Concrete Computers art exhibit

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Wed Jul 21 14:44:11 2004

> Ron Hudson wrote:
> > ????
> > ? ?
> > ?
> > ?
> > ?
> >
> > ?
> > A Ark?
> > B Ark?
> > C Ark?
> > telephone sanitisers?
> > Whatha talkin about?

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, ben franchuk wrote:
> Read the 'Hitchikers guide to the galaxy'.
> I think it is from the fourth book in the series.
> This was a plan to settle new planets.
> A-Ark was the working class
> C-Ark was the smart people
> B-ark was every body else like telephone sanitisers
> that had the misfortune to crash on the Earth.
> Telephone sanitisers are the people that clean your telephone.
> You never know what strange sickness you could catch from a dirty
> telephone.

The FOURTH book in the trilogy was "So Long, and Thanks For All The Fish"

The Golgafrincham B Ark was in the second book, "The Restaurant At The End
Of The Universe". (and at the end of the TV series"

>From about chapter 26:
"Yes," he said, "All those dead telephone sanitizers and account
executives, you know, down in the hold." The Captain stared at him.
Suddenly he threw back his head and laughed. "Oh they're not dead," he
said, "Good Lord no, no they're frozen. They're going to be revived." Ford
did something he very rarely did. He blinked. Arthur seemed to come out of
a trance. "You mean you've got a hold full of frozen hairdressers?" he
said. "Oh yes," said the Captain, "Millions of them. Hairdressers, tired
TV producers, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, security guards,
public relations executives, management consultants, you name them. We're
going to colonize another planet." Ford wobbled very slightly. "Exciting
isn't it?" said the Captain. "What, with that lot?" said Arthur. "Ah, now
don't misunderstand me," said the Captain, "we're just one of the ships in
the Ark Fleet. We're the `B' Ark
. . .
"Yes, so anyway," he resumed, "the idea was that into the first ship, the
`A' ship, would go all the brilliant leaders, the scientists, the great
artists, you know, all the achievers; and into the third, or `C' ship,
would go all the people who did the actual work, who made things and did
things, and then into the `B' ship - that's us - would go everyone else,
the middlemen you see." He smiled happily at them. "And we were sent off
first," he concluded, and hummed a little bathing tune.

>From about Chapter 27:
It was, however, a descendant of one of these eccentric poets who invented
the spurious tales of impending doom which enabled the people of
Golgafrincham to rid themselves of an entire useless third of their
population. The other two-thirds stayed firmly at home and lived full,
rich and happy lives until they were all suddenly wiped out by a virulent
disease contracted from a dirty telephone.


BTW, the current inhabitants of Earth are the descendents of the B Ark
cargo.
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