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Mon Oct-02-06 10:53 PM
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| The Restaurant at the End of the Universe... |
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....shortly I turn 53.I watched JFK debate Nixon,be elected,face the missiles of October,and be killed....Meanwhile I learned of the Iron Curtain, the Red Menace,and how my school desk would protect me from a nuclear blast.I watched LBJ wax then wane and Nixon stop a war and be fired for paranoia,while I left school and joined the army...I watched political assasinations of note and politicians of great oratorical skill.I married and raised three kids and watched a wife fade and die.Somewhere and somehow,after all this our American parabola turned earthward and we arrived at today.Last week I watched Habeus Corpus die-a right insisted on by nobles that devolved upon serfs and made civilization flow.And today we discuss the sicknesses of a boxer grabbing non-entity,so puerile as to be described as a man who beats off to visions of Garanimals....so the Restaurant at the End of the Universe-I always wanted to go there-but always figured I'd have to time travel to get there...
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| Aristus
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Mon Oct-02-06 10:59 PM
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| 1. The food is better at the Big Bang Burger Bar anyway... |
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And the floor show is explosive!
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| catnhatnh
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Mon Oct-02-06 11:01 PM
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| 2. I just knew that SOMEONE.... |
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...would know those books better than myself...
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| Aristus
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Mon Oct-02-06 11:13 PM
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| 3. Yeah, I'm a big "Hitchhiker's" fan. |
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Wasn't crazy about the movie, but the books are superb. Funny, and the best social satire since Jonathan Swift.
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| ms liberty
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Mon Oct-02-06 11:25 PM
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| 5. The TV show was much better than the movie... |
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Even Zaphod's 2nd head, which was much cheesier in the TV series but still more fun. I enjoyed the casting for Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect in the movie.
Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul is another great Douglas Adams. I recommend it heartily!
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Mon Oct-02-06 11:17 PM
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| 4. With all this news I need a Pangalatic Gargle Blaster...n/t |
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Mon Oct-02-06 11:29 PM
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I'm doing one as I type.Tommorrow morning I will need either more coffee/kafee/coughphee or gin and tonics/ginnintonix/jinnentonicks...
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| Ready4Change
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Mon Oct-02-06 11:53 PM
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| 7. Just ... Remember that you're standing.... |
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...
On a Planet that's evolving
And revolving at 900 miles an hour.
Orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned
A sun which is the source of all our power.
That Sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day!
In the outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour
of a galaxy we call the Milky Way...
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