a request of my own
Lisa Masterman
I'm building up a file of good HHG quotes, and would greatly appreciate any
contributions. E-mail your favorites to me, and include the speaker please.
(And make them accurate, please.)
thanks a million.
--lisa
Mitch Davis
>
>I'm building up a file of good HHG quotes, and would greatly appreciate any
>contributions. E-mail your favorites to me, and include the speaker please.
>(And make them accurate, please.)
You can count on me! [All these are from the First Book]
"Vell, Zaphod's chust zis guy, you know?" - Gag Halfrunt, Private Brain
Care Specialist".
Not sure if it's letter-perfect, that's a phonetic interpre
What am I talking about - I have the book right here!
OK, the "chust" is "just", and there's no comma, but apart from that,
it's exact!
"Life - loath it or ignore it, you can't like it." - Guess who?
"Nuts to your white mice" - Zaphod (SNAG eh?)
"So this is it, we are going to die." - Arthur.
"Is there any tea on this spaceship?" - Arthur.
"We only ever had the one sun at home. I came from a planet called
Earth you know." - Arthur.
"If you'd call it a robot. It's more a sort of electronic sulking
machine." - Arthur.
"I seem to be having tremendous difficulties with my lifestyle." -
Arthur.
"Now see here, guy! You're not dealing with any dumb two-bit
trigger-pumping morons with low hairlines, little piggy eyes and no
conversation, we're a couple of intelligent caring guys that you'd
probably quite like if you met us socially! I don't go around
gratuitously shooting people and then bragging about it afterwards in
seedy space-ranger bars, like some cops I could mention! I go around
shooting people gratuitously and then I agonize about it afterwards for
hours to my girlfriend!" - Policeman from Blagulon Kappa.
"I'm a great fan of science, you know" - Slartibartfast.
"So long and thanks for all the fish" - departing dolphins.
"After all with a degree in Maths(sic) and another in astrophysics(sic)
what else was there to do? It was either that or the dole queue again
on Monday." - Trillain
"Does anyone know why Arthur can't turn on the Improbability Drive? I
said <yelling> does anyone know ..." - Trillian
"Hi there! this is Eddie your shipboard computer, and I'm feeling just
great, guys, and I know I'm going to get a bundle of kicks out of any
program you care to run tthrough me." - Eddie.
"When you walk through the storm hold your head up high"
"And don't be afraid of the dark!"
"At the end of the storm is a golden sky
"And the sweet silver song of the lark.
"Walk on through the wind
"Walk on through the rain
"Though your dreams be tossed and blown"
"Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart
"And you'll never walk alone."
"You'll ne...ver... walk ... alone!" - Eddie.
"Well the hours are good, but now you come to mention it, most of the
actual minutes are pretty lousy" - Vogon guard.
"No, not really. But I'll mention it to my Aunt." - Vogon guard.
"And wow! Hey! What's this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast?
Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding
name like ... ow ... ound ... round ... ground! That's it! That's a
good name - ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me?" - A very
surprised sperm whale.
"Oh no, not again" - a bowl of petunias, aka Agrajag.
"I could have more fun in a cat litter" - Ford.
"Forty-two! Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million
year's work?" - Loonquawl.
"If all these attempts fail, flag down a passing flying saucer and
expain that it's vitally important that you get away before your phone
bill arrives." - Douglas Adams.
"Hmm." - Me.
Mitch.
Ron O'Dell
>contributions. E-mail your favorites to me, and include the speaker please.
>(And make them accurate, please.)
(Can't use email on this account, but I can't get it accurately, anyway...
and it needs the story behind it too...)
In one of the later episodes of the second series, when the radio announcer
lists the cast, he says, "[name] only happened to be Hig Hurtenflurst."
This is a reference to the way the character Hig Hurtenflurst spoke in the
episode.
Another would be in about the same episode, when a bird takes Arthur
into the ear of the statue `Arthur Dent Throwing the Nutrimatic Cup':
Arthur: Ugh, it's filthy in here!
Bird: I can't hear what you're saying...
Arthur: Why don't you wash my ear out?
Bird: I said >I< can't hear what >you're< saying...
