| Young Zaphod Plays it Safe [message #23753] |
So, 01 Mai 2005 21:14 |
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I was once told by a friend that the creature in Young Zaphod Plays It
Safe was a creature that could do anything, as long as it's not told
that it can't do it.
It went to Earth, became Arthur Dent, and had all of the adventures.
The only reason he/it could do these things is because nobody ever told
him he couldn't.
I've never found anything to back up this story. Has anybody here ever
heard such a thing?
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| Re: Young Zaphod Plays it Safe [message #23757 ] |
So, 01 Mai 2005 21:31 |
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In the two thousand and fifth year of Bob, Half-Mad's voice said the
following, in wonderful perfect quadrophonic sound with distortion levels so
low as to make a man weep:
> I was once told by a friend that the creature in Young Zaphod Plays It
> Safe was a creature that could do anything, as long as it's not told
> that it can't do it.
> It went to Earth, became Arthur Dent, and had all of the adventures. The
> only reason he/it could do these things is because nobody ever told him
> he couldn't.
>
> I've never found anything to back up this story. Has anybody here ever
> heard such a thing?
No, it was Ronald Reagan, actually. It's the last line of the revised
version in Salmon of Doubt. :-)
--
John Coxon
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