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	[[File:Vogon jelzt reading poetry.~~png~~\|thumb\|Jeltz reading poetry at [[Arthur Dent]] and [[Ford Prefect (character)\|Ford Prefect]] in the [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series)\|television series]].]]		[[File:Vogon jelzt reading poetry.jpg\|thumb\|Jeltz reading poetry at [[Arthur Dent]] and [[Ford Prefect (character)\|Ford Prefect]] in the [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series)\|television series]].]]
	Vogon poetry is described as "the third worst poetry in the Universe" (behind that of the Azgoths of Kria and that of [[Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings]], the latter of which was destroyed when the Earth was). The main example used in the story is a short piece composed by Jeltz, which roughly emulates [[nonsense verse]] in style (example below).		Vogon poetry is described as "the third worst poetry in the Universe" (behind that of the Azgoths of Kria and that of [[Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings]], the latter of which was destroyed when the Earth was). The main example used in the story is a short piece composed by Jeltz, which roughly emulates [[nonsense verse]] in style (example below).
	The story relates that listening to it is an experience similar to torture as demonstrated when [[Arthur Dent]] and [[Ford Prefect (character)\|Ford Prefect]] are forced to listen to the poetry (and say how much they liked it) prior to [[space exposure\|being thrown out of an airlock]].		The story relates that listening to it is an experience similar to torture as demonstrated when [[Arthur Dent]] and [[Ford Prefect (character)\|Ford Prefect]] are forced to listen to the poetry (and say how much they liked it) prior to [[space exposure\|being thrown out of an airlock]].

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	[[~~Image~~:Vogon ~~poetry2~~.~~jpg~~\|250px\|thumb\|Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council ~~tortures [[Ford Prefect (character)\|Ford Prefect]] and [[Arthur Dent]] with his poetry in the 2005 film ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film)\|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]''~~.]]		[[File:Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz.webp\|250px\|thumb\|Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council.]]

	The '''Vogons''' are a fictional alien race from the planet Vogsphere in ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]''—initially a BBC Radio series by [[Douglas Adams]]—who are responsible for the destruction of the Earth, in order to facilitate an intergalactic highway construction project for a hyperspace express route. Vogons are slug-like but vaguely [[humanoid]], are bulkier than humans, and have green skin. Vogons are described as "one of the most unpleasant races in the galaxy—not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious and callous", and having "as much sex appeal as a road accident" as well as being the authors of "the third worst poetry in the universe". They are employed as the galactic government's [[bureaucrat]]s. According to [[Marvin the Paranoid Android]], they are also the worst [[Marksman\|marksmen]] in the galaxy.		The '''Vogons''' are a fictional alien race from the planet Vogsphere in ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]''—initially a BBC Radio series by [[Douglas Adams]]—who are responsible for the destruction of the Earth, in order to facilitate an intergalactic highway construction project for a hyperspace express route. Vogons are slug-like but vaguely [[humanoid]], are bulkier than humans, and have green skin. Vogons are described as "one of the most unpleasant races in the galaxy—not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious and callous", and having "as much sex appeal as a road accident" as well as being the authors of "the third worst poetry in the universe". They are employed as the galactic government's [[bureaucrat]]s. According to [[Marvin the Paranoid Android]], they are also the worst [[Marksman\|marksmen]] in the galaxy.

	==Description==		==Description==
	[[~~Image~~:Gillray - John Bull taking a Luncheon.jpg\|thumb\|The Vogons' appearance in the film was partially based on the cartoons of [[James Gillray]].]]		[[File:Gillray - John Bull taking a Luncheon.jpg\|thumb\|The Vogons' appearance in the film was partially based on the cartoons of [[James Gillray]].]]
	[[~~Image~~:Vogonhead.PNG\|thumb\|An animatronic Vogon head, used in the film version of the story.]]		[[File:Vogonhead.PNG\|thumb\|An animatronic Vogon head, used in the film version of the story.]]