---
Marvin: Even if it >does< matter, does it matter that it matters?
Zootlewurdle zootlewurdle zootlewurdle...
---
Lintilla: I found this. He says his name's Arthur, but I think he's harmless.
(the `but' is what's so funny about this -- is Arthur a dangerous name?)
---
Jeltz: The next peep out of any of you; you all get it in the neck!
Is that understood?
[silence]
Jeltz: Well???
Vogons: Er, yes, Captain...
[zaps, as Jeltz shoots them for making noise]
---
Some of my favourite sound effects instructions that DNA gave the crew
are "The sound of light going on in a Vogon spaceship." (That's perfectly
clear what it should sound like, right?)
and "Huge arm sweeps them up. The creature's eyes turn [list of colours
forgotten]. The creature then finally realises what 10 Across was
in the Galactic Crossword and makes a mental note to fill it in
when it's next got a few minutes."
---
"The other Shaltanac's joopleberry shrub is always a more mauvy shade
of pinky russet."
---
Arthur, when fed up with all the talking machines, floors, walls, air ducts,
etc., screams "Let me out of here!" The door opens, and he walks out,
reflexively mutters, "Thank you." The door replies, "You're welcome!"
Arthur screams.
---
Slartibartfast: Skiing holiday? Those glaciers are works of art!
It would be sacrilege to go skiing on high art!
---
Vroomfondel: We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!
---
Shooty (or was it Bang Bang?): Now you listen to me, Beeblebrox, and you'd
better listen good!
Zaphod: Why?
Shooty: Er... because it's going to be intelligent, quite interesting
and humane!
Zaphod: OK. Shoot -- I mean fire way -- I mean...
[...]
Shooty: Beeblebrox, either you all give yourselves up and let us beat you
up a little -- though not very much, of course, because we are
firmly opposed to needless violence -- or we blow up this entire
planet ... and one or two others we noticed on the way over.
---
Well, I think that's enough babbling for tonight ...
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--The Ren & Stimpy Show
Lisa Masterman
|> (Can't use email on this account, but I can't get it accurately, anyway...
|> and it needs the story behind it too...)
don't worry. I'll get a friend to check out the accuracy for me. *grin*
thanks for the contribution...
--lisa
Kendric Beachey
In article <BqGK2...@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>, ri...@bullet.ecf.toronto.edu (RICE GEORGE MATTHEW) writes:
>In article <1992Jun26.0...@lugb.latrobe.edu.au> 9125...@lux.latrobe.edu.au (Mitch Davis) writes:
>>In article <1992Jun24....@ulowell.ulowell.edu> lmas...@cs.ulowell.edu (Lisa Masterman) writes:
>>>
>>>I'm building up a file of good HHG quotes, and would greatly appreciate any
>>>contributions. E-mail your favorites to me, and include the speaker please.
>>>(And make them accurate, please.)
>And this is a qoute from a reporter when talking about Zaphod stealing
>the heart of gold.
>Blah blah ...'Reported by (name unsure) the triple breasted whore
>of Galacticus V(?) as being the best bang since the big one.'
>
"...Eccentrica Gallumbits, the triple-breasted whore of Eroticon VI..."
Here are a few more...
"No sneaky knocking Mr. Dent's house down while he's away, all right?"
--Ford, to Prosser
"And when I've finished I will take all the little bits and I will jump on them!"
--Arthur, to Prosser
"Hey, this is terrific! Someone down there is trying to kill us!"
--Zaphod
"Late, as in the late Dentarthurdent." --Slartibartfast
"Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?"
--Arthur
--
Kendric Beachey a.k.a. A. K.
a...@matt.ksu.ksu.edu 331 N 17
a...@ksuvm.ksu.edu Manhattan, KS 66502
"Thou hast besquirted me, O Leotarded One! The maiden be thine!"--Guess who?
Lisa Masterman
|> And this is a qoute from a reporter when talking about Zaphod stealing
|> the heart of gold.
|> Blah blah ...'Reported by (name unsure) the triple breasted whore
|> of Galacticus V(?) as being the best bang since the big one.'
just so you know, it's Eccentrica Gallumbits, the triple-breasted whore of
Eroticon VI.
|> Matthew
--lisa
Dave Jones
>(on HHGTTG quotes)
>
>Here are a few more...
