2 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 4 sitcom.
You can hear this line at 00:19:21.502 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.
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- Ah! Well, maybe that means something? That outside the Universe we know, some alien intelligence...
- Maybe. Who cares?
- Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say: hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.
- 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 fjords all my life. For a fleeting moment, they become fashionable, I get a major award.
- In this replacement Earth we're doing, I've been given Africa, and I'm doing it with whole fjords again because I like them. I'm old-fashioned enough to think they give a lovely baroque feel to a continent. Then, they tell me it's not equatorial enough.
- What does it matter?
- Science has achieved some wonderful things, I know, but I'd far rather be happy than right, any day.
- And are you?
- No. That's where it all falls down, of course.
- Pity. Sounded like a rather good lifestyle, otherwise.
- Attention, please. Would Slartibartfast and the visiting Earth creature, please report at once to the reception area.
- Now? To meet mice? You want me to meet mice now?
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