"Listen, bud," said Ford, "if I had one Altairian dollar for every time I heard one bit of the Universe look at another bit of the Universe and say 'That's terrible' I wouldn't be sitting here like a lemon looking for a gin. "They're completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it." "Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happenned to them," he said. "I said," said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, "have you got any gin?" "Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. "But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?" "Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course." "You mean they actually vote for the lizards?" "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want." "It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't people get rid of the lizards?" "Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy." The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people." The quote itself has become a modern idiom for shutting down business or retiring from a position, inspired by the dolphins in The. Nothing anything like so straightforward. So long and thanks for all the fish, Douglas Adams. "No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. "You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?" “It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see."
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