Go Stick Your Head in a Pig

The Encyclopedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man. The marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot as
"Your Plastic Pal Who's Fun to Be With".

--Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Share and enjoy
share and enjoy
go through life with a plastic boy
or girl by your side...
the robots' song on the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio show and tape

"Share and Enjoy" is the company motto of the hugely successful Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Complaints Division, which now covers the major land masses of three medium-sized planets and is the only part of the Corporation to have shown a consistent profit in recent years.

The motto stands--or rather stood--in three mile high illuminated letters near the Complaints Department spaceport on Eadrax. Unfortunately its weight was such that shortly after it was erected, the ground beneath the letters caved in and they dropped for nearly half their length through the offices of many talented young Complaints executives--now deceased.

The protruding upper halves of the letters now appear, in the local language, to read "Go stick your head in a pig," and are no longer illuminated, except for times of special celebration.

--Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Share and Enjoy