How many roads must a man walk down?
Harmonia Mortis
11-12-2005, 03:39
Just out of curiosity.
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
11-12-2005, 03:39
None real men drive.
Kiwi-kiwi
11-12-2005, 03:40
42.
Keruvalia
11-12-2005, 03:42
A man must only walk down one road before he can becalled a man.
Now ... what *they* may call a man .... meh ... who knows?
Einsteinian Big-Heads
11-12-2005, 03:51
42
hear hear.
Tywyllwch
11-12-2005, 03:53
42... again.
Well, you have alread called him a man so I am going to say 0.
Smart computing
11-12-2005, 03:56
42, of course
Zatarack
11-12-2005, 03:56
Cheese: 100
Bungalo: 500
Spring: 3,245
The Universe: 684029532092130103812038940384854739372928290284867382949404839347
Ned Flandersland
11-12-2005, 03:57
exactly 42
Lunatic Goofballs
11-12-2005, 04:00
I can't believe 42 wasn't in the poll.
Clearly not a Douglas Adams fan.
Let's shave him. :D
Dishonorable Scum
11-12-2005, 04:00
When you come to a fork in the road, take it! :p
Mythotic Kelkia
11-12-2005, 04:13
thankyou for NOT including 42. I just can't stand all those people who think it's so fucking clever to continually reference that (not very funny) joke from those (not very funny) books.
Lunatic Goofballs
11-12-2005, 04:16
thankyou for NOT including 42. I just can't stand all those people who think it's so fucking clever to continually reference that (not very funny) joke from those (not very funny) books.
:eek: BLASPHEMY!!!
Myrmidonisia
11-12-2005, 04:16
No Dylan fans here? I thought the answer was obvious.
Harmonia Mortis
11-12-2005, 04:18
I didnt include 42 for a reason, its quite simple:
Everybody would vote for it 'cause people are stupid that way. It seems like whenever an English author publishes a satirical/parody/ironic/whatever book that gets popular, everybody starts quoting it or attempting poor imitations.
Anyway...
Didjawannanotherbeer
11-12-2005, 04:18
thankyou for NOT including 42. I just can't stand all those people who think it's so fucking clever to continually reference that (not very funny) joke from those (not very funny) books.
Well, looks like someone got out of the wrong side of bed this morning. What's the matter - don't like to see other people having fun?
I'm with those who looked in vain for the choice '42' and was disappointed not to see it. So I'm adding it here.
42
DrunkenDove
11-12-2005, 04:19
I didnt include 42 for a reason, its quite simple:
Everybody would vote for it 'cause people are stupid that way. It seems like whenever an English author publishes a satirical/parody/ironic/whatever book that gets popular, everybody starts quoting it or attempting poor imitations.
Anyway...
I hate to shock you, but that doesn't only apply to english authors.
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
11-12-2005, 04:20
:eek: BLASPHEMY!!!
He has a point (not about the books, which were among the best I have ever read), I like a good book/radio reference as good as the next man, but when something has become so overused (like 42) it just becomes annoying.
I mean, really, the reference was cute the first time, but the 59,994,898,985,923,001st time just doesn't have quite the same zing, ya feel me?
Saint Curie
11-12-2005, 04:20
In the ancient culture of the Masbate islands, a boy is called a man when he walks down the road to the local brothel, rings the bell, puts his money down, and says "Give me the one that looks like T-Rex from Orgazmo, and afterwards, tatoo a Stephen King novel on my ass with a rusty exacto-knife and 3 gallons of Keith Richard's blood".
Pure Metal
11-12-2005, 04:21
pfft... a real man slides down the road in a rubber ring on a fluid bed of custard and pink sninkelberries.
everyone knows that :rolleyes:
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
11-12-2005, 04:22
No Dylan fans here? I thought the answer was obvious.
The answer is obvious, and I gave it as the first reply. Real men drive, only fat people and hoboes walk.
Saint Curie
11-12-2005, 04:25
No Dylan fans here? I thought the answer was obvious.
Dylan, Dylan...is he that guy who sings backup for the Traveling Willburies?
The answer is obvious, and I gave it as the first reply. Real men drive, only fat people and hoboes walk.
If fat people walked the would lose weight and cease being fat. It is the anerexic people who decide they aren't man enough to drive.
Lunatic Goofballs
11-12-2005, 04:26
He has a point (not about the books, which were among the best I have ever read), I like a good book/radio reference as good as the next man, but when something has become so overused (like 42) it just becomes annoying.
