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biscuits in the train station
HollePolle Started conversation May 23, 2001
I was LOL when I read that scene in which Arthur Dent, who was waiting for a train, ate some cookies he had just bought. Unfortunately for him (not for me) there was another man sitting at the same table who also took biscuits from Arthur's package. The two man staring at each other, trembling, not knowing how to cope with this strange situation. Finally the other man left Arthur without any word being said between them and Arthur realised that he must have been eating the other one's biscuits all the time for he found his own package of biscuits untouched on the chair next to him.
Please, everybody, do not ask me which book this scene is taken from, and, please, do not bother about my choice of words, because I read the Trilogy in my language, which is German.
HP
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biscuits in the train station
ZenMondo Posted May 27, 2001
This scene happens in the fourth book, _So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish_. The great thing about this scene is that it is based on something that ACTUALLY HAPPENED to DNA! With Mr. Adams playing the role of Arthur. I saw him tell this story on a late-night talk show. He said that someone else has the same story, but he has the punchline (the biscuits under the paper) and he was a writer so he gets it!
biscuits in the train station
HollePolle Posted May 28, 2001
Didn't know, yet. Sounds like one of "those" stories that might have happened and soon become legend.
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