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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy • 1979
Earthmen are not proud of their ancestors, and never invite them round to dinner.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
This dry observation says humans feel no pride in their forebears and would never host them for a meal. The joke is its deadpan universality: it treats embarrassment about ancestry as a general trait, described almost like an outsider's report, and makes the absent ancestors the ones nobody wants at the table.
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