I mean, really, the reference was cute the first time, but the 59,994,898,985,923,001st time just doesn't have quite the same zing, ya feel me?
Oh, it's far overused. *nod*
There were far more interesting quotables from those books.
I like Eccentrica Gallumbits(The triple-breasted whore from Eroticon 6) describing Zaphod Beeblebrox as 'The best Bang since the Big one.'
I laughed out loud. In math class! :)
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
11-12-2005, 04:27
If fat people walked the would lose weight and cease being fat. It is the anerexic people who decide they aren't man enough to drive.
No, you see, the fat people walk until they aren't fat anymore, and then they can drive. On the road of life, all the cars are really tiny, and so you either have to be fit or a clown to move through the process without a lot of discomfort.
Pure Metal
11-12-2005, 04:29
No, you see, the fat people walk until they aren't fat anymore, and then they can drive. On the road of life, all the cars are really tiny, and so you either have to be fit or a clown to move through the process without a lot of discomfort.
it doesn't help, me handing out donuts to the fatties.
mwuahaha
Hyridian
11-12-2005, 04:31
42, of course
Aye aye!
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
11-12-2005, 04:32
it doesn't help, me handing out donuts to the fatties.
mwuahaha
You are a truly wicked and vile person with a sadistic bent and a heart of iron. Please let me have your man-babies.
Pure Metal
11-12-2005, 04:33
You are a truly wicked and vile person with a sadistic bent and a heart of iron. Please let me have your man-babies.
sounds like a good deal to me :fluffle:
Kiwi-kiwi
11-12-2005, 04:34
42.
I re-evaluate my original answer. The true answer is obviously pie.
Or pi, I suppose, but that's not nearly as delicious.
DrunkenDove
11-12-2005, 04:36
No, you see, the fat people walk until they aren't fat anymore, and then they can drive. On the road of life, all the cars are really tiny, and so you either have to be fit or a clown to move through the process without a lot of discomfort.
How about exceptionally tall people?
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
11-12-2005, 04:40
How about exceptionally tall people?
We must cut off their legs at the knees, it is the only way for them to make it.
Remember, when they scream and bleed, when you can't bring yourself to reveal to your wife what it is you do for a living, when guilt crushes, when the families stare at you during the funerals, always remember it was for the greater good. For their own good, really. We had to do it.
Just keeping saying that, and someday you might even believe the excuses you give for your own actions.
We must cut off their legs at the knees, it is the only way for them to make it.
Remember, when they scream and bleed, when you can't bring yourself to reveal to your wife what it is you do for a living, when guilt crushes, when the families stare at you during the funerals, always remember it was for the greater good. For their own good, really. We had to do it.
Just keeping saying that, and someday you might even believe the excuses you give for your own actions.
So, you're saying it is all my fault and you were just trying to help?
thankyou for NOT including 42. I just can't stand all those people who think it's so fucking clever to continually reference that (not very funny) joke from those (not very funny) books.
So, while you were reading all 5 books, were your eyebrows jammed together, your face puckered in a disapproving way for all ~1,000 pages you've read? (I don't know how many pages the series totalled up)
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
11-12-2005, 04:54
So, you're saying it is all my fault and you were just trying to help?
Yes, how could it be any different? I am completely without flaws, surely you have realized that by now?
The answer is four thousand and ninety-four, of course.
Why did Douglas Adams continually get it wrong? :rolleyes:
Yes, how could it be any different? I am completely without flaws, surely you have realized that by now?
Sorry, I would have realize that much sooner if you had not ask me what 2+2 equals, but that is my fault. Anyways does it equal 5?
Just one my friend, the road of life. One with many ups and downs, twists and turns--*Is forcefully repressed by the SPA* and gorroted with silly string*
*Stop Philosophy Association
No endorse
11-12-2005, 05:00
42.
How is this not a poll option?
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
11-12-2005, 05:04
Sorry, I would have realize that much sooner if you had not ask me what 2+2 equals, but that is my fault. Anyways does it equal 5?
My perfection is such that, were I too say that 2 + 2 = 0, the Universe would remakes itself such that I would be in the right.
I am my beloved self, with me I am well pleased.
My perfection is such that, were I too say that 2 + 2 = 0, the Universe would remakes itself such that I would be in the right.
