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The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

- Douglas Noel Adams

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Douglas Noel Adams was born at Cambridge, England on this day in 1952. After earning both bachelors and masters degrees there, he did some comedy acting and writing, including work with a couple of the Monty Python gang, and eventually wrote a radio series for BBC called "The Hitchhiker's Guide to…
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