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They are already here. Carefully read some of the posts here, and you'll agree.https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gif
I'm getting my towel and bathrobe ready, just in case, and keeping an eye on the white mice and dolphins. https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gif
Well didn't like to say but I concur with your statement sir!Quote:
Originally Posted by MobilePCPhysician
And they know this because of extensive psychological analysis of, prolonged conversations with, and having a pint in the company of aliens, of course. :pQuote:
It was broadcast on the main frequency at which the universe's most common element, hydrogen, absorbs and emits energy, and which astronomers say is the most likely means by which aliens would advertise their presence.
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Originally Posted by El_Squid
DON'T PANIC!!!
Or because Stephen Spielberg told them? :devil:Quote:
Originally Posted by a d e p t
Aha so you're the one who writes the disaster literature....Quote:
Originally Posted by a d e p t
Although the plane may be plummeting to earth at 120 metres/second, please take the time to read your emergency procedures brochure, when the plane crashes and catches fire, please remain calm and walk forward in an orderly fashion, and don't panic.... :thumbs: :thumbs2:
Do you mean Julie_On_Drugs? https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by El_Squid
I want to believe
Just following the advice in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe. Mmmm... must remember to put some packets of peanuts in my pockets. https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by jitBob
Ah, someone else knows! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by a d e p t
Its just a satellite like last time :p
"This must be Thursday," said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer, "I never could get the hang of Thursdays."Quote:
Originally Posted by El_Squid
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Originally Posted by corturbra
Actually:
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Ford handed the book to Arthur.
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"What is it?" asked Arthur.
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It's a sort of electronic book. It tells you everything you need to know about anything. That's its job."
Arthur turned it over nervously in his hands.
"I like the cover," he said. "'Don't Panic.' It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."
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Originally Posted by El_Squid
"You'd better be prepared for the jump into hyperspace. It's unpleasantly like being drunk."
"What's so unpleasant about being drunk?"
"You ask a glass of water."
well as long as they change the sheets let em......
"So long and thanks for all the fish!" https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2006/04/1.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by a d e p t
Now what did I do with my digital watch? :D
So you still think those are a pretty good idea? :pQuote:
Originally Posted by El_Squid
Well, now that you mention it, I am beginning to wonder if coming down from the trees was that great of an idea, as well. https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by a d e p t
However, I am honing my sandwich-making skills and securing a properly sharp knife. https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gif
What about crawling out of the ocean in the first place? :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by El_Squid
Good point! Just remember not to suggest we try being nice to one another! You know what happened to the last guy who said that.Quote:
Originally Posted by a d e p t
Maybe it would help if we put a paperbag over our heads? Then again, probably not, although it might make us feel better. https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gif
If you don't stop that, I'll have to resort to reading Vogon poetry to you.
And you know what they say about Vogon poetry...
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Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe.
The second worst is that of the Asgoths of Crea. During a recitation by their poetmaster Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem "Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in my Armpit One Midsummer Morning" four of his audience died of internal haemorrhaging and the president of the mid-galactic Arts Knobbling Council survived only by gnawing one of his own legs off.
Grunthos was reported to have been "disappointed" by the poem's reception, and was about to embark on a reading of his 12-book epic entitled "My Favourite Bathtime Gurgles" when his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save humanity, leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain.
The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator, Paul Neil Milne Johnstone of Redbridge, in the destruction of the planet Earth. Vogon poetry is mild by comparison.
No, anything but that. Just put me in the airlock. I'll take my chances on the infinitely improbability of running into the Heart of Gold. I just hope the have a really hot cup of tea in the drive! https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by a d e p t
Well, that's a very good example of SEP.
Que'st que c'est? SEP? :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by a d e p t
The letters stand for "Somebody Else's Problem". An SEP field can be erected on, or projected around a bizarre and unbelievable scene so that the unconscious minds of the observers instantly abdicate responsibility for its existence, assert that it's "somebody else's problem", and therefore don't perceive it at all. The primary example of this was given in the third book Life, the Universe and Everything, when a UFO (A spaceship powered by the Bistromatic drive owned by the fictional character Slartibartfast) landed in the middle of a cricket ground during a match, and the assembled crowd failed to notice it.Quote:
Originally Posted by El_Squid
The SEP field requires much less energy than a normal invisibility field, due to the natural propensity of humans to see things as Somebody Else's Problem.
Oof Dah! My bad! It has been too many years since I enjoyed Mr Adams writings. Time to dust them off and enjoy them again! Darn shame he is no longer with us!Quote:
Originally Posted by hudsonsmith
adept, what have u typed the entire book of Hitchhiker's....! It was a good book though.
Perhaps he is on the verge of a new WOTPP technique. Simply type in the text of any publication and Post it! Voila! https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2006/04/1.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by TechZ
I think this thread definitely caught teh gay!
Take that back or I will set Adept and his unassailable knowledge of Douglas Adams trivia upon you....Quote:
Originally Posted by 3fingersalute
Wait... Adams was a mac user - of the rabid variety.....
They will be here in approximately 3,000 million years, before 10am.
Unless they engage the Bad News drives, in which case they have already been here and left. https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by gazzak
I have no idea whaat you just said.Quote:
Originally Posted by El_Squid
Another Douglas Adams reference. The Bad News drives were the best, because "nothing travels faster than bad news", but people were not happy to see you when you got there, so they weren't widely adopted. Instead the used the Infinite Improbability drive, like in the ship Heart of Gold.Quote:
Originally Posted by Camaro80z
But, it is all in a great series of books by Douglas Adams written around the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe. https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2006/04/1.gif