Biscuits

[Piernicola Comuniello]

Some days ago on an italian private television there was played the
famous gag of biscuits.

Of course there wasn't Arthur Dent but a young woman and an older one.

And nobody explained that the gag was thought by Douglas Adams :-(

[Dave Adalian]

"Kenny Hutchings" <wron...@of.the.message.invalid> wrote in message
news:MPG.228afc025...@news.btinternet.com...
> /// Piernicola Comuniello / MD3...@mclink.it / Wed, 7 May 2008 01:32:57
> +0200 ///

> Whether Adams actually thought it up is a point of some dispute.
>
> See: http://www.snopes.com/crime/safety/cookies.asp
>

I dunno. Adams said on multiple occasions that the cookie incident really
happened to him. His version appears in 1984 and the oldest urban legend
version on Snopes.com is from 1986. There are similar stories from the
early 1900s, according to Scopes, but they aren't that close.

There aren't any other incidents of Adams using gags that weren't his, at
least not that I've noticed, so I tend to believe it actually did happen to
him.

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[Tian]

It's easy to believe that it has happened to other people in real life.

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