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  Arthur Dent - susning.nu
Arthur Dent som han såg ut i tv-serien från 1981, spelad av Simon Jones
Arthur Dent (fullständigt namn Arthur Philip Dent) är tillsammans med Ford Prefect huvudperson i Liftarens guide till galaxen av Douglas Adams.
Arhur Dent's Dreams är ett spel som är en blandning av att plattformsspel och ett RPG, det är släppt under Open Source och är programmerat med C++ och Direct X till Windows, alt finns att ladda ner på hemsidan.
susning.nu /Arthur_Dent   (145 words)

  
  Arthur Dent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arthur Philip Dent is a fictional character, the hapless protagonist in the comic science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
Arthur spends the next several years, still wearing his dressing gown, helplessly launched from crisis to crisis while trying to straighten out his lifestyle.
ARTHUR DENT: You know, it's at times like this, when I'm stuck in a Vogon air lock with a man from Betelgeuse, about to die of asphyxiation in deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arthur_Dent   (735 words)

  
 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to The Galaxy
Arthur prodded the mattress nervously and then sat on it himself: in fact he had very little to be nervous about, because all mattresses grown in the swamps of Squornshellous Zeta are very thoroughly killed and dried before being put to service.
Arthur listened for a short while, but being unable to understand the vast majority of what Ford was saying he began to let his mind wander, trailing his fingers along the edge of an incomprehensible computer bank, he reached out and pressed an invitingly large red button on a nearby panel.
Arthur followed him in nervously and was astonished to see a man lolling back in a chair with his feet on a control console picking the teeth in his right-hand head with his left hand.
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 King Arthur's weapons etc.
Then Arthur sprang to the cave entrance and threw his knife Carnwennan at the hag, so that it struck her down the centre and made two vats of her, and Caw of Scotland took the blood and kept it with him.
Arthur was cheered by the advent of the holy men and he rejoiced with all his heart at the directions to the monster's cave, because he had so often departed sad because he had not been able to find the monster, angry with himself as though having been beaten by it.
The tradition was that Arthur and his war-horse expelled an 'afanc' from the lake Llyn Barfog (52° 34· 3´ N 3° 59· 2´ W) in the former county of Merionethshire.
www.geocities.com /dagonet_uk/weaponry.htm   (3693 words)

  
 The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy - Episode One.   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Arthur Dent cannot, by any stretch of the imagination, be considered cool.
Arthur continues his protest by lying in the path of the bulldozer.
Arthur puts the miraculously useful Babel Fish in his ear just in time to hear a message from the Captain (the chief ugly green bloke) that they have been spotted on the ships instruments.
www.sadgeezer.com /hhg/episode1.htm   (1520 words)

  
 Arthur Dent   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Arthur Philip Dent is one of the last two survivors of the Planet Earth.
Arthur has recently discovered how to fly by tripping and missing the ground.
Arthur is a fairly normal example of the semi-evolved simians inhabiting the Earth, now known to be descended from an exiled group of Golgafrincham middlemen.
www.coldnorth.com /owen/game/startrek/universe/source/arthur.htm   (303 words)

  
 The Hitchhiker's Guide Quotes Collection - SLATFATF - Arthur Dent
It was a stupid dog, but it should at least have been able to recognize Arthur instead of standing there, hackles raised, as if Arthur were the most fearful apparition ever to intrude upon its feeble-witted life.
This prompted Arthur to go and peer at the window again, this time with an eye not for the asphyxiating emu but for himself.
For Arthur, who could usually contrive to feel self-conscious if left alone for long enough with a Swiss cheese plant, the moment was one of sustained revelation.
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 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy :: Slartibartfast and Arthur Dent
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Alongside Zaphod Beeblebrox, astrophysicist Tricia McMillian (Trillian to her friends), Arthur Dent and Marvin the Paranoid Android, Slartibartfast stands supreme.
After his death, Towel Day was established on May 25 as a tribute.
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 HHGTTGOnline.com - Arthur Dent Character Biography - Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
Arthur Philip Dent is an ape-descended member of the community of humans living on planet Earth.
He is from Earth, but throughout the series, he manages to visit places such as a Vogon ship, the Heart of Gold, the legendary planet of Magrathea, Milliways, the B Ark of the Golgafrinchams, and even prehistoric Earth.
The character of Arthur Dent was played by Simon Jones in the TV series, and is played by Martin Freeman in the 2005 big budget Disney movie, "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy".
www.dvdhelp.us /hhgttg/html/arthurdent.html   (243 words)

