Microsoft-Paul Allen

Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Wed Oct 24 04:45:31 CDT 2018


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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