I am my beloved self, with me I am well pleased.
What if you say that you were never always right?
Ravenshrike
11-12-2005, 05:08
42 * pi^(e^-i.9*666) - (A crack smoking monkey) + (The number of menstruations that occured in the past 5041.86 years)/Pi*R^2
R=the radius of Michael Moores fat ass
Lunatic Goofballs
11-12-2005, 05:10
42 * pi^(e^-i.9*666) - (A crack smoking monkey) + (The number of menstruations that occured in the past 5041.86 years)/Pi*R^2
R=the radius of Michael Moores fat ass
Before of after the Thanksgiving feast? :p
Kiwi-kiwi
11-12-2005, 05:11
42 * pi^(e^-i.9*666) - (A crack smoking monkey) + (The number of menstruations that occured in the past 5041.86 years)/Pi*R^2
R=the radius of Michael Moores fat ass
Hurray! However, pie should be involved somewhere in that equation, for it is delicious.
Before of after the Thanksgiving feast? :p
Does the radius of a black hole get any bigger when it consumes a star?
Same concept.
DrunkenDove
11-12-2005, 05:12
Does the radius of a black hole get any bigger when it consumes a star?
Yes.
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
11-12-2005, 05:13
What if you say that you were never always right?
Then I would unmake myself and all evidence that I ever was would dissapear. However, I'm not that stupid, and so resist the impulse, unlike that God kid who was knocking about for a while. Some wise ass tricked him into saying that exact thing in then it was out with a puff of logic.
Lucida Sans
11-12-2005, 05:15
bob dylan= god
Tywyllwch
11-12-2005, 05:17
Hurray! However, pie should be involved somewhere in that equation, for it is delicious.
Indeed. Pie is most delicious, particularly in the places where it's least expected.
Kiwi-kiwi
11-12-2005, 05:20
Indeed. Pie is most delicious, particularly in the places where it's least expected.
NO ONE expects the Pie!
Inquisition.
Harmonia Mortis
11-12-2005, 05:21
Yes.
I was under the impression that the hole itself grows smaller with additional mass, while the event horizon (the bit you see) gets larger.
Of course, it seems likely that we will never know, at least, for a few generations.
Ravenshrike
11-12-2005, 05:24
Before of after the Thanksgiving feast? :p
After the Christmas feast before he goes to the bathroom.
Ravenshrike
11-12-2005, 05:25
Hurray! However, pie should be involved somewhere in that equation, for it is delicious.
It's thought to be automatically included somewhere in the radius of MM's ass.
Tywyllwch
11-12-2005, 05:27
NO ONE expects the Pie!
Inquisition.
How does a pie "inquire"? I'd have thought it would be promptly ingested, lacking time to "inquire".
Kiwi-kiwi
11-12-2005, 05:36
How does a pie "inquire"? I'd have thought it would be promptly ingested, lacking time to "inquire".
Do not question the mystery that is pie.
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
11-12-2005, 05:38
How does a pie "inquire"? I'd have thought it would be promptly ingested, lacking time to "inquire".
You make the common assumption that pie operates by the same laws of time and space as humans do. Pie, quite definately, operates under very different circumstances than mere humans.
Lunatic Goofballs
11-12-2005, 05:40
*bows in awe and deference to all things pie.*
*bows in awe and deference to all things pie.*
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2789/250/1600/Pi.gif
Oh crap I'm gonna get slapped for this question...but I'll ask anyway....
What is with everyone putting down 42? What, what is it? I don't get it....:confused:
......
.....
*Ducks under hail of rotten cabbage*
Saint Curie
11-12-2005, 05:46
Oh crap I'm gonna get slapped for this question...but I'll ask anyway....
What is with everyone putting down 42? What, what is it? I don't get it....:confused:
......
.....
*Ducks under hail of rotten cabbage*
It might be interesting if the 42 devotees slowly grow stronger, and eventually become a widely recognized religion, its origins lost in the misty ancient past...hope nobody has to be the 42 Jesus, though...thats thin pastrami to die for...
Wanksta Nation
11-12-2005, 05:50
thankyou for NOT including 42. I just can't stand all those people who think it's so fucking clever to continually reference that (not very funny) joke from those (not very funny) books.
Except that's where the quote comes from...
Not just the number, but the question too...
