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There's a hidden joke as 6 x 9 is 42 in base 13. I've always understood this to be part of what Douglas Adams intended.
Of course, it might be just that he come up with random numbers and base 13 fits!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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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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