Sorry to say but the older I get the more I think that Douglas got the passengers for the Golgafrincham Ark Fleet, Ship B wrong....
Cos while it might be nice to get rid of the useless part of the population, at least they didn't hurt the rest of us. Far better to get rid of the super rich and the super ambitious and the dictators!
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Frogstar Robot: Out of my way little robot
The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
As you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o’clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul.
"We all like to congregate... at boundary conditions. Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where body meets mind. Where time meets space. We like to be on one side, and look at the other."
"Some factual information for you. Have you any idea how much damage that bulldozer would suffer if I just let it roll straight over you?"
"How much?" said Arthur.
"None at all," said Mr. Prosser.
Ford Prefect: Don't suppose we could get picked up by a bird?
Zaphod: A bird?!
Ford Prefect: Yean, a bird. You know, with wings.
Zaphod: Have to be a swutting big one, man!
Ford Prefect: Or two of them.
Zaphod: Hey, will you get your head back on?! The chances of one guy falling onto a passing bird are ten to the power of my overdraft, but two?! That's just -
I am now a perfectly safe penguin, and my colleague here is rapidly running out of limbs!
The ship was rocking and swaying sickeningly as Ford and Zaphod tried to wrest control from the autopilot. The engines howled and whined like tired children in a supermarket.
"You may not instantly see why I bring the subject up, but that is because my mind works so phenomenally fast, and I am at a rough estimate thirty billion times more intelligent than you. Let me give you an example. Think of a number, any number."
"Er, five," said the mattress.
"Wrong," said Marvin. "You see?"
The mattress was much impressed by this and realized that it was in the presence of a not unremarkable mind.
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