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07-06-2021, 19:26
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Re: The 2021 Joke Thread
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Originally Posted by GILow
Yes, but what is the question?
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According to "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe":
"What do you get when you multiply six by nine""
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07-06-2021, 19:38
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#107
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Re: The 2021 Joke Thread
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Originally Posted by GILow
Yes, but what is the question?
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I thought we'd already established that ... 2B or not 2B, that is the question.
42 is 2A, so ... not 2B. Sorry Hamlet.
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08-06-2021, 02:18
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#108
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Re: The 2021 Joke Thread
Quote:
Originally Posted by GILow
Yes, but what is the question?
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Indeed.
Evidently, according to Doug Adams himself, he [Deep Thought] chose 42 (the answer) randomly, and not as popularly believed as a result of using a Tridecimal (Base 13) counting system:
“... The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought '42 will do'. I typed it out. End of story ...”
Clearly, there is great importance in understanding, and asking, the right questions.
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"If you didn't have the time or money to do it right in the first place, when will you get the time/$ to fix it?"
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08-06-2021, 02:29
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Re: The 2021 Joke Thread
2B is all that I would ever allow in my chartrooms....... catch you with an HB and you will have to have it surgically removed.
( in truth I used to just break them in half and chuck them in the bin - that was the HBs not the owners of same.)
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08-06-2021, 02:34
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Re: The 2021 Joke Thread
Back on track... did someone mention guns? Or creation v. evolution?
Sorry but no anchors seem to be involved .
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08-06-2021, 04:24
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Re: The 2021 Joke Thread
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Gord May
"If you didn't have the time or money to do it right in the first place, when will you get the time/$ to fix it?"
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08-06-2021, 04:25
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Re: The 2021 Joke Thread
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Gord May
"If you didn't have the time or money to do it right in the first place, when will you get the time/$ to fix it?"
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08-06-2021, 05:20
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Re: The 2021 Joke Thread
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"If you didn't have the time or money to do it right in the first place, when will you get the time/$ to fix it?"
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08-06-2021, 05:28
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Re: The 2021 Joke Thread
Quote:
Originally Posted by GordMay
Indeed.
Evidently, according to Doug Adams himself, he [Deep Thought] chose 42 (the answer) randomly, and not as popularly believed as a result of using a Tridecimal (Base 13) counting system:
“... The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought '42 will do'. I typed it out. End of story ...”
Clearly, there is great importance in understanding, and asking, the right questions.
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The Vogons forced Adams to say that under threat of poetry.
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08-06-2021, 05:38
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Re: The 2021 Joke Thread
Did you know you can tell the difference between male and female ants, by dropping them in a glass of water?
If it sinks, it's a girl ant.
If it floats, it's a boy ant!!
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"If you didn't have the time or money to do it right in the first place, when will you get the time/$ to fix it?"
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08-06-2021, 06:55
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Re: The 2021 Joke Thread
Quote:
Originally Posted by GordMay
Indeed.
Evidently, according to Doug Adams himself, he [Deep Thought] chose 42 (the answer) randomly, and not as popularly believed as a result of using a Tridecimal (Base 13) counting system:
“... The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought '42 will do'. I typed it out. End of story ...”
Clearly, there is great importance in understanding, and asking, the right questions.
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Ah he should gone with Tibetan Monks using base 13!
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08-06-2021, 07:12
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Re: The 2021 Joke Thread
Quote:
Originally Posted by GILow
Yes, but what is the question?
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What do you get when you multiply six by nine?
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08-06-2021, 07:37
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Re: The 2021 Joke Thread
42 42 42 42
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08-06-2021, 12:53
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Re: The 2021 Joke Thread
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"If you didn't have the time or money to do it right in the first place, when will you get the time/$ to fix it?"
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08-06-2021, 13:55
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Re: The 2021 Joke Thread
Some years ago a computer company decided to send three of its staff to a conference in Switzerland.
After attending the conference the three, a department manager, a hardware engineer, and a software programmer, decided to rent a car and tour some of the Alps.
As you may know, some of those high roads only have a little border on the edge overlooking straight drops of what appears to be 300 km deep drops.
So the trio had just gone over the top of a very high pass and were starting down the steep incline when they discovered to their horror that the brakes no longer worked! They were screaming and praying, just knowing that death was seconds away. By scraping the side of the car against the side of the mountain they got the car stopped just a short way down. They shakily crawled out of the car and fell to their knees.
After a period they stopped shaking and looked around, they were in a vast mountain range, no one else around, no brakes, and no one to help them.
They started talking about what to do.
The department manager said they should form a committee and define a "vision statement".
The hardware engineer said "No, no. I've got my Swiss Army knife and can strip the brake system down, rebuild it, and then we can be on our way!"
The software engineer said "No, no, no! Before we do anything let's push it back up to the top of the hill and see if it does it again."
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