Hi,
What some some of the favorite Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy quotes here?
Some of mine are

Hitchhiker's Guide, Chapter 2

Hitchhiker's Guide, Chapter 4


Hitchhiker's Guide, Chapter 11

Hitchhiker's Guide, Chapter 12

Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Chapter 2

Anyone else?

Oh jeez, I couldn't fit all my favorite lines into one post. How about I just quote the entire book?

(from memory)

Arthur stomped into the bathroom, cleaned his teeth, washed his face and hands, went to the toilet and realised that he had, once again, got these in the wrong order and stomped off to bed.

"eddies in the space time continuum"
"ah, is he?"

"SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE"

brain the size of a planet

"It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much -- the wheel, New York, wars and so on -- whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man -- for precisely the same reasons."

"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened."

"You can't ski on art!"

"Late, as in the late Dentarthurdent. It's a sort of threat, you see. I'm told they can be very effective."

"What the hell's that?"

"So it's a foregone conclusion, then? Arsenal without a chance? It'd be a lucky escape for Arsenal if it did."

"So that's it then -- we're going to die?"

"When a recent edition of Playbeing magazine headlined an article with the words "When you are tired or Ursa Minor Beta you are tired of life", the suicide rate there quadrupled overnight."

"If he [Zaphod] asked at this moment where he would like to be he would probably have said he would like to be lying on the beach with at least fifty beautiful women and a small team of experts working out new ways they could be nice to him"

I like this one,

"Live long and prosper"

(not a quote, but seemed the appropriate place for people that like HHGG quotes )



New Hitchhiker's Episodes Available Online

Posted by michael on Friday September 24, @08:52AM
from the don't-panic dept.

Michael Sheldon writes "The BBC is now offering the first of the new Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio episodes as either Real or WMP audio streams. Meaning listeners abroad can now hear the new series, which started playing on UK radio last Tuesday."

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/24/1213221

Zaphod shrugged. "Time is bunk," he said. Returant and the End of the Universe Chapter 20

Don't Panic

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I like the bit where the Earth is described as
"mostly harmless"
If only ...
Also the cow that went off to have itself slaughtered in "Restaurant"
I must read the book again
In fact, looking at some of the ultra serious posts
on these forums I think a lot more should read the books
floppy