	===Appearance and personality===		===Appearance and personality===
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	[[~~Image~~:Vogon jelzt reading poetry.png\|thumb\|Jeltz reading poetry at [[Arthur Dent]] and [[Ford Prefect (character)\|Ford Prefect]] in the [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series)\|television series]].]]		[[File:Vogon jelzt reading poetry.png\|thumb\|Jeltz reading poetry at [[Arthur Dent]] and [[Ford Prefect (character)\|Ford Prefect]] in the [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series)\|television series]].]]
	Vogon poetry is described as "the third worst poetry in the Universe" (behind that of the Azgoths of Kria and that of [[Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings]], the latter of which was destroyed when the Earth was). The main example used in the story is a short piece composed by Jeltz, which roughly emulates [[nonsense verse]] in style (example below).		Vogon poetry is described as "the third worst poetry in the Universe" (behind that of the Azgoths of Kria and that of [[Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings]], the latter of which was destroyed when the Earth was). The main example used in the story is a short piece composed by Jeltz, which roughly emulates [[nonsense verse]] in style (example below).
	The story relates that listening to it is an experience similar to torture as demonstrated when [[Arthur Dent]] and [[Ford Prefect (character)\|Ford Prefect]] are forced to listen to the poetry (and say how much they liked it) prior to [[space exposure\|being thrown out of an airlock]].		The story relates that listening to it is an experience similar to torture as demonstrated when [[Arthur Dent]] and [[Ford Prefect (character)\|Ford Prefect]] are forced to listen to the poetry (and say how much they liked it) prior to [[space exposure\|being thrown out of an airlock]].

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{{Short description|Fictional alien race in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy}}

[[Image:Vogon poetry2.jpg|250px|thumb|Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council tortures [[Ford Prefect (character)|Ford Prefect]] and [[Arthur Dent]] with his poetry in the 2005 film ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film)|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]''.]]

The '''Vogons''' are a fictional alien race from the planet Vogsphere in ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]''—initially a BBC Radio series by [[Douglas Adams]]—who are responsible for the destruction of the Earth, in order to facilitate an intergalactic highway construction project for a hyperspace express route. Vogons are slug-like but vaguely [[humanoid]], are bulkier than humans, and have green skin. Vogons are described as "one of the most unpleasant races in the galaxy—not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious and callous", and having "as much sex appeal as a road accident" as well as being the authors of "the third worst poetry in the universe". They are employed as the galactic government's [[bureaucrat]]s. According to [[Marvin the Paranoid Android]], they are also the worst [[Marksman|marksmen]] in the galaxy.

==Description==
[[Image:Gillray - John Bull taking a Luncheon.jpg|thumb|The Vogons' appearance in the film was partially based on the cartoons of [[James Gillray]].]]
[[Image:Vogonhead.PNG|thumb|An animatronic Vogon head, used in the film version of the story.]]

===Appearance and personality===
Guide Description:{{quote|Here is what to do if you want to get a lift from a Vogon: forget it. They are one of the most unpleasant races in the Galaxy. Not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious and callous. They wouldn't even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders – signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters. The best way to get a drink out of a Vogon is to stick your finger down his throat, and the best way to irritate him is to feed his grandmother to the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal. On no account should you allow a Vogon to read poetry at you.}}

Vogons are roughly human-sized, although much bulkier, with green or grey skin. Their noses are above their eyebrows, which are either ginger (in the television series) or white (in the film). The film's commentary states that the idea behind the high flat noses was that they evolved both the noses and the severe bureaucracy from being repeatedly whacked by the paddle creatures under the sand on Vogsphere whenever they had an independent thought (in the film, the Vogon bureaucracy is centred on Vogsphere). In the radio series it is said that "Their highly domed nose rises above their small piggy forehead".

[[Garth Jennings]] deliberately based his conception of the Vogons on the work of [[cartoonist]] [[James Gillray]] (1757–1815). "His creations were so grotesque...when we looked at them, we realised they ''were'' the Vogons".<ref>Quoted in Stamp, R. (Ed.) and Simpson, P. ''The Making of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' (Boxtree 2005), p.48</ref><ref name=O'Dair>{{cite book |last=O'Dair |first=Marcus |author-link=Marcus O'Dair |date=2009 |title=The Rough Guide to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |publisher=[[Rough Guides]] |chapter=Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz |isbn=978-1-84836-242-0}}</ref>

===Origins===
The series tells that, far back in prehistory, when the first primeval Vogons crawled out of the sea, evolution gave up on them. Through sheer obstinacy, though, the Vogons survived (partly by adapting a misplaced, badly malformed, and [[Indigestion|dyspeptic]] liver into a [[brain]]). As the radio show says: "What nature refused to give to them, they did without. Until their myriad anatomical deficiencies could be rectified with surgery." They then emigrated ''en masse'' to the MeagaBrantis star cluster (although the film has them staying on Vogsphere), the political hub of the galaxy. They banish the ruling philosophers to the tax office to lick stamps and within a few short Voge years took over pretty much all of the galactic civil service, where they form most of the Galactic bureaucracy, most notably in the Vogon Constructor Fleets (which, despite their name, patrol the galaxy demolishing planets). The only named Vogons in the stories are Jeltz (see below), [[Kwaltz]] (who appears in the film), [[Zarniwoop]], revealed to be a Vogon in the [[Quintessential Phase]], and Jeltz's son Constant Mown.

