I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view. - Douglas Adams

Dirk turned on the car wipers, which grumbled because they didn't have quite enough rain to wipe away, so he turned them off again. Rain quickly speckled the windscreen. He turned on the wipers again, but they still refused to feel that the exercise was worthwhile, and scraped and squeaked in protest.

"Hey, this is terrific!" he said. "Someone down there is trying to kill us!"
"Terrific," said Arthur.
"But don't you see what this means?"
"Yes. We are going to die."
"Yes, but apart from that."
"Apart from that?!"
"It means we must be on to something!"
"How soon can we get off it?"

WOKING (vb.) To enter the kitchen with the precise determination to perform something only to forget what it is just before you do it.