Guest guest Posted May 15, 2001 Report Share Posted May 15, 2001 Thank you Gloria for the Douglas Adams tribute... A special human being... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 15, 2001 Report Share Posted May 15, 2001 In Memoriam Men have always thought that they were more intelligent because while they built large cities and nuclear arms all dolphins ever did was to muck about in the water. Dolphins have always thought that they were more intelligent for precisely the same reason. Signs -->"Even travelling despondently is better than arriving here." Poor Ford -->Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it! >From The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: ....and then, one Thursday, nearly 2,000 years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own somewhere in Rickmansworth suddenly realised what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything. Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it the Earth was unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace by-pass, and so the idea was lost forever. This is not her story... Mona Lisa(s) -->"The one nearest the wall?" "It's the only one that wasn't damaged in the fire." "But it's a fake!" "How can it be, if Leonardo painted it?" "With the words 'This Is A Fake' written under the brushwork? In felt tip?" "It doesn't affect what it looks like." "It doesn't matter what it looks like." "Doesn't it? Some people would say the whole point of a painting." "But they'll find out... They'll X-Ray it." "Serves them right! If they have to X-Ray it to find out if it's any good or not, then you might as well have painting by computer." -- from Doctor Who: City of Death by Douglas Adams & Graham Williams The Ultimate Proof of the Non-existence of God -->God: "I refuse to prove that I exist; for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing" Man: "Ahh, but the Babelfish is a dead giveaway then isn't it ? Nothing so extraordinarily useful could have evolved by chance, so you must have made it. This proves that you exist; therefore, by your own arguments you do not. QED." God: "Oh, I hadn't thought of that" And God promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. Man feeling extremely good about himself goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed at the next zebra crossing. >From an essay he wrote -->It is interesting to note here that the Europeans always consider themselves vastly superior to any other race they encounter, since they can lie, cheat, steal, and litigate (marks of a civilised culture they say) - whereas all the Aboriginals can do is happily survive being left in the middle of a vast red-hot desert, equipped with a stick. Mostly Harmless - 5:09pm 14-May-01 -->"It's times like these that I wish that I had listened to my mother.Why, what did she say?I don't know, I wasn't listening..." So long Douglas and thanks for all the fish... Attachment: (application/octet-stream) Flying Dolphins.jpg [not stored] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 15, 2001 Report Share Posted May 15, 2001 Thanks, Glo! I love his books... reread them every so often. Dharma > In Memoriam Men have always thought that they were more >intelligent because while they built large cities and nuclear arms all >dolphins ever did was to muck about in the water. Dolphins have always >thought that they were more intelligent for precisely the same reason. >snip< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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