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"Starpox!" he shouted.

At that same precise moment, Ford Prefect was in mid air. This
was not because of anything wrong with the ship's artificial
gravity field, but because he was leaping down the stair-well
which led to the ship's personal cabins. It was a very high jump
to do in one bound and he landed awkwardly, stumbled, recovered,
raced down the corridor sending a couple of miniature service
robots flying, skidded round the corner, burst into Zaphod's door
and explained what was on his mind.

"Vogons," he said.

A short while before this, Arthur Dent had set out from his cabin
in search of a cup of tea. It was not a quest he embarked upon
with a great deal of optimism., because he knew that the only
source of hot drinks on the entire ship was a benighted piece of
equipment produced by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation. It was
called a Nutri-Matic Drinks Synthesizer, and he had encountered
it before.

It claimed to produce the widest possible range of drinks
personally matched to the tastes and metabolism of whoever cared
to use it. When put to the test, however, it invariably produced
a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but nit
quite, entirely unlike tea.

He attempted to reason with the thing.

"Tea," he said.

"Share and Enjoy," the machine replied and provided him with yet
another cup of the sickly liquid.

He threw it away.

"Share and enjoy," the machine repeated and provided him with
another one.

"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