DON’T PANIC!

by Bryan

Oh, the rumor about a Vogon constructor ship disguising itself as a comet last year was not true, but I almost missed it anyway.

10 comments

1 jams o donnell { 05.26.07 at 2:14 am }: Oh Belgium I missed the day! I must put it in my calendar…
2 Mitch { 05.26.07 at 7:37 am }: It’s also Universal Day of the Jedi – may the towel be with you friends.
3 Bryan { 05.26.07 at 11:50 am }: I have it marked and almost missed it as I assumed it was for Memorial Day [our version of Remembrance Day].

Mitch, if the “prequels” had never come out, I might be on-board with that, but they lost me with those turkeys.
4 hipparchia { 05.26.07 at 1:59 pm }: aargh! i missed it!

oh well. while i loved the hitchhiker series, dirk gently’s holistic detective agency is still my favorite. i still harbor some resentment against doug adams for only writing two of those before he kicked off.
5 Bryan { 05.26.07 at 2:54 pm }: He was having us all on, but we knew it and loved it.
6 Steve Bates { 05.26.07 at 4:36 pm }: Sigh. Sorry I missed the day. But I did not forget my towel. It served me well yesterday, as it has many other days.

Like hipparchia, I really appreciated Dirk Gently, but Holistic and Teatime were just not enough… I wish Adams had lived to write more of them.

If you haven’t read the posthumous collection of Adams-related miscellany called The Salmon of Doubt, it’s well worth your time.
7 Bryan { 05.26.07 at 5:16 pm }: He was a truly funny man is a bent sort of way, but he appealed to my sense of humor.
8 oldwhitelady { 05.26.07 at 5:58 pm }: I didn’t realize there was such a day. My towel is in the car. It’s not an especially bright or pretty one, but it will get the job done, no matter what is needed;)
9 Bryan { 05.26.07 at 8:28 pm }: That’s what towels are for, OWL, to get the job done. And that’s what people who have them do – throughout the universe.
10 hipparchia { 05.29.07 at 11:54 am }: salmon of doubt: just now added it to my to-read list. thanks for the tip.

Quotes

"It's better to be six feet apart right now than six feet under."

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer

"Blognito ergo sum!"

The Culture Ghost

"Caedite eos! Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius."

Abbé Arnaud-Amaury of Citeaux

"Das war ein Vorspiel nur, dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen."

Heinrich Heine

"Все счастливые семьи похожи друг на друга, каждая несчастливая семья несчастлива по-своему."

Толстой Лев Николаевич

"Кто что ни говори, а подобные происшествия бывают на свете, - редко, но бывают."

Гоголь Николай Васильевич

"A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them."

Mark Twain

"There are two novels that can change a bookish 14-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

John Rogers

"The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it."

Sir Terry Pratchett

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