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The 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' has a lot to say about 2016
indy 500 ^ | 10/11/2016 | louis dore

Posted on 10/11/2016 9:56:15 AM PDT by Silentgypsy

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i don't ascribe to the article's concluding comments. left side of keyboard trashed by pets.
1 posted on 10/11/2016 9:56:15 AM PDT by Silentgypsy
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I’d stop voting for lizards if a non-lizard ever ran.


2 posted on 10/11/2016 9:57:28 AM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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To: Silentgypsy

I thought Zaphod Bebelbrox did a pretty good job.


3 posted on 10/11/2016 9:59:11 AM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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To: Silentgypsy

rats. there should be quotation marks up there with attribution to Douglas adams. mod


4 posted on 10/11/2016 9:59:19 AM PDT by Silentgypsy
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The other major Douglas Adams quote nailing the issue:


It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see...”
“You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?”
“No,” said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, “nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people.”
“Odd,” said Arthur, “I thought you said it was a democracy.”
“I did,” said Ford. “It is.”
“So,” said Arthur, hoping he wasn’t sounding ridiculously obtuse, “why don’t people get rid of the lizards?”
“It honestly doesn’t occur to them,” said Ford. “They’ve all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they’ve voted in more or less approximates to the government they want.”
“You mean they actually vote for the lizards?”
“Oh yes,” said Ford with a shrug, “of course.”
“But,” said Arthur, going for the big one again, “why?”
“Because if they didn’t vote for a lizard,” said Ford, “the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?”
“What?”
“I said,” said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, “have you got any gin?”
“I’ll look. Tell me about the lizards.”
Ford shrugged again.
“Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happenned to them,” he said. “They’re completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone’s got to say it.”
“But that’s terrible,” said Arthur.
“Listen, bud,” said Ford, “if I had one Altairian dollar for every time I heard one bit of the Universe look at another bit of the Universe and say ‘That’s terrible’ I wouldn’t be sitting here like a lemon looking for a gin.


5 posted on 10/11/2016 10:00:41 AM PDT by ctdonath2 ("If anyone will not listen to your words, shake the dust from your feet and leave them." - Jesus)
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To: Silentgypsy

In the books, eventually you find out who is in power. Talk about coming out of left field.


6 posted on 10/11/2016 10:01:37 AM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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He had rather liked Zaphod Beeblebrox in a strange sort of way.

He was clearly a man of many quallities, even if they were mostly bad ones.

7 posted on 10/11/2016 10:05:25 AM PDT by OddLane
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To: Silentgypsy

One of my favorite trilogies (sarc) of all time space continuum. And who knew that the Wicked Witch of the West was forecast as the Bugblatter Beast of Traal.


8 posted on 10/11/2016 10:07:19 AM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable.)
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To: Silentgypsy

The author is wrong in comparing Trump to Zaphrod, because the president was supposed to distract the public from learning who was really running the galaxy. Trump shines a spotlight on who is running the country.


9 posted on 10/11/2016 10:08:18 AM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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Who can possibly rule if no one who wants to do it can be allowed to?

Since I listened to the original radio series, I can tell you exactly what words follow that question.

I'd better not — it would sound like something else that has been in the news recently.

Now, excuse me, I need to sing to my cat....

10 posted on 10/11/2016 10:12:14 AM PDT by thulldud
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I’d even take “Phil”.


11 posted on 10/11/2016 10:12:31 AM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Silentgypsy

Never go anywhere without your towel


12 posted on 10/11/2016 10:14:51 AM PDT by Dacula (Southern lives matter!)
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Really in power.........

Wasn't it the mice?

13 posted on 10/11/2016 10:14:58 AM PDT by blackdog
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To: Silentgypsy
I clicked on the link and was transported to the land of quizzical noncommittal nonsense.

What is the purpose in this? Taking some old hagged out nonsense from Brit comedians (I was there when all this stuff came out with the book) and trying to apply it to Trump in a nonspecific way is just crap.

It's like some youngster has found a new toy and put their own smell on it. Too bad they weren't around to understand the times that prompted it all to start with.

14 posted on 10/11/2016 10:15:18 AM PDT by Gaffer
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The author is wrong in comparing Trump to Zaphrod, because the president was supposed to distract the public from learning who was really running the galaxy. Trump shines a spotlight on who is running the country.

Yes, absolutely. Zaphod is also two headed and creates constant scandals - that's Bill and Hillary ("two for one co-presidents," "public and private positions") to a really obvious level. To hit Trump with Zaphod instead of the Clintons is an absurd suspension of disbelief by the writer, if not outright arrogant hypocrisy.

15 posted on 10/11/2016 10:15:59 AM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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No. the mice were behind the creation of the great “computer”, but the actual government was run by a guy, well, I don’t want this to be a spoiler.

But he was at a place they visited where it was raining pretty hard.


16 posted on 10/11/2016 10:21:45 AM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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BTW, I have the whole series on a thumb drive, all narated by the author. And I have a 3 hour daily commute...


17 posted on 10/11/2016 10:22:27 AM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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To: Mr. Douglas

You mean the pan-dimensional mice?

CC


18 posted on 10/11/2016 10:22:47 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: Silentgypsy

In the beginning the Universe was created.

This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.


19 posted on 10/11/2016 10:25:45 AM PDT by dfwgator
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Exactly.

We’re just talking about the government in our dimension here. :-)


20 posted on 10/11/2016 10:25:52 AM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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