James Aylett on 12.11pm on Monday 12th October, 2009
I'm pretty sure that the TV series has a little animation of possible names that (very rapidly, so you need freeze frame) gets another couple of jokes in there by wandering through some reasonable-sounding names before stopping on Ford Prefect. I think Prefect Ford was one of them; and Hillman, of course, is an entirely valid surname. So Hunter Hillman might have worked. Still doesn't need to be there, but at least it'd make sense.
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I'm pretty sure that the TV series has a little animation of possible names that (very rapidly, so you need freeze frame) gets another couple of jokes in there by wandering through some reasonable-sounding names before stopping on Ford Prefect. I think Prefect Ford was one of them; and Hillman, of course, is an entirely valid surname. So Hunter Hillman might have worked. Still doesn't need to be there, but at least it'd make sense.