From The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (radio version, 1978):
FORD PREFECT
Six pints of bitter and quickly, please. The world’s about to end.
…
BARMAN
There you are sir — six pints.
FORD PREFECT
Keep the change.
BARMAN
What from a fiver? Thank you, sir!
5 replies on “Six Pints for Less Than a Fiver, 1978”
That part always makes me smile 🙂
Me too. I’m trying to work out what the change might have been – about two quid?
In 1977, the RRP for a pint of Courage bitter was 32-34p a pint (Michael Davis, Observer, 26/6) so I reckon Ford was due about £3 in change.
From the year I was born!
That’s how clever Douglas Adams was. He made up jokes that would only be funny years later.