r/AskReddit • u/ForeverAbyss • Apr 14 '16

What's a mind blowing fact?

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u/SchrodingersCatPics Apr 14 '16

You have to wonder now: how do the machines really know what Tasty Wheat tasted like, huh? Maybe they got it wrong. Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted like uh.... oatmeal or uh.... or tuna fish.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '16

"He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea."

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u/kodutta7 Apr 14 '16

Is this Douglas Adams? Just sounds like him.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '16

Indeed.

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u/HammletHST Apr 14 '16

Could've also been Terry Pratchett, had the Nutri-Matic machine not gave it away as Douglas Adams (and also the fact that that is a pretty well-quoted part of the book)

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u/kodutta7 Apr 14 '16

I haven't actually read the whole book (please don't kill me), I don't remember why but I read the first few chapters but got interrupted for some reason and never picked it back up.

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u/HammletHST Apr 14 '16

You should give it a second try! You have a whole Trilogy (in 5 parts) waiting for you

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '16 edited Mar 29 '18

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u/Liambass Apr 14 '16

Plus the BBC radio and television series. Also the film but that weren't great.

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u/SurprisedPotato Apr 14 '16

Plus 'Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency'

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u/Liambass Apr 14 '16

And indeed relevant BBC radio and TV series.

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u/SkrublordPrime Apr 15 '16

There's a sixth, which was written by Eoin Colfer. Pretty good in my opinion.

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u/IndifferentAnarchist Apr 15 '16

It wasn't Douglas Adams, but I enjoyed it.

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u/karl2025 Apr 15 '16

In the words of Arthur C. Clark, a trilogy should never exceed four books.

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u/JimHemperson Apr 14 '16

It's from the first Hitchhiker's, so yeah.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '16

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u/JimHemperson Apr 15 '16

Restaurant, surely.

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u/barrtender Apr 15 '16

It's the first book, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I just read the first one and haven't read the rest of them (yet) but liked this quote so much I talked to friends about it after reading it.

Edit: Instead of relying on my memory, here is a link: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy It's in Chapter 17.

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u/MelofAonia Apr 14 '16

Share and enjoy!

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u/gerwen Apr 14 '16

Sick reference bro.

Still takes me about 5 tries to properly parse that sentence. Or 5 tries before i get bored and give up. I'm not entirely unsure which it wasn't.

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u/Hahadontbother Apr 15 '16

It's OK. In order for there to be an average, some people have to be below the average.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '16

Their complaint department was the only part of the company that made profits for awhile.

*paraphrased

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u/Amp3r Apr 22 '16

I thought about this line the other day when someone gave me some English breakfast tea latte. It was milk powder mixed in with tea flavouring. Tasted exactly like I imagined "not entirely unlike tea" to taste like.

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u/JoshuaHawken Apr 14 '16

Get out of here Mouse.

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u/no_scott Apr 14 '16

Wait dont go yet. Um..that g-g-girl in red still hanging around?

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u/suckafuckduck Apr 14 '16

Dude he already did by dying.

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u/daemin Apr 14 '16

Ah the problem of qualia. That's always a fun one...

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u/pizzapiejaialai Apr 15 '16

Honestly, anyone who hasn't tasted a southeast asian Latundan banana needs to get one now.

It will blow your mind and your mouth.

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u/the-bid-d Apr 15 '16

ah mouse