Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
This is a collection of quotes from Douglas Adams' famous “Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy”.
To install these fortunes, copy the .dat file to your fortunes directory (possibly /usr/games/lib/fortunes
). To use it, simply type: fortune hitchhiker
Download: fortune-hitchhiker.tgz (Last Update 2005-06-11)
Guillaume Rousse maintains a Mandrake package of this fortune collection at the Penguin Liberation Front.
"The story goes that I first had the idea for THHGTTG while
lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck (or `Spain' as the BBC
TV publicity department authorititively has it, probably
because it's easier to spell)." -- Foreward by DNA.
FORD Six pints of bitter. And quickly please, the
world's about to
end.
BARMAN Oh yes, sir? Nice weather for it.
lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck (or `Spain' as the BBC
TV publicity department authorititively has it, probably
because it's easier to spell)." -- Foreward by DNA.
FORD Six pints of bitter. And quickly please, the
world's about to
end.
BARMAN Oh yes, sir? Nice weather for it.