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I really laugh out loud when I read stuff like Zaphod tried to see what his other head was looking at, but it was nothing in particular. :wah:

Dear Marvin was humming ironically because he despised humans. How does one hum ironically? :-3 I'd like to learn

And I love Adams' attempts to reduce stress and nervous tension by revealing certain important facts in advance and leaving us with a wee bit of mystery which is of no significance whatsoever.

Betty and Acc, do you have a favourite character yet? Or do you find yourself identifying with someone in particular?

theia;126000 wrote: Dear Marvin was humming ironically because he despised humans. How does one hum ironically? :-3 I'd like to learn

And I love Adams' attempts to reduce stress and nervous tension by revealing certain important facts in advance and leaving us with a wee bit of mystery which is of no significance whatsoever.

Betty and Acc, do you have a favourite character yet? Or do you find yourself identifying with someone in particular?


I'm a patient person

theia;107810 wrote: Me? A Vogon? No! I don't sit on gazelle-like creatures and snap their backs just for the fun of it.I'd not seen the thread before, not having been on site at the time.

Theia, my entire mental picture of you needs radical overhaul.

spot;1317051 wrote: I'd not seen the thread before, not having been on site at the time.

Theia, my entire mental picture of you needs radical overhaul.


Cripes, spot, did I really post that? What a difference 5 years make...I've grown rapidly older, grumpier and lost any semblance of wit or humour

Time for a radical overhaul of self

theia;1317043 wrote: I'm a patient person
:yh_rotfl Man! That brings back good memories, donit?

One of my favourite bits is right at the start:

"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."

I love Vogon poetry.

"Oh freddled gruntbuggly,

Thy micturations are to me

As plurdled gabbleblotchits

On a lurgid bee

That mordiously hath bitled out

Its earted jurtles

Into a rancid festering

Now the jurpling slayjid agrocrustles

Are slurping hagrilly up the axlegrurts

And living glupules frart and slipulate

Like jowling meated liverslime "



I think we may yet achieve normality. Watch out for penguins!

AussiePam;1317071 wrote: One of my favourite bits is right at the start:

"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."

I love Vogon poetry.

"Oh freddled gruntbuggly,

Thy micturations are to me

As plurdled gabbleblotchits

On a lurgid bee

That mordiously hath bitled out

Its earted jurtles

Into a rancid festering

Now the jurpling slayjid agrocrustles

Are slurping hagrilly up the axlegrurts

And living glupules frart and slipulate

Like jowling meated liverslime "



I think we may yet achieve normality. Watch out for penguins!


Pammie, you could have written HGTTG. Well, you couldn't have because Douglas Adams did, but if he hadn't, you could have :-6

That's the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me Theia.... I think... grin.

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"No," he said, "look, it's very, very simple ... all I want ... is a cup of tea. You are going to make one for me. Keep quiet and listen." And he sat.

He told the Nutri-Matic about India, he told it about China, he told it about Ceylon. He told it about broad leaves drying in the sun. He told it about silver teapots. He told it about summer afternoons on the lawn. He told it about putting in the milk before the tea so it wouldn't get scalded. He even told it (briefly) about the history of the East India Company.

"So that's it, is it?" said the Nutri-Matic when he had finished.

"Yes," said Arthur, "that is what I want."

"You want the taste of dried leaves in boiled water?"

"Er, yes. With milk."

"Squirted out of a cow?"

"Well, in a manner of speaking I suppose ..."

Douglas Adams was a genius. I wish he was still around.

Mariposa Traicionera;1317349 wrote: Douglas Adams was a genius. I wish he was still around.
Someone should send him a pm. Maybe he's willing to come back.









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