' " An example which combines homophonic and homographic punning is Douglas Adams's line " You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish.

Douglas Adams's 1998 computer game Starship Titanic features the " Succ-U-Bus " in almost every room – being a pneumatic pipe transport system which goes all around the ship ; players must understand and use the Succ-U-Bus in order to progress and solve the puzzles.

In Douglas Adams's novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, the well-known line from Coleridge's Kubla Khan, " Weave a circle round him thrice ", is interpreted as the salute of an alien culture: " He waved hand round in a circle, three times.

* Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic ( 1997 ), ISBN 0-330-35446-9 – a novel based on the computer game of the same name by Douglas Adams.

* Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series ( radio, printed novels, TV series, feature film, etc.

VHS release: The original television version of Shada was released in 1992 on VHS and featured linking narration by Tom Baker and was accompanied by a facsimile of a version of Douglas Adams's script ( except in North America ).

More contemporary examples of nonsense verse are Vogon poetry, found in Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy or the 1972 song ' Prisencolinensinainciusol ' by Italian multi-talent Adriano Celentano.

A novel entitled Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic, based on the game, was written by Terry Jones.

* Douglas Adams's The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul ( 1988 )

The second book in Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker Trilogy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, was inspired by the song " Grand Hotel ", from Procol Harum's album of the same name.

* h2g2 – a collection of sometimes humorous encyclopedia articles, based on an idea from Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

* In Douglas Adams's Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, the title character saves the world, in part by time-travelling from the present day to distract Coleridge from properly remembering his dream ; if Coleridge had completed the poem an alien ghost would have ' encoded ' certain information within the completed work that would have allowed him to make repairs to his spaceship in the past at the cost of wiping out all life on Earth.

This is a list of places featured in Douglas Adams's science fiction series, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

The internet service derived its name from the " Babel fish ", a fictional species in Douglas Adams's series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that could instantly translate languages.

In Douglas Adams's Dirk Gently novels, the titular character — a " holistic " detective — is implied to have psychic powers on occasion.

The play's two chief influences are Douglas Adams's The Hitchhikers ' Guide to the Galaxy and the role play game Space 1889, although another is Sir Henry at Rawlinson End by Vivian Stanshall.

It is named after Arthur Dent, the bewildered hero of Douglas Adams's radio, play, and book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

* Babel fish, a fictional creature from Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series

* Douglas Adams's " increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker's trilogy " started as a BBC radio series and was adapted to a trilogy which eventually grew to five novels.

Trefil found new fame in 2005 when it was used as a location for the alien Vogon homeworld in the film of Douglas Adams's book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

* Bug-eyed monsters were mentioned in Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

* Mr. L. Prosser, a minor character appearing at the beginning of Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Notable examples include Douglas Adams's babel fish, the TARDIS from Doctor Who, the translator microbes in Farscape, and the universal translator from Star Trek.

* 1910 – Douglas Bader, British pilot ( d. 1982 )

* Gillies, Douglas A., 1982.

Douglas and McIntyre, 1982, ISBN 0-295-95863-4

( The ruleset was actually first published in Douglas Hofstadter's column Metamagical Themas in Scientific American in June 1982.

* Douglas, Mary ( 1982 ).

Mayor Ortega ( married to Anne Taylor Ortega ) was born and raised in Douglas, graduated from Douglas High School in 1980, and graduated from Cochise College in 1982 with an Associates of Science in Electronics.

On April 2, 1982, a news report by Douglas Kiker on raunch radio featuring Stern aired on NBC Magazine.

* Roy Douglas, " Pine Barren Pioneers ," Long Island Forum, October, November, December, 1982 ( West Islip Public Library )

* Douglas Brinkley, award-winning historian, lived in Perrysburg from 1968 to 1982.

* Nathan Douglas ( born 1982 ), British triple jumper

* Robert Douglas ( American football ) ( born 1982 ), American football player

* David C. Douglas ( 1898 – 1982 ), British historian

His first marriage ended in 1982 ; he married Kate Kyle in 1986, with whom he had a son, Douglas, born 1989.

* The Mike Douglas Show ( 1961 – 1982 ).

After six more fights, all wins, Douglas fought Steffen Tangstad to a draw on October 16, 1982.

Life, the Universe and Everything ( 1982, ISBN 0-345-39182-9 ) is the third book in the five-volume Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy science fiction series by British writer Douglas Adams.

Two ' page-a-day ' tear-off calendars, edited by John Lloyd and containing several contributions from Douglas Adams, were released in the early 1980s ( Not 1982 and Not 1983 ).

* Draw-8 vs Buster Douglas ( 1982 )

Douglas Foster wrote in Mother Jones in 1982 that the briefings consisted of disinformation, " hate-filled " material about enemies, phony letters, intimidation, fake newspaper articles, and dirty tricks campaigns.

By the 1980s Galland was now regularly attending the funerals of friends like Tuck, and also Douglas Bader, who had died on 4 September 1982 after speaking at a dinner for Arthur Harris.

To accommodate the booming growth of the facility, a new passenger terminal designed by Odell Associates opened in 1982, and the airport was renamed Charlotte Douglas International Airport.

On 7 May 1982, Douglas C-47A C-FQHF of Kenn Borek Air overran the runway following an aborted take-off.

Nitzer Ebb ( pronounced eb or eb ) is a British EBM group formed in 1982 by Essex school friends Vaughan " Bon " Harris ( programming, synthesizers, drums, vocals ), Douglas McCarthy ( vocals ), and David Gooday ( drums ).