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   Coffee-Turtle said, 5 months ago

   I guess “everything” is a bit broad… ;-)

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   Jackknife15 said, 5 months ago

   42 is the answer to the meaning of life. LOL

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   fritzoid said, 5 months ago

   Maybe there are 42 paper clips in the box…

   (Technically, 42 was never described as “the meaning of life”, it’s the answer to the “ultimate question.”)

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   Miba said, 5 months ago

   Checkers HATE “witty” responses like this one. It’s our job to ask if you found everything. We don’t care if you found everything, we don’t care how your day’s been, we don’t care. We just want you to pay for your stuff and get out.

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   stonehenge1951 said, 5 months ago

   fritzoid: actually it’s the “Question to the Ultimate Answer”. We never did find out what that was from Adams now did we. Maybe Eoin Colfer will enlighten us with “And Another Thing…” which is part 6 of 3 in the Hitchhiker’s Guide series.

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   fritzoid said, 5 months ago

   To quibble, “42” IS the answer rather than the question, although as you say the question itself is unknown.

   But I stress that, until we know WHAT the Question is, we have no idea what the answer signifies. To say that the Question is simply “What is the meaning of life?”, to which the Answer is “42” is obviously incorrect, as 42 is a quantity and not a meaning. All we know about the Question is that it covers “life, the universe, and everything.”

   And I don’t know who Colfer is, but unless he can claim to have found the Question somewhere in Adams’ unpublished notes I personally would not consider his speculations to be any more valid than mine.