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OK - referring back to the previous question and an answer that wasn't - what isn't easy and what's the original source of the quote?

not the answer you are looking for but it is always the first thing that comes to mind when i hear that phrase...lol

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/mal ... /6t5h3qtfx

ffutures wrote: ↑Tue Jun 28, 2022 6:03 pm

OK - referring back to the previous question and an answer that wasn't - what isn't easy and what's the original source of the quote?

Is it the JFKquote about going choosing to go to the moon (and do the other thing)? —Not because it’s easy but because it’s haahd..?

spud42 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 10:47 am

not the answer you are looking for but it is always the first thing that comes to mind when i hear that phrase...lol

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/mal ... /6t5h3qtfx

Nope - it's an SF related answer that I'm looking for.

Old Murgh wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 11:23 am

ffutures wrote: ↑Tue Jun 28, 2022 6:03 pm

OK - referring back to the previous question and an answer that wasn't - what isn't easy and what's the original source of the quote?

Is it the JFKquote about going choosing to go to the moon (and do the other thing)? —Not because it’s easy but because it’s haahd..?

Alas no.

Small hint - take a look at the incorrect answers to the last question.

Marvin?

Marvin is certainly a part of this universe, though not the scene the quote comes from unless I'm remembering it wrongly. Have an MBP for identifying the source, The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. And no, I don't think 42 is a valid answer to this question, it isn't that ultimate...

Still waiting to an answer to the question: who is actually being quoted, and what isn't easy?

The character quoted is one of two people who only appear in this scene to the best of my knowledge. They're named in the script, but not on screen (I think this is true of the radio series too). And they have an adversarial role to the main characters of the series.

Forgot to say that the Hitchhiker's Guide quote allegedly inspired the song which was one of the wrong answers in the previous round.

"It isn't easy being a cop!"

I don't think I ever knew the character's name, so I had to look it up: it's Shooty. Shooty and his partner Bang-Bang are attempting to arrest and/or kill Zaphod Beeblebrox because he stole the Heart of Gold.

Disembodied wrote: ↑Sun Jul 03, 2022 11:13 am

"It isn't easy being a cop!"

I don't think I ever knew the character's name, so I had to look it up: it's Shooty. Shooty and his partner Bang-Bang are attempting to arrest and/or kill Zaphod Beeblebrox because he stole the Heart of Gold.

Exactly right - hence the song "It won't be easy" - you win a virtual Frogstar Fighter with poisoned chalice in the cupholder!

https://youtu.be/CdULDIFU0EY

A recycled question, then:

Apart from The Expanse and The Adventures of Don Quick, where might you find a spaceship called Rocinante?

A hint: there is a genre link to some other recent questions …

A further hint: it's not a short story, or a novel, or a TV programme, or a film …

OK... music, by any chance? I was actually looking for an opera but I found two pieces by the band Rush, Cygnus X-1 Book I: The Voyage and Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres, which appear to be SF themed, and the ship in the first one is called Rocinante. It doesn't seem to be named in the second.

I set a course just east of Lyra
And northwest of Pegasus
Flew into the light of Deneb
Sailed across the Milky Way

On my ship, the Rocinante
Wheeling through the galaxies
Headed for the heart of Cygnus
Headlong into mystery

etc.

https://youtu.be/4MlYgt-QdMI - The Voyage - has a link to lyrics
https://youtu.be/J3AJUjtWTgc - Hemispheres
https://www.rush.com/songs/cygnus-x-1-b ... mispheres/ - Hemispheres lyrics

That's the one! Much Canadian, very prog. Depressingly right-wing, as it turns out. Oh well.

Back to you!

Disembodied wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 9:13 am

Depressingly right-wing, as it turns out. Oh well.

Oh no, them too? Even the great drummer?