Listen, three eyes," he said, "don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.
Douglas AdamsRead
He has personality problems beyond the dreams of analysts.
Interpretation
The quote humorously suggests that someone's personality issues are so extreme that even professional analysts would be overwhelmed.
Douglas Adams' quote humorously exaggerates the complexity of a person's personality problems, implying that they are not only beyond the understanding of analysts but also amusingly absurd. It highlights the intricacies of human behavior and suggests that some individuals may have such eccentricities that they defy conventional analysis, pointing to the humorous side of human nature.
In practice
Using this quote in a comedy routine about mental health and therapy.
Listen, three eyes," he said, "don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.
"What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "Ask a glass of water."
Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen. [...] Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.
Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented; we're still trying to work out how it works. There's a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn't recognise. It's time for the machines to disappear. The computer's got to disappear into all of the things we use.
What the computer in virtual reality enables us to do is to recalibrate ourselves so that we can start seeing those pieces of information that are invisible to us but have become important for us to understand.
We are stuck with technology when all we really want is just stuff that works. How do you recognize something that is still technology? A good clue is if it comes with a manual.
The bad thing about being a famous comedian is that every now and then someone approaches me to tell an old joke. Don't tell me jokes - I have that. People also say the weirdest things, sometimes sarcastic things, and even evil things. They like to provoke to get a reaction.
Laughter is a force for democracy.
He's so full of alcohol, if you put a lighted wick in his mouth he'd burn for three days.
Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
There are a couple of things I want to impart to ladies who want to be in comedy: One, you donβt have to be weird or be quirky to get your job done. And two, comedy skill is not sexually transmittable. You do not have to sleep with a comedian to learn what youβre doing. Male comedians will not like that advice, but it is the truth.
I learned how fast you can go from being an international hero to being a reference in a joke on a late night talk show.
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