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Towel day quotes from Douglas Adams

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Some great quotes from the Hitchhikers series that should resonate with this forum.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with.
It is a well known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
“It seemed to me,” said Wonko the Sane, “that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a packet of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.”
The wit of Douglas Adams is pure genius.

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You missed one of the best in that list:
The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. - John Adams
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Pawpaw wrote:You missed one of the best in that list:
The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.
Ha...yeah I meant to include that one and forgot!!
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"He gestured Arthur toward a chair which looked as if it had been made out of the rib cage of a stegosaurus.

'It was made out of the rib cage of a stegosaurus,' explained the old man..."

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42, the answer is 42...........

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Adams and Pratchett had fun with Alex de Tocqueville's obversations of a couple of centuries ago.

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My 17 year old son proudly proclaims in class that the HHGG is his 'Bible'. No offense intended.
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