24 Oct
2018
24 Oct
'18
2:45 a.m.
On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 at 19:48, Fred Cisin via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
"The simplistic style is partly explained by the fact that its editors,
having to meet a publishing deadline, copied the information off the back
of a packet of breakfast cereal, hastily embroidering it with a few foot
notes in order to avoid prosecution under the incomprehensibly torturous
Galactic Copyright Laws. Its interesting to note that a later and wilier
editor sent the book backwards in time, through a temporal warp, and then
successfully sued the breakfast cereal company for infringement of the
same laws." -HHGTTG
Speaking as a former president of the official Douglas Adams fanclub,
I am deeply honoured by the comparison. :-D
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