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I listened to Jeff saying that superuser.com is the 3rd in the trilogy. I guess that makes meta the 4th in the trilogy.

Do you remember that Douglas Adams continued to call his Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy a trilogy even after books 4 and 5?

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    It was always a "trilogy of four" even after he wrote the fifth book.
    – devinb
    Jun 29, 2009 at 20:15
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    I try to pretend meta doesn't exist.
    – Jeff Atwood
    Jul 13, 2009 at 12:15
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    And yet you comment on it...
    – Omar Kooheji
    Jul 13, 2009 at 14:21
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    This question is meta to meta and doesn't belong here. It should be on meta.meta.stackoverflow.com
    – Omar Kooheji
    Jul 13, 2009 at 14:23
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    Actually the question is not meta to meta SO. It's meta to Hitchhiker's Guide... why this question is here I don't know.
    – Travis
    Jul 13, 2009 at 15:25
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    @Jeff - you can try all you want, but we will always be here. Waiting. Breathing. Whining. In your dreams, you will hear us, and your days will be filled with the horror that awaits you in meta.
    – Pollyanna
    Oct 29, 2009 at 20:12
  • There is a meta for every site, it is silly to count them.
    – Mark C
    Sep 29, 2010 at 23:16
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    Per-site metas weren't introduced until well after this question was asked.
    – Pops
    Oct 26, 2011 at 5:26
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    really? "put on hold" after almost 8 years? cmon guys, just leave things the way they are.
    – Jason S
    Mar 8, 2017 at 2:45

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Do you remember that Douglas Adams continued to call his Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy a trilogy even after books 4 and 5?

Yes.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Four Parts

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    I was going to say something smartass about you not answering the right part of the question until I re-read it and realized that you answered the only part of his post that -was- a question.
    – TheTXI
    Jun 29, 2009 at 20:27
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    -1 because I don't remember it.
    – Hilarious Comedy Pesto
    Jun 29, 2009 at 20:27
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IIRC on the fifth volume cover is written : "the fifth of the increasing inaccurately named HHGTTG trilogy".

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    YRC, or you and I are both on the same trip
    – squillman
    Aug 12, 2009 at 21:28
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    That's the quote that I remember.
    – Guy
    Aug 13, 2009 at 20:38
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This is more like Dirk Gently.

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not to mention that instrumental on Rush's Counterparts that was Part 4 of the Gangster of Boats Trilogy

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    Strangely, it's also the only song that's part of the Gangster of Boats trilogy.
    – Graeme Perrow
    Dec 23, 2009 at 0:06
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If this is the fourth in the trilogy, then who's the "JarJar" of metaSO? =)

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Piers Anthony once mentioned that a trilogy is 27 books (3^3).

Needless to say, both Terry Pratchet's Discworld and Piers Anthony's Xanth are in their second "trilogy" using the above definition.

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    Gods. I remember when Xanth was actually a trilogy. 3 books. That was it. This was also long enough ago that I thought they were pretty good, too.
    – beska
    Oct 26, 2009 at 20:57
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My two cents concerning HHGTTG: Parts 1 and 2 are awesome, part 3 is good, part 4 is bad, part 5 is awful. I hope that doesn't translate to the SO trilogy.

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