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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams - eventually continued by Eoin Colfer after Douglas' death - started as a comedy radio play on the BBC in 1978 and expanded into a TV series, a series of novels, and a feature film. The story fol… more »

Arthur Dent:
Ford?

Ford Prefect:
Yes?

Arthur Dent:
He's totally mad, isn't he?

Ford Prefect:
Well, the border between madness and genius is pretty narrow.

Arthur Dent:
So's the Berlin Wall.

Ford Prefect:
The...?

Arthur Dent:
Oh, the Berlin Wall, it's the border between East and West Germany. It's very narrow, I mean the point I'm trying to make is -

Ford Prefect:
Was very narrow. Get your tenses right.

Arthur Dent:
Thank you.

Ford Prefect:
Anything wrong?

Arthur Dent:
On Earth we have a word -

Ford Prefect:
Had a word.

Arthur Dent:
- had a word called 'tact'.

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