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Letter: Letters : . . .

Published 26 July 1997

From Jeremy Scott

Towcester, Northamptonshire

I fear you may have proved Douglas Adams’s theory of how intelligent life
arrived on Earth to be correct.

The illustrations accompanying your article show that early Earthlings appear
to have immaculately groomed fingernails and toenails. The Golgafrinchan
manicurists and pedicurists abandoned here clearly had their work cut out.

Issue no. 2092 published 26 July 1997

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