Whoops ! Yes I meant Douglas Adams ( My punishment: To be damned to heck and forced to listen to Vogon Poetry). -Neil ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Brown" <k.brown@ccs.bbk.ac.uk> To: "Neil Johnson" <njohnsn@IowaTelecom.net> Cc: "cypherpunks" <cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 10:46 AM Subject: Re: Gold
Neil Johnson wrote:
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I always liked the sub-plot in Scott Adams "Hitchhiker's Guide" books
the accounts, middle managers, and "telephone sanitizers" that were sent to earth to "prepare" for future inhabitation decided to use tree leaves for currency, then set about to burn down all the trees "in order to control
where the
money supply".
*Scott* Adams??????????
I think you mean the late Douglas Adams.
Ken Brown