"...You can't lie in front of the buldozer indefinately" "I'm game..." "42? 7 and a half million years and all you can come up with is 42?!" "But, how are you, metalman?" Ford "Very depressed." Marvin "Do you really want the answer? The ULTIMATE answer?" - Deep Thought "Don't worry, it's all part of the program." - The Mice "He's called Arthur, but I think he's harmless." Lintilla "Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? "How's your luck today?" - Random "I don't want to die now! I've still got a headache!" Arthur Dent "I just got all these bulldozers and things to lie in front of..." "I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle." "I was lying in a hole, but I got up because I began to like it." Marvin "I'll tell you about it later" choked Zaphod as all three passed out. "Let me guess; Horrible. Am I warm?" - Trillian "Life," said Marvin, "Don't talk to ME about life!" "My name?" said the old man sadly, "is Slartibartfast." "Oh, just looking for flying saucers -- green ones!", Ford Prefect "Resistance is useless! Resistance is useless!" "Share and enjoy!" - Sirius Cybernetics "There's a frood who really knows where his towel is." "There's no point in acting all surprised about it." the Vogons "This is true... but unhelpful." Arthur "This must be Thursday--I never could get the hang of Thursdays." Dent "Vell, Zaphod's just zis guy you know?" - Gag Halfrunt. "Vogons!" snapped Ford. "We're under attack!" "What a depressingly stupid machine," said Marvin and trudged away. "What's the meat in it?" "Perfectly Normal Beast." "Who do you think you are, Zaphod Beebelbrox?" "Count the heads." "You can't lie in front of the bulldozer indefinitely" "I'm game..." "Zaphod, you look good. The extra head suits you." 'Don't Panic' is the first helpful thing said all day 6 x 9 = 42. In base 13. Another fine product of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation! Are Babel Fish V.FAST compatible ??? Arthur, I have to tell you something very important over in that pub. but probably quite unable to drink the coffee ... counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor.. * Arthur Did you know that most people's lives are ruled by telephone numbers? Don't worry man, the answer is 42. But the question ???? Earth: Mostly Harmless. Evolution? Who needs it? - Vogons Frood: really amazingly together guy Guidance: See under Advice. Advice: See under Guidance. Here! Stick this fish in your ear! Hey! I just got front row tickets to a Disaster Area concert! Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? Hoopy: really together guy How was the Disaster Area concert last night? I said, HOW WAS THE... I asked him if he was really abducted, he said no, he came willingly. I have this terrible pain in the diodes all down my left side. I'll just nip off and shoot myself. Don't worry, it'll be very humane. I'm spending a year dead for tax purposes. It said "Don't Panic" in big friendly letters. It said, This is probably the best button to press. It's more a sort of electronic sulking machine. Life. Don't talk to me about life. Man, I get weirder things than you in my breakfast cereal! Megadodo Publications, home of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. My peril sensitive glasses went into overtime... No, just *a* Zaphod Beeblebrox, didn't you hear I come in six packs? Normality will be restored as soon as we're sure what it is, anyway. Oh don't give me none more of that Old Janx Spirit. OK Beeblebrox, hold it right there. We've got you covered! Old hitchhikers never die-they just throw in the towel. On no account allow a Vogon to read poetry to you. Physics shook its head and looked the other way. Sass: know, be aware of, meet, have sex with SEP - Someone Elses Problem Six pints of bitter. And quickly please, the world's about to end So long and thanks for all the fish! So this is it, we're going to die! Strag: (n) nonhitchhiker Sweet dream wishes you can keep, How I hate the night. * Marvin The fabric of space-time continuum isn't merely curved, it's bent. The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate. The Improbability Drive is a finitely impossible machine. The trick to flying is missing the ground. The Vogon Constructor Fleet coasted away into the inky starry void. This was because reason was in fact out to lunch. Time is an illusion. Lunch time, doubly so. Trilogy (n). Series of three books, sometimes more. Vogon poetry is of course the third worst in the universe. We Apologise For The Inconvenience. What the hell is that!? - Arthur What we demand is a total ABSENCE of solid facts! * Vroomfondel What!, I don't understand?, Where's the tea? What's a whelk go to do with a supernova? What? Harmless? Is that all you've got to say? Harmless! Woke up, got up, wandered around, opened a window, saw a bulldozer.... You pick a cold night to visit our planet, Earthman... Zaphod put one of his heads into two of his hands.