![]() ![]() The quote itself has become a modern idiom for shutting down business or retiring from a position, inspired by the dolphins in “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” who broadcast thanks to all humanity before leaving Earth.īefore I knew the significance of this quote, I was struck by the absurdity of it. ![]() “So long and thanks for all the fish,” -Douglas Adams I had came across the bench during a hike nearly a decade before, and read the following quote: The bench commemorates the life of Vincent Patacca Riley, a fellow Athenian who passed on too young. Dressed a little like Lee Van Cleef in my wide brim hat and flannel, I felt ready to revisit a bench on a ridgetop near the Dairy Barn. This is for fans of games, Shakespeare and “ Phantom of the Opera.” Instead, my last story is one of my favorite Athens’s experiences. For everyone who has recommended ideas or premises for articles that I never wrote, I am sorry I never realized them, and hopefully one day you’ll find the time to write them. ![]()
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