• Faresh
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    1 year ago

    That reminds me of that scene in the Douglas Adam’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, where

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    the Golgafrinchans invent an incoming world-ending tragedy, in an excuse to send into space all people with useless/supefluous jobs (bureaucrats, hairdressers, telephone cleaners, etc.) to a new planet, saying that the remaining parts of society will come after.

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      1 year ago

      One must not forget that after including people like telephone sanitizers under what they deemed superfluous, the Golgafrinchans all died out from a plague contracted from a dirty telephone.