Apr 20, 2005 11:15
ok so i might be the only one who thought that this was hilarious but i have to share. i am only posting this for my own amusment
"One of the major problems encountered with time travel is not of accidently becoming your father or your mother. There is no problem involved in becoming your father or your mother that a broadminded and well adjusted family cant cope with.
There is also no problem about changing the course of history...All the important changes have happened before the things they were supposed to change and it all sorts itself out in the end. The major problem is quite simply grammar, and the main work to consult in this matter is Dr Dan Streetmentioners 'Time travelers handbook of 10001 tense Formations' It will tell you for instance how to describe something that was about to happen to you in the past before you avioded it by time jumping forward two days in order to aviod it...Most readers will get as far as the Future Semi-Conditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional before giving up.
example: You can arrive (mayan arrivan on when) for any sitting you like without prior ( late fore-when) reservaton because you can book retrospectively, as it were when you return to your own time. ( you can have on-book haventa forewhen presooning returningwneta retro home)" Douglas Adams-The Resaurant at the End of the Universe.
the book goes on like this for two pages, if you havnt read the Hitch Hickers Guide to the Galaxy series you have to! its one of those books that are so good to read im forcing myself not to zoom thru it, so i can savour the characters and the story. i know ill miss them when i finish. they are classics. These books have got everything including grammar jokes.