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.
"`Hand me the rap-rod, Plate Captain.'
The little waiter's eyebrows wandered about his forehead in
confusion.
`I beg your pardon, sir?' he said.
`The phone, waiter,' said Zaphod, grabbing it off him.
`Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't
fall off.'"
-- Zaphod discovers that waiters are the least hip people
in the Universe.
The little waiter's eyebrows wandered about his forehead in
confusion.
`I beg your pardon, sir?' he said.
`The phone, waiter,' said Zaphod, grabbing it off him.
`Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't
fall off.'"
-- Zaphod discovers that waiters are the least hip people
in the Universe.