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#107748 07/21/2003 9:11 PM
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>'twas a conceptual pun, or a puny concept, one. The cheque's in the post (and the post's in Czech)


To which I can only reply, "Be like the 22nd elephant with heated value in space - bark!"


#107749 07/22/2003 2:08 AM
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stranger seems somehow appropriate for that one...


just what does that elephant thing mean anyway?



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#107750 07/22/2003 3:37 AM
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>just what does that elephant thing mean anyway?

It was in response to Mav's czech pun, and was stolen from Douglas Adams.
He glanced up apprehensively, and in response to a sudden thought quickly started to rummage through the large plastic shopping bag, which he now discovered had a hole in the bottom.
It had large characters printed on the side which read (to anyone who could decipher the Centaurian alphabet) Duty free Mega-Market, Port Brasta, Alpha Centauri. Be Like the Twenty-Second Elephant with Heated Value in Space - Bark!




#107751 07/22/2003 3:55 AM
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ah. thank you. I remember a few of the mainstream HHG references, 42..babelfish..etc., but that one escaped me.

it may be a good summer to reread those.



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#107752 07/22/2003 4:25 PM
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(who do I owe for the H®?)

We accept dollars; prefer Euros (you get a 10% discount if you remit the latter).


#107753 07/22/2003 6:26 PM
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could you send me the bill?



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