>>>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.
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>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.

Yeah. Like he'd mixed in his English assignment with a typical maths problem.

No. 7: He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree.

reminds me of a stupid article I read years ago, about Phil Oakey of Human league. It said something like:

"Phil stands 6'6" tall in his 6" stiletto heels". I thought, why not just say he's 6' tall!