Tuesday, January 29, 2008

"'Since we decided a few weeks ago to adopt the leaf as legal tender, we have, of course, all become immensely rich.'

'But we have also,' continued the management consultant, 'run into a small inflation problem on account of the high level of leaf availability, which means that, I gather, the current going rate has something like three deciduous forests buying one ship's peanut.'

'So in order to obviate this problem,' he continued, 'and effectively revalue the leaf, we are about to embark on a massive defoliation campaign, and ... er, burn down all the forests.

The crowd seemed a little uncertain about this for a second or two until someone pointed out how much this would increase the value of the leaves in their pockets whereupon they let out whoops of delight.

'You're all mad,' explained Ford Prefect."

-HGTTG

"The best part of the chocolate chip cookie is the chocolate chip and not the cookie. That is why, volume wise, there is less chocolate chip then there is cookie."

-As lucid as I'm going to get at this time of the day