What we all want to know is … were there any takers?
I wasn’t going to post this because I thought it was only mildly funny, but things keep reminding me of it, and it gets funnier every time.
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313- is Detroit
Essentially identical joke reposted from HHGTG, @yyy.
“Look at me, I design coastlines, I got an award for Norway. Where’s the sense in that? None that I’ve been able to make out. I’ve been doing fiords all my life, for a fleeting moment they become fashionable and I get a major award. In this replacement Earth we’re building they’ve given me Africa to do, and of course, I’m doing it with all fjords again, because I happen to like them. And I’m old fashioned enough to think that they give a lovely baroque feel to a continent. And they tell me it’s not equatorial enough… what does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things of course, but I’d far rather be happy than right any day!”
