So Zaphod got even crazier. The giant ship, Heart of Gold, well, he stole it. He threw a bomb into the crowd and made a run for the ship. Funny stuff! I don’t know what happened, though, because they jump around to the different characters situations. These twenty pages jumped back to Ford and Arthur. The two have now begun to hitchhike around the galaxy, and who did they get a ride from? The Vogons, rather frightening aliens who destroyed earth, and according to the guide, hate hitchhikers. The only reason they got on the ship was because of the Vogons’ cooks, the Dentrassis. These creatures love to annoy the Vogons, and what better way than to pick up a few hitchhikers??

Now the Vogons are the poor species who got beat really hard with the ugly stick. They had this really funny story about how their new sun just didn’t even bother to evolve them any farther because it was a hopeless cause, they’re the bullies. After they finished with abusing their planet, the moved on to bully and destroy other planets. They are also extremely terrible at writing poetry because, according to Ford, he would rather be thrown into space than listen to them read a poem.

There’s also this really cool thing Ford had called the Babel fish, and I just learned about Babel in CCD =). All you have to do is stick it in your ear (ewww) and it translates every language for you. I would love one of those. It would certainly make Spanish class easier.