In honor of the release of HHGTTG I give you: Vogon Poetry

[Az]

Oh freddled gruntbuggly,
Thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits
On a lurgid bee.
Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes
And hooptiously drangle me
with crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon
See if I don't.


Gashee morphousite, thou expungiest quoopisk!
Fripping lyshus wimbgunts, awhilst moongrovenly kormzibs.
Bleem miserable venchit! Bleem forever mestinglish asunder frapt!
Gerond withoutitude form into formless bloit, why not then? Moose.

[LynneSin]

1. ARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGG GGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

My ears.... MY EARRRRRRSSSSS

[Nothing Without Hope]

13. LOVE your cartoon about ATA closing - and it's so true! n/t

[dolo amber]

2. That ...was beautiful...

:cry:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. In honor of the release of WHAT?

This is very hard stuff to parse!


:shrug:


:kick:

[Az]

6. HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy

Vogon's are known as the 3rd worst poets in the galaxy.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. Thank you so much, Az!

Only the third worst poets in the galaxy? I shrink to hear what the worst ones would sound like!

[imenja]

12. I've definitely read worse

[MidwestMomma]

4. Where's the vacuum of space when you need it?

:)

[Radical Activist]

5. Was that a great movie or what?

Loved it.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

7. Oh, kill me now..

:scared:

[Taxloss]

8. I like the way the rhythmic devices seem to counterpoint the

surrealism of the underlying metaphor.

[AntiCoup2K4]

10. First time I read that Vogon poetry, I imagined Captain Prostetnic Jeltz..

...was the William Shatner of the Vogon species. A starship captain who would rather be an artist - but really sucked at it.

[Nothing Without Hope]

11. Saw the movie tonight, especially loved the Vogons - Adams REALLY

didn't have much use for bureaucratic British lawyers!

For "official" reviews - here's the Rotten Tomatoes review page on the movie:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hitchhikers_guide_to_the_galaxy

[Nothing Without Hope]

14. Zaphod Beebrox was played as a takeoff on Bush - incredibly stupid,

totally self-centered, and so callous and clueless that he signs the order to destroy Earth to make way for an overpass "Love and Kisses, Zaphod,' and doesn't even remember it. To top it off, he has a southern US accent that could be Texan, which stands out among the mostly British accents of the other actors. Zaphod has half a brain and is President of the Galaxy. Sound familiar to you, too?