One of the weakest books in the series, but one of my favourite of his jokes - he teases out for so long till it's more sad than funny. Then smacks you with the punchline that ironically it's the "useless" population that survives.
In one of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books, there's a scene where a planet is doomed — so they divide society into three groups to evacuate:
#1: the best and brightest
#2: management consultants and marketing execs
#3: builders and doers
The planet sends off Ship 2
Just watched a TV play version of An Inspector Calls, as dutiful dad to a GCSE revisionist. To my shame I'd never seen/read it in my life. The conversation after went something like:
