A listener in Ellsworth, Michigan, shares a favorite simile from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams: The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t. This is part of a complete episode.
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We asked you to send your favorite similes.
And Alex Snyder from Ellsworth, Michigan, reminded us of a great one in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
And the line goes, the ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.
Yeah, that’s from the very first chapter.
Like the first, they don’t even be the first paragraph, right?
Right.
The Vogon Constructor Fleet to come to make an interspace bypass.
Yeah.
Yeah, the ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.
They don’t.
Get to the end of that sentence and it just, the whole thing is.
You’re like, what?