  
 The Hitchhiker's Guide Quotes Collection - LTUAE - Arthur Dent
"Arthur had adopted his normal crisis role, which was to stand with his mouth hanging open and let it all wash over him."
And with that he launched into the most extraordinary and spectacular fit of coughing that caught Arthur so much by surprise that he started to choke violently, discovered that he was already doing it and got thoroughly confused.
"Arthur yawed wildly as his skin tried to jump one way and his skeleton the other, while his brain tried to work out which of his ears it most wanted to crawl out of."
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 Arthur Dent   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Arthur is a common name, believed to possibly be descended from the Roman surname Artorius or the Celtic bear-goddess Artio.
Arthur is a Thomas the Tank Engine character.
Dent is a small fell on the fringe of the English Lake District near the towns of Cleator Moor and Egremont.
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 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Chapter One
Mr Prosser's mouth opened and closed a couple of times while his mind was for a moment filled with inexplicable but terribly attractive visions of Arthur Dent's house being consumed with fire and Arthur himself running screaming from the blazing ruin with at least three hefty spears protruding from his back.
Ford stared at Arthur, and Arthur was astonished to find that his will was beginning to weaken.
Arthur stood up, feeling as if he was in a dream.
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 lifeplay
Arthur Dent finds himself on a space ship after the Earth has been destroyed to make way for an interplanetary bypass.
But before Arthur has time to decide, a thickly-moustached man wearing a superman outfit with a huge letter "N" emblazoned on it, noisily interrupts his train of thought.
So Arthur left Philos with the firm intention of gaining meaning in life by becoming the author of his own life.
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 ScienceDaily: Arthur dent   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Look for Arthur dent in Wiktionary, our sister dictionary project.
Look for Arthur dent in the Commons, our repository for free images, music, sound, and video.
Check for Arthur dent in the deletion log, or visit its deletion vote page if it exists.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/arthur_dent   (892 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Books: Douglas Adams   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Dent is grabbed from Earth moments before a cosmic construction team obliterates the planet to build a freeway.
Arthur Dent is your normal human being, and so he naturally is more concerned about his house being knocked down than facing the fact that the world is about to end.
Arthur is saved from sure death by one of his friends, Ford Prefect, that also happened to be an alien doing some research for "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (an electronic book that "tells you everything you need to know about anything", and that specially highlights the need for a towel).
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 The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy - Character Bios - Arthur Dent   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Arthur is by no means cool, in fact he's a bit of a plonker!
If you were to meet Arthur in a pub, he would be quietly (and quite happily) sat on his own at the bar oblivious to the fact that the girl he was due to meet was never going to show up.
The only reason she agreed to meet him in the first place, was to divert him from bugging her with his inane chatter.
www.sadgeezer.com /hhg/arthur.htm   (497 words)

  
 Smith, Thomas and Allied Families
Parents: Arthur Dent Mcginnis and Lydia Jane Sisler.
Arthur Dent Mcginnis was born on 10 Dec 1871 in Terra Alta, Preston County, West Virginia.
Children were: Nancy Agnes McGinnis, Eugene Harvey Mcginnis, Arthur Dent Mcginnis Jr.
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 Arthur Dent: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Arthur Dent   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Arthur Dent: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Arthur Dent
Arthur Dent is a fictional character, the hapless protagonist in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams.
In the radio, LP and television versions of the story Arthur is played by Simon Jones[?].
www.encyclopedian.com /ar/Arthur-Dent.html   (130 words)

  
 Arthur Dent   (Site not responding. Last check: )
History: Arthur Dent seems to be having trouble with his lifestyle.
This is Agrajag, a being whose very existence seems somehow bound to Arthur's - the poor sod keeps being accidentally killed by Arthur, only to be reincarnated, then killed again...repeatedly...throughout history...and it's happened so often that Agrajag now recalls his past lives and Arthur's part in their endings.
Arthur was played in both the radio and TV version by Simon Jones.
www.internationalhero.co.uk /a/arthdent.htm   (311 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Features> Homevideo -- Hitching a fantasy ride with Arthur Dent
Ford Prefect (Mos Def), Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman) and galaxy president Zaphod Beeblebrox (Sam Rockwell) attempt to negotiate the universal bureaucracy.
The general effect of reading a Douglas Adams novel is a feeling of giddy certainty that the universe is neither as intelligent or complicated as we were led to believe by the nuns in elementary school.
Arthur Dent is the hero of our story, a proper Englishman timid as an uncornered mouse and dry as breakfast toast.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/features/homevideo/20050911-999_dvd154.html   (1256 words)

