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** Which is, of course, a reference to [[The Bible]]: In the "Tower of Babel" story, people are punished by God, and start speaking different languages. The Babel Fish from ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' is named as such, because it translates speech telepathically from any language, thus eliminating that particular effect.

** Also on ''Hitchhiker's'', some people have accused North London estate agents [http://www.hotblackdesiato.co.uk/ Hotblack Desiato] of having stolen their name from ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/The Restaurant At The End of The Universe|The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy]]''. It was actually the other way around.

* Let it be known that when the [[Lewis Carroll]]'s poem ''[[Alice in Wonderland|Jabberwocky]]'' mentions "his vorpal sword", it is not a reference to ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]''.

* The character name "[[Name's the Same|James Bond]]" first appeared in the [[Agatha Christie]] 1930s short story "The Rajah's Emerald", though this may or may not be where [[Ian Fleming]] got the name -- Christie's character is almost the exact opposite of [[James Bond|the more famous Bond]]. It's known that Fleming got Bond's number from the London-Dover coach which passed his door, which is numbered 007 to this day.