Interestingly/ironically enough, 42 became my favorite number long before I ever even read Hitchiker's Guide. Any time I would randomly guess at a math question, the answer was 42 (seemed like a good number, not too big, not to small, neat LCDs). Then one day, after doing this, someone said "You must be a Hitchhiker's Guide fan, eh?" "Uh, huh?"
Eutrusca
11-12-2005, 05:51
How many roads must a man walk down?
Thank you, Peter, Paul and Mary! :D
Wanksta Nation
11-12-2005, 05:52
Oh crap I'm gonna get slapped for this question...but I'll ask anyway....
What is with everyone putting down 42? What, what is it? I don't get it....:confused:
......
.....
*Ducks under hail of rotten cabbage*
In the Douglas Adam's novel turned movie, a supercomputer is created to derive the answer to "the" question. The answer it comes up with is "42." The protagonist then finds out that Earth was the even more superior computer designed to derive "the" question. After the earth is destroyed (then rebuilt, exactly as it was), the question is made up as "How many roads must a man travel down?" ...err, that the gist of it anyway.
Heh, that's cool... I guess I'll read the book then.. lol thanks..
Wanksta Nation
11-12-2005, 06:00
Heh, that's cool... I guess I'll read the book then.. lol thanks..
It's rare for me to say this...but, this is definitely a case where reading the book and NOT watching the movie is IMPORTANT.
The movie is TERRIBLE.
It's rare for me to say this...but, this is definitely a case where reading the book and NOT watching the movie is IMPORTANT.
The movie is TERRIBLE.
How can the movie be worse? It is shorter and requires less reading.
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
11-12-2005, 06:22
How can the movie be worse? It is shorter and requires less reading.
A midget stabbing you in the genitals with rusty scissors is short and requires no reading at all, would you want that too?
Wanksta Nation
11-12-2005, 06:25
How can the movie be worse? It is shorter and requires less reading.
Usually, I'm with you there.
Lord of the Rings (I think you might be able to finish reading the first part of the trilogy quicker than you can watch the extended version of all 3 movies...heh) is a great example.
But, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie is absolutely horrendous.
Actually, another example that falls in line with HHGTTG is War of the Worlds. Compared to the book, the movie is pretty bad. Those two book/movie aside...the movie is usually better..
Lunatic Goofballs
11-12-2005, 06:28
A midget stabbing you in the genitals with rusty scissors is short and requires no reading at all, would you want that too?
I HAVE that. He's on my payroll. :)
A midget stabbing you in the genitals with rusty scissors is short and requires no reading at all, would you want that too?
Now that you meantion it, that is on my xmas list.
Tywyllwch
11-12-2005, 06:43
You make the common assumption that pie operates by the same laws of time and space as humans do. Pie, quite definately, operates under very different circumstances than mere humans.
...You're quite right. This is a most truely horrifing mistake on my behalf.
Tywyllwch
11-12-2005, 06:49
A midget stabbing you in the genitals with rusty scissors is short and requires no reading at all, would you want that too?
You have incredibly disturbing ideas.
You have incredibly disturbing ideas.
I blaime Bush. He is responsible for everything that goes on in the world.
Tywyllwch
11-12-2005, 06:59
I blaime Bush. He is responsible for everything that goes on in the world.
While it's incredibly tempting to do so, it a bit farfetched that one child-minded national leader could cause the world to be as it is.
Harlesburg
11-12-2005, 08:28
None real men drive.
No Real Men get little asian Servants to carry them on their backs.
Avertide
11-12-2005, 08:32
Bad form old chap, Forgetting the 42 like that!
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
11-12-2005, 08:35
No Real Men get little asian Servants to carry them on their backs.
No, Real Gentlemen have Asian slaves, Real Men drive, Women (Real or False) aren't allowed out of the house and on to the road anyway, Fat people walk, and Real Cool Men have Fillipino boys carry them around on a stretcher made of the bones of previous Fillipino boy servants.
That's how we roll on the Road of Life.
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
11-12-2005, 08:38
You have incredibly disturbing ideas.
So far in this thread I have mentioned genitle mutilation via rusty scissors, proposed to have children with some guy, made a case for chopping the legs off of tall people, declared that women shouldn't leave the house, announced that the coolest way to travel is on a stretcher of bone, and revealed the transdimensional properties of pie.
What's so disturbing about that?
Sdaeriji
11-12-2005, 08:45
Seven.
Oh, it's a rhetorical question....
Eight!
Now THAT is a quality reference.
