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minus-squareNeatNit@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-218 hours agoI can see the similarity but IMO this isn’t that close to Douglas Adams. Edit: did DA make a lot of puns and wordplay? Specifically taking well-known phrases but using their literal interpretation?
minus-squareSekoia@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·13 hours agoWell, in the first bit of the Hitchhiker’s guide, there’s: “You’d better be prepared for the jump into hyperspace. It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.” “What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?” “You ask a glass of water.” Which does fit, even if it’s not necessarily a “well-known phrase”
minus-squareNeatNit@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·12 hours agoI’ll take it, and I stand corrected.
I can see the similarity but IMO this isn’t that close to Douglas Adams.
Edit: did DA make a lot of puns and wordplay? Specifically taking well-known phrases but using their literal interpretation?
Well, in the first bit of the Hitchhiker’s guide, there’s:
“You’d better be prepared for the jump into hyperspace. It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.”
“What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?”
“You ask a glass of water.”
Which does fit, even if it’s not necessarily a “well-known phrase”
I’ll take it, and I stand corrected.