Historical records show that in the late 1700s a family by the name of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Quordlepleen set off from Southampton on a voyage to Captain Cook's glorious new land.
Well, then. That explains how the name came into being and arrived on our formerly fair shores. A very detailed and quite plausible explanation. Who do I sue?
But since Max's nominal progenitor was/is/will be found at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe for some of the day, and at the Big Bang Burger Bar for the rest of it, those damned Swedo/Scottish inventors must have done better than they thought. They either discovered new laws of Einsteinian physics to ignore, or they genetically engineered Douglas Adams. The former is more plausible than the latter, because no amount of halfway believable genetic tinkering could ever come up with a Douglas Adams.