The-Choir
11-12-2005, 08:50
Yes ! I agree .
So far in this thread I have mentioned genitle mutilation via rusty scissors, proposed to have children with some guy, made a case for chopping the legs off of tall people, declared that women shouldn't leave the house, announced that the coolest way to travel is on a stretcher of bone, and revealed the transdimensional properties of pie.
What's so disturbing about that?
He's just oversensitive.
One...
why was that not in the poll?
One...
why was that not in the poll?
Because it's so obvious, duh.
Because it's so obvious, duh.
:D true...
so how've you been...
and no, I haven't listened to Husker Du yet... before you ask ;)
The South Islands
11-12-2005, 09:47
-7!
:D true...
so how've you been...
and no, I haven't listened to Husker Du yet... before you ask ;)
Damn.
Nubivagant Airgonauts
11-12-2005, 10:19
-e^(pi*i), of course! Last time I checked, no one had any spare time machines lying around to change the road they were walking down.
Callisdrun
11-12-2005, 10:51
I hate to say it, but your poll is not too special.
Not only is 42 left out, but the numbers all appear to be powers of 2. What if I think a man must walk down 5 roads, or 99? Well? And why is he walking down the road, when he could take a bass or walk up the road? Can he really be walking down the road if it happens to be in San Francisco and is going uphill?
Nubivagant Airgonauts
11-12-2005, 11:00
I hate to say it, but your poll is not too special.
Not only is 42 left out, but the numbers all appear to be powers of 2. What if I think a man must walk down 5 roads, or 99? Well? And why is he walking down the road, when he could take a bass or walk up the road? Can he really be walking down the road if it happens to be in San Francisco and is going uphill?
Yeah, it would be nice to at least have a choice of "some other number."
Harlesburg
11-12-2005, 11:35
No, Real Gentlemen have Asian slaves, Real Men drive, Women (Real or False) aren't allowed out of the house and on to the road anyway, Fat people walk, and Real Cool Men have Fillipino boys carry them around on a stretcher made of the bones of previous Fillipino boy servants.
That's how we roll on the Road of Life.
The Bones are formed into the framework of a Rickshaw i presume?
True matrix
11-12-2005, 11:45
:sniper: :cool: :headbang: :mad: :) :rolleyes: :mp5:
If I wanted to know the answer, I'd just ask the man-or the roads
Hel is bored
11-12-2005, 11:47
One more.
New Burmesia
11-12-2005, 12:09
Planck's Constant.
Mooseica
11-12-2005, 13:10
More importantly, how many pies must a man consume before you can call him a fat-ass?
Pure Metal
11-12-2005, 13:16
More importantly, how many pies must a man consume before you can call him a fat-ass?
how many pies must a man consume before his marginal propensity to consume reaches zero?
fucking economics
Mooseica
11-12-2005, 13:42
how many pies must a man consume before his marginal propensity to consume reaches zero?
fucking economics
Before his whatty what what now?! Marginal propensity?
I knew it! You really are a socerer aren't you! This is some devious spell to conjure up more delicious savoury pies!
Pure Metal
11-12-2005, 14:06
Before his whatty what what now?! Marginal propensity?
I knew it! You really are a socerer aren't you! This is some devious spell to conjure up more delicious savoury pies!
*pies appear*
mwuahahahaaha!! i am indeed evil... no pies for you. ;)
It's thought to be automatically included somewhere in the radius of MM's ass.
O.O that sounds gross.
Incendentally, the hitchikers guide wasn't particularly funny. i read it because i was /very/ bored, and a housemate had hired it from the library.
Mooseica
11-12-2005, 15:01
*pies appear*
mwuahahahaaha!! i am indeed evil... no pies for you. ;)
http://darthno.ytmnd.com/
Mooseica
11-12-2005, 15:12
He needs to walk down 3.
But how many must he consume - that's the real issue here. Don't be blinded by the dark side of the Force with its seductive offers of roads. You still have much to learn young padawan/grasshopper.
Kameridoru
11-12-2005, 18:05
54.
The question for which the ultimate answer is 42 is: What do you get if you multiply six by nine?
I V Stalin
11-12-2005, 18:46
Just go outside. So long as there's wind, you'll find the answer.
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
11-12-2005, 18:53
The Bones are formed into the framework of a Rickshaw i presume?
Of course, what do you think I am? Some sort of savage?
