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Original poster

to want to go back to the time when men were REAL men...

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ElizabethBathory · 07/11/2013 19:40

women were REAL women...

and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were REAL small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

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Pan · 07/11/2013 22:44

You appear to be asking the wrong question.

DifferenceEngine · 07/11/2013 22:45

I apologise for the inconvenience....

NanettaStocker · 07/11/2013 22:45

The real Arthur Dent signed my 1983 copy of H2G2 a few weeks ago, and admired my fountain pen ink. I can never use another type of ink again...

Allegrogirl · 07/11/2013 22:46

Who needs a man anyway? Got myself a robot. Moans all the time and has pain in diodes down the left hand side but he does hum like pink floyd.

Pan · 07/11/2013 22:47

Not sure why they choose me.
You're an idiot!
Yes, that was the reason!
with all of the estate agents, accountants...

everythinghippie29 · 07/11/2013 22:50

Morethanpotatoprints DON'T PANIC Wink.

Original poster
ElizabethBathory · 07/11/2013 22:50

Well...Zaphod's just zis guy, you know?

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MadBusLady · 07/11/2013 22:53

Frankel You ought to send that in to Reader's Digest, they've got a page for people like you.

mrsmalcolmreynolds · 07/11/2013 22:55

What did that bistro bill come to again?

MadBusLady · 07/11/2013 22:56

She's not asking you to enjoy it, just do it, will you?

(That's actually quite a useful one.)

MadBusLady · 07/11/2013 22:57

The entire battle fleet was accidentally swallowed by a small dog.

Pan · 07/11/2013 22:59

That's highly improbable.

Chesntoots · 07/11/2013 23:00

I'm with Marvin - automatic doors do have a bit of an air of smugness.

IHadADreamThatWasNotAllADream · 07/11/2013 23:07

DS (9) greeted me at hometime this week with "I wonder if it will be friends with me?" and a huge grin. It quickly became clear that lovely new TA has introduced a largely HHG-based curriculum - entire family is now engaged in orgy of quotations along the line of this thread.

TheDoctrineOfWho · 07/11/2013 23:12

Hide everyone!

It's The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief!

Original poster
ElizabethBathory · 07/11/2013 23:24

Ah, the only race in history to have invented the aerosol deodorant before the wheel!

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ElleBelly · 07/11/2013 23:29

Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes.

SecretWitch · 07/11/2013 23:34

I need a hero. I'm holding out for a hero.

Fifilosttheplot · 07/11/2013 23:34

curlew well that about wraps it up for God

Fifilosttheplot · 07/11/2013 23:35

"When you walk through a stormmmmmm...."

Fifilosttheplot · 07/11/2013 23:38

Like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon....wrapped around a gold brick

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ElizabethBathory · 07/11/2013 23:39
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IHadADreamThatWasNotAllADream · 07/11/2013 23:40

Yes, she started off as TrillianAstra I think, and so many people abbreviated in a friendly way to Trills that she went with it.

IHadADreamThatWasNotAllADream · 07/11/2013 23:42

....for, I grant you, a previously unsuspected use of the phrase "real name"

luccamum · 08/11/2013 00:06

Hotblack Desiato and Co.