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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 last time anybody made a list of the top hundred
character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in
at number 79. ....
When it's fall in New York, the air smells as if someone's
been frying goats in it, and if you are keen to breathe the
best plan is to open a window and stick your head in a
building."

-- Nuff said??