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Babel_17

(5,400 posts)
Fri Sep 11, 2015, 04:55 PM Sep 2015

The Debate Schedule: "There’s no point in acting surprised about it." P.S. "Beware of the Leopard"

"... been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for 50 of your Earth years, so you’ve had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it’s far too late to start making a fuss about it now."

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy





"But Mr Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine months."

"Oh yes, well as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them, yesterday afternoon. You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them, had you? I mean, like actually telling anybody or anything."

"But the plans were on display ..."

"On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."

"That's the display department."

"With a flashlight."

"Ah, well the lights had probably gone."

"So had the stairs."

"But look, you found the notice didn't you?"

"Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'."


http://www.planetclaire.org/quotes/hitchhikers/




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The Debate Schedule: "There’s no point in acting surprised about it." P.S. "Beware of the Leopard" (Original Post) Babel_17 Sep 2015 OP
Love.This! Thank you! Needed a laugh! peacebird Sep 2015 #1
Me too! Babel_17 Sep 2015 #2

Babel_17

(5,400 posts)
2. Me too!
Fri Sep 11, 2015, 05:48 PM
Sep 2015

More from PVJ.

"I’m sorry, but if you can’t be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, that’s your own lookout."


*Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz (of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council)
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