Misunderestimates
11-12-2005, 19:26
well...seeing as how 42 isn't on here...i'll go ahead and vote 32 because it's the closest.
yeah, thats right, i said it again.
42
Misunderestimates
11-12-2005, 19:27
The question for which the ultimate answer is 42 is: What do you get if you multiply six by nine?
uhh...pretty sure it's 54
Misunderestimates
11-12-2005, 19:29
54.
The question for which the ultimate answer is 42 is: What do you get if you multiply six by nine?
Need to read the book(s) again.
The ultimate question is what do you get when you multiply 6 by 7
close though
Misunderestimates
11-12-2005, 19:32
:sniper: :cool: :headbang: :mad: :) :rolleyes: :mp5:
If I wanted to know the answer, I'd just ask the man-or the roads
Sweet first post. Spam it up with a crapton of smiley's. Read the sig. (insert down arrow here.)
There is another missing answer here...
23
I vote 23!
The Squeaky Rat
11-12-2005, 22:23
Just one. Sometimes you arrive at crossroads. Sometimes you have to walk back a bit and choose a different direction. Every now and then you will stop walking and take a break. But in the end you will arrive at your final destination.
See ? Cheap philosophy. Available now for only 1$ a word. Who needs supercomputers anyway ;)
Sketchkat
11-12-2005, 22:30
42
It's so obvious!!!
Many people have said 42 and I respect them for that as everyone loves "Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy" !!! :D
Ashmoria
11-12-2005, 23:09
i dont know the exact number but its the same as the number of seas a white dove must sail before she sleeps in the sand.
its blowing in the wind in any case.
Pure Metal
11-12-2005, 23:13
which road is the red light district down? thats the real question here...
which road is the red light district down? thats the real question here...
Well, that's the only road we do need to walk down anyway. ;)
Now, if the question were "How many roads must a woman walk down"....
Pure Metal
11-12-2005, 23:26
Well, that's the only road we do need to walk down anyway. ;)
Now, if the question were "How many roads must a woman walk down"....
lol... how many street corners must said certain woman stand at till she gets some cash? that is the real question of our times ;)
Mooseica
11-12-2005, 23:48
lol... how many street corners must said certain woman stand at till she gets some cash? that is the real question of our times ;)
Depends really; street corner, city, country, woman... the list goes on.
lol... how many street corners must said certain woman stand at till she gets some cash? that is the real question of our times ;)
Only one, under the right conditions. ;)
Pure Metal
11-12-2005, 23:56
Only one, under the right conditions. ;)
what? when Eut, officially NS's horniest dude, walks by? :D
Mooseica
12-12-2005, 00:00
Only one, under the right conditions. ;)
Indeed - for example, if there's a severe shortage of knitting needles in the country.
What? The discussion clearly concerns street-walking needlewomen. Don't give me those looks, you know very well which ones I mean dammit! The ones that imply I'm incredibly naive! How dare you?
Drake Gryphonhearth
12-12-2005, 00:24
42
The Beach Boys
12-12-2005, 02:28
thankyou for NOT including 42. I just can't stand all those people who think it's so fucking clever to continually reference that (not very funny) joke from those (not very funny) books.
he just did that so the rest of us could include it.
and once more with feeling:
"FORTY-TWO!"
:D
The Beach Boys
12-12-2005, 02:30
I hate to shock you, but that doesn't only apply to english authors.
I also hate to shock you, but that idea was doomed before you even had it.
The Beach Boys
12-12-2005, 02:40
Except that's where the quote comes from...
Not just the number, but the question too...
...
PLEASE tell me you know better than that:
Blowin' in the wind
How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
Yes, 'n' how many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
How many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky?
Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
How many years can a mountain exist
Before it's washed to the sea?
Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free?
Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head,
Pretending he just doesn't see?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
Copyright © 1962 Bob Dylan
Didjawannanotherbeer
12-12-2005, 03:29
54.
The question for which the ultimate answer is 42 is: What do you get if you multiply six by nine?
Need to read the book(s) again.
The ultimate question is what do you get when you multiply 6 by 7
close though
Sorry, Misunderestimates, but Kameridoru is right. The answer to the Ultimate Question was 42. The Ultimate Question did indeed turn out to be "What do you get if you multiply 6 by 9?". To which either Ford or Arthur (I forget which) commented that he'd always thought there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe.
When people pointed out that in base 13, 6x9 does indeed equal 42, Douglas Adams was quick to reply that it hadn't been a consideration when he came up with the question.
