hehehehe
Gotta love Douglas Adams
I think though that the four pints are to cushion the shock of traveling as you get picked up by the alien spaceship and combined with the salt of the peanuts assist in recuperating from the journey across light years.
The first requirement there being : finding aliens in a nearby spaceship willing to give you a ride after they've picked up your signal as you ask for a hitch....I fear we wont have time to get that far....
So we're left with the SOP of the paper bag over our heads for us poor non-escaping Earth based simians....
even though it wont help
There might be enough time to market some fashionable "End-of-the-World" color accessorized bags? But then again, nowhere to spend the earnings afterward...
maybe I'll just chuck a sickie for the rest of the next 2 weeks just in case...
I wont even worry about imaging anything since there's a chance we could get a whole new point of perspective....
I wonder if our collective last words will be:
"My God...Its full of stars!"
frank
PS: I think historians will describe the last couple of decades as the "doomsayers" years....seems more and more we hear of catastrophes that we should fear and are going to end the world as we know it....hole in ozone, war, weapons of mass deception, global warming, particle accelerators, Cabinet reshuffles...
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Originally Posted by Ric
Four pints of Lager and a packet of salted peanuts to cushion the shock. 
Oh and put a paper bag over our head but only if you think it will help.
I think that's the SOP according to the great Douglas Adams.  |