“So long, and thanks for all the fish.”
Variant: So long and thanks for all the fish.
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes.”
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Winston S. Churchill
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book
The Second World War
Radio broadcast, London, Dieu Protège La France [God protect France], October 21, 1940 ( partial text http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/LaFrance.html).
The Second World War (1939–1945)
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