  
 Thursday
NARRATOR 2: At 8:00 on Thursday morning, Arthur woke up blearily, got up, put on his bathrobe, wandered round his room, opened a window, saw several big yellow bulldozers, found his slippers, and stomped off to the bathroom to wash. He drank a large glass of water.
NARRATOR 1: Fifteen seconds later, Arthur was out of the house and standing in the mud in front of a big yellow bulldozer that had been advancing up his garden path.
NARRATOR 1: By a curious coincidence, "none at all" is exactly how much suspicion the ape-descendant Arthur Dent had that one of his closest friends was not descended from an ape, but was in fact from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse.
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 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Fortunately for Arthur, his best friend, Ford Prefect, just so happens to be an undercover alien who knows how to stick out his electronic thumb and flag down a ride from a passing spaceship with only seconds to spare.
Arthur insists that they rescue Earth's only other known survivor, Trillian, from her Vogon captors.
Two nuclear missiles zero in on Zaphod's ship but one is transformed into a pot of petunias and the other into a sperm whale before they find their mark; the whale plummets to its death.
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 HHGTTGOnline.com - Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (Stuff from the movie, book, games, forum, and more!)
When Ford asks Arthur how he would react if he were to say that he was actually an alien:
"You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxication in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."
"This is terrific," Arthur thought to himself, "Nelson's Column has gone, McDonald's have gone, all that's left is me and the words Mostly Harmless.
www.hhgttgonline.com /html/quotes_arthur1.html   (495 words)

  
 Douglas Adams's Timeline
Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect come from the Past.
Arthur and Ford are thrown into the void close to Barnard's Star, and they are rescued by the _Heart of Gold_.
Zaphod, Trillian, Arthur and Ford come to the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
www.geocities.com /Area51/Corridor/8611/hhgttg.htm   (690 words)

  
 SongBook TheatEar | The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Story: Arthur begins to settle back into his normal, Earthly life, but is preoccupied with finding the woman named "Fenny." To his surprise, he manages to find her, learns her real name is Fenchurch, and even more surprisingly, she doesn't think he's completely mad when he insists on getting to know her better.
Arthur is, however, driven to the brink of insanity when he manages to lose her telephone number.
That's the sort of thing that Arthur's almost accustomed to, but even he is surprised when the ship's occupant appears to be Trillian - the Trillian he knows, and not the one from an alternate reality - and she has a teenage girl in tow who she claims is her and Arthur's daughter.
www.thelogbook.com /b5covers/hhg/year4.htm   (1608 words)

  
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 Arthur Rackham And His Art
Arthur Rackham was born in 1867 into a Victorian age that he perpetuated and documented by way of his art.
J.M. Dent reissued Ingoldsby and Constable and Co. Grimm, both in revised, updated editions.
These four books contained 115 color plates from Rackham's paintings and all of my favorite Rackham images are contained within them.
www.bpib.com /illustrat/rackham.htm   (1792 words)

  
 Dominic Cramp \ Arthur Dent
Arthur Dent is the hero of the cult Sci-Fi classic A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, written by Douglas Adams.
I think there are a couple of things that Adam aka Deeper Than Space, and I did that never saw the light of day but I think in looking back, we are probably okay with that!
I am not sure that I really have one but I did like the Hafler Trio one which is just a big drone for an hour.
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 Arthur Dent - rFind.net   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Arthur Dent är en litterär karaktär, huvudperson i Douglas Adams "trilogi i fem delar" som inleds med Liftarens guide till galaxen (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy).
Ford Prefect, Trillian, Arthur Dent, roboten Marvin och den galne Zaphod Bee...
Myndigheterna i staden Port Arthur i den amerikanska delstaten Texas har infört utegångsförbud mellan klockan fyra på eftermiddagen och klockan sex på morgonen.
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