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

Certains lines/ideas are considered sufficiently familiar in my household as to be inserted into conversation without credit:

"locked filing cabinet...beware of the leopard" for any difficult to find thing - but often bureaucracy

"it's easier to remove something than make it invisable" - taking a shortcut rather than doing an awkward job

Somebody Else's Problem Field - 'nuff said

"Hand me the Raprod Plate Captain"

"Looks like a fish, moves like a fish, steers like a cow"

Any long list of qwuestions is ended with "...and do you have any of those biscuits, do you know, the cheesy ones?"

...and it's always pronounced "Jeenan Toe-nix"

I'll think of more on the way home!

I've got that with definitions from the Deeper Meaning of Liff.

"This was a mind that was not merely Twisted, but actually Sprained...."

Any others....hmmmm?

"Looks like a fish , moves like a fish , steers like a cow "

"I found them in the basement eventually.
"Oh yes that's the display department."
"The light had gone."
"...um"
"So had the stairs!"
"But you DID find the plans?"
"Yes, eventually, they were in the bottom drawer of a locked filing cabinet, stuck upside-down, in a disused toilet with a sign on the dorr saying 'BEWARE OF THE LEOPARD!....' "

"LIFE Don't ask ME about LIFE!!"

oh! and of course...

"I never could get the hang of Thursdays...."

Clive

"Spending a year dead for tax reasons" and
"Missing presumed fed"

- both for unexplained absences

I'm for the beware of the lepoard quote, one of my personal favorites, also when Ford persuades Mr Prosser that he wants to lie down in the mud!

In the airlock, "hang on there this button......... no only joking" (or something similar)

Arthurs inability ever to find anything even remotely like tea!

fave characters - Arthur and Ford (they have some of the best lines)

Fave supporting characters: The whale, the doors on the heart of gold, the cow in rateotu, Arthurs kid (name escapes me at the moe)

Mel

Speaking of Arthur's and Trillian's Kid: That new BBC Site could do with a "Random Quote" LOL

Thank you for reminding me of the name! that was going to bug me all day!

Mel

"Must be Thursday..." has a habit of appearing in certain posts of mine after nights out on other sites.

sorry had to be done!

Mel

My non-Marvin favorites:

"It's not so much an afterlife as an apres-vie."

"So long, and thanks for all the fish." - A friend of mine had a college prof who wrote that quote on the black board on the last day of class. We thought it rather arrogant of him.

"The mice were very disappointed."

"We've met."

The only word he knows is UGGGNGHGBHNH and he cant spell it....

FABT

Here I am, Brain the size of a planet, and all they ask me to do......

FABT

The bit about the the Vogon ships hanging in the air in the same way that bricks don't...

Yip and yip to the last two.

"lovely crinkly edges"

"Late as in the late Dentarthurdent"

"Voon" said the Matress

I've always wanted to see a matress flolloping

'And who would *that* inconvenience?'

'the coming of the Great White Handkerchief'

'the poor b*****d's probably spelt 'library' with one 'r' again'.

Oh, the bit about the currency and Ningis being 'piddling small change'.

Ah yes! The Great White Handkerchief!

Wasn't that the creatures who had forty arms and so were the only species in the universe to have invented the underarm deodorant before the wheel, Worshipers of the Great Green Arkleseizur (sp?)?

"How are you feeling?" - Ford

"Like a military academy, bit's of me keep passing out." - Arthur

"It's unpleasantly like being drunk." - Ford

"What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" - Arthur

"Ask a glass of water." - Ford

And one of my all time favourites....

"Drink up, the worlds's about to end." - Ford