That’s not one of the ones in DGDA. The one I’m thinking of is during a conversation in the professor’s digs after a horse suddenly turns up in the bathroom.
This gag was done more effectively (more briefly and more elegantly as well) in the 1987 Douglas Adams novel Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. I think it’s only five or six songs referenced, but it comes out of nowhere and is so seamlessly constructed as ro highlight the difference between quality and quantity. Not slamming Pastis here — this is nice to see, especially in preference to one of those dreadful “pun” strips.
No, you don’t. You pretend to hate the Beatles because you want to be seen as different, or to seem to have a “more sophisticated” taste. There were people like that in the 60s, too. Everybody else saw through them then, too. The very worst thing that can be said about the Beatles’ music (except, of course, but idiots, cretins, and posers) is that it’s inoffensive.
No, it’s not. Religion in general is not about belief but about social conformity. People normally think their religion teaches whatever it is that they themselves want.
Pedantic observation alert: nitpicking, I know, but Jesus would have known what abortion was. It existed well before his time, and well before the earliest Old Testament writings as well. Yet neither book makes any mention of it.
However you want to delude yourselves is ok by me. But the few people who believe you will just think you have terrible taste (“hate the Beatles?”).