"It's unpleasantly like being drunk." "What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "You ask a glass of water." - Douglas Adams

"What's so unpleasant about being drunk?"
"Ask a glass of water!"

A doctor, a logician and a marine biologist had also just arrived, flown in at phenomenal expense from Maximegalon to try to reason with the lead singer who had locked himself in the bathroom with a bottle of pills and was refusing to come out till it could be proved conclusively to him that he wasn't a fish. The bass player was busy machine-gunning his bedroom and the drummer was nowhere on board.

Frantic inquiries led to the discovery that he was standing on a beach on Santraginus V over a hundred light years away where, he claimed, he had been happy for over half an hour now and had found a small stone that would be his friend.

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.