Douglas Adams appreciation thread

[Argyle_Smurf]

A thread for various memories and quotes from the great man.

I'll begin with a brief set from the Meaning of Liff (from Wiki):

* AALST (n.) One who changes his name to be further to the front
* ABOYNE (vb.) To beat an expert at a game of skill by playing so appallingly that none of his clever tactics or strategies are of any use to him.
* CLIXBY (adj.) Politely rude. Briskly vague. Firmly uninformative.
* FAIRYMOUNT (vb. n.) Polite word for buggery.
* LAXOBIGGING (ptcpl.vb.) Struggling to extrude an extremely large turd.
* SHOEBURYNESS (abs.n.) The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom
* WOKING (vb.) To enter the kitchen with the precise determination to perform something only to forget what it is just before you do it.

[Argyle_Smurf]

In the begining the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move. - (The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy)

[Argyle_Smurf]

"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"

Quoted by Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion