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𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒊𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒉𝒊𝒌𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝑮𝒖𝒊𝒅𝒆
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Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded social media account.
The story of this terrible, stupid Thursday, the story of its extraordinary consequences, and the story of how these consequences are inextricably intertwined with this remarkable book begins very simply.

It begins with a house.
May 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
April 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
[Ford] Hi, Arthur, what are you doing?

[Arthur] I'm trying to teach them Scrabble. It's uphill work. The only word they know is "Ugh," and they can't spell it.
April 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
[Captain] What about this wheel? They say it's a fascinating project.
[Marketing Girl] We're having a little difficulty there.
[Ford] Difficulty? Its the single simplest machine in the entire Universe!
[Marketing Girl] All right, Mr. Wiseguy! You're so clever, you tell us what colour it should be!
April 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
[Zaphod] Hey, Marvin, how would you like to...
[Marvin] ...lay down my life selflessly? Make the ultimate sacrifice? Consign my brain, which is the size of a planet, to death in a blazing sun, so that you can all pursue your futile little lives?
[Zaphod] Yeah, Nothing personal.
[Marvin] All right.
April 16, 2025 at 12:59 PM
[Zaphod] Hey, Marvin! We've got a job for you.
[Marvin] I won't enjoy it.
[Zaphod] Yes, you will. There's a whole new life stretching out in front of you!
[Marvin] Oh, not another one!
[Zaphod] Shut up and listen!
There'll be excitement and adventure and really wild things!
[Marvin] Sounds awful.
April 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The first ten million years were the worst. And the second ten million... they were the worst, too. The third ten million I didn't enjoy at all. After that, I went into a bit of a decline.

—Marvin the Paranoid Android
April 1, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I hope you will all enjoy with me what I know you will find a
tremendously exciting and terminal experience. Believe me, ladies and gentlemen, there is nothing penultimate about this one.

This one, ladies and gentlemen, is the proverbial IT!

—Max Quordlepleen
March 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
March 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
If you've done 6 impossible things this morning...

Why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways...

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe?
March 20, 2025 at 12:16 PM
[Waiter] If the lady and gentlemen would like to order drinks before dinner ...

[Zaphod] Yeah, great!

[Waiter] ... and the Universe will explode later for your pleasure.

[Ford] Wow! What sort of drinks do you serve in this place?

[Waiter] I think sir has misunderstood me.

[Ford] I hope not!
March 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
[Ford] There's no way we could have survived that blast.
[Trillian] None at all
[Zaphod] I certainly didn't survive, I was a total goner! Wham! Bam! And that was it!
[Ford] Yeah, We were blown to bits, arms and legs everywhere!
[Zaphod] Yeah! Kerpow! Splat!

[Waiter] Would you care to order drinks?
March 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM
[Arthur] All my life I've had this feeling in my bones that something sinister was happening in the Universe and no one would tell me what it was.

[Slartibartfast] That's just perfectly normal paranoia.
Everyone in the Universe has that.

[Arthur] Everyone?

[Slartibartfast] Everyone.
March 6, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The last-ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double-backward somersault through a hoop whilst whistling the Star-Spangled Banner. But in fact, the message was this:

So long and thanks for all the fish.
March 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
[Slartibartfast] You must come with me. Great things are afoot. Come. Come now, or you will be late.

[Arthur] Late? What for?

[Slartibartfast] What is your name, human?

[Arthur] Dent, Arthur Dent.

[Slartibartfast] Late, as in the late Dentarthurdent. It's a sort of threat, you see.
March 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
[Arthur] Night's falling. Look, Robot, the stars are coming out.

[Marvin] I know. Wretched, isn't it?

[Arthur] But that sunset! I've never seen anything like it in my wildest dreams! The two suns ... It was like mountains of fire, boiling into space!

[Marvin] I've seen it. It's rubbish.
March 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
[Zaphod] That is where we have to go, Into the interior of the planet!! Down into the very depths of time itself, where no man has trod these five million years! We are not going to be great or amazing. We are going to be amazingly amazing!

[Marvin] Sounds awful!

[Zaphod] Can it, Marvin!
February 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
A large sperm whale had suddenly been called into existence some miles above the planet's surface. This innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it had to come to terms with suddenly not being a whale any more.
February 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I have seen a similar thing suggested for swallows, but the math is hard
February 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
[Arthur Dent] Oh! I wonder what will happen if I press this button?

[Ford Prefect] Don't!
[BEEP!]

[Arthur Dent] Oh!

[Ford Prefect] What happened?

[Arthur Dent] A sign lit up saying, "Please do not press this button again."
February 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
[Ford Prefect] I think this ship is brand-new, Arthur.

[Arthur Dent] Why, have you got some exotic device for measuring the age of metal?

[Ford Prefect] No. I just found this sales brochure on the floor.
February 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Trillian: Look, don't worry about the aliens. They are just a couple of guys, I expect. I'll send the robot down to check
them out. Hey, Marvin?

Marvin: I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.
February 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Arthur Dent - Well, what happened to the Earth?

Ford Prefect - It's been disintegrated.

Arthur Dent -Has it?

Ford Prefect - Yes. It just boiled away into space.

Arthur Dent - Listen, I'm a bit upset about that.
January 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM

We are about to jump into hyperspace for the journey to Barnard's Star. On arrival, we will stay in dock for 72 hours, and all planet leave is canceled.

I've just had an unhappy love affair, so I don't see why anybody else should have a good time.

— Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz
January 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
January 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM