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There are quite literally hundreds of theories.
Like...
The sum of the numbers on a die is 21
The answer to life is to die (two die) (which should, of course, be two dice anyway!)
Douglas Adams said
Quote: "The answer to this is very simple, it was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base 13, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat on my desk, stared in to the garden and thought 42 will do. I typed it out. End of story."
and also Quote: "I may be a sorry case, but I don't write jokes in Base 13."
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Which is why, of course, I said:
Quote: Of course, it might be just that he come up with random numbers and base 13 fits!
I lived through the whole Paul McCartney is dead conspiracy. I tend to believe only what I witness firsthand!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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He apparently "gazed into the garden, scratched, listened to the birds, then wrote 42".
I suspect there was a time-traveller wearing a camo suit in his garden with a MindRay 3000.
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It may have been an Inspiron (Terry Pratchett)!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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No, it's "what do you get if you multiply 6 by 9?"
It's also Fox Mulder's apartment number, and that's the truth...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: It's also Fox Mulder's apartment number, and that's the truth...
Is it now?
The truth is out there!
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Apparently 42[^] is a very popular number...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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21
You take out 21, you have 21 you took out.
Jeremy Falcon
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Well, it's true but it's not it
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no, it comes from my CP ID #
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Oh really? It's a very personalized answer!
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Don't think about this too much more
int hage;
int wage;
Debug.WriteLine("The sum of their age is " + (hage + wage).ToString()+" at the year of marriage in the 18th century");
Do you see the 42, now you know where it's comming from .
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I'm sorry. None of you are being sufficiently cosmic. So, just for the sake of the season:
In Genesis, '6' is the number of man (the day man was created). '7' is the number of God. 6 x 7 = 42, so the answer is god elaborated as man: namely, the little baby Jesus!!!!!
Merry Christmas, everyone!
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Isn't it just the ASCII/Unicode/UTF-8 code for the asterisk?
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Message Closed
modified 22-Dec-14 7:03am.
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Message Removed
modified 22-Dec-14 7:02am.
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As a collegue just deleted a major lookup table in one of our back office systems.
I think I'm going to have to start drinking alcohol again
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Simon_Whale wrote: an ex collegue FTFY...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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The guy that will be an ex-employee is the one that didn't maintain the backup strategy......
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Restore backup and all in and working again in less than 10 minutes.
But I have a feeling that it's just the beginning for this week to be honest.
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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So back to option one: Alcohol...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Maybe the problem is that you picked the wrong week to stop[^]?
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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Simon_Whale wrote: I'm going to have to start drinking alcohol again
Sounds like the rest of the company already started...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Quote: I'm going to have to start drinking alcohol again
Or maybe you were drunk when you posted this message here.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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