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What do you get if you multiply 6 by 9?

pgn — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 19:15:31 GMT

I just had to share this, if only because it was in the FT and it's about one of my favourite literary works...

https://drive.google.com/file/d/17Gx6N16OCy7YYgtyswMv_CkS6OgUtuo3/view?usp=drivesdk

Moved to Gdrive, &#"+ paywall...

Re: What do you get if you multiply 6 by 9?

jonsie — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 19:12:25 GMT

No offence....why on earth would I want to subscribe to the Financial Times.....

Re: What do you get if you multiply 6 by 9?

Mi-Amigo — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 19:13:54 GMT

@pgn

told me, I got to subscribe to read it

Re: What do you get if you multiply 6 by 9?

pgn — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 19:16:10 GMT

Changed the link now @Mi-Amigo and @jonsie

https://drive.google.com/file/d/17Gx6N16OCy7YYgtyswMv_CkS6OgUtuo3/view?usp=drivesdk

Re: What do you get if you multiply 6 by 9?

Cleoriff — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 19:16:19 GMT

Yes same here...so as they say on Dragons Den...I'm out.

Re: What do you get if you multiply 6 by 9?

pgn — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 19:18:22 GMT

Look again, I've recooked it, @Cleoriff.

Re: What do you get if you multiply 6 by 9?

jonsie — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 19:22:07 GMT

That link works @pgn

Though I have to say that I seem to have outgrown that partcular franchise.

Re: What do you get if you multiply 6 by 9?

Mi-Amigo — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 19:24:33 GMT

Thanks @pgn

Only thing I don`t get is the question in the title of your thread - or am I missing something ?

Re: What do you get if you multiply 6 by 9?

Cleoriff — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 19:26:00 GMT

Ok..thanks

Re: What do you get if you multiply 6 by 9?

MI5 — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 19:34:06 GMT

@Mi-Amigo wrote:
Thanks @pgn
Only thing I don`t get is the question in the title of your thread - or am I missing something ?

What do you get if you multiply six by nine?
"Six by nine. Forty two."
"That's it. That's all there is."
"I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe"
...

Well as most people know, the “answer” to this question (in the Hitchhikers universe) is 42.

When Douglas Adams was asked whether he invented this question because six times nine is actually 54, which is 42 when written in base thirteen, he replied:

Re: What do you get if you multiply 6 by 9?

pgn — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 19:36:13 GMT

Sheesh, youse are all a hard audience on a Friday night, @jonsie , @Cleoriff , @Mi-Amigo

“You know,” said Arthur, “it’s at times like this, when I’m trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I’d listened to what my mother told me when I was young.”

“Why, what did she tell you?”

“I don’t know, I didn’t listen.”

Sheesh...

Re: What do you get if you multiply 6 by 9?

Cleoriff — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 19:37:05 GMT

@MI5 wrote:
@Mi-Amigo wrote:
Thanks @pgn
Only thing I don`t get is the question in the title of your thread - or am I missing something ?
What do you get if you multiply six by nine?
"Six by nine. Forty two."
"That's it. That's all there is."
"I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe"
...
Well as most people know, the “answer” to this question (in the Hitchhikers universe) is 42.
When Douglas Adams was asked whether he invented this question because six times nine is actually 54, which is 42 when written in base thirteen, he replied:

I must be getting tired...

Re: What do you get if you multiply 6 by 9?

Mi-Amigo — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 19:44:42 GMT

@MI5 wrote:
@Mi-Amigo wrote:
Thanks @pgn
Only thing I don`t get is the question in the title of your thread - or am I missing something ?
What do you get if you multiply six by nine?
"Six by nine. Forty two."
"That's it. That's all there is."
"I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe"
...
Well as most people know, the “answer” to this question (in the Hitchhikers universe) is 42.
When Douglas Adams was asked whether he invented this question because six times nine is actually 54, which is 42 when written in base thirteen, he replied:

Now I need to go and lie down in a quiet dark room

Re: What do you get if you multiply 6 by 9?

sheepdog — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 19:51:45 GMT

Ah so base13 explains why I get random numbers added when doing sums on my iPhone calculator app.

Re: What do you get if you multiply 6 by 9?

TallTrees — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 20:13:32 GMT

And I am going into deep thought 😴

Re: What do you get if you multiply 6 by 9?

pgn — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 21:10:26 GMT

Ergo:

"The chances of finding out what’s really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied."

Re: What do you get if you multiply 6 by 9?

jonsie — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 22:45:17 GMT

@pgn wrote:
Ergo:
"The chances of finding out what’s really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied."

I think I'll go for a crepe!

Re: What do you get if you multiply 6 by 9?

Cleoriff — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 22:48:12 GMT

@jonsie wrote:
@pgn wrote:
Ergo:
"The chances of finding out what’s really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied."
I think I'll go for a crepe!

Are you serving Vodka?

Re: What do you get if you multiply 6 by 9?

jonsie — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 23:06:54 GMT

But of course

Re: What do you get if you multiply 6 by 9?

Cleoriff — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 23:12:38 GMT

Well cheers ...I'll have one or three. Just to celebrate the weirdest thread today.