MOSTLY HARMLESS Literature 1992. Written by Douglas Adams. | |||||
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1 | The Alpha | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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. | Industrial Companies | Manufacturing | ||
Breathe-o-Smart Inc. Makers of the Breathe-o-Smart ventilation system. | |||||
7 | Dine-O-Charge | Financial Companies | Credit Cards | ||
Dine-O-Charge Ford's credit card. | |||||
8 | Divinity and Water Polo | 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 | Dining | Restaurants | ||
The Domain of the King Bar & Grill A truckstop diner. Somewhere in the middle of nowhere. Quiet. | |||||
10 | Envir-O-Form Machinery | Goods | Miscellaneous Products | ||
Envir-O-Form Machinery Machinery apparently used to make an uninhabitable planet habitable. Used by the Grebulons. | |||||
11 | Fanallan Rum | Beverage Products | Alcohol | ||
Fanallan Rum Liquor mentioned when Ford reminisces about the good old days. | |||||
12 | Hallapolis State Opera | 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... | 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 | Literature | Books | ||
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | |||||
15 | Hrundi Runabout | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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... | 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 | 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 | 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 | Beverage Products | Alcohol | ||
Ol' Janx Spirit Liquor mentioned when Ford reminisces about the good old days. | |||||
26 | Perfectly Normal Beast Rolls | Menu | Menu Items | ||
Perfectly Normal Beast Rolls Menu item at the Domain of the King Bar & Grill. | |||||
27 | Practical Parenting in a Fractally Demen... | Literature | Books | ||
Practical Parenting in a Fractally Demented Universe Book on parenting. | |||||
28 | Resettlement Advice Centre | 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 | 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 | Nightlife | Nightclubs | ||
Stavro's The currently fashionable spot for high-flying media people. | |||||
31 | Temporal Reverse Engineering | Transportation | Time Travel | ||
Temporal Reverse Engineering It's a lethal little thing. Looks pretty, talks big, collapses waveforms selectively at will. | |||||
32 | Ultragolf | Sports | Sports | ||
Ultragolf Club membership card in Harl's wallet. | |||||
33 | The University of MaxiMegalon | 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 | Television | TV Shows | ||
US-AM TV breakfast show which Tricia McMillan is in New York to try out for. | |||||
35 | You and Your Planets | Literature | Books | ||
You and Your Planets New book by Gail Andrews. |
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