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Just so you know, the original source of the expression would be The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. VOGON GUARD: I’ll mention what you said to my aunt. [Ai
by ixfo 5y ago
Just so you know, the original source of the expression would be The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
VOGON GUARD: I’ll mention what you said to my aunt.
[Airlock door closes and locks]
FORD: Potentially bright lad, I thought.
ARTHUR: We’re trapped now, aren’t we?
FORD: Er… Yes, we’re trapped.
ARTHUR: Well didn’t you think of anything?
FORD: Oh Yes.
ARTHUR: Yes?
FORD: But, unfortunately, it rather involved being on the other side of the airtight hatchway they’ve just sealed behind us.
- IncRnd 5y agoMaybe, but it probably stretches farther back than that, maybe even to before sliced bread or cool beans. Ten years before The Hitchhiker's Guide there was a robot, HAL, who woudn't open the airlock for a particular astronaut.