The strange name for the service is a reference to Douglas Adam’s Hitchhiker’s Guide To the Galaxy, both a movie and a book. Babel fish are a fictitious species of fish on a far planet that translate languages if inserted in the ear.
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recommend book⇒The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | |||||||||||||||||
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| ISBN10: | 0-345-45374-3 | |||||||||||||||||
| ISBN13: | 978-0-345-45374-7 | |||||||||||||||||
| publisher: | Del Rey | |||||||||||||||||
| published: | 2002-04-30 | |||||||||||||||||
| by: | Douglas Adams | |||||||||||||||||
| Witty science fiction. You need to read it for the same reason you need to read the bible. People make obscure references to it all the time. | ||||||||||||||||||
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