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Filed by Aine MacDermot

HHGTTMâ„¢ : The acronym is an abbreviation for the “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the MultiVerseâ„¢” which you are now reading the Introduction of. It is a collaborative effort of volunteer Hitchhikers from all over the MultiVerse; some are unwitting contributors by virtue of their existence or by their actions that are noted by passing observers. The Guide’s contents can run the gamut of “what’s left over from Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide” to entries about language, people, beings, creatures, places, and all number of things that our Hitchhiker’s happen to take note of and consider worthy of passing the information on to others. HHGTTMâ„¢ is open to suggestions for entries, of course, but, as always, all such entries are strictly left to the discretion of whatever passing Hitchhiker that might stumble across them.

In other words, suggestions for entries may be freely ignored or someone may feel like entering information into our databases, and there’s no telling whether any given suggestion will be acted upon or ignored, especially if the Guinness is flowing freely. Since our Hitchhikers are volunteers and not paid employees, this is something you’ll just have to learn to live with, we suppose.

and, just in case you were wondering…

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The : 1. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a wholly remarkable book. It is, up to the present time, the greatest success of Megadodo Publications. It looks rather like a largish electronic calculator. It has about a hundred tiny flat press buttons and a screen about four inches square on which any one of a million “pages” could be summoned at a moment’s notice. It looks insanely complicated, and this is one of the reasons why the snug plastic cover it fitted into has the words Don’t Panic printed on it in large friendly letters. The other reason was that this device is, in fact, that most remarkable of all books ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor. The reason why it was published in the form of a micro sub meson electronic component is that if it were printed in normal book form, an interstellar hitchhiker would require several inconveniently large buildings to carry it around in. It is not an Earth book, and has never been published on Earth. Not only is it a wholly remarkable book, it is also a highly successful one-more popular than the Celestial Home Care Omnibus, better selling than Fifty More Things to do in Zero Gravity, and more controversial than Oolon Colluphid’s trilogy of philosophical blockbusters Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God’s Greatest Mistakes and Who is this God Person Anyway? In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitchhiker’s Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects. First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words DON’T PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover. Minor Update: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy suffers from one minor problem: it is hopelessly out of date. For this reason, certain factions in the MultiVerse are attempting to supplant it with their own version called “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the MultiVerseâ„¢.” This effort has met with some success, though this version is still not yet widely known. However, if you would be so kind as to point out this new version to other hitchhikers, we’re sure you’ll be handsomely rewarded in some way… as soon as we clear all our paperwork in triplicate, that is.

2. A series of hilarious books that defy description written by the late Douglas Noel Adams.

You might also like to get your hands on:

The Book:

The Radio Show:

Or the 2005 Movie:

You can read more about the movie here, or here.

Or, go play it online.