A few appropriate Douglas Adams quotes as the oil nears my hometown

[FLPanhandle]

"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair." Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless


and the most relevant...

"The trouble with most forms of transport, he thought, is basically that not one of them is worth all the bother. On Earth, the problem had been with cars. The disadvantages involved pulling lots of black sticky slime from out of the ground where it had been safely hidden out of harm’s way, turning it into tar to cover the land with, smoke to fill the air with and pouring the rest into the sea, all seemed to outweigh the advantages of being able to get more quickly from one place to the other - particularly when the place you arrived at had probably become, as a result of this, very similar to the place you had left, i.e., covered with tar, full of smoke, and short of fish."

— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy)

[JitterbugPerfume]

1. Thank you

I love Douglas Adams . Last Chance to See is an absolutely beautiful book , and the Hitchhiker series is classic.
Who can forget Dirk Gently, once they have met him?

[FLPanhandle]

2. He died too young.

We missed out on many good works and "Last Chance to See" is one book I made sure my entire family read.

[SteppingRazor]

14. I imagine a lot of people can forget Dirk Gently...

depending on what timeline they find themselves in. :)

[JitterbugPerfume]

15. lol

[BeFree]

3. They fish are saying...

....well, you know what the fish in the gulf are saying to us smart humans
... and what they end their message with.

[gateley]

4. Last Chance To See - highly recommend. nt

[DiverDave]

5. Peril Sensitive Sunglasses

Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses have been specially designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude to danger. At the first hint of trouble, they turn totally black and thus prevent you from seeing anything that might alarm you.

Classic DA

[FLPanhandle]

6. I need those right now! n/t

[Patsy Stone]

7. From The Guide:

It's an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was the most intelligent species occupying the planet, instead of the third most intelligent. The second most intelligent creatures were, of course, Dolphins, who, curiously enough, had long known of the impending destruction of Earth. You see, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons. They'd made many attempts to alert mankind to the danger, but their communications were misinterpreted as amusing attempts to punch footballs or whistle for tidbits.

The last ever dolphin message, in fact, was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double backwards somersault through a hoop while whistling The Star-Spangled Banner, but in fact the message was this: "So long, and thanks for all the fish."

[benld74]

8. FORTY-TWO

[benld74]

9. FORTY-TWO

[FLPanhandle]

10. What was the question again?

:rofl: Great story.

[SharonAnn]

11. What is the answer to life, the universe, and everything?

[lumberjack_jeff]

12. Sometimes there just aren't enough towels. n/t

[pinboy3niner]

13. "So long, and thanks for all the (DEAD) fish." nt

[ipfilter]

16. Oh freddled gruntbuggly

thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.
Groop I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes.
And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon,
see if I don't!

[FLPanhandle]

17. Actually, I quite liked it.

:)

[nilram]

18. omg. he got this one so right. k&r,r,r.