>>These are superb. I especially like # 6 - subtle and compact.
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>I loved that too - perfect.
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>>But I do know where # 9 got his/her inspiration:
>>The Vogon ship hung in the stratosphere exactly the way a brick wouldn't.
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>I thought I'd heard similar before. Well remembered.
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When I first read THHGTTG, this was a line that just seemed to really hit my funny bone and stuck with me.

While I loved # 6, I think of all the kids who wrote these, the kid I would most like to be able to sit and chat with is the one who wrote # 14. There is a kid with a true sense of the absurd and the ability to handle real tongue-in-cheek mockery.