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- From: ajl@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Lewis AJ)
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- Subject: Re: lots o' questions&annotations for Mort
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 11:34:49 GMT
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- In <1992Nov12.180349.14647@turing.ac.uk> gary@morlich.turing.ac.uk (Gary Smith) writes:
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- >|> p.168..."When a man is tired of Ankh-Morpork, he is tired of ankle-
- >|> deep slurry." Something or someplace has a motto, "When you're
- >|> tired of ____, you're tired of life" or some such.
-
- > This is a reference to Adams' "Restaurant At The End Of The Universe".
- > It was an advertising line which was thought up by the The Restaurant's
- > marketing chappies -
- > "When you're tired of Milliways, you're tired of life itself."
- > (For those who are unfamiliar with RATEOTU, "Milliways" was the name of
- > this very special eating establishment.)
-
- Nope, sorry - the gist of the Milliways slogan was something like "If you've
- done six impossible things this morning, try breakfast at Milliways, TRATEOTU"
-
- There was a nice little line about the time "...when one copy of 'Playbeing'
- contained the quote 'When you're tired of Ursa Minor Beta you're tired of
- life', the suicide rate in the contillation quadrupled overnight", but
- I think that DA just nicked it from somewhere else.
-
- I've probably garbled these quite a lot, so no flames from ardent Hitchhikers
- fans.
-
- Andy
-
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- Andy Lewis (ajl@ecs.soton.ac.uk) |
- Department of Electronics | A juggler without a theme...
- and Computer Science |
- University of Southampton |
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