Douglas Adams apparently did not invent the professional telephone sanitiser.
http://www.guter.org/bristow/pretty.htm
refers to a comicstrip character older than me, the lady from Kleenaphone who would visit the fictional monolithic office where "Bristow" worked. According to the article, readers never saw Miss Pretty, she came and went, but did encounter her colleague Miss Dimmitty.
Douglas Adams's list of enemies of the people* also included hairdressers and we may be thinking twice about that now. I think the situation may have been that he didn't particularly care about the state of his hair, and he projected that onto hair being generally irrelevant to everybody.
*The people of the planet Golgafrincham, and the enemies were sent off. Guess to where (did I explain this already?)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
