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| "... otherwise have been an awkward moment of silence.
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| Ford and Arthur shuffled
their feet and furiously avoided each other's eyes.
"Er ..." said Arthur after a moment, "what exactly was it that was wrong
with your planet then?"
"Oh, it was doomed, as I said," said the Captain, "Apparently it was going
to crash into the sun or something.
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crash into us.
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it was."
"Oh," said the first officer suddenly, "I thought it was that the planet
was going to be invaded by a gigantic swarm of twelve foot piranha bees.
Wasn't that it?"
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| more pieces |
| taken from |
the restaurant at the end of the universe
by Douglas N. Adams ©
BBC
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