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42 years ago.
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ElwoodBlues · M

Douglas Adams was a comic genius

[quote]Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-three million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea...

This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

And so the problem remained; lots of people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.[/quote]

SW-User

@ElwoodBlues I quote him when talking about vegan Sheese.

[quote]It tastes almost, but not quite, entirely unlike cheese...[/quote]

ElwoodBlues · M

@SW-User Remember the cow at Restaurant at the End of the Universe?

[quote]"Something off the shoulder perhaps?" suggested the animal, "braised in a white wine sauce?"

"Er, your shoulder?" said Arthur in a horrified whisper.

"But naturally my shoulder, sir," mooed the animal contentedly, "nobody else's is mine to offer."

Zaphod leapt to his feet and started prodding and feeling the animal's shoulder appreciatively.

"Or the rump is very good," murmured the animal. "I've been exercising it and eating plenty of grain, so there's a lot of good meat there."[/quote]

SW-User

@ElwoodBlues I remember Hotblack Desiato spending a year dead for tax purposes :P