[comp.unix.misc] Yet another misdirected thread

jim@lsuc.on.ca (Jim Mercer) (10/13/90)

In article <2351@charon.cwi.nl> dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes:
> > >> ``The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'', the answer is 42.
> > >> The question is revealed in ``Life, the Universe and Everything'' --
> > >> What do you get if you multiply six by nine?
> > > I get 54, why do you ask :-)
> > to find out who has read "Life, the Universe and Everything"
>Or "Alice in Wonderland" of course.

enough already!

the question is: what is 6 time 8?
the answer is: 42
the reference is: Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Followups-to: alt.stupidity

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