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Originally Posted by AnotherCat
All I can see in it is the play on the word "late".
In the first mention "late" meaning along the lines of being late e.g. as in being late for an appointment, meeting or whatever.
And in the second case meaning along the lines of "the late" meaning deceased.
Maybe there is something else in it that I don't see, but if not the pun has been used so often elsewhere before that it is no longer funny; it is like hearing the same joke over and over, it gets past being funny.
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That's the joke - it's used to refer to Arthur as soon to be dead - since the Earth is scheduled for demolition. Arthur hears it as "being late" --
Like I said - you either laugh out loud at this kind of wordplay or shake your head and say "so?" --