My parents held out with a landline (with the same number) dating back to 1967, until copper thieves, posing as telephone-line repairmen, managed to steal several miles of copper wire from under the telephone company’s nose.
Clever idea; but as we have learned from Porky Pig and Charlie Dog, Wren will return in minutes, most likely wearing the apparel of the country to which she was mailed!
Don’t forget the small detail that Deep Thought had spent 7.5 million years working on the problem!
And for the computer to follow that is needed to discover the ‘Ultimate Question’ that will give ‘42’ meaning: “…And you yourselves shall take on new forms to navigate its ten-million-year progam! Yes! I shall design this computer for you. And I shall name it also unto you. And it shall be called . . . The Earth.”
That is the approximation of left-handers to right-handers in the world. ie., Ziggy’s a 11 percenter!