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

I'm somewhere. Maybe the somewhere is here. Or not.

I'm here, until I go somewhere else.

Everyone is somewhere.

Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

George Burns: I'm glad to be here. At my age, I'm glad to be anywhere.

Is he still burning?

He sometimes blew cigar smoke in Gracie's face, so he might be burning where he is now.

Serves him right if he did.

But he played GOD!

Well, in one movie both God and the .

To be honest, it was hard for many people to realize just how harmful tobacco smoke was in the forties and fifties. This is not to say that there weren't plenty of people who *did* realize it, just that the many people who did smoke were apt to deny the possibility.

Gracie died the same year the Surgeon general's report on lung cancer came out: 1964.

Who expected Gracie to die young, and George to live to be 100? I'll bet George felt really bad about losing Gracie, and would gladly have done anything to have kept her alive longer.

You don't get to go back and undo the bad things you've done.

If I went back and undid all the bad things I've done... then I'd have done nothing at all

Good point.

And bad things sometimes turn out to have good consequences...

That is also true.

And the Zen master said "We shall see."