The other Shaltanac’s joopleberry shrub is always a more mauvy…

The other Shaltanac’s joopleberry shrub is always a more mauvy shade of pinky-russet. - The Shaltanac equivalent of “the other man’s grass is always greener”, Fit the Seventh

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Life, as many people have spotted, is, of course, terribly unfair. For instance, the first time the Heart of Gold ever crossed the galaxy the massive improbability field it generated caused two-hundred-and-thirty-nine thousand lightly-fried eggs to materialise in a large, wobbly heap on the famine-struck land of Poghril in the Pansel system. The whole Poghril tribe had just died out from famine, except for one man who died of cholesterol-poisoning some weeks later. The Poghrils, always a pessimistic race, had a little riddle, the asking of which used to give them the only tiny twinges of pleasure they ever experienced. One Poghril would ask another Poghril, “Why is life like hanging upside down with your head in a bucket of hyena offal?” To which the second Poghril would reply “I don’t know, why is life like hanging upside down with your head in a bucket of hyena offal?” To which the first Poghril would reply, “I don’t know either - wretched isn’t it?” (Fit the Ninth) - View Quote Details on Life, as many people have spotted, is, of course, terribly…
[...] the renewed shock had nearly made him spill his drink. He drained it quickly before anything serious happened to it. He then had another quick one to follow the first one down and check that it was all right.
“Freedom,” he said aloud.
Trillian came on to the bridge at that point and said several enthusiastic things on the subject of freedom.
“I can’t cope with it,” Zaphod said darkly, and sent a third drink down to see why the second hadn’t yet reported on the condition of the first. He looked uncertainly at both of her and preferred the one on the right.
He poured a drink down his other throat with the plan that it would head the previous one off at the pass, join forces with it, and together they would get the second to pull itself together. Then all three would go off in search of the first, give it a good talking to and maybe a bit of a sing as well.
He felt uncertain as to whether the fourth drink had understood all that, so he sent down a fifth to explain the plan more fully and a sixth for moral support. - View Quote Details on [...] the renewed shock had nearly made him spill his…
“That is really amazing,” he said. “That really is truly amazing. That is so amazingly amazing I think I’d like to steal it.” –Zaphod - View Quote Details on “That is really amazing,” he said. “That really is truly…
The regular early morning yell of horror was the sound of Arthur Dent waking up and suddenly remembering where he was. - View Quote Details on The regular early morning yell of horror was the sound…
Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. - View Quote Details on Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything…
He [Arthur] 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. - View Quote Details on He [Arthur] hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife…
“If there’s anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.” –Zaphod - View Quote Details on “If there’s anything more important than my ego around, I…
I am the main Dish of the Day. May I interest you in parts of my body? - View Quote Details on I am the main Dish of the Day. May I…
The problem is, or rather one of the problems, for there are many, a sizable number of which are continually clogging up the civil, commercial, and criminal courts in all areas of the Galaxy, and especially, where possible, the more corrupt ones, this. The previous sentence makes sense. That is not the problem. This is: Change. Read it through again and you’ll get it. - View Quote Details on The problem is, or rather one of the problems, for…
“What do you mean, why’s it got to be built?” he said. “It’s a bypass. You’ve got to build bypasses.” –Mr Prosser - View Quote Details on “What do you mean, why’s it got to be built?”…