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When all Douglas actually did was gaze out of his window at home and thought of the number 42 - lots of people have been trying to read something deep and meaningful into it ever since.
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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pkfox wrote: When all Douglas actually did was gaze out of his window at home and thought of the number 42 - lots of people have been trying to read something deep and meaningful into it ever since.
Ah, but who (or what) put "42" into his head...
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I read that article. Interesting...
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All these answers so far, and nobody mentions that Douglas Adams himself had apparently said that 42p was simply the cost of a pint at his local pub at the time he wrote the book.
Heard this decades ago. No idea whether it's true or not. Just relaying what I know.
[Edit]
A quick Google search brought back a BBC page from over 12 years ago with someone making the same claim. Of course, that's not any more authoritative than what I just mentioned...
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I thought that it was neat that the ascii code 42 is the star *
What with the book being about galaxies and stuff, and being one of the best books ever, whichever planet you are based on.
Andy
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Sorry to respond to myself, but #42 is the number in Jackie Robinson's Jersey. He was the first black man to play in the white baseball league. The next question is why or how did he get the number 42?
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In the question "What is 7 x 9?" The answer is 42... if you are working to the base 13, not base 10.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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If you haven't heard the original BBC radio play, its well worth a listen. Looks like it's on youtube!
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So, it's been a while since I've been here. Back in the day we had the Soapbox, but it doesn't seem to be around any longer. What happened to it? Also, I have a funny video to share, but it contains the f-bomb so I don't want to post it to the lounge. Where can I post it?
Jeremy Falcon
modified 22-Sep-20 17:39pm.
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It descended into a cesspit of trolling and abusive comments, and despite the management giving considerable warning it refused to behave.
So it was killed, it's head chopped off, a stake hammered through it's rotten black heart, and left out in the sunlight to dry up and blow away like dust.
I doubt it will return from this.
As a result, there is no non-KSS location on the site; no place to post a rude joke; no room for the f-word.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Gotcha, and can't say that surprises me. Isn't the Internet fun? 
Jeremy Falcon
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Yep! But full of idiots as well. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Jeremy Falcon
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It's fun, and I guess the bottom line is that there's plenty of room (elsewhere) for those types of discussions. I don't exactly oppose this decision.
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Funny I should read this here today. It's just been the last few days I've been thinking that perhaps many, if not most human systems appear to follow the second law of thermodynamics.
Namely that, " the Second Law of Thermodynamics states that all closed systems tend to maximize entropy. ... Reversing this ever increasing tendency toward disorder requires the input of energy. That's why housekeeping is so tiresome." 
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OriginalGriff wrote: no room for the f-word.
Forbidding mention of 'flatulance' will not make it go away . . . .
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And waving your hands about copiously will?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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The flatulance, no. The effects of it - you betcha.
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It began barking too loud. and we had to put it down 
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Time to break out Old Yeller so we can all learn something.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: What happened to it?
On a separate server, with no internet access, in the basement. When hamsters do not behave, they are temporarily put in the wheel down there.
Jeremy Falcon wrote: Where can I post it?
Facebook ?
modified 23-Sep-20 5:10am.
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Rage wrote: Facebook ?
That's what I miss about CP... you can't post programming jokes to FB... nobody gets them.
Jeremy Falcon
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Eight bytes walk into a bar. The bartender asks, "Can I get you anything?"
"Yeah," reply the bytes. "Make us a double."
cheers
Chris Maunder
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