One blog entry which I've seen claims it now goes beyond that, and that what we have are "Arthur Dent filibusters," where it's agreed that the filibusterer (is that the word?) could talk on for hours, so they might as well all save themselves the trouble and go off to the pub.
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Date: 2005-05-17 01:19 pm (UTC)I don't know if that's true, but I love the term.