So a few posts ago I made a small quote from the song “So Long And Thanks For All The Fish” from Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. So I wanted to post the whole thing here to help you all out, but I could not really find any complete lists that were right. So I sat down and listened to the song many many times to try to get it right, and this is about as close as I’m going to get. So enjoy. If you steal my hard work (i’m not claiming the words themselfs, but my transcripton), please at least link back to me(http://come.to/jimmybop), or if you have a blog “trackback” to this post (trackback link can be found by clicking on the “comments” button at the bottom of this post).
(updated may 6th to change an error, thanks Descalzo)
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“So Long And Thanks For All The Fish”
Composed by: JOBY TALBOT
Found Here: http://jimmybop.blogsome.com/2005/05/04/lyrics-so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish
(trasnscribed to the internet by Chad Wright,
with help from the Official Hitchhiker’s site
Music video can be found here: http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/games/dolphin.html)
So long and thanks for all the fish
So sad that it should come to this
We tried to warn you all but oh dear
You may not share our intellect
Which might explain your disrespect
For all the natural wonders that grow around you.
So long, So long, and thanks for all the fish
The world’s about to be destroyed
Theres no point getting all annoyed.
Lie back and let the planet dissolve (around you)
Despite those nets of tuna fleets
We thought that most of you were sweet
Especially tiny tots and your pregnant women.
So long, So long, So long, So long, So long,
So long, So long, So long, So long, So long,
So long, So long, and thanks for all the fish
If I had just one last wish
I would like a tasty fish
If we could just change one thing
We would all have learnt to sing
Come one and all
Man and mammal
Side by side in life’s great gene pool
So long, So long, So long, So long, So long,
So long, So long, So long, So long, So long,
So long, So long, and thanks for all the fish
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If this was what you were looking for (as many people have come here based on a search already) please leave a comment (or trackback in your blog) and thank me for listening to the song 20+ times in a row to get it almost perfect.
If you have a good translation of the lyrics in another language, please feel free to e-mail it to me (My e-mail address can be found near the bottom of the page) so that I can post it up and help more people out.
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Here is a link I found on the “popular” links page on Del.icio.us. The first (and only) time traveler convention will be held at MIT on May 7
Since I am to lazy to tell you about it, either check out that page, or read on. Here is a news story about the event, it can be found here:http://www.livescience.com/othernews/050502_time_travel_convention.html
Time Traveler Convention Planned for Saturday, May 7
By Robert Roy Britt
LiveScience Senior Writer
posted: 02 May 2005
12:21 pm ET
If you’re into time travel, mark your calendar for Saturday, May 7, 2005, when the first Time Traveler Convention will be held at MIT. Or if you miss it, perhaps you can wait a few years and attend anyway. That’s kind of what organizer Amal Dorai is banking on.
While scientists have not figured out the practical specifics of time travel, they also haven’t ruled it out as a possibility.
Dorai, a graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science, hatched a rather ingenious plan to test the concept. Though obviously a stunt, the whole idea is a mindbender worthy of any scientifically inclined mind.
“We are doing this as a very low-risk, low-cost way to investigate the possibility of time travel,” Dorai told LiveScience. “Of course the odds are against us, but imagine the scientific discovery we would have on our hands if a time traveler shows up. Of course, no time travelers doesn’t rule out the possibility of time travel; they could have just decided not to come to our convention.”
The gathering will be held at MIT’s East Campus Courtyard. Dorai gave the specific coordinates for anyone needing to plug them into some futuristic machine: 42:21:36.025°N, 71:05:16.332°W.
Though perhaps someone already has attendance figures, they were not available when this article was filed.
The convention’s plans sound pretty loose.
“We have a basic party planned but we also hope to get speeches about time travel from a few MIT professors if they are interested,” Dorai said. “In any case, the party is only a backup in case no time travelers come, since if they do show up they will of course be the center of attention.”
And how might someone a few millennia from now find out about the event, should they wish to attend?
Dorai suggests those interested in helping “write the details down on a piece of acid-free paper, and slip them into obscure books in academic libraries,” or “carve them into a clay tablet.”
On the geek-chat web site Slashdot, the convention has spawned lively discussions, including whether it would be possible to travel back in time and kill Hitler before he rose to power. One person wrote, “I already went” to the convention. And another asked: “Why didn’t they set the date for yesterday? That way we wouldn’t have to wait to see if it was successful.”
Anyone attending the convention from the future is advised by Dorai to bring proof, such as “a cure for AIDS or cancer, a solution for global poverty, or a cold fusion reactor.”
More information about Saturday’s event can be found at the convention web site.
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so yeah, I’m doing what the website said and arching this for the future 
and to help other people find this… here is the info for the party:
The Time Traveler Convention
May 7, 2005, 10:00pm EDT (08 May 2005 02:00:00 UTC)
(events start at 8:00pm)
East Campus Courtyard, MIT
3 Ames St. Cambridge, MA 02142
42:21:36.025°N, 71:05:16.332°W
(42.360007,-071.087870 in decimal degrees)
