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Himble Posted Jun 19, 1999
THE HIMBLAND EMPIRE WILL RULE THE WORLD!
THE EMPORER WILL BE ON DIPLOMATIC DUTY 4 A WHILE SO BENJYMOUS IS TEMPORARY HIMBLAND EMPORER!
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GEBORG STAY HERE
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Zach Garland Posted Jun 19, 1999
To paraphrase a bumpersticker I saw earlier today:
"If the answer is forty-two, it must be a real stupid question."
development on - You are all cracked
Smiley Ben Posted Jun 19, 1999
tea cosy?
and you didn't suffocate?
development on - You are all cracked
Fluke Posted Jun 19, 1999
Behind a tea cosy, not INSIDE one. It's perfectly safe behind a tea cosy.
Tea Cosies and Mistakes
Fluke Posted Jun 19, 1999
Unless I'm a very small person. How do you know whether I'm a dwarf or not?
Incidentally, did anyone from England notice that in the 'Auntie's Bloomers' series (out-takes from programmes on the BBC), all the
out-takes and mistakes are kept locked away in Vault 42? My eyes have developed to look out for 'that number' wherever I am. Perhaps our Universe is just one big out-take?
Tea Cosies and Mistakes
johnnyr Posted Jun 19, 1999
even if you are a' small person'
thats still a big tea pot
by the way
isnt there a whisky called
Vat 42 ??
Tea Cosies and Mistakes
Smiley Ben Posted Jun 19, 1999
How do we know you're not a dwarf? Well, I for one am standing behind you!!!!
(Scary, eh?)
And yeah, behind a tea cosy sounds safer than inside. Not if you want to keep warm tho...
Or cosy for that matter....
what the bumper sticker really said:
Zach Garland Posted Jun 20, 1999
"If Bill Clinton is the answer, it must be a very stupid question."
Of course, you could substitute "Bill Clinton" with "Forty-two" or anything you want and it's just as funny; meaning not very but barely passable.
Looking for numbers
Zach Garland Posted Jun 20, 1999
I also notice when forty-two shows up in day to day life. It's always coincidental but sometimes it *seems* like it's something else.
There's apparently other numbers that catch my eye too. This evening I went to a drive-thru fast food place and ordered something on the way to work. The final total for my food was six dollars and sixty-six cents.
$6.66. Anyone who was forced to go to Sunday school as a child is familiar with what that means. Or anyone who saw the Omen movies. 666 is allegedly the "Mark of the Beast" or the numerical equivalent of the Evil One.
At the window I gave the guy exactly $6.66 and asked the guy, "do you see that very often?" and I pointed at this large display staring back at both of us saying how much money I was paying.
He shook his head with a nervous grin, "no in fact ah've never seen it b'for!" Then he paused, as if his brain were deciding whether or not to continue the conversation. He looked around and then back at me. "It's th'devil y'know!"
"Well it's a symbolic numerical variant on the religious icon representative of all that is evil, I concur." I winked at him. He got noticably more nervous. I don't think he understood all the words I had just said to him.
Perhaps he thought I was chanting a curse in latin or something. He didn't seem too bright.
Looking for numbers
Smiley Ben Posted Jun 20, 1999
Surely it's simpler than that. He just realised that the reason it said 666 was that you were the devil?
Looking for numbers
Fluke Posted Jun 20, 1999
I always thought you were the devil, ZachsMind. I know nobody else who has multiple personalities on h2g2. It scares me when I go into a forum and find you arguing with yourself.
Looking for numbers
Lonnytunes - Winter Is Here Posted Jun 20, 1999
Talking biblical - Balaam was the most elastic man in the bible - he tied his ass to a tree and walked to Jerusalem - a distance of 42 miles.
Looking for numbers
QuadBee (39130) Posted Jun 20, 1999
You say YOU'RE scared when you enter a forum and see me arguing with myself. How do you think I feel?
Looking for numbers
Lonnytunes - Winter Is Here Posted Jun 20, 1999
If you feel a need to be two people why not try lying down on a bed, interlock your fingers, place your hands under the pillow and lie on them. When they go numb and lose all feeling just close your eyes and you are in masterbation heaven
42... Which is...
Haxx Posted Jun 21, 1999
That isn't right. The answer was personal to Arthur, which revealed in Mostly Harmless.
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