6d ago

Things were better back then, my ass!

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The words are from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but aren't the images stills from The Neverending Story?
Is this one of those '"Use the Force, Luke" -Gandalf, with an image of Harry Potter' type memes?
Or am I going mad? 😄
- It’s Princess Irulan played by Virginia Madsen in the 1984 version of Dune
  
  I get the confusion though, looks like same kinda lighting and ECU as they use for the Golden-eyed Commander of Wishes in Neverending Story.
  
  Aha! Thank you.
- Yoink!
- Just add "- Terry Pratchett" to complete it
  
  In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
  — Terry Pratchett
  — Michael Scott
  
  I mean, Pratchett and Adams hung around each other and influenced each other's work, so...
- Yes
  
  Perfect answer. No notes.
- Dune, actually.
  
  I saw this and thought of the movie Love Actually but with Dune characters and meow I feel like a silly goose.
- Aren't we all...
- Or am I going mad? 😄
  Multiple things can be true at the same time... 🤪
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
I’ve had my thumb out for years and haven’t caught sign of a single ship, I’m fairly sure the hyperspace bypass was built to go around this backwater planet not through it.
- Has anyone heard from the dolphins lately?
  
  So long and thanks for all the fish.
Re-read the 5-part trilogy recently. So good...
The Matrix was right. Lynch's Dune was peak humanity.
I think the entire idea of going down from the trees was also a bad idea.
- I don't know about that. Digital watches are pretty neat.
- Some of our ancestors had the right idea of just going back into the ocean.
"Things" might not have been better as a whole 20 years ago but my knees and back sure as shit were.
But of course time is an illusion.
Lunchtime doubly so.
I read it in her voice.
-- Marie Curie
- *Maria Skłodowska-Curie

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