What do you get if you multiply 6 by 9?

[pgn]

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... 

[pgn]

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...

[Cleoriff]

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@MI5 wrote:

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@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   ? 

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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"
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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:

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I must be getting tired...

[Mi-Amigo]

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@MI5 wrote:

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@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   ? 

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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:

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

[sheepdog]

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

[TallTrees]

And I am going into deep thought 😴

[pgn]

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."

[jonsie]

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@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."

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I think I'll go for a crepe!

[Cleoriff]

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@jonsie wrote:

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@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."

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I think I'll go for a crepe!

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Are you serving Vodka?

[jonsie]

But of course 

[Cleoriff]

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