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Lee K. Seitz  
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 More options Aug 2 2004, 3:18 pm
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: lkseitz (Lee K. Seitz) .at. hiwaay @dot@ net
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 19:18:17 -0000
Local: Mon, Aug 2 2004 3:18 pm
Subject: Re: Deadlines quote source?
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In article <2md4ouFld89...@uni-berlin.de>,
Kåre Fiedler Christiansen  <n...@kaarefc.dk> wrote:

>Lee K. Seitz wrote:

>>      I love deadlines.  I like the whooshing sound they make as
>>      they fly by.

>> My question is where did DNA write or say this?
>In this posting from 15th of November 1991

>http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1991Nov15.045548.5572%40zip.eecs...

>it says:

>   >\|__|| D||   \\  "I just love deadlines.  I enjoy the sound they make
>   >    \|__|| D | \        as they go flying by."  Douglass Adams

>   When I heard Adams speak, he said "I love deadlines. I like the
>   whooshing sound they make as they fly by". The "whooshing" bit really
>   makes it for me.

Sorry I took a while to get around to checking all the links.  The
person who wrote this is still a frequent poster in r.a.c.*.  I'll see
what he recalls and let you guys know.

>> And my favorite:

>> "Don't believe anything you read on the net.  Except this.  Well,
>> including this, I suppose."
>>      -- Douglas Adams, alt.fan.douglas-adams, 13 Sep 1998

>Ah - I remember that one. That was from the posting where he denied that
>Oprah Winfrey would play Arthur Dent, wasn't it?

Jim Carrey, actually.  (I had to look it up.)

--
lkseitz (Lee K. Seitz) .at. hiwaay @dot@ net
". . . the first rule of life is to have a good time . . . the second
rule of life is to hurt as few people as possible in the course of
doing so.  There is no third rule."     -- Brendan Gill


 
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