But the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has never had a problem with highly improbable events.

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As a teenager he devoured popular science fiction books like "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and "Ender's Game, " and always had a wild imagination.

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Deschanel, who's dabbled in jazz cabaret and sung on the occasional film soundtrack, has starred in such movies as Elf (you might remember her in-the-shower rendition of "Baby, It's Cold Outside") and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

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Douglas Adams died in 2001, having written five of the enduringly popular Hitchhiker books - still inaccurately dubbed a trilogy.

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McGillvary, who after the Fresno incident became known on the Internet as "Kai the Hatchet-Wielding Hitchhiker, " is accused of killing attorney Joseph Galfy Jr. at the lawyer's Clark, New Jersey, home.

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Ms Young's intrepid investigations have given her a clear grasp of the proper role of mankind in the web of life, and produced a delightful hitchhiker's guide to the planet.

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J. (AP) A man who gained Internet fame as Kai the Hatchet-Wielding Hitchhiker insisted he was not guilty of murder as he was led into a jail on Thursday following his extradition from Pennsylvania.

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Chief Justice Rehnquist wished him "Good luck" the way one does a hitchhiker after a lift, then drives away fast.

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U.S. journalist and hitchhiker Tony Horwitz's account of thumbing his way around Western Australia and the rest of the sunburned continent.

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