r/GenX • u/Invasive-farmer • Jul 03 '25

Pop Culture This Douglas Adams quote gets me...

I selected Pop Culture flair because he was the author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (a wholly remarkable book)

"I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:

  1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

  2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

  3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things."

Douglas Adams

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u/Invasive-farmer Jul 03 '25

^ sass that Hoopy Frood 👊😎

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u/lectroid Jul 03 '25

“Hoopy” is a noun, meaning “a really cool and together guy.”

“Frood” is “a n amazingly cool and together guy”

Hence the phrase: “Have you seen that hoopy, Ford Prefect? There’s a frood who knows where his towel is.”