I declare that any thread that includes a hitchhikers guide to the galaxy reference should not be closed until said thread reaches 42 posts exactly.
Any change to this policy should require all the bureaucracy that the Vogon's would find necessary to prove that the request is valid and done by the proper authority and completed in triplicate. This would then be followed up by several successive votes of different and completely unrelated councils. :-)
Love your Hitchhiker's reference but the difference is that Vogon's KNOW their poetry and most Mormons do not really know their church. They get pissed when you point out their ignorance. And, they come across as a lot weirder than your average Vogon, without realizing it.
CA girl Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > And, they come across as a lot weirder > than your average Vogon, without realizing it.
>>>asking George W Bush for a honest assessment of WMDs in Iraq. Whether or not both are stupid, intentionally ignorant of the facts, or just outright lying is open for debate.
Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist,'" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing." "But," says Man, "The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED." "Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.