Douglas Adams on comedy

I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.

In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

Those are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others.

Groucho Marx1890–1977

A guy could have one major limb lying on the ground a full ten feet from the rest of his body, and he’d claim it was ‘just a sprain’.

Dave Barryborn 1947

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