On Jan 8, 6:41 am, voxwoman  wrote:
> On Jan 8, 5:31 am, Alan Dicey 
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> > Jeffrey Kaplan wrote:
> > > Previously on rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated, Alan Dicey said:
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> > >> Coupling is fall-off-the-chair funny, has many 42-moments.
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> > > "42-moments"?
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> > The Answer to Life, The Universe, and, well, Everything is ...
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> > The first time I heard that line delivered, on BBC radio in 1978, I
> > literally fell off my chair, helpless with laughter.  I use it to mean a
> > standard unit for humour-induced involuntary incapacitation.  In the
> > same way that a milliHelen is the quantity of female pulchritude that
> > will cause a single ship to be launched.
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> > :-)
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> My moment for that one was the first time "Basil the Rat" popped out
> of the biscuit tin in "Fawlty Towers" - I literally fell off the couch
> laughing.
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> -Wendy
Greg Morris's appearance on the Dick Van Dyke show. It's not as funny
now, but at the time, I nearly passed out.
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