With a footnote to the effect that the editors would welcome applications from anyone interested in taking over the post of robotics correspondent.

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

You can hear this line at 00:23:36.507 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

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- I don't think I can stand that robot much longer.

- The Encyclopedia Galactica defines a robot as, a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man.

- The Marketing Division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot as, 'your plastic pal, who's fun to be with!'

- Your plastic pal who's fun to be with.

- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy defines the Marketing Division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as, 'a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.'

- With a footnote to the effect that the editors would welcome applications from anyone interested in taking over the post of robotics correspondent.

- An edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica that fell through a time warp from 1000 years in the future, defines the Sirius Cybernetics Corp.'s Marketing Division as 'a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came.'

- I think this ship is brand new.

- Why, have you got some exotic device, for measuring the age of metal?

- No, I just found this sales brochure lying on the floor. It says, 'The universe can be yours for a mere five quilliad Altairian dollars.

- Cheap?

- A quilliad is a whole page full of noughts with a one at the beginning.

[...]

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