Quiet. I present you with a simple choice. Think very carefully, for your very lives lie in your hands.

Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz (Martin Benson)

8 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 2 sitcom.

You can hear this line at 00:05:53.278 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

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[...]

- The very worst poetry of all, and its creator, Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings, of Greenbridge, Essex, England, perished in the destruction of the planet Earth. Vogon poetry is mild by comparison.

- Now the jurpling slayjid agrocrustles are slurping hagrilly up the axlegrurts and living glupules frart and stipulate likejowling meated liverslime...

- Groop, I implore thee my foonting turlingdromes, and hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles.

- Or else I shall rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon. See if I don't!

- So, earthlings...

- I'm not an earthling.

- Quiet. I present you with a simple choice. Think very carefully, for your very lives lie in your hands.

- Now choose, either die, in the vacuum of space, or, tell me how good you thought my poem was.

- I liked it.

- Huh?

- Oh, yes. I thought that some of the metaphysical imagery was really particularly effective.

- Yes.

- Oh... And... Interesting rhythmic devices which seemed to counterpoint the... Um... Um...

- Counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor of the...

- The humanity...

- Vogonity!

- Oh, Vogonity, sorry, of the poet's compassionate soul.

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