{"id":933,"date":"2005-10-04T00:00:56","date_gmt":"2005-10-04T06:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=933"},"modified":"2005-10-04T00:00:56","modified_gmt":"2005-10-04T06:00:56","slug":"quoting-hitchhikers-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2005\/20051004-933.htm","title":{"rendered":"Quoting Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t the energy for a really useful post, so instead I will give you a crash course in quoting <a href=\"books\/adams_d-hitchhikers.htm\"><i>The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy<\/i><\/a> by Douglas Adams.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Ford, there&#8217;s an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for <i>Hamlet<\/i> they&#8217;ve just worked out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Did you realize that most people&#8217;s lives are governed by telephone numbers?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can work out your personality problems to ten decimal places if it will help.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Come,&#8221; called the old man, &#8220;come now or you will be late.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Late?&#8221; said Arthur.  &#8220;What for?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;What is your name, human?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Dent.  Arthur Dent,&#8221; said Arthur.<br \/>\n&#8220;Late, as in the late Dentarthurdent,&#8221; said the old man sternly.  &#8220;It&#8217;s a sort of threat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But in fact, the message was this: <i>So long and thanks for all the fish.<\/i>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are of course many problems connected with life, of which the most popular are <i>Why are people born?  Why do they die?  Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Answer to the Great Question&#8230;Of Life, the Universe and Everything&#8230;Is&#8230;Is&#8230;Forty-two,&#8221; said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Potential Questions for the answer to the great question of Life, the Universe and Everything: &#8216;What&#8217;s yellow and dangerous?&#8217; <i>Forty-two<\/i> Nah.  &#8216;What do you get if you multiply six by seven?&#8217; <i>Forty-two<\/i> Too literal. I got it!  &#8216;How many roads must a man walk down?&#8217;  <i>Forty-two.<\/i>  That&#8217;s it!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The note said, &#8216;This is probably the best button to push.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This book is awesome.  You should read it.  I&#8217;m using it to procrastinate studying for Biochemistry.  And it works just great.  It&#8217;s hilarious.  It&#8217;s inane.  It&#8217;s insane.  It&#8217;s too true.  You really, really should read it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t the energy for a really useful post, so instead I will give you a crash course in quoting The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. &#8220;Ford, there&#8217;s an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they&#8217;ve just worked out.&#8221; &#8220;Did you realize &#8230; <a title=\"Quoting Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2005\/20051004-933.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Quoting Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[2],"tags":[550,915],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}