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Would you like to see the menu? he said, or would you like meet the Dish of the Day?...Good evening, it lowed and sat back heavily on its haunches, I am the main Dish of the Day. May I interest you in...

You know, said Arthur, it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what m...

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

You'll have a national Philosopher's strike on your hands!

[The Head of Radio Three] had been ensnared by the Music Director of the college and a Professor of Philosophy. These two were busy explaining to the harassed man that the phrase too much Mozart was,...

During this century (the twentieth) we have for the first time been dominated by non-interactive forms of entertainment: cinema, radio, recorded music and television. Before they came along all entert...

When John Lloyd was putting together the Not 1982 calendar, and was stuck for things to put on the bottoms of the pages (and also the tops and quite a few middles). He turned out the drawer, chose a d...

Don't panic and carry a towel

A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.

A towel, [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for...

But what about the End of the Universe? We'll miss the big moment.I've seen it. It's rubbish, said Zaphod,nothing but a gnab gib.A what?Opposite of a big bang. Come on, let's get zappy.

Fall, though, is the worst. Few things are worse than fall in New York. Some of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats would disagree, but most of the things that live in the lower intes...

For when you are put into the Vortex you are given just one momentary glimpse of the entire unimaginable infinity of creation, and somewhere in it a tiny little marker, a microscopic dot on a microsco...

Ford... you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.

Gordon Way's astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing compared to his astonishment at what happened next.

He had a tremendous propensity for getting lost when driving. This was largely because of his method of Zen navigation, which was simply to find any car that looked as if it knew where it was going an...

I commend you on your skepticism, but even the skeptical mind must be prepared to accept the unacceptable when there is no alternative. If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at leas...

I vaguely remember my schooldays. They were what was going on in the background while I was trying to listen to the Beatles.

I'm up to here with cool, okay? I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.

I've never understood all this fuss people make about the dawn. I've seen a few and they're never as good as the photographs, which have the additional advantage of being things you can look at when y...