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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.

"`You ARE Zaphod Beeblebrox?'
`Yeah,' said Zaphod, `but don't shout it out or they'll all
want one.'
`THE Zaphod Beeblebrox?'
`No, just A Zaphod Bebblebrox, didn't you hear I come in
six packs?'
`But sir,' it squealed, `I just heard on the sub-ether
radio report. It said you were dead...'
`Yeah, that's right, I just haven't stopped moving yet.'"

-- Zaphod and the Guide's receptionist.