So, I've been trying to figure out the origin of that joke "What's yellow and dangerous?" "Shark infested custard, of course!" I mean, I knew the joke, but where did it come from. And while google-ing "what's yellow and dangerous" I kept coming upon Batmans's The Joker links... so I selected one
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Lacking a real question, the mice proposed to use "How many roads must a man walk down?" (the first line of Bob Dylan's famous civil rights song Blowin' in the Wind) as the question for talk shows, after considering and rejecting the question, "What's yellow and dangerous?"-actually a riddle whose answer, not given by Adams, is "Shark-infested custard".
"I gave a speech once," [Marvin] said suddenly and apparently unconnectedly. "You may not instantly see why I bring the subject up, but that is because my mind works so phenomenally fast, and I am at a rough estimate thirty billion times more intelligent than you. Let me give you an example. Think of a number, any number."
"Er, five," said the mattress.
"Wrong," said Marvin. "You see?"
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Lacking a real question, the mice proposed to use "How many roads must a man walk down?" (the first line of Bob Dylan's famous civil rights song Blowin' in the Wind) as the question for talk shows, after considering and rejecting the question, "What's yellow and dangerous?"-actually a riddle whose answer, not given by Adams, is "Shark-infested custard".
"I gave a speech once," [Marvin] said suddenly and apparently unconnectedly. "You may not instantly see why I bring the subject up, but that is because my mind works so phenomenally fast, and I am at a rough estimate thirty billion times more intelligent than you. Let me give you an example. Think of a number, any number."
"Er, five," said the mattress.
"Wrong," said Marvin. "You see?"
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