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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy • 1979
“You’d better be prepared for the jump into hyperspace. It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.” “What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?” “You ask a glass of water.”
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The warning relies on a word that the next speaker understands differently. Being drunk first suggests intoxication, but the glass of water makes it mean being swallowed. The reply turns an objection to the comparison into the mechanism of the joke.
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