>
>"No sneaky knocking Mr. Dent's house down while he's away, all right?"
> --Ford, to Prosser
by the incomparable Joe Melia: "The merest thought hadn't even begun to
speculate about the possibility of crossing my mind!".
In the radio original Arthur, not Ford, hornswoggled Prosser into
letting him nip off to the pub. For me the radio version will always be
the definitive one.
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Ron O'Dell
In article <1992Jun26.1...@pixel.kodak.com> d...@ssd.kodak.com (Dave Jones) writes:
>Which, in the TV version, got the following reply from Prosser, played
>by the incomparable Joe Melia: "The merest thought hadn't even begun to
>speculate about the possibility of crossing my mind!".
The line was: "The slightest thought hadn't even begun to speculate about
the merest possibility of crossing my mind."
This line was originally written into the radio show (well, `slightest'
as here was `merest' in the script), but cut out for time constraints.
Please note my new address
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allanh...@gmail.com
It's been done, but please feel free to "share and enjoy" the quotes I have posted at http://www.informationoverload.us/
My favorite is "Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
Remember that the comment was composed in 1978!!!!!
I also realized that the 2003 war against Iraq was based on mutual lies (Bush and Saddam) thanks to the explanation of Warfare:
The history of warfare is similarly subdivided, although here the phases are Retribution, Anticipation, and Diplomacy. Thus:
Retribution: I'm going to kill you because you killed my brother.
Anticipation: I'm going to kill you because I killed your brother.
Diplomacy: I'm going to kill my brother and then kill you on the pretext that your brother did it.
Bush was lying about Saddam having Weapons of Mass Destruction and Saddam was lying about claiming he did NOT have them. Saddam was telling the truth but actually thought he was lying. If he knew that he did NOT actually have those weapons, all of his WMD people would have been killed first. They were lying to him.
allanh...@gmail.com
"Share and enjoy."
Nemo Thorx
> On Wednesday, June 24, 1992 at 3:45:39 PM UTC-4, Lisa Masterman wrote:
> > I'm building up a file of good HHG quotes, and would greatly appreciate any
> > contributions. E-mail your favorites to me, and include the speaker please.
> > (And make them accurate, please.)
> >
>
> It's been done, but please feel free to "share and enjoy" the quotes I have posted at http://www.informationoverload.us/
that quotefile. Indeed, it would be fantastic if she chimed in to the
convo here!
However, neat it is that you have a site of HHG info, and it puts me to
mind that, in the spirit of the early web (mid-90s), I think it's time
to put a few links to other HHG fan sites on my own. I'm not going to go
full "web ring" about it, but a bit of cross linking as symbolic push
against everyone relying on being found by google alone.
My site (of fandom in general, not just HHG) is http://sub-ethr.net/ and
I don't get have a links page :)
Your quoted bits are definitely good commentary on politics, and his
description of the the danger posed by the Designer People in Young
Zaphod Plays It Safe is one I think of a lot with current US politics...
"""
some were deeply, deeply dangerous. Dangerous because they didn't ring
alarm bells in other people. They could walk through situations the way
that ghosts walk through walls, because no one spotted the danger.
...
"...they are the most dangerous creatures that ever lived because there is
nothing they will not do if allowed, and nothing they will not be
allowed to do..."
"""
That is much better than the endless "Trump = Zaphod" analogies I see,
which I generally hate since I see a world of difference between them
(apart from both being "narcissistic" and "president" anyway)
My favourite underrated HHG quote is this, which managed to predict the
future of computer interfaces surprisingly well
"""
A loud clatter of gunk music flooded through the Heart of Gold cabin as
Zaphod searched the sub-etha radio wavebands for news of himself. The
machine was rather difficult to operate. For years radios had been
operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the
technology became more sophisticated the controls were made
touch-sensitive --- you merely had to brush the panels with your
fingers; now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general
direction of the components and hope. It saved a lot of muscular
expenditure of course, but meant that you had to sit infuriatingly still
if you wanted to keep listening to the same programme.
"""
.../Nemo
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