ARTHUR Well that sounds quite sensible to me.

ZAPHOD What do you know about it apeman?

- The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts by Douglas Adams
Episode: Fit The Fifth
First published 1985

- So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish
Chapter 15
By Douglas Adams

“junky, wunky, lunky, stunky, and what’s that other word, and all kinds of bad stuff, woo,” and in another, written only hours later as “being like several thousand square miles of American Express junk mail, but without the same sense of moral depth. Plus the air is, for some reason, yellow.”

There is an ionic diffusion rasp here.
There is a pair of hypersonic pliers here.

(Footnote 10)

>footnote 10

I guess it isn't all that dangerous a place after all.

- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure
First published 1984

>look

Engine Room
Okay, okay, there are a FEW things to see here. This is the room that houses the powerful Infinite Improbability Generator that drives the Heart of Gold. An exit lies fire of here.
Sitting in the corner is a spare, portable Improbability Generator.

ARTHUR
Leave this to me. I'm British.
(with gusto)
I know how to queue.

He confidently takes a number and gets in line with the several hundred others -- feeling very much at home.

HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
by Douglas Adams and Karey Kirkpatrick
3rd Revised Draft 8/8/03

FORD We're in a small galley cabin in one of the spaceships of the Vogon Constructor Fleet.

ARTHUR Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word safe that I wasn't previously aware of.

- The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts by Douglas Adams
Episode: Fit The First
First published 1985

ARTHUR Like a military academy - bits of me keep on passing out. If I asked you where the hell we were would I regret it?

FORD We're safe.

ARTHUR Good.

FORD If you've never been through a matter transference beam before you've probably lost some salt and protein. The beer you had should have cushioned your system a bit. How are you feeling?

and inviting Investigation Officials from the Galactic Geo-Temporal Control Board to "have a nice diurnal anomaly."
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Chapter 5
By Douglas Adams

No adequate explanation for this has been forthcoming from the dominant life forms on Ursa Minor Beta, who spend most of their time attempting to achieve spiritual enlightenment by running around swimming pools,

HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
by Douglas Adams and Karey Kirkpatrick
3rd Revised Draft 8/8/03

INT. HEART OF GOLD. BRIDGE - NIGHT
A knitted version of Arthur, Trillian, Ford and Zaphod sit in chairs before the ships console.

KNITTED ZAPHOD
(clutching stomach)
Is this going to happen every time we hit that button?

KNITTED TRILLIAN
Very probably, yes.

Nine Hundred Worlds of Gorp, but while working on this new masterpiece your asteroid slips into a small passing black
hole. Everything becomes...

Dark

- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure
First published 1984

Lesser Magellanic Cloud, you escape with the help of a tribe of nomadic asteroid painters.

You develop a unique talent for asteroid painting, gaining considerable fame throughout the Cloud. A nickel-ore deluxe is commissioned by His Royal Gorpness Orbifelk, the ruler of the

Three months later the error is discovered, but while your damage suit is pending in the Fronurbdian courts the planet is invaded by Bureaucratic Pirates from Pallidon IV. Impressed into bondage for a 16-year filing and sorting mission on the so-called "basement world" of Sporla in the

- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Chapter 6
By Douglas Adams