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Re: A Seperate Peace by John Knowles

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The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

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Re: A Seperate Peace by John Knowles

Nah.

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Re: A Seperate Peace by John Knowles

you're lucky, its required reading over here

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

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Re: A Seperate Peace by John Knowles

who is john knowles?

He waka eke noa

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Re: A Seperate Peace by John Knowles

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Knowles

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Re: A Seperate Peace by John Knowles

I think it was a recruitment tool for the Mafia

they were culling for hit men

kids who wrote essays saying the point was "If you gonna whack a guy, you can't go letting gravity take over, ya gotta have the onions to make sure."  would be taken on as apprentices

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

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Re: A Seperate Peace by John Knowles

judging from the plot summary on wikipedia the novel is nothing short of... meh! hmm

(onions???)

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