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Post by beth on Aug 31, 2010 20:48:36 GMT -5
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
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Post by fretslider on Sept 2, 2010 7:45:22 GMT -5
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so
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Post by fretslider on Sept 2, 2010 7:48:32 GMT -5
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
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Post by beth on Sept 2, 2010 19:51:19 GMT -5
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
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Post by fretslider on Sept 3, 2010 6:51:29 GMT -5
There are of course many problems connected with life, of which some ofthe most popular are Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?
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Post by beth on Sept 5, 2010 19:22:46 GMT -5
Now it is such a bizarrely improbably coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful [the Babel fish] could have evolved by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a 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 vanishes in a puff of logic.
(Hitchhiker, of course)
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Post by fretslider on Sept 6, 2010 14:16:55 GMT -5
"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."
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Post by fretslider on Sept 11, 2010 10:19:00 GMT -5
This must be Thursday," said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer, "I never could get the hang of Thursdays
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes," with a footnote to the effect that the editors would welcome applications from anyone interested in taking over the post of robotics correspondent.
Curiously enough, an edition of the Encyclopaedia Galactica that had the good fortune to fall through a time warp from a thousand years in the future defined the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came."
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Post by beth on Sept 11, 2010 16:04:19 GMT -5
And wow! Hey! What's this thing coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding word like... ow... ound... round... ground! That's it! That's a good name - ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me.
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Post by fretslider on Sept 12, 2010 15:37:09 GMT -5
So long and thanks for all the fish
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Post by beth on Sept 13, 2010 12:50:22 GMT -5
So long, and thanks for all the fish / So sad that it should come to this / We tried to warn you all, but, oh, dear / You may not share out intellect / Which might explain your disrespect / For all the natural wonders that grow around you / So long, so long, and thanks for all the fish! The world's about to be destroyed / There's no point getting all annoyed / Lie back and let the planet dissolve around you / Despite those nets of tuna fleets / We thought that most of you were sweet / Especially tiny tots and your pregnant women / So long, so long, so long, so long, so long! So long, so long, so long, so long, so long! So long, so long, and thanks for all the fish!/ If I had just one last wish / I would like a tasty fish!/ If we could just change one thing / We would all have learnt to sing!/ Come one and all / Man and mammal / Side by side / In life's great gene pool!/ So long, so long, so long, so long, so long / So long, so long, so long, so long / So long, so long and thanks for all the fish! (the dolphins song)
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Post by fretslider on Sept 13, 2010 14:25:20 GMT -5
"Can we drop your ego for a moment? This is important."
"If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now."
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Post by beth on Sept 28, 2010 9:59:34 GMT -5
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.
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Post by fretslider on Sept 30, 2010 4:58:53 GMT -5
"Alright," said Deep Thought. "The Answer to the Great Question..."
"Yes ...!"
"Of Life, the Universe, and Everything ..."
"Yes ...!"
"Is ..."
"Yes ...!"
"Is ..."
"Yes ...!"
"You're not going to like it"
"Yes ...!!!...?"
"Is ..."
"Yes ...!"
"Forty-two,"
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Post by beth on Oct 4, 2010 17:05:01 GMT -5
At the end of all this being-determined-to-be-a-jack-of-all-trades, I think I’m better off just sitting down and putting a hundred thousand words in a cunning order.”
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