h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Dorian Gray

Thanks for that! What an EXCELLENT use of space-Don't listen to those winging fuddy duddies. Copyright law my a*se



I see nothing wrong with presenting the entire Bladerunner script as your favorite quote. more power to your elbow.. or whatever the saying is

I still haven't figured out how they got from the book Do androids dream of electric sheep, to Bladerunner the film... the film is essential an unimportant sub-plot in the book, from what I can recall...


"If you can't see dreams your eyes are blind"
Fly, Moxy Fruvous.

Math

Unlike energy that can't be created or destroyed, once time has passed it cannot be retreived in a different form and used again. Reading the script to "Blade Runner" seems a very good waste of someone's time, and far less convient than watching it. As to copy rights, were laws made to be broken why don't we just have laws that say what people can do instead of can't.

b9nr515

Same goddamm version i had last week.... mutter, mutter

Ah well- i guess that teaches me to try and copy copywrited material, eh?

first i must say that reading a script can be sometime better than watching the movie since you let your imagination do the work, not so sleazy hollywood producer.

as to you mr. b9nr515 laws are created to be broken (side note you must have been a 'good' stundent in school) just look at the "world's biggest role model" (the US government). just over two hundred years ago some old guys with fake hair sat around and made up a bunch of rules to govern their nation. if you look forward in history from that point all branches of government have bent and broken the law to their own agends (it would take days to list all of it) but most resently with their rejection of the US consitution (a sacredly ignored document) and the passing of the patriot act.

having said that my quote is:

"you and i both are old enough not to buy into the oldest s**t running, 'love' is a fiction invented to keep people from jumping out of windows."
~wall street

dorian

Mr. Grey,

First I have only mediocre desire to get into the not so sleazy hollywood producers. Scrips are written poorly to be read, the format is direct and repetitive.

As to laws, (side note you must have been the guy in the back of the room that made jokes at the teacher when the subject went straight over your head) were they created to be broken, why do people follow them? You presume too much, just over two hundred years ago we were the only country who had people sitting around to make up rules to govern their nation, and not a king, dictator, sultan, emperor, ect. If you look forward in history form that point, all major nations have followed suit; including, I'm quite shure, the one your in. The idea of rewriting laws to ones own agenda ensures that the laws will evolve with the times, and furthermore it should take months to list the evolution of law. I find that the constitution of the United States is not a "sacredly ignored document"

Having said that my quote:



Therefore a wise prince will seek means by which his subjects
will always and in every possible condition of things have need
of his government, and then they will always be faithful to him.

-- Niccolo Machiavelli,
"The Prince"

well played.

"we were sullen in the sweet air that is gladdened by the sun, bearing in our hearts a sluggish smoke; now we are sullen in the black mire"
~Dante (Canto VII: inferno)

ps. i am the kid who takes a full load of college courses while still being in highschool.

dorian

Thank you, well played yourself.

The chief aim of their constitution and government is that,
whenever public needs permit, all citizens should be free, so far
as possible, to withdraw their time and energy from the service of
the body, and devote themselves to the freedom and culture of the
mind. For that, they think, is the real happiness of life.

-- Sir Thomas More,
"Utopia"

P.S. and you complained about me being a good student

nice quote too bad it's not reality, but have you read the patriot act?

"greed ladies and gentalmen for lack of a better word,
is good, greed works, greed is right. greed clarafies
cuts through and captures the essence of the evelutionary
spirit. greed in all of its forms, greed for life, for
money, for love and knowledge has mark the upwards surge
of mankind, and greed you mark my words will save taldar
paper, but that other malfunctioning company called the
USA."
~micheal douglas (wall street)

Not exactly a quote, more of a title but I LOVE "Have you ever been to electric ladyland?"

LIFE
"Without a God, life is only a matter of Opinion"
-Douglas Adams, Speech at Digital Biotica 2, Cambridge

UNIVERSE
"Never drink more than two Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters unless you are a thirty ton Mega-Elephant with bronchial pneumonia"
- Zaphod Beeblebrox

EVERYTHING
"Line dancing is like synchronised swimming, only without the fun and drowning."
- Kate Adie, Radio 4

Reality?

"Money makes the world go round, the world go round, the world go round. Money makes the world go round that klinking clanking sound, it makes the world go round."

-"Money"
From the broadway muscial "Cabaret"

"toninght on the money program we will talk about..."
~Monty Python (money sketch)

ps. sorry i don't know the rest.

dorian

'Oh sh*******************t'

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

"I hate you non-smokers. My only fear is if I quit I'll become one of you."- The immortal Bill Hicks

Some, not so smart quotes. <./>F96427?thread=302647</.>




pedboy

A bit back to the earlier topic, I think, well, maybe, I'm a bit wishy-washy.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw

"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today."

~unknown

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
srcf

"In the year of Elvis Presley's death, 1977, there were at most several dozen Elvis impersonators in the world. By 2002 however there were more than 35,000. Given this expanding growth rate it is acurately predicted that by 2012, 1 in 4 people on the planet would be an Elvis impersonator.
This of course, proved not to be the case.
The figure was a mere 1 in 6."
Robert Rankin - The Witches of Chiswick

(imagines all those elvis's talk about king complex epidemic)

Thankyouverymuch