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the effect of drinking a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster is like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick. The Guide also
(a Hooloovoo is a super-intelligent shade of the colour blue).
A team of seven three-foot-high market analysts fell out of it and died, partly of asphyxiation, partly of surprise.
the Best Bang since the Big One, and recently voted the Worst Dressed Sentient Being in the Known Universe for the seventh time
“Hey doll, is this guy boring you? Why don’t you talk to me instead? I’m from a different planet.”
‘That’s right,’ shouted Vroomfondel, ‘we demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!’
‘I just materialized out of thin air in one of your cafés,’ he said, ‘as a result of an argument with the ghost of my great-grandfather. No sooner had I got there than my former self, the one that operated on my brain, popped into my head and said, “Go see Zarniwoop.” I have never heard of the cat. That is all I know. That and the fact that I’ve got to find the man who rules the Universe.’
Number Two’s eyes narrowed and became what are known in the Shouting and Killing People trade as cold slits,
Those who are born immortal instinctively know how to cope with it, but Wowbagger was not one of them. Indeed he had come to hate them, the load of serene bastards.
But you may be interested to know that I am singlehandedly responsible for the evolved shape of the animal you came to know in later centuries as a giraffe.
Only twenty minutes ago he had decided he would go mad, and now here he was already chasing a sofa across the fields of prehistoric Earth.
No one really knows what mattresses are meant to gain from their lives either. They are large, friendly, pocket-sprung creatures which live quiet private lives in the marshes of Sqornshellous Zeta. Many of them get caught, slaughtered, dried out, shipped out and slept on. None of them seem to mind this and all of them are called Zem.
Ford and Arthur decided just to relax and be harrowed.
On the way back they sang a number of tuneful and reflective songs on the subjects of peace, justice, morality, culture, sport, family life and the obliteration of all other life forms.
‘I beg your minuscule pardon?’ roared Thor.
‘Thy knotted and combined locks to part, and each particular hair to stand on end like quills upon the fretful porpentine’
The Fuolornis Fire Dragons were revered throughout the lands of Brequinda in the Foth of Avalars for their savage beauty, their noble ways and their habit of biting people who didn’t revere them.
