Quoting kyonshi from 02 Jan (a Tuesday in 2024) at 1431 hours...
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> On 8/11/2022 7:25 AM, Real Dent wrote:
> > Remember the story when Arthur ate someone else's biscuits? Chapter 20 in So Long And Thanks For All The Fish. Just wondered if something like that has ever happened to you? Because it has to me. Twice actually.
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> I actually read that story first in some old story by Ephraim Kishon. I just
> assumed it was one of those stories that had been around ever since people
> started to travel.
One of those type of things where, people being people, have probably
been encountering versions of it since the cavemen were playing
scrabble.
I know afda once had a lengthy crossthreaded argument with an urban
folklore newsgroup who decided that Adams was a charletan over this
story, and didn't seem to grasp that just because the basic story may
have been published (or told on radio, or something) before Douglas
wrote it in Fish, that it couldn't possibly have also actually have
happened to Douglas.
.../Nemo
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