And to the person who thought the Ultimate Question was "How many roads must a man walk down", you were also not quite right. That question came about when the Earth was blown up 5 minutes before it finished its program to discover the Ultimate Question, and so the mice (who had commissioned the program in the first place) made up the "How many roads" question as a stop-gap measure to save their arses.
*wonders how people can profess to be Hitchhikers fans and yet get such basic information incorrect*
/smartarse mode
The Beach Boys
12-12-2005, 04:08
...
/smartarse mode
that would be the mode where you imitate the multi-dimensional mice, right? ;)
ps - I just have to ask, is your name the real question?
I V Stalin
12-12-2005, 17:51
42. No, that's not the answer to the question. But it's at least as many times as the number 42 has been claimed to be the answer. As Fiddlebottoms pointed out here (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10073899&postcount=20) it's not funny any more!
Mooseica
12-12-2005, 18:02
Sorry, Misunderestimates, but Kameridoru is right. The answer to the Ultimate Question was 42. The Ultimate Question did indeed turn out to be "What do you get if you multiply 6 by 9?". To which either Ford or Arthur (I forget which) commented that he'd always thought there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe.
When people pointed out that in base 13, 6x9 does indeed equal 42, Douglas Adams was quick to reply that it hadn't been a consideration when he came up with the question.
And to the person who thought the Ultimate Question was "How many roads must a man walk down", you were also not quite right. That question came about when the Earth was blown up 5 minutes before it finished its program to discover the Ultimate Question, and so the mice (who had commissioned the program in the first place) made up the "How many roads" question as a stop-gap measure to save their arses.
*wonders how people can profess to be Hitchhikers fans and yet get such basic information incorrect*
/smartarse mode
I was under the impression that the question "what do you get if you multiply 6 by 9?" came up as the question to '42' because, when the Golgafrinchams landed on Earth they screwed up the whole experiment, and so the true question - including that pulled from the mind of Arthur Dent which was mentioned above - was lost.
*wonders if this is mere speculation or if I've made a valid point*
[/smartarse+nitpicky mode]
I V Stalin
12-12-2005, 18:10
I was under the impression that the question "what do you get if you multiply 6 by 9?" came up as the question to '42' because, when the Golgafrinchams landed on Earth they screwed up the whole experiment, and so the true question - including that pulled from the mind of Arthur Dent which was mentioned above - was lost.
*wonders if this is mere speculation or if I've made a valid point*
[/smartarse+nitpicky mode]
I always took it as a subtle piss-take by Douglas Adams implying that the universe is fundamentally screwed up. If you want further proof of this, you just have to see the creator's final message to the universe...
As many have noted already - the answer is blantently 42.
Mooseica
12-12-2005, 18:26
I always took it as a subtle piss-take by Douglas Adams implying that the universe is fundamentally screwed up. If you want further proof of this, you just have to see the creator's final message to the universe...
Possibly it's both lol. Although your one sounds more Adamsy to be fair. And yeah, I was giggling uncontrollably for a good long while after I read the final message :D
this thread is discriminating against the men in wheelchairs. please change to how many roads must a man walk/roll down.
lest you want to imply the walking impaired cannot be real men.
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
12-12-2005, 20:12
I was under the impression that the question "what do you get if you multiply 6 by 9?" came up as the question to '42' because, when the Golgafrinchams landed on Earth they screwed up the whole experiment, and so the true question - including that pulled from the mind of Arthur Dent which was mentioned above - was lost.
*wonders if this is mere speculation or if I've made a valid point*
I think at some point it is mentioned that the answer and the question cannot coexist in the Universe and that, were both to be discovered for certain, the whole thing would be destroyed and an even more fucked up Universe would be created to fill the place of the old one.
Not that I remembered that all off the top of my head, no, certainly not. I also didn't just remember that the closing line to that chapter was something to the effect of: "Some theorize that this has already happened multiple times."
Anyway, now that I have just donned my yellow D20* I'll go sit over there till the train comes for the rest of us.
*Reference to the Diary of Anne Frank, dontcha know
Indeed - for example, if there's a severe shortage of knitting needles in the country.
What? The discussion clearly concerns street-walking needlewomen. Don't give me those looks, you know very well which ones I mean dammit! The ones that imply I'm incredibly naive! How dare you?
*hugs*
I like you:)