OT:Favor needed

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 >
 > Bill Vermillion wrote on 1/21/2005, 6:03 PM:
 >
 > > On Fri, Jan 21 13:49 , while impersonating an expert on the internet,
 > > Jay R. Ashworth sent this to stdout:
 > >
 > > > On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 12:05:48PM -0500, tom heine wrote:
 > > > > while you are at it, can someone pick a random number for me?
 > >
 > > > 42.
 > >
 > > Ah, 42.  The Answer to Life, The Universe, and Everthing.
 > >
 > > And for the inquisitive - this highly edited segment:
 > >
 > >    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
 > >
 > >    Warning: Plot details follow.
 > >
 > >    The answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and
 > >    Everything, as given by the supercomputer Deep Thought to a group of
 > >    mice, is "forty-two". According to the Guide, mice are 3-dimensional
 > >    profiles of a pan-dimensional, hyper-intelligent race of beings.
 > They
 > >    built Deep Thought, the second greatest computer of all time and
 > >    space, to tell them the answer to the question of life, the universe
 > >    and everything. After seven and a half million years the computer
 > >    divulges the answer: forty-two.
 > >
 > >           "Forty-two!" yelled Loonquawl. "Is that all you've got to
 > show
 > >           for seven and a half million years' work?"
 > >           "I checked it very thoroughly," said the computer, "and that
 > >           quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be
 > >           quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known
 > what
 > >           the question is."
 > >
 > >
 > >    ---- and further on ----
 > >
 > >    Arthur Dent (as the last human
 > >    to have left the Earth before its destruction, and therefore the
 > >    portion of the computer matrix most likely to hold the question)
 > >    attempts to discover the Question by extracting it from his
 > >    unconscious mind, through pulling Scrabble letters at random out
 > of a
 > >    sack. The result is the sentence "WHAT DO YOU GET IF YOU MULTIPLY
 > SIX
 > >    BY NINE".
 > >
 > >           "Six by nine. Forty-two."
 > >           "That's it. That's all there is."
 > >
 > > --
 > > Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com
 >
  Unfortunately, the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,
  Douglas Adams, died in 2001, at the age of 49.

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