[Sca-cooks] The rock

[Dunbar, Debra]

Duh!  Like Maire, I obviously haven't had enough coffee!
Yes, the cat WAS named 42.  He was quite the tough cat too.

Wrynne

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> Sent:	Wednesday, January 30, 2002 10:59 AM
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> Subject:	RE: [Sca-cooks] The rock
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> On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Dunbar, Debra wrote:
>
> > Actually the answer is 49.  And we once named a cat 49.
> >
> >> I'm not Stefan, but I believe the answer is "64." <beg>
> >> --Maire, long-time Hitchhiker fan....
> >>
> >> A F Murphy wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Do you have the answer to the Meaning of Life?  You seem to have
> >>> everything else! ;-)
>
>     Actually, the answer is 42.  There's a bit of corroboration (besides
> hearing Valentine Dyall's voice in my head saying "You're not going to
> like this.  You're really not going to like this").  I have trouble
> keeping the radio, TV, and book versions straight, but in at least one of
> them, when the B ark lands and Ford and Arthur are trying to figure out
> what's going on, they try grabbing Scrabble letters out of a bag.  The
> results spells "What do you get when you multiply six by nine?"  The
> answer *is* 42 - - in base 13.  "I always knew there was something
> fundamentally wrong with the universe."
>
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