Curiously enough, the dolphins had long known of the impending demolition of Earth, and had made many attempts to alert mankind to the danger, but their communications were misinterpreted as amusing attempts to punch footballs or whistle for titbits.

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demolition dolphins misinterpretation peter jones the hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy book

16 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 3 sitcom.

You can hear this line at 00:26:55.639 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

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- My name? My name is Slartibartfast.

- I beg your pardon?

- Slartibartfast!

- Slartibartfast?

- I said it wasn't important.

- It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem.

- For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much: The wheel, New York, wars and on. Whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time.

- But, conversely, the dolphins believed that they were more intelligent than man, for precisely the same reasons.

- Curiously enough, the dolphins had long known of the impending demolition of Earth, and had made many attempts to alert mankind to the danger, but their communications were misinterpreted as amusing attempts to punch footballs or whistle for titbits.

- So they eventually gave up and left the Earth by their own means, shortly before the Vogans arrived.

- The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double-backwards somersault through a hoop whilst whistling the Star Spangled Banner, but in fact the message was: 'So long, and thanks for all the fish.'

- In fact, there was only one species on the planet more intelligent than dolphins.

- And they spent a lot of their time in behavioural research laboratories conducting frighteningly elegant and subtle experiments on man.

- The fact that man once again completely misinterpreted this relationship was entirely according to these creatures' plans, as Arthur Dent will shortly discover.

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And lots of the people were mean and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.

Drink up. The world's about to end.

Ancient computers, ranged in the long caves, deep in the bowels of the planet, tick away the dark millennia, and the ages hang heavy on their dusty data banks.

What we demand is solid facts. -No, we don't. That is precisely what we don't demand. -We don't demand solid facts. What we demand is a total absence of solid facts.

By law, the quest for ultimate truth is the inalienable prerogative of your working thinkers. And if the machine actually goes and finds it, we're straight out of a job, aren't we?

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Sound Clip

The funniest lines and quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1981 TV Series, with sound clips.

Actors: Simon Jones (Arthur Dent), David Dixon (Ford Prefect), David Learner (Marvin the Paranoid Android), Peter Jones (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Book), Sandra Dickinson (Trillian Astra), Mark Wing-Davey (Zaphod Beeblebrox), David Tate (Eddie the Computer), Martin Benson (Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz), Richard Evelyn Vernon (Slartibartfast), Valentine Dyall (Deep Thought)

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