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                        Somebody forgot their towel …

Several months ago I took over ownership of the Hitchhiker's Guide Project: A
Complete Repository Of Characters, Planets, & Other Hoopy Froods [1] from a
friend who no longer wanted to deal with it (and I've been meaning to
overhaul it, but eh … it can wait). There's a contact page that people can
use to send me comments and occasionally I'll even respond to them.

But today … today I got the following:

> I printed off a copy of a jpeg in 2002 of a honda accord with a caption
> stating “The automotive equivalent of a really hot librarian”. Is this jpeg
> still available? I loved it and want to print it in color as a tribute to
> fellow librarians everywhere.
>

Excuse me?

I could understand someone not realizing the site is a tribute to Douglas
Adams' [2] Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [3] and asking me questions about
hitchhiking, but this?

Sometimes I really do wonder about people …

Update on Thursday, June 10^th 2004

A comment [4] about this from the previous owner of the site:

> You'll occasionally get that question from Librarians and people in that
> industry. I did host that image for a brief time, for reasons I won't go
> into right now. Check your access logs, you'll find 404s for honda.jpg
> scattered through them, since a bunch of places never corrected for link
> rot.
>

I feel a bit better now …


[1] http://www.hhgproject.org/
[2] http://www.douglasadams.com/
[3] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0345391802/conmanlaborat-20
[4] http://www.livejournal.com/users/bostondiaries/24922.html?thread=3418#t3418

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