===Behaviour===
Vogons are described as officiously bureaucratic, a line of work at which they perform so well that the entire galactic bureaucracy is run by them.

On Vogsphere, the Vogons would sit upon very elegant and beautiful [[gazelle]]-like creatures, whose backs would snap instantly if the Vogons tried to ride them. The Vogons were perfectly happy with just sitting on them. Another favourite Vogon pastime is to import millions of beautiful jewel-backed scuttling [[crab]]s from their native planet, cut down giant trees of breathtaking beauty, and spend a happy drunken night smashing the crabs to bits with iron mallets and cooking the crab meat by burning the trees. In the movie, the Vogons seem to smash the crabs for no apparent reason besides pure pleasure at killing something.

Ford Prefect additionally tells Arthur Dent that Vogons lack the ability of thought or imagination, and some aren't even able to spell.

The Vogons' battle-cry, and counter-argument to dissent, is "resistance is useless!" (cf. "[[Borg (Star Trek)#"Resistance is futile"|Resistance is futile]]").

===Poetry===
[[Image:Vogon jelzt reading poetry.png|thumb|Jeltz reading poetry at [[Arthur Dent]] and [[Ford Prefect (character)|Ford Prefect]] in the [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series)|television series]].]]
Vogon poetry is described as "the third worst poetry in the Universe" (behind that of the Azgoths of Kria and that of [[Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings]], the latter of which was destroyed when the Earth was). The main example used in the story is a short piece composed by Jeltz, which roughly emulates [[nonsense verse]] in style (example below).
The story relates that listening to it is an experience similar to torture as demonstrated when [[Arthur Dent]] and [[Ford Prefect (character)|Ford Prefect]] are forced to listen to the poetry (and say how much they liked it) prior to [[space exposure|being thrown out of an airlock]].

:''"Oh freddled gruntbuggly,''
:''Thy micturations are to me''
:''As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.''
:''Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes,''
:''And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles,''
:''Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts''
:''With my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't!"''

A second example of Vogon poetry is found in the Hitchhiker's Guide [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (computer game)|interactive fiction game]] that was produced by [[Infocom]]; responding to the poetry forms a major part of game play.<ref>Salter, Anastasia. ''What Is Your Quest? From Adventure Games to Interactive Books'', p. 28 (University of Iowa Press; 2014) {{isbn|9781609382988 }}, [https://muse.jhu.edu/book/34990 Project Muse]</ref> The first verse is as above; one version of the second verse follows:

:''"Bleem miserable venchit! Bleem forever mestinglish asunder frapt.''
:''Gashee morphousite, thou expungiest quoopisk!''
:''Fripping lyshus wimbgunts, awhilst moongrovenly kormzibs.''
:''Gerond withoutitude form into formless bloit, why not then? Moose."''

An unused extended version of the poem is also excerpted in [[Neil Gaiman]]'s book ''[[Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion]]'', in Appendix III.

A third example appears in ''[[The Quintessential Phase]]'' of the radio series, again written by Jeltz.

A fourth example appears in ''[[And Another Thing... (novel)|And Another Thing...]]'', the sixth book in the trilogy written by [[Eoin Colfer]]. The poem is also written by Jeltz.

==Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz==

The Vogon Captain in charge of overseeing the destruction of the Earth, '''Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz''' is sadistic and unpleasant to look at, even by Vogon standards. He enjoys shouting at or executing members of his own crew for insubordination, and takes professional pride in his job of demolishing planets. He very rarely smiles: "Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz smiled very slowly. This was done not so much for effect as because he was trying to remember the sequence of muscle movements."

It is revealed in ''[[The Restaurant at the End of the Universe]]'' that Jeltz had been hired by [[Gag Halfrunt#Gag Halfrunt|Gag Halfrunt]] to destroy the Earth (though in the film it was Zaphod who gave the order by mistake). Halfrunt had been acting on behalf of a consortium of psychiatrists and the Imperial Galactic Government in order to prevent the discovery of the [[Ultimate Question]]. When Halfrunt learns that Arthur Dent escaped the planet's destruction, Jeltz is dispatched to track him down and destroy him. Jeltz is unable to complete this task, due to the intervention of [[Zaphod Beeblebrox the Fourth]], Zaphod's great-grandfather.

