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Good Question

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Verdana
on Jul 02 '07

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Verdana on Jun 28 '07

Marvin thinks you ought to know he's feeling very depressed.

4 days later

Rathany on Jul 02 '07

Hee!

Christoph Jenkins on Jul 03 '07

42!

Band Geek on Jul 03 '07

Thank you. So much. I love you. I love Hitchhiker.
This $ makes my 5 look so much prettier.

thebaddestrobot on Jul 03 '07

42!!!!!!!

da Face on Jul 03 '07

54!!

Prexis on Jul 03 '07

Tonteau on Jul 03 '07

^^
What they said.

N2O on Jul 03 '07

5 f'n 4

Try 7 x 6...

Muckl on Jul 03 '07

or try it in base 13 ^^

rain drop on Jul 03 '07

i dont like it. :(

thebaddestrobot on Jul 03 '07

I'd totally buy this. In an instant. It's the most awesome shirt ever.

Mr. Bacon on Jul 03 '07

hey doofus! this is dumb. the book says "7x6" not "6x9"

sex2 on Jul 03 '07

Verdana on Jul 03 '07

Mr. Bacon, the book most assuredly does not say "7x6." There is a point where the possibility of "7x6" is tossed around, but this refers to a different point in the series, where Scrabble is involved.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with the series Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, an ongoing theme of the books has to do with the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything and the answer to that question. We are told fairly early on that the answer is 42.

Later in the series, two of the characters draw homemade Scrabble tiles out of a bag in an attempt to discover what the question actually is. This is what they get.

corey9 on Jul 03 '07

nice! 5$

i like it for the illustration - with or without meaning :)

bFusion on Jul 03 '07

OMG NO TEXT PLZ!

OK, kidding, I like this one. Big fan of the books :)

kayceislost on Jul 03 '07

lol @ everyone who keeps saying 54.

fardoche will eat your kid on Jul 03 '07

well 6 times 9 IS equal to 54...

fardoche will eat your kid on Jul 03 '07

"It was later pointed out by readers that 6 × 9 = 42 if the calculations are performed in base 13, not base 10, which gives an answer of 54. Douglas Adams later averred that he was not aware of this at the time, and repeatedly dismissed this as an irrelevant concoction, saying that "nobody writes jokes in base 13 [...] I may be a pretty sad person, but I don't make jokes in base 13."

thank you wikipedia?

Zebdog on Jul 03 '07

haha 54 yaa

AlaskaCannoli on Jul 03 '07

hee. that's cute :)

chelly on Jul 03 '07

wonderful.

ekaj47 on Jul 03 '07

very nice - i would love to wear this

FranFry on Jul 03 '07

54. well, thats just helpful.

R'son-W on Jul 03 '07

"I knew there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe…"

BrokenArm91 on Jul 03 '07

i don't get the reference as well as someone who has read the series, but from the explanation Verdana gave, i love the concept and design

BrokenArm91 on Jul 03 '07

p.s. - is the robot part of the design?

Quelin on Jul 03 '07

The whole thing that Earth was made to find out the question, 42 is the answer (also why it was replaced, it was so valuable). Later in the series we find out some "refugees" from another planet were sent out to space and landed on Earth, thus ruining the purity of the question answering device. This is why you guess they get 9 x 6 instead of 7 x 6. But even so 7 x 6 as the answer to everything is pretty silly.

Verdana on Jul 03 '07

BrokenArm91—No, he's a character from the BBC miniseries version of the story.

Verdana on Jul 03 '07

That is to say, he's just in the submission to say hello and take up a bit of extra space. =]

Oxgoad on Jul 04 '07

Reading the series for the second time. $5

gatosolsuncat on Jul 04 '07

R'son-W on Jul 03 '07 "I knew there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe…"

gatosolsuncat on Jul 04 '07

the robot is Marvin

darkshines on Jul 04 '07

Is the robot on the shirt?

Emily72 on Jul 04 '07

kamisch42 on Jul 05 '07

The answer to the greatest question ever asked!

will-cawdordrive on Jul 05 '07

that is incredible. i would buy that in a second.

will-cawdordrive on Jul 05 '07

my friends would be so jealous....

drjedipimp on Jul 05 '07

us dolphins and mice are so outta here...this thread is absurd.
lol

Rocket Kid on Jul 05 '07

Oh 42 hah, i get it!

jonndoe08 on Jul 06 '07

It would be really cool, except that it's six by seven to get fortytwo

Joelnz on Jul 06 '07

renfrue on Jul 06 '07

so 42 is the scrabble score?

maths confuse me

muppetdoom on Jul 07 '07

i LOVE this!i would totally buy it!

sonneta on Jul 07 '07

I totally don't remember the scrabble reference. And I feel it would be more obvious a reference if it were 7x6. Or perhaps, How many streets must you travel?

thebaddestrobot on Jul 07 '07

How many roads must a man walk down. I guess only the really cool people get the 6x9 reference.

Zegrod on Jul 08 '07

Mmm, love everything that has to do with 42, $5!

discordia.42 on Jul 08 '07

i love this!!!

todderick on Jul 09 '07

@renfrue:
no 42 is the answer. It doesn't involve math, it involves the answer to life the universe and everything.

This is clearly one of the best things ever. 5, and $

want.

L337Cthulhu on Jul 09 '07

That makes me very happy $5

equatic on Jul 09 '07

this is awesome!

adimple79 on Jul 09 '07

I didn't know what the reference was at first. I've seen the movie a couple times, but I haven't read the books. I think that's cool that it works out in base 13, but I'm a geek. :)
Before reading the comments, I thought maybe it was just supposed to be a distracting question (couldn't do the calculation til I switched the numbers around, cause I kept thinkin 69...).

hiphop on Jul 09 '07

YES! great! it's in the fourth or fifth book, i think.

todderick on Jul 10 '07

Its in the second.

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