Dynasty Country mentioned on the radio. "Tomorrow, the Vice-President of Poffla Vigus, Roopy Ga Stip, will announce that he intends to run for President."
59	Stavromula Beta IV	Map	Outer Space	Planets
	Stavromula Beta IV Arthur can't get killed until at least until after he ducks while on the planet Stavromula Beta and Agrajag gets hit. See: Life, the Universe and Everything, Chapter 18.
60	Viv	Map	Outer Space	Planets
	Viv Planet, home of vicious sea creatures.
61	Vogsphere	Map	Outer Space	Planets
	Vogsphere Vogon homeworld.
62	The Zabush Sector	Map	Geographic Areas	Territories
	The Zabush Sector Location mentioned on the radio. "Next week's jobless totals in the Zabush sector will be the worst since records began."
63	Zentalquabula	Map	Outer Space	Planets
	Zentalquabula Planet, home to alabastrum quarries.
64	ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha	Map	Outer Space	Regions of Space
	ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha Arthur and Fenchurch's home Galactic sector.
OTHER
65	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Other	Quotes	Quotes
	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The first thing to realise about parallel universes is that they are not parallel. It is also important to realise that they are not, strictly speaking, universes either, but it is easiest if you try and realise that a little later, after you've realised that everything you've realised up to that moment is not true. The reason they are not universes is that any given universe is not actually a thing as such, but is just a way of looking at what is technically known as the WSOGMM, or Whole Sort of General Mish Mash. The Whole Sort of General Mish Mash doesn't actually exist either, but is just the sum total of all the different ways there would be of looking at it if it did.
66	Man on Pole	Other	Quotes	Quotes
	Man on Pole Man on Pole: You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what you know. What I see and what I know cannot be added to what you see and what you know because they are not of the same kind. Neither can it replace what you see and what you know, because that would be to replace you yourself.
67	Man on Pole	Other	Quotes	Quotes
	Man on Pole Man on Pole: Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you.
68	Man on Pole	Other	Quotes	Quotes
	Man on Pole Man on Pole: Prayer #1 - Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen. That's it. It's what you pray silently inside yourself anyway, so you may as well have it out in the open.
69	Man on Pole	Other	Quotes	Quotes
	Man on Pole Man on Pole: Prayer #2 - Lord, lord, lord, Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer. Amen. And that's it. Most of the trouble people get into in life comes from missing out that last part.
70	Narrator	Other	Quotes	Quotes
	Narrator Narrator: Arthur didn't even know if Lamuella had had a paleozoic era. According to Old Thrashbarg the planet had been found fully-formed in the navel of a giant earwig at four-thirty one Vroonday afternoon, and although Arthur, as a seasoned galactic traveller with good 'O' level passes in Physics and Geography, had fairly serious doubts about this, it was rather a waste of time trying to argue with Old Thrashbarg and there had never been much point before.
71	Narrator	Other	Quotes	Quotes
	Narrator Narrator: The ship had come sweeping in over a dark and sombre landscape, a terrain so desperately far removed from the heat and light of its parent sun that it seemed like a map of the psychological scars on the mind of an abandoned child.
72	NowWhattian Boghog	Other	Living Things	Animals
	NowWhattian Boghog Animal whose skin was the main trade carried out in the town of OhWell on the planet WhatNow.
73	Perfectly Normal Beast	Other	Living Things	Animals
	Perfectly Normal Beast Creature on the planet Lamuella. "Arthur, regarding why perfectly normal beasts are called perfectly normal beasts: Well, I think because otherwise people might think it was a bit odd. I think Old Thrashbarg called them that. He says that they come from where they come from and they go to where they go to and that it's Bob's will and that's all there isto it."
74	Pikka Bird	Other	Living Things	Birds
	Pikka Bird Animal from the planet Lamuella.
75	Practical Parenting in a Fractally Demen...	Other	Quotes	Quotes
	Practical Parenting in a Fractally Demented Universe Practical Parenting in a Fractally Demented Universe: We live in strange times. We also live in strange places: each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own. Being able to glance out into this bewildering complexity of infinite recursion and say things like, 'Oh, hi Ed! Nice tan. How's Carol?' involves a great deal of filtering skill for which all conscious entities have eventually to develop a capacity in order to protect themselves from the contemplation of the chaos through which they seethe and tumble. So give your kid a break, OK?
76	Pterospondes	Other	Living Things	Animals
	Pterospondes People used to have pet vastdragons on leads and pterospondes on perches in their offices.
77	Rymplon TM	Other	Matter	Substances
	Rymplon TM Synthetic fabric. "The taller one was a very good looking woman wearing soft and crumply clothes. Old Thrashbarg didn't know this, but they were made of Rymplon TM, a new synthetic fabric which was terrific for space travel because it looked its absolute best when it was all creased and sweaty."
78	Untitled	Other	Themes	Gray Eagle
	#383f5c #fe429c #808ab2
79	Vastdragons	Other	Living Things	Animals
	Vastdragons People used to have pet vastdragons on leads and pterospondes on perches in their offices.

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