In ''[[Mostly Harmless]]'', Jeltz is once again responsible for the destruction of the Earth, after the Vogons infiltrate the Hitchhikers' Guide company offices to turn the Guide into a device capable of destroying all Earths in every dimension, this time presumably killing Arthur, Ford, [[Trillian (character)|Trillian]], and Arthur's daughter, [[Random Dent|Random]]—a fate dodged by the characters in the [[Quintessential Phase]].<ref>[http://www.mania.com/hitchhikers-guide-to-galaxy-quintessential-phase-fit-twentysix_article_49054.html "THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY THE QUINTESSENTIAL PHASE: Fit the Twenty-Six"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080923163848/http://www.mania.com/hitchhikers-guide-to-galaxy-quintessential-phase-fit-twentysix_article_49054.html |date=2008-09-23 }} – Review by Jason Davis at Mania.com (retrieved 5 August 2008</ref>

"Prostetnic Vogon" may be a title, rather than part of his name, since during the second episode of the third radio series (Fit the Fourteenth), two other Prostetnic Vogons are heard from. Also, in ''[[The Restaurant at the End of the Universe]]'', Gag Halfrunt refers to Jeltz as "Captain of Vogons Prostetnic" (although this may have been a play on Halfrunt's accent).

Jeltz appears in:

*''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (book)|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]''
*''[[The Restaurant at the End of the Universe]]''
*''[[Mostly Harmless]]''
*''[[And Another Thing... (novel)|And Another Thing...]]''
*[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (computer game)|''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' (computer game)]]
* The [[Quintessential Phase]].

In the first radio series, he was played by [[Bill Wallis]], who also voiced [[List of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy characters#Mr Prosser|Mr Prosser]]. Writer [[Marcus O'Dair]] found this "an appropriate casting decision since the character is, to an extent, Jeltz's Earth-bound alter ego."<ref name=O'Dair/> On television, the Vogon was portrayed by [[Martin Benson (actor)|Martin Benson]]. In the third, fourth and fifth radio series, he was played by [[Toby Longworth]], although Longworth did not receive a credit for the role during the third series. In the film, he is voiced by [[Richard Griffiths]]. In cartoon he is voiced by [[Rupert Degas]].

Ronald E. Rice and Stephen D. Cooper considered Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz as a literary example of dysfunctional behaviour that may be facilitated by bureaucracies, comparable to the servants in [[Franz Kafka]]'s novel ''[[The Castle (novel)|The Castle]]'' and the bureaucrats in [[Terry Gilliam]]'s movie ''[[Brazil (1985 film)|Brazil]]'': they "all fulfill their job descriptions and use resources so efficiently that there is no recourse for the innocent, efficient, altruistic, or reasonable".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rice |first1=Ronald E. |last2=Cooper |first2=Stephen D. |date=2010 |title=Organizations and Unusual Routines: A Systems Analysis of Dysfunctional Feedback Processes |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |page=10 |isbn=978-0-521-76864-1}}</ref>

==Spacecraft==
The ships of the Vogon Constructor Fleet were described as "impossibly huge yellow somethings" (the colour being a parallel to [[bulldozer]]s that demolish Arthur's house) that "looked more like they had been congealed than constructed" and "hung in the air in much the same way that bricks don't"; they are said to be undetectable to [[radar]] and capable of travel through [[Hyperspace (science fiction)|hyperspace]]. They are not crewed exclusively by Vogons; a species known as the Dentrassi are responsible for on-board catering.

In the television version of the story, the craft are shaped like [[battleship]]s, albeit with a flat bottom through which the demolition beams are fired. In the film version, the craft are grey and cubic, a continuation of the emphasis on [[bureaucracy]] in the Vogons' conception: "Douglas [Adams]'s description of the Vogon ships hanging in the air in much the same way that bricks don't [led to] these Vogon ships which are these massive concrete [[tower block]]s, with hardly any windows, they just have a few doors around the base," says Joel Collins.<ref>Quoted in Stamp, R. (Ed.) and Simpson, P. ''The Making of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' (Boxtree 2005), p.58</ref>

