I’d stop voting for lizards if a non-lizard ever ran.
I thought Zaphod Bebelbrox did a pretty good job.
rats. there should be quotation marks up there with attribution to Douglas adams. mod
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.
In the books, eventually you find out who is in power. Talk about coming out of left field.
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.
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.
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....
Never go anywhere without your towel
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.
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.