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   Douglas Adams was wrong

   

   Raymond Chen, Mar 12th, 2004 @ 12:41am

   
   

   There's a use for telephone sanitizers after all!

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   obvious quip

   

   Alastair Stevens, Mar 12th, 2004 @ 6:43am

   
   

   Well, it brings a new meaning to the word "techdirt" ;-)

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   Re: Douglas Adams was wrong

   

   Charles W., Mar 12th, 2004 @ 8:41am

   
   

   Actually Douglas Adams was right. Remember the planet died out to a plauge transfered by dirty telephones after they shipped off the useless third of their population to seed earth. So Douglas Adams was actually ahead of his time, and this report just confirms it.
   
   Charles W.

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   Re: obvious quip

   

   Mike (profile), Mar 12th, 2004 @ 9:02am

   
   

   Well, it brings a new meaning to the word "techdirt" ;-)
   
   Ha! So obvious that I completely missed it. Clearly, I need more sleep.

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   FILTH!

   

   Mark, Mar 12th, 2004 @ 9:06am

   
   

   Think about it--there's always going to be something that's more dirty than something else. So keyboards and phones have microbes on them; I've also heard that kitchens are more dirty than bathrooms. And my answer: so what? I don't see coworkers picking up the phone, gasping, and falling down dead, so we're not talking about a meaningful level of lethality here. And if we make everything absolutely sterile, we'll really be in trouble, because then our immune systems will be so weak that they'll be overcome by the most common of diseases.
   
   Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. My keyboard isn't killing me, so I'm getting stronger every day. ;-) Worry about the stuff that might actually do you in. There's plenty of that already.

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   Re: FILTH!

   

   AMetamorphosis, Mar 12th, 2004 @ 12:12pm

   
   

   
   I've printed the article out to show my co workers that laugh @ me for cleaning my mouse, keyboard & general workstation once a month.
   

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   Re: Douglas Adams was wrong

   

   LittleW0lf, Mar 12th, 2004 @ 10:00pm

   
   

   Actually Douglas Adams was right. Remember the planet died out to a plauge transfered by dirty telephones after they shipped off the useless third of their population to seed earth.
   
   Yes, but the unless third of their population didn't fare too well themselves, after all, they started using leaves as money and immediately destroyed their economy, at which point they decided to defoliate the forests and burn them down in order to control inflation. And they came up with "What do you get when you multiply six by nine?" as the ultimate answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything (which is 42.)
   
   And actually, they didn't want the useless third to seed the earth (or Zed-Zed-9-Plural-Zed-Alpha, or ZZ9PZA), they wanted it to crash into the planet (resulting in their death, though that didn't happen.) The other two thirds convinced them that the planet was about to be destroyed, either by exploding, crashing into the sun, or being eaten by a giant space goat. The captain wouldn't get out of the tub (which he had been in for 3 years, and never seemed to get out of after the crash either.)
   

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