schaefer@puff.UUCP (Matt Schaefer) (03/21/86)
> >>You left out my favorite joke: 42. (Insert appropriate credits to > >>Douglas Adams here.) > > I have seen this number referenced before. What is its significance? I believe 42 is the answer to the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' in the book, The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. ---Matt Schaefer __________ Disclaimer: My opinions and my unfacts are all my own; /\ _______\ And nobody else may have them unless they are my clone. \ \ \____ / \ \ \/ / / ARPA: schaefer@puff.wisc.edu \ \/ / / bambam!alfred!{schaefer, root}@gumby.wisc.edu \ / / UUCP: {allegra, ihnp4, seismo}!uwvax!puff!schaefer \/_/ \!uwvax!gumby!bambam!alfred!{schaefer, root} VOICE: (608)221-1320 USNAIL: Matt Schaefer 621 Vernon Ave. Madison, WI 53714 USA
spock@hope.UUCP (Chris Ambler) (03/21/86)
> > From net.jokes: > > >>You left out my favorite joke: 42. (Insert appropriate credits to > >>Douglas Adams here.) > > I have seen this number referenced before. What is its significance? In the far-out reaches of the western spiral arm of the milky way galaxy, there is a small unregarded yellow sun, and revolving around it is an equally unregarded planet who's inhabitants are so primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea. These creatures, to make a *VERY* long (but *VERY* enjoyable) story short are the components of a super computer that is to find out the ultimate question to life, the universe, and EVERYTHING. You see, it seems that a group of highly intelligent pan-dimentional beings once made a super computer, and asked it the answer to life, the universe and everything. The answer, of course, was, and still is, 42. We just don't know the question. Read the Douglas Adams series: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restraunt at the edge of the Universe, Life, the Universe, and Everything, and So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish. <GREAT SERIES!!> -Spock! (Christopher J. Ambler, University of California, Riverside) -"Captain, I see no reason to bother Starfleet..."