On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, David F. Darby wrote:
> At the risk of spoiling things for everyone, I believe the ultimate question
> to Life, the Universe, and Everything turned out to be "what is 6 times 9?"
Oh, what the hell, we're so off topic, a bit more can't hurt.
The question, in fact, was never revealed. After a million years of
computation on "The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything", the
computer Deep Thought came back with the answer "Forty Two."
When asked what the question was, Deep Thought didn't know. I can't recall
who, but either one of the scientists or perhaps Deep Thought suggested
"What is 6 times 9", but that was discarded as being too simple.
So a new computer was built to figure out the question. That computer was
the Planet Earth. It was mere moments away from the end of it's own million
year computation on what the question was, when those damn Vogons blew it
up to make way for their Interstellar highway.
Now, for those of you who have no clue what I'm talking about, we're all
rambling on about the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series by the late
british genius, Douglas Adams, a man who could spin the language in amazing
ways to make me laugh out loud.
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Chris "Hoopy Frood" Thompson
P.S. - Oh freddled gruntbuggly
Thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.
Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes
And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon,
See if I don't!
P.P.S. - Be very afraid that I did the above from memory.
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