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# stolen from hitchhikers, no?
i remember a voice saying that on red dwarf once, or was it the hithchikers tv thing, i can't actually remember watching much of that though
(, Sun 9 Nov 2003, 14:34, archived)
# twas hitch hikers
the improbability level falling, as after Dent legs floated off into the sunset I do believe.
(, Sun 9 Nov 2003, 14:35, archived)
# aye, i know,
but i think the same words (or to the same effect) were used in a red dwarf episode once?
(, Sun 9 Nov 2003, 14:37, archived)
# oh right so...
you might be on to something there...
(, Sun 9 Nov 2003, 14:43, archived)
# Holly's life expectancy.
(, Sun 9 Nov 2003, 14:46, archived)
# it's an improbability thingy
from the Heart of Gold in Hitchhikers which predates Red Dwarf by a number of years
(, Sun 9 Nov 2003, 14:35, archived)
# Hitchhikers..
Or does my mind fail me in my old age.
(, Sun 9 Nov 2003, 14:35, archived)
# the two are
not mutually exclusive
(, Sun 9 Nov 2003, 14:36, archived)
# its from the improbability drive
on the ship in hitchhikers guide to galaxy
(, Sun 9 Nov 2003, 14:36, archived)
# oh sorry
I was talking about the toast quote.
(, Sun 9 Nov 2003, 14:36, archived)
# the toast thing is from red dwarf (it's what talkie toaster said),
while the second number thing is from hitchhikers, when Arthur and Ford first get on the heart of gold.
(, Sun 9 Nov 2003, 14:37, archived)
# With a username like that, I wonder what your surname is?
Coz it might be close to my own.

Edit: I don't think I'll ever find out
(, Sun 9 Nov 2003, 14:44, archived)
# Hitchhikers yay
Marvin the paranoid android in the car park for two billion years "Parking cars, what else would you do in a car park?"
(, Sun 9 Nov 2003, 14:40, archived)