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Far back in the mists of ancient time, in the great and glorious days of the former Galactic Empire, life was wild, rich and, on the whole, tax-free. In those days, spirits were brave, stakes were high, men were real men... Women were real women ...

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"I don't believe it! This is just too amazing! Oh, this is going to be great! I'm going to be so amazingly cool it would fluster a Vegan snow lizard! What real cool! Several million points out of ten for style! Right -- now which is the most nonchalant chair to be discovered in?" —Zaphod Beeblebrox

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[Trillian] I just thought of something. [Zaphod] Yeah?! worth interrupting a news bulletin about me for? [Trillian] Look, can we leave your ego out of this? This is important. [Zaphod] If there's anything more important than my ego around here, I want it caught and shot now!

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Roses are red, Vogons are vile, Don't trust the dolphins— They've left with a smile.

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[Arthur Dent] Oh! I wonder what will happen if I press this button? [Ford Prefect] Don't! [BEEP!] [Arthur Dent] Oh! [Ford Prefect] What happened? [Arthur Dent] A sign lit up saying, "Please do not press this button again."

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[Ford Prefect] I think this ship is brand-new, Arthur. [Arthur Dent] Why, have you got some exotic device for measuring the age of metal? [Ford Prefect] No. I just found this sales brochure on the floor.

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LPT: You can cram a TON more text in the "ALT Text" of an image than you can in a normal post. You never know what you may find there.

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Trillian: Look, don't worry about the aliens. They are just a couple of guys, I expect. I'll send the robot down to check them out. Hey, Marvin? Marvin: I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.

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Arthur: It looks like the seafront at Southend. Ford: I'm relieved to hear you say that! Arthur: Why? Ford: I thought I must be going mad! Arthur: Perhaps you only thought I said it. Ford: Well, did you or didn't you? Arthur: I think so. Ford: Perhaps we're both going mad. Arthur: Nice day for it

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This account shares amusing quotes from The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams, and (rarely) myself. Please know that this account is run by someone actively fighting to uphold progressive political values in other parts of my life. Trumpanzees and Muskrats need not apply.

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[Ford Prefect] See, I told you I'd think of something. [Arthur Dent] Oh, sure! [Ford Prefect] Bright idea of mine to find a passing spaceship and get rescued by it. [Arthur Dent] Oh, come on! The chances against it were astronomical. [Ford Prefect] Don't knock it! It worked!

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If you are thrown from a spaceship, you will die of asphyxiation in thirty seconds. Because space is so mind-bogglingly big, the chances of being picked up by another spacecraft within those seconds are two to the power of two hundred and sixty thousand, one hundred and ninety-nine to one against.

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"I woke up this morning, thought I'd have a nice, relaxed day, do a bit of reading, brush the dog. It's just now after 4:00 in the afternoon, and I'm already being thrown out of an alien spaceship five light years from the smoking remains of the Earth." — Arthur Dent

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"I present you with a simple choice. Think very carefully, for your very lives lie in your hands. Now choose! Either die in the vacuum of space or tell me how good you thought my poem was." — Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz

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The dead swans lay in the stagnant pool. They lay, they rotted. They turned around occasionally. Bits of flesh dropped off them from time to time. And sank into the pool’s mire. They also smelt a great deal. — Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings, of Greenbridge, Essex, England

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"Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans."

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"Most of the people living on earth are unhappy pretty much of the time. Many solutions have been suggested, but most of them are largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper. This is odd because, on the whole, it's not the small green pieces of paper that are unhappy."

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[Arthur Dent] What the hell's that? [Ford Prefect] If we're lucky, it's a Vogon guard come to throw us into space. [Arthur Dent] And if we're unlucky? [Ford Prefect] The Vogon captain might want to read us some of his poetry first.

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"Vell, Zaphod's just zis guy, you know" — Gag Halfront

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Arthur Dent - Well, what happened to the Earth? Ford Prefect - It's been disintegrated. Arthur Dent -Has it? Ford Prefect - Yes. It just boiled away into space. Arthur Dent - Listen, I'm a bit upset about that.

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We are about to jump into hyperspace for the journey to Barnard's Star. On arrival, we will stay in dock for 72 hours, and all planet leave is canceled. I've just had an unhappy love affair, so I don't see why anybody else should have a good time. — Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz

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"The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" scores over the older and more pedestrian "Encyclopaedia Galactica" in two important respects. - First, it is slightly cheaper - Secondly, it has the words 'DON'T PANIC' inscribed in large, friendly letters on the cover.

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Ford Prefect : Didn't you find it a little strange that I was trying to shake hands with a car? Arthur Dent: I assumed you were drunk.

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"the snows you remember from your childhood that were so much better than any of your modern snow" —Rob McKenna (the rain god)

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