==Analysis and reception==
The name Vogons is a new [[lexeme]], a word newly created by Douglas Adams that does not conform to a pattern of word formation.<ref>{{cite book |last=Innerwinkler |first=Sandra |date=2015 |title=Neologismen |url=https://d-nb.info/121610462X/34 |access-date=8 December 2022 |location=Heidelberg |publisher=Universitätsverlag Winkler |lang=de |trans-title=Neologisms |series=Literaturhinweise zur Linguistik |volume=1 |page=7 |isbn=978-3-8253-6514-1}}</ref> Stephen Webb found the appearance of this first alien race that features in ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' also "suitably strange, as aliens should be".<ref name=Webb>{{cite book |last=Webb |first=Stephen |date=2017 |title=All the Wonder that Would Be: Exploring Past Notions of the Future |publisher=[[Springer Science+Business Media|Springer]] |pages=102-103 |chapter=Engaging Aliens |isbn=978-3-319-51758-2 |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-51759-9}}</ref> The Vogons' behaviour in contrast turns out to be "full of very human—and specifically English—flaws and tendencies", to the point that Amanda Dillon considered them "probably the least othered alien in Adams's work".<ref name=Dillon>{{cite book |last=Dillon |first=Amanda |editor-last1=Levy |editor-first1=Michael M. |editor-link1=Michael M. Levy |editor-last2=Mendlesohn |editor-first2=Farah |editor-link2=Farah Mendlesohn |date=2019 |title=Aliens in Popular Culture |url= |location= |publisher=[[Greenwood (publisher)|Greenwood]] |page=153 |chapter=''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' |isbn=978-1-4408-3832-3}}</ref> The Vogons are an easily reconizable satire of human middle-management culture and bureaucracy.<ref name=Webb/><ref name=Dillon/><ref name=Colff>{{cite book |last=Van der Colff |first=Marilette |date=2010 |title=One is Never Alone with a Rubber Duck: Douglas Adams's Absurd Fictional Universe |publisher=[[Cambridge Scholars Publishing|Cambridge Scholars]] |pages=72-75 |isbn=9781443824385}}</ref><ref name=Fatima>{{cite journal |last=Fatima |first=Zohra |date=2016 |title=Humor, Satire and Verbal Parody in ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'': A Relevance Theoretic Approach |url= |journal=NUML Journal of Critical Inquiry |volume=14 |issue=2 |pages=38-53 |doi= |access-date=}}</ref> Dillon found them "Adams's most fully formed direct parody of the alien, and this makes them a source of laughter rather than fear".<ref name=Dillon/> The "silliness of Vogon bureaucracy" in its exaggeration is represented by "Adams's clever use of bathos" when he first uses very technical terms to describe their organizational processes but concludes with incongrously mundane words.<ref name=Colff/> For Vogons bureaucracy is an end-in-itself, "at which human and logic fail"<ref name=Fehlings>{{cite journal |last=Fehlings |first=Susanne |date=2021 |title=ETHNOLOGIE UND SCIENCE FICTION: Begegnungen mit der Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/27141186.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3Ac789ae8e845e8d543344aefbd4d556f8&ab_segments=&origin=&acceptTC=1 |journal=Paideuma: Mitteilungen zur Kulturkunde |lang=de |trans-title=Ethnology and science fiction: Encounters with past, present and future |volume=67 |pages=35-62 |access-date=16 December 2022}}</ref> and which intends to thwart real progress,<ref name=Fatima/> making the scenes of interaction with these aliens "absurd".<ref name=Fehlings/> Marilette Van der Colff also noted that the failure "to notice its destructive influence on nature" by the management and the unconcerned and sometimes deliberate destruction of animal species by humans in general is reflected in the Vogons.<ref name=Colff/>

Marcus O'Dair praised the realization in the movie: "In this format, the Vogons really come into their own, their flattened faces, hunched backs and hopelessly overhanging bellies partly inspired by the work of eigheenth-century satirical catoonist James Gillray."<ref name=O'Dair/> Author Martin Thomas Pesl included the Vogons in his list of the 100 most brilliant villains in world literature, under the category of despots.<ref>{{cite book |last=Pesl |first=Martin Thomas |date=2016 |title=Das Buch der Schurken: Die 100 genialsten Bösewichte der Weltliteratur |publisher=Edition Atelier |chapter=Die Vogonen |lang=de |trans-title=The book of villains: The 100 most brilliant evildoers of world literature |isbn=978-3903005150}}</ref> In his analysis of the depiction of extraterrestials, Stephen Webb considered the Vogons "engaging aliens" despite their unpleasent traits, as they parodied middle-management behaviour so well that "I can't help but like them".<ref name=Webb/>

==In other media==
''Vogons'' was an [[Atari 130XE]] game, the goal being to avoid three "dreaded Vogons" moving quickly around the screen.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Woolcock |first1=Richard |last2=Stretton |first2=Graeme |date=1985 |title=Atari 130XE Games Book |publisher=[[Beam Software|Beam Software and Melbourne House]] |chapter=Vogons |isbn=}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhikers/guide/poetry.shtml BBC's page on Vogon Poetry] with a [https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhikers/vogonpoetry/lettergen.shtml Vogon Poem Generator (no longer active)]
*[http://spaceinvaders.epizy.com/vogon.html Basic site but replicates functionality of archived bbc generator]

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