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

"We're not retreating; we're advancing, towards /future/ victory."

'You interest me very much, Mr Holmes. I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supraorbital development. Would you have any objection to my running a finger aong your parietal fissure'.

James Morimer (the surgeon who brings the problem of the Baskerville Hound to Sherlock Holmes' attention'.

The Hound of the Baskervilles. Arthur Conan Doyle.

"The only ones totally free are the mentally ill. They can jump off a roof totally believing they can fly..."

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber

"You enter the cave and see 24 Cave trolls all sleeping, with one small step you make a resonating bang when your shield bashes the wall..."


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"...and for a moment you are as a bird, free from your duties below. With unseen hands the earth reasserts her hold on you, and suddenly you feel less like a sparrow and more like a catapult stone."

"When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me."

- Emo Phillips

Last photo ever taken of Elvis.

http://wirelessdigest.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/elvisphoto.jpg

12.28am on 16th August 1977, three hours before he died.

K... What does this have to do with quotes, exactly? It's better suited for Useless Facts: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/F19585?thread=369071&latest=1

It was actually supposed to go in the pictorial gems thread (it's now there). I made a mistake. With all due respect, I don't like the tone in your post. It sounds a little smart arsey and I don't think of H2 as that kind of site.

I just tend to come across that way, it wasn't my intention. I did, after all, try to point you somewhere that I thought would be more appropriate.

Oh, okeley dokely The only time I've posted in a wrong thread before was when I accidentally added a non-sequitur to a discussion thread. Made for a very interesting contribution to the thread

Confusious say "woman who boils greens - and peas in same saucepan - unhygienic

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
- Dame Edna Everage

If we wanted more leisure, we'd invent machines to do things less efficiently.
(Calvin's dad, from Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Waterson)

"ohh look - a distraction"

I wish I was a millionaire and everything cost a £

"First, weapon selection is critical. If I see one more idiot attacking a Jedi with a blaster pistol, then I'll kill them myself."
-HK-47

Overheard someone describing a person who is cross-eyed as having "one eye going to the store and the other bringing home the change"

Whilst walking throuogh a well known supermarket yesterday, I noticed that they were selling "Rimmed tableware".

Well it amused me. I suppose that it just means that licking your plate would be ok in this case.

PP