There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.
Douglas AdamsWhy are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?
Douglas AdamsThe reason why so many sects hang around airports looking for converts: they know that people there are at their most vulnerable and perplexed, and ready to accept any kind of guidance.
Douglas AdamsMany words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that, were they merely to be breathed in public, the perpetrator would be shunned, barred from polite society, and in extreme cases shot through the lungs, are now thought to be very healthy and proper, and their use in everyday speech and writing is evidence of a well-adjusted, relaxed and totally un****ed-up personality.
Douglas AdamsI rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.
Douglas AdamsIn fact, Lig never formally resigned his editorshipโhe merely left his office late one morning, and has never returned since. Though well over a century has now passed, many members of the Guide staff still retain the romantic notion that he has simply popped out for a sandwich and will yet return to put in a solid afternoon's work. Strictly speaking, all editors since Lig Lury Jr., have therefore been designated acting editors, and Lig's desk is still preserved the way he left it, with the addition of a small sign that says LIG LURY, JR., EDITOR, MISSING, PRESUMED FED.
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