It is, of course, well known that careless talk costs lives, but the full scale of the problem is not always appreciated.

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communication consequences peter jones talking the hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy book

7 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 4 sitcom.

You can hear this line at 00:20:00.679 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

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- Now? To meet mice? You want me to meet mice now?

- It won't be a great social occasion, I'm afraid.

- Repeat, at once!

- I seem to be having this tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle.

- I beg your pardon?

- What? I'm sorry. Fatuous thing to say, really.

- I thought so.

- It is, of course, well known that careless talk costs lives, but the full scale of the problem is not always appreciated.

- For instance, at the very moment that Arthur said, 'I seem to be having this tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle'...

- A freak wormhole opened up in the fabric of the space-time continuum, and carried his words far back in time, across infinite reaches of space to a distant galaxy, where strange, war-like beings were poised on the brink of frightful interstellar battle.

- The two opposing leaders were meeting for the last time.

- And a dreadful silence fell across the conference table as the commander of the Vl'hurgs, resplendent in his red-jewelled battle shorts, gazed levelly at the G'Gugvunt leader squatting opposite him.

- In a cloud of green sweet-smelling steam, and with one million sleek, horribly be-weaponed star-cruisers poised to unleash electric death at his single word of command, challenged the vile creature to take back what it had said about his mother.

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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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