The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — Vocabulary
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He saw the bulldozer drivers' union representative approaching and let his head sink back and closed his eyes.5 more

Here was an approach that had quite simply not occurred to him.5 more

Arthur followed him in nervously and was astonished to see a man lolling back in a chair with his feet on a control console picking the teeth in his right-hand head with his left hand.10 more

We've been picked up by a ship powered by the Infinite Improbability Drive!†11 more

This suited the Dentrassis fine, because they loved Vogon money, which is one of the hardest currencies in space, but loathed the Vogons themselves.†5 more

"At an Improbability factor," cut in Eddie, who hadn't changed a bit, "of eight million, seven hundred and sixty-seven thousand, one hundred and twenty-eight to one against."3 more

Eventually, of course, after their Galaxy had been decimated over a few thousand years, it was realized that the whole thing had been a ghastly mistake, and so the two opposing battle fleets settled their few remaining differences in order to launch a joint attack on our own Galaxy—now positively identified as the source of the offending remark.2 more

"My God," complained Arthur, "you're talking about a positive mental attitude and you haven't even had your planet demolished today."2 more

I'm doing the field research for the new revised edition, and one of the things I'll have to do is include a bit about how the Vogons now employ Dentrassi cooks, which gives us a rather useful little loophole.†1 more

It was the Blagulon Kappa policecraft, a bulbous sharklike affair, slate-green in color and smothered with black stenciled letters of varying degrees of size and unfriendliness.†1 more

For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive—you merely had to brush the panels with your fingers; now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general direction of the components and hope.2 more

Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn't him.†3 more

For instance, he had spent those fifteen years pretending to be an out-of-work actor, which was plausible enough.†1 more

They were aware that this day they would represent their entire race in its greatest moment, but they conducted themselves calmly and quietly as they seated themselves deferentially before the desk, opened their briefcases and took out their leather-bound notebooks.†1 more

The irony circuits cut in to his voice modulator as he mimicked the style of the sales brochure.†2 more

The cabin was mostly white, oblong, and about the size of a smallish restaurant.†2 more

"...so anyway," he said, trying to find his thread again, "the recession came and we decided it would save a lot of bother if we just slept through it."2 more

a feeble and perfunctory attempt to clear away some of the appalling mess of his study.1 more

Evolution? they said to themselves, Who needs it? and what nature refused to do for them they simply did without until such time as they were able to rectify the gross anatomical inconveniences with surgery.1 more

Every year they import twenty-seven thousand scintillating jeweled scuttling crabs from their native planet and while away a happy drunken night smashing them to bits with iron mallets.†1 more