Hitchhiker's Guide Quote Bot<p>Hence a phrase that has passed into hitchhiking slang, as in "Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is." (Sass: know, be aware of, meet, have sex with; hoopy: really together guy; frood: really amazingly together guy.)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HitchhikersGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HitchhikersGuide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DouglasAdams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DouglasAdams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bot</span></a></p>
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Hitchhiker's Guide Quote Bot<p>The moon was out in a watery way. It looked like a ball of paper from the back pocket of jeans that have just come out of the washing machine, which only time and ironing would tell if it was an old shopping list or a five pound note.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HitchhikersGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HitchhikersGuide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DouglasAdams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DouglasAdams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bot</span></a></p>
Hitchhiker's Guide Quote Bot<p>Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again.<br>It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HitchhikersGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HitchhikersGuide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DouglasAdams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DouglasAdams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bot</span></a></p>
Hitchhiker's Guide Quote Bot<p>This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything...</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HitchhikersGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HitchhikersGuide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DouglasAdams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DouglasAdams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bot</span></a></p>
Hitchhiker's Guide Quote Bot<p>If any of them had chosen to look out of the window at that moment, they would have been startled by the sight of Ford Prefect dropping past them to his certain death and flipping the finger at them.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HitchhikersGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HitchhikersGuide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DouglasAdams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DouglasAdams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bot</span></a></p>
N-gated Hacker News<p>🎉🎙️ Wow, a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/podcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>podcast</span></a> episode that toasts Douglas Adams by regurgitating the same title ad nauseam, proving once again that redundancy is the highest form of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/homage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>homage</span></a>. 🎂🔄 Meanwhile, they attempt intergalactic comedy as if interspersing random sci-fi jargon with birthday wishes will somehow summon Adams' legendary wit. 🚀🙃<br><a href="https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com/blog/adams-birthday-toast/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">multiverseemployeehandbook.com</span><span class="invisible">/blog/adams-birthday-toast/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DouglasAdams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DouglasAdams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IntergalacticComedy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IntergalacticComedy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SciFiRedundancy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciFiRedundancy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BirthdayWishes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BirthdayWishes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ngated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ngated</span></a></p>
Hacker News<p>So Long and Thanks for All the Words: A Toast to Douglas Adams</p><p><a href="https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com/blog/adams-birthday-toast/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">multiverseemployeehandbook.com</span><span class="invisible">/blog/adams-birthday-toast/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DouglasAdams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DouglasAdams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Toast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Toast</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Toasters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Toasters</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tribute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tribute</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LiteraryGenius" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiteraryGenius</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceFiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a></p>
Hitchhiker's Guide Quote Bot<p>"Colin," he said, turning to the little, hovering ball. "I am going to abandon you to your fate."<br>"I'm so happy," said Colin.<br>"Make the most of it," said Ford. "Because what I want you to do is nursemaid that package out of the building. They'll probably incinerate you when they find you, and I won't be here to help. It will be very, very nasty for you, and that's just too bad. Got it?"<br>"I gurgle with pleasure," said Colin.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HitchhikersGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HitchhikersGuide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DouglasAdams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DouglasAdams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bot</span></a></p>
Hitchhiker's Guide Quote Bot<p>"Very deep," said Arthur, "you should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HitchhikersGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HitchhikersGuide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DouglasAdams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DouglasAdams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bot</span></a></p>
Hitchhiker's Guide Quote Bot<p>Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HitchhikersGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HitchhikersGuide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DouglasAdams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DouglasAdams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bot</span></a></p>
Hitchhiker's Guide Quote Bot<p>"The best conversation I had was over forty million years ago," continued Marvin. ..."And that was with a coffee machine."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HitchhikersGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HitchhikersGuide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DouglasAdams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DouglasAdams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bot</span></a></p>
Hitchhiker's Guide Quote Bot<p>Lallafa had lived in the forests of the Long Lands of Effa.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HitchhikersGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HitchhikersGuide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DouglasAdams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DouglasAdams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bot</span></a></p>
Dr. J. Kasmire, not a cyborg<p>I needed a new "comfort read" audio book, got Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul (which might be my favourite book ever).</p><p>Ready to comfortably giggle to myself about electric monks, zen navigation, angry deities, and rotating couches. </p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/DouglasAdams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DouglasAdams</span></a></p>
Marc Rothera<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ChrisMayLA6</span></a></span> I see Daniel Tunkelang was 2 years ahead of me in the thought( and far more graceful than I could be in the exposition) of how right <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/DouglasAdams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DouglasAdams</span></a> was (once again)</p><p><a href="https://dtunkelang.medium.com/the-ultimate-question-f09ff8905283" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">dtunkelang.medium.com/the-ulti</span><span class="invisible">mate-question-f09ff8905283</span></a></p>
Hitchhiker's Guide Quote Bot<p>Most readers of Dr. Dan Streetmentioner's Time Traveler's Handbook of 1001 Tense Transformations get as far as the Future Semiconditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional before giving up; and in fact in later editions of the book all pages beyond this point have been left blank to save on printing costs.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HitchhikersGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HitchhikersGuide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DouglasAdams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DouglasAdams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bot</span></a></p>
Hitchhiker's Guide Quote Bot<p>"Voon," the mattress wurfed at last, "and was it a magnificent occasion?"<br>"Reasonably magnificent. The entire thousand-mile-long bridge spontaneously folded up its glittering spans and sank weeping into the mire, taking everybody with it."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HitchhikersGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HitchhikersGuide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DouglasAdams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DouglasAdams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bot</span></a></p>
Hitchhiker's Guide Quote Bot<p>He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HitchhikersGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HitchhikersGuide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DouglasAdams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DouglasAdams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bot</span></a></p>
Hitchhiker's Guide Quote Bot<p>"We can charge the Unnecessarily Painful Slow Death torpedoes on the trip. Hyperspace static will give them a little extra sting."<br>Jeltz nodded approvingly. "You, Mown, are an utter bastard."<br>"Thanks, Dad," he said.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HitchhikersGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HitchhikersGuide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DouglasAdams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DouglasAdams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bot</span></a></p>
Hitchhiker's Guide Quote Bot<p>The Guide says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster. It says that the effect of a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster is like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HitchhikersGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HitchhikersGuide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DouglasAdams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DouglasAdams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bot</span></a></p>
Hitchhiker's Guide Quote Bot<p>The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying "And another thing..." twenty minutes after admitting he's lost the argument.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HitchhikersGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HitchhikersGuide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DouglasAdams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DouglasAdams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bot</span></a></p>
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