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Post by Frozen Peas, ie: LaurenEL5000 on Nov 24, 2003 4:38:28 GMT -5
I think that A HITCH-HIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY is just sooooooo fantastic. It's by Douglas Adams and is brilliantly funny.... I've read The Hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy, the resturant at the end of the universe and life, the universe and everything. I'm currently reading So long & thanks for all the fish, The Amber Spyglass by P. Pullman ;D
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Post by ponygirl's vapor on Nov 24, 2003 16:42:46 GMT -5
already a thread about this...
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Post by pennyroyal on Nov 25, 2003 20:26:59 GMT -5
But it's dead and WE NEED MORE HHG2TG ON THIS BOARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I LOVE THIS SERIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Frozen Peas, ie: LaurenEL5000 on Nov 26, 2003 13:20:47 GMT -5
I didn't know there was already a topic , anyway, I can't get into it.....
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Post by ponygirl's vapor on Dec 5, 2003 18:41:12 GMT -5
Favorite Quotes!! The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continuously stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in It's a nice day, or You're very tall, or Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you all right?
"Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindboggingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
"The argument goes something like this: `I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, `for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'
"`But,' says Man, `The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'
"`Oh dear,' says God, `I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic.
"`Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.
"Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of dingo's kidneys..."
Arthur: You know, it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young. Ford: Why, what did she tell you? Arthur: I don't know, I didn't listen.
"Don't you want to interrogate the prisoners, sir?" he squaled.
The Captain peered at him in bemusement.
"Why on Golgafrincham should I want to do that?" he asked.
"To get information out of them, sir! To find out why they came here!"
"Oh no, no, no," said the Captain. "I expect they just dropped in for a quick jynnan tonnyx, don't you?"
"But they're my prisoners! I must interrogate them!"
The Captain looked at them doubtfully.
"Oh all right," he said, "if you must. Ask them what they want to drink."
A hard cold gleam came into Number Two's eyes. He advanced slowly on Ford Prefect and Arthur Dent.
"All right, you scum," he growled, "you vermin..." He jabbed Ford with the Kill-O-Zap gun.
"Steady on, Number Two," admonished the Captain gently.
"What do you want to drink?!!" Number Two screamed.
"Well the jynnan tonnyx sounds very nice to me," said Ford. "What about you, Arthur?"
Arthur blinked.
"What? Oh, er, yes," he said.
"With ice or without?!" bellowed Number Two.
Oh, with, please," said Ford.
"Lemon??!!"
"Yes, please," said Ford, "and do you have any of those little biscuits? You know, the cheesey ones?"
"I'm asking the questions!!!!" howled Number Two, his body shaking with apoplectic fury.
Fruit and berries on strange planets either make you live or make you die. Therefore the point at which to start toying with them is when you're going to die if you don't. That way you stay ahead. The secret to healthy hitchhiking is to eat junk food.
Arthur said, "So which way do I go? " "Down, " said Fenchurch, "on this occasion. " He moved his hand. "Down, " she said, "is in fact the other way. " "Oh yes. "
"You're one hundred percent positive that the ship which is crashed on the bottom of this ocean is the ship which you said you were one hundred percent positive could one hundred percent positively never crash? "
"Six pints of bitter," said Ford Prefect…. "And quickly please, the world's about to end." …. So the barman said, "Oh yes, sir? Nice weather for it."
"If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favor of a new one. If they don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working."
"Then who is it?" said Arthur. "Well," said Ford, "if we're lucky it's just the Vogons come to throw us in to space." "And if we're unlucky?" "If we're unlucky," said Ford grimly, "the captain might be serious in his threat that he's going to read us some of his poetry first ..."
"Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they want me to take you down to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction? 'Cause I don't."
"It gives me a headache just trying to think down to your level."
"Life" said Marvin dolefully. 'Loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it."
"The answer to the Great Question...' 'Of Life, the Universe and Everything...' said Deep Thought. 'Is...' said Deep Thought, and paused. 'Is...' 'Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm."
"Sorry, did I say something wrong?" said Marvin, dragging himself on regardless. "Pardon me for breathing, which I never do anyway so I don't know why I bother to say it, oh God I'm so depressed."
"For thousands more years, the mighty ships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived screaming onto the first planet they came across -- which happened to be the Earth -- where due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was accidentally swallowed by a small dog."
"Vogon poetry is of course the third worst in the Universe. The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a recitation by their Poet Master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem 'Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning' four of his audience died of internal hemorrhaging, and the President of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one of his own legs off. Grunthos is reported to have been 'disappointed' by the poem's reception, and was about to embark on a reading of his twelve-book epic entitled My Favorite Bathtime Gurgles when his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save life and civilization, leaped straight up through his neck and throttled his brain."
"Please relax,' the voice said pleasantly, like a stewardess in an airliner with only one wing and two engines, one of which is on fire, 'you are perfectly safe."
"Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there, and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be."
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Post by ponygirl's vapor on Dec 5, 2003 18:43:29 GMT -5
"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral Arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbitting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight 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..."
"Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again. It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though."
Most of those were just from the first book, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy... I gotta find some good ones from the others.. 'specialy the one about starting a religion is a way of introducing yourself, or soemthing like that... and the whole thing about flying...
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Luigi
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Post by Luigi on Dec 5, 2003 18:54:14 GMT -5
I love HHG2TG and ASG.
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Post by Frozen Peas, ie: LaurenEL5000 on Dec 6, 2003 8:26:21 GMT -5
God, the bit where no 2's 'interrogating' them is soooooooo funny! ;D
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Post by shy_v on Dec 10, 2003 20:54:36 GMT -5
here's some of my favorite quotes:
The air seemed to stand still around them, wiating. Arthur wished that the air would go away and mind its own business.
"O Sandwich Maker from Bob!" he pronounced. He paused, furrowed his brow and sighed as he closed his eyes in pious contemplation. "Life," he said, "will be a great deal less weird without you!"
"Is there stuff going on here that I don't know about?" said Arthur to Ford. "Isn't there usually?" said Ford.
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. The Hingefreel people of Arkintoofle Minor did try to build spaceships that were powered by bad news but they didn't work particularly well and were so extremely unwelcome whenever they arrived anywhere that there wasn't really any point in being there.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a powerful organ. Indeed, its influence is so prodigious that strict rules had to be drawn up by its editorial staff to prevent its misuse. So none of its field researchers is allowed to accept any kingd of services, discounts, or preferential treatment of any kind in return for editorial favors unless: a) they have made a bona fide attempt to pay for a service in the normal way, b) their lives would be otherwise in danger, or c) they really want to.
Will Smithers, for instance, the owner of Know-Nothing-Bozo the Non-Wonder Dog, an animal so stupid that it had been sacked from one of Will's own commercials for being incapable of knkowing which dog food it was supposed to prefer, despite the fact that the meat in all the other bowls had engine oil poured all over it.
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Luigi
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Post by Luigi on Jan 22, 2004 18:37:37 GMT -5
J: I love the books so much. Marvin is the best character in the history of time. The HH books are my favorite series. And I haven't even finished RATEOTU yet. See, I picked up the book from my brother. The book was old with smudged ink, marker stains and half of the book was falling out. I recently got the Ultimate HHG2G and I'm reading it.
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