Fun With 42

So we have this portable white board where I work. It is rarely used for any business purpose, so there is usually some sort of question at the top intended to generate responses. Of course, the question could be about anything; the weather, movies, TV shows, etc. The idea is that the responses are to be related, but somewhat nonsensical and (if possible) funny.

For instance, one of the questions was "If I were King, I'd..." One of the responses was "Make Angelina Jolie the queen." Another answer was "Put Chuck Norris in charge of security." (I just had to respond to that one; I put "bad idea; he'd take over." Try going to Google and putting "find Chuck Norris" in the search field and click the "I feel lucky button". The result is rather funny, in my demented opinion.)

Whenever I feel compelled to put up an answer to one of the questions, I always try to incorporate "42" if at all possible. Sometimes I can't think of anything witty to add, so I just put "42" and leave it at that.

One of the more recent questions was "If I could put time in a bottle, I'd..." Another individual put "Blow it up" for one of the answers. Once again, not being able to help myself, I decided the answer needed a bit of augmentation. When I was done with it the entire line read "Blow it up (with C4-tytwo).

I know, I'm my own best fan. But it was fun and I like to share, so there you go. By virtue of it's popularity alone, I believe that 42 WILL become "the answer to life, the universe, and everything" eventually. I surely wish Douglas Adams were alive today to witness the phenomenon that his silly little random number created. I realize he was aware of it to a certain extent prior to his death, but I don't think he quite understood just how pervasive it would turn out to be. Cheers to Mr. Adams!!!