{"id":32,"date":"2007-11-22T19:16:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T00:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patrickmauro.net\/blog\/?p=32"},"modified":"2019-07-25T15:04:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T19:04:13","slug":"hark-yon-adams-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patrickmauro.net\/blog\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"Hark, Adams fans!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Liff, the Universe, and Everything?<\/p><\/div>\n

I totally should have done this before, over the summer, but I forgot. I\u2019ll do it now anyway.<\/p>\n

While vacationing in Block Island, I stumbled across a most remarkable book.<\/p>\n

The book was by none other than Douglas Adams, a writer for Monty Python\u2019s Flying Circus and author of the much-loved Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy series.<\/p>\n

…Okay, so it was co-written by his good buddy John Lloyd, but, the humor in it is all that you would expect from the author of H2G2.<\/p>\n

The book is The Deeper Meaning of Liff: A dictionary of things there aren\u2019t any words for yet- But there ought to be, and yes, that is the full title. The title immediately strikes for its british humor, more recently seen in Sasha Baron Cohen\u2019s recent film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for make benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, and soon in his upcoming Br\u00fcno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt, which by the way has got to be the longest dang title ever. But enough on that.<\/p>\n

\"Liff2\"<\/a>The book is, as the title suggests, a dictionary of things there aren\u2019t any words for yet, even though there ought to be. Each word is pulled directly from actual town and city names across the world (though most of them are in England). The ideal way to read this book, in my opinion, is to open up to a random page and begin reading, unlike Maddox\u2019s The Dictionary of Manliness, which does have a certain chapter-by-chapter consistency to it.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re mind-numbingly bored and are looking for something to amuse you, definitely pick up this book.<\/p>\n

Unless you haven\u2019t read the Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide books, in which case, you better get on that pretty quickly.<\/p>\n

Happy Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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