artsitis

Something I wrote a while back - just started reading this again, and it still makes me laugh

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I bought a book. It`s not an ordinary book, a normal book, or even a regular book. It`s a compendium of the best stuff found on the hard drive of Douglas Adams after he died, as well as tributes to him from his friends. Douglas Adams had some REALLY cool friends.

I didn`t know he was freakishly tall, I didn`t know he was buddies with John Cleese, what I did know is he was painfully funny - he made people (myself included) laugh so hard it hurt. It`s a damned shame that he died so young - if you appreciate him at all, buy the book, don`t wait for paperback, and laugh along with one of the funniest men of our time...

Here`s a small clip...

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"Why is the only question that bothers people enough to have an entire letter of the alphabet named after it.
The alphabet does not go "A B C D What? When? How?" but it does go "V W X Why? Z."
"Why?" is always the most difficult question to answer. You know where you are when someone asks you "What`s the time?" or "When was the battle of 1066?" or "How do these seatbelts work that go tight when you slam the brakes on, Daddy?" The answers are easy, and are, respectively, "Seven-thirty-five in the evening," "Ten-fifteen in the morning," and "Don`t ask stupid questions."

Or this one:
"Will you go to bed with me?"
"Why?"
There`s only ever been one good answer to that question, "Why?" and perhaps we should have that in the alphabet as well. There`s room for it. "Why?" doesn`t have to be the last word, it isn`t even the last letter. How would it be if the alphabet ended not, "V W X Why? Z," but "V W X Why not?"

Don`t ask stupid questions.
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I don`t know why I laughed at that, it`s prepoterous... but I laughed, and laughed, and laughed... and I put down the book, because I knew if I felt any better, I`d never get any sleep.