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* InsignificantLittleBluePlanet: Earh is regarded this way by the Galaxy. Even by Ford, who spent many years here. He upgrades its Guide entry from "Harmless" to "Mostly Harmless."
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* InsignificantLittleBluePlanet: Earh Earth is regarded this way by the Galaxy. Even by Ford, who spent many years here. He upgrades its Guide entry from "Harmless" to "Mostly Harmless."
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-->There was a terrible ghastly silence. There was a terrible ghastly noise. There was a terrible ghastly silence.
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-->There was a terrible ghastly silence. \
There was a terrible ghastlynoise. noise.\
There was a terrible ghastly silence.
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* GradeSystemSnark: "'Ten out of ten' for style, but 'Minus several million' for good thinking."
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* GradeSystemSnark: Zaphod has stolen the Heart of Gold, and he and Trillian are on the run from the police. They stop to pick up hitch-hikers. "'Ten out of ten' for style, but 'Minus several million' for good thinking."
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* SuckinessIsPainful: Vogon poetry, being the third worst in the entire universe, can cause severe pain in those who hear it. Vogons are under no illusions as to the reputation of their poetry, and have special devices prepared to "enhance" the listening pleasure of anyone unfortunate enough to hear it. They're not as awful as the Azgoths of Kria though. When one of them gave a reading of his work, "Ode to a Small Green Lump of Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning", four of the listeners died from internal hemorrhaging and his own internal organs throttled his brain to stop him.
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* SuckinessIsPainful: Vogon poetry, being the third worst in the entire universe, can cause severe pain in those who hear it. Vogons are under no illusions as to the reputation of their poetry, and have special devices prepared to "enhance" the listening pleasure of anyone unfortunate enough to hear it. They're not as awful as the Azgoths of Kria though. When one of them gave a reading of his work, "Ode to a Small Green Lump of Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning", four of the listeners died from internal hemorrhaging and his own internal organs large intestine throttled his brain to stop him.
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* ArtisticLicensePhysics: A nice cup of hot tea is no more of a good source of Brownian motion than any other random liquid with particles suspended in it. It's likely that Adams was mistaking convection currents in the tea (visible when you add milk to it) for Brownian motion.
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* ArtisticLicensePhysics: A nice cup of hot tea is no more of a good source of Brownian motion than any other random liquid with particles suspended in it. It's likely that Adams was mistaking convection currents in the tea (visible when you add milk to it) for Brownian motion. Or he just likes a nice hot cup of tea.
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* PlotParallel: The book starts with Arthur's home unexpectedly about to be demolished to make way for a superhighway. This is interrupted when Arthur's home (planet) is unexpectedly about to be demolished to make way for an (intergalactic) superhighway.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology:
** The introduction calls humans "ape-descended life forms." We didn't descend from apes; we and apes share a common ancestor.
** PlayedForLaughs when it comes to the Vogons. The they stopped evolving millions of years ago because the forces of evolution had "written them off as an ugly and unfortunate mistake" and managed to survive as long as they have through sheer stubbornness until they were able to surgically bypass their anatomical flaws. ''The Restaurant at the End of the Universe'' elaborates.
** The introduction calls humans "ape-descended life forms." We didn't descend from apes; we and apes share a common ancestor.
** PlayedForLaughs when it comes to the Vogons. The they stopped evolving millions of years ago because the forces of evolution had "written them off as an ugly and unfortunate mistake" and managed to survive as long as they have through sheer stubbornness until they were able to surgically bypass their anatomical flaws. ''The Restaurant at the End of the Universe'' elaborates.
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* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: The Captain of the Vogon "constructor fleet" tortures Arthur and Ford with his terrible poetry.
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* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: The Captain of the Vogon "constructor fleet" tortures Arthur and Ford with his terrible poetry.{{poetry}}.
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* AnAesop: The nature of the Universe, especially whether there's any meaning behind it, is pretty much unknowable, and the best thing to do is not worry about it and do what makes you happy. Even the greatest supercomputer in the universe can only communicate meeting through a number.
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* AnAesop: The nature of the Universe, especially whether there's any meaning behind it, is pretty much unknowable, and the best thing to do is not worry about it and do what makes you happy. Even the greatest supercomputer in the universe can only communicate meeting meaning through a number.
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* DiscouragingConcealment: The plans for the highway bypass for which Arthur Dent's house was to be denolished were "on display" in a dark cellar with no stairway in a bottom of a locked filing cabinet in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door reading "Beware of the Leopard". Presumably, this technically satisfied the requirements to make the plans "available" to the public while actually keeping them hidden.
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* MythologyGag: In the discussion on Ford noting humans and their tendency to state the blindingly obvious, an example given is "you seem to have fallen down a thirty foot hole. Are you alright?" This is something Arthur actually asked Zaphod in the second radio series.
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* MonkeysOnATypewriter: One of the side effects of the Infinite Improbability Drive is an infinite number of moneys who have just written a script for ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''.
* MythologyGag: In the discussion on Ford noting humans and their tendency to state the blindingly obvious, an example given is "you seem to have fallen down athirty foot thirty-foot hole. Are you alright?" This is something Arthur actually asked Zaphod in the second radio series.
* MythologyGag: In the discussion on Ford noting humans and their tendency to state the blindingly obvious, an example given is "you seem to have fallen down a
