11 minutes and 15 seconds into the movie there is a black and red device. Any info on it would be great, thank you

I am Spanish as a Second Language. My friend is Bolivian/American and flagrantly bilingual. We were just wondering about whether anyone had translated it into Spanish and she said,

“Los barcos se colgaron en el cielo en la misma forma que los ladrillos no lo hacen” — just doesn’t have the same ring of poetry that English does.

(The ships hung in the sky much the way that bricks don't.)

Brief searching reveals that there IS a "Guía del autoestopista galáctico."

Look at some of the other titles translated by Benito Gómez Ibáñez who appears to be the primary team member responsible for creating "Guía Del Autoestopista Galáctico"
https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3ABenito+G%C3%B3mez+Ib%C3%A1%C3%B1ez&s=relevancerank&fbclid=IwAR0ZW2gLU5f_-DDA6lX8PORdNTzzHE4CApgoHvsx9bMA1RBJVX0fxU-ep00&text=Benito+G%C3%B3mez+Ib%C3%A1%C3%B1ez&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_2

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I have had worse ideas than trying to read the Guía en español, borracho en la bañera!

In this video (at 15:06 in) there is a quote from one of the audiobook versions https://youtu.be/0r2x7G0hwCw

Is anyone able to identify which one?

Okay in the beginning of the second book Zaphod lands on a planet with the offices of the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy. What's the name of the voice talking to him? I forgot but I know it's silly.

I’m about to turn 42, and, like any sensible person, wish to have a Hitchhiker’s-themed party. Anyone got menu suggestions and/or pan-galactic gargle blaster recipes?

The melodically-motivated mammal from the frequently overlooked, but not entirely inconspicuous wet rock, third from its rather ordinary sun — a planet which locals, with an air of misplaced pride, refer to as 'Earth'. In the lesser-trodden nooks and crannies of the Western Spiral Arm of the Galaxy, this vibrato-voiced being is peculiarly known for her capacity to convert the hormonal surges of her species into oscillating waves of what they dare to term as 'music'.

Her 'melodic' themes often revolve around an occurrence where a girl-being (ostensibly Swift in many instances) gazes upon a boy-being, undergoes an internally tempestuous phenomenon labeled 'feelings', and then — with a baffling degree of predictability — encapsulates the entire ordeal in a 'song'. And just when you've adjusted your translator microbes to understand this, Ms. Swift, in a twist so bizarre that it might just be termed 'very Earthly', belts out numbers regarding tribal disputes with fellow noise-makers or the unpredictable perils of Earth's 'spotlight syndrome'.

Now, the dominant carbon-based bipeds of Earth (or 'humans', as they oddly dub themselves) find an almost ritualistic resonance with these sound sequences. They celebrate her with trinkets, glitter, and even hold vocal mimicry sessions in enclosed bathing chambers, much to the confusion of domesticated four-legged observers. As for why? Some advanced civilizations hypothesize that Taylor Swift's music could be Earth's attempt to broadcast its existence, while others dismiss it as just another perplexing Earth anomaly, akin to crop circles or the compulsion to photograph one's meal.

Across the vast expanse of space, while the jury is still floating in zero gravity over her galactic importance, Earth remains a source of amusement, bewilderment, and the occasional cosmic chuckle — especially if one happens to tune into the frequencies of Taylor Swift.

https://twitter.com/mjsimpsonfilms/status/1709816058721206421

Douglas got trapped by Hitchhiker's Guide, but he also opened up my whole world of imagination in the early 80s. I love the radio show that was the original, but his books broke my brain open at the same time of learning absurdist comedy from Monty Python*. I know he worked on Python in some capacity, but as I was rewatching his eulogy, this was nice to see. =)

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• - on Netflix, if you liked Kids in the Hall and Monty Python, please pay attention to "I Think You Should Leave" with Tim Robinson. It's brilliant weird hilarity

https://www.oneseceyewear.net/

Oh, small lump of green putty, how dost thou be In my armpit, unbidden, so gruesome to see? Thy color, a hue that offends every eye, A sight so repulsive, it makes grown men cry.

Thou art slimy and foul, in my pit, thou dost dwell, Like a wretched, malignant, olfactory hell. Thy odor, a blend of the sewer and grime, In my nostrils, it lingers, a punishment prime.

No purpose, no reason, thou hast in this place, In my armpit, thou dwellest, a gross, vile disgrace. I scrape thee, I scrub thee, but thou shalt not flee, Oh, lump of green putty, forever in me.

So wretched, so loathsome, thou art to my core, Thy existence, a torment, a pain I deplore. In the annals of filth, thou art surely the king, Oh, lump of green putty, thy praises I sing!

For a series about a British man that was released on BBC radio, there sure are a lot of things that are objectively American. He uses the terms pennies, nickels, and dollars when referring to currency, pounds when referring to weight, inches for measurement, talks about California and New York a lot, and some other things that I forgot by the time I wrote this post. Sure there are some exclusively British things like lorries, biros, and Ford Prefects, but why doesn’t he use british currencies and the metric system?(There’s a chance I misremembered an example but for the most part I’ve noticed this across the 5 main books. I think it’s that way in the radio series too though.)