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

About _.5 but I'd go as high as _.7.

What's the answer to this question?

Anything I say.

What did the cat drag in?

A bound and gagged person. The dictates of plausible deniability state that you never saw nuffin.

I was looking away perhaps anyway. Ooh, what's that over there?
And what's with this "Shiney" everybody keeps going on about?

That over there is a shiney. A shiney is a special breed of distraction that natural selection has enabled to take the top of the distraction food pyramid.

Can distractions be added to each other, or is distraction too much like subtraction?

Distractions can be added to each other, for example a shiney, shadow out of the corner of your eye that also interrupts your train of thought with a well placed comment is more distracting then any of these seperately.

However, too many distractions can lead to "ferret shock" a stupor caused by distraction overload.

Multiple distractions care be both unfair and ferret at the same time.

Laugh, and the world laughs with you.
Fly, and you fly alone...

Unless you fly in a plane. In that case you are bombarded with company. In a sardine-ish sorta way.

There's usually at least one passenger who wants to complane.

For good or bad, always leave 'em laughing, eh Paul?

Absolutely, E.C. Won't you join me?

Oh, I've never not been with you on this one.

EC, which is your least favorite mathematics?

Trigonometry. It kicked my dog once.

What did the dog do the second time?