True but I don't listen to her either.

Perfectly natural then.

meh...



"O people waiting in the Shadow of Deep Thought!" he cried out. "Honoured Descendants of Vroomfondel and Majikthise, the Greatest and Most Truly Interesting Pundits the Universe has ever known ... The Time of Waiting is over!"

Wild cheers broke out amongst the crowd. Flags, streamers and wolf whistles sailed through the air. The narrower streets looked rather like centipedes rolled over on their backs and frantically waving their legs in the air.

"Seven and a half million years our race has waited for this Great and Hopefully Enlightening Day!" cried the cheerleader. "The Day of the Answer!"

Hurrahs burst from the ecstatic crowd.

"Never again," cried the man, "never again will we wake up in the morning and think Who am I? What is my purpose in life? Does it really, cosmically speaking, matter if I don't get up and go to work? For today we will finally learn once and for all the plain and simple answer to all these nagging little problems of Life, the Universe and Everything!"

Two severely dressed men sat respectfully before the terminal and waited.

"The time is nearly upon us," said one.

"Seventy-five thousand generations ago, our ancestors set this program in motion," the second man said, "and in all that time we will be the first to hear the computer speak."

"An awesome prospect, Phouchg," agreed the first man.

"We are the ones who will hear," said Phouchg, "the answer to the great question of Life...!"

"The Universe...!" said Loonquawl.

"And Everything...!"

"Shhh," said Loonquawl with a slight gesture, "I think Deep Thought is preparing to speak!"

There was a moment's expectant pause whilst panels slowly came to life on the front of the console. Lights flashed on and off experimentally and settled down into a businesslike pattern. A soft low hum came from the communication channel.

"Good morning," said Deep Thought at last.

"Er ... Good morning, O Deep Thought," said Loonquawl nervously, "do you have ... er, that is..."

"An answer for you?" interrupted Deep Thought majestically. "Yes. I have."

The two men shivered with expectancy. Their waiting had not been in vain.

"There really is one?" breathed Phouchg.

"There really is one," confirmed Deep Thought.

"To Everything? To the great Question of Life, the Universe and Everything?"

"Yes."

Both of the men had been trained for this moment, their lives had been a preparation for it, they had been selected at birth as those who would witness the answer, but even so they found themselves gasping and squirming like excited children.

"And you're ready to give it to us?" urged Loonquawl.

"I am."

"Now?"

"Now," said Deep Thought.

They both licked their dry lips.

"Though I don't think," added Deep Thought, "that you're going to like it."

"Doesn't matter!" said Phouchg. "We must know it! Now!"

"Now?" inquired Deep Thought.

"Yes! Now..."

"Alright," said the computer and settled into silence again. The two men fidgeted. The tension was unbearable.

"You're really not going to like it," observed Deep Thought.

"Tell us!"

"Alright," said Deep Thought. "The Answer to the Great Question..."

"Yes...!"

"Of Life, the Universe and Everything..." said Deep Thought.

"Yes...!"

"Is." said Deep Thought, and paused.

"Yes...!"

"Is."

"Yes...!!!...?"

"Forty-two," said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.

It was a long time before anyone spoke. Out of the corner of his eye Phouchg could see the sea of tense expectant faces down in the square outside.

"We're going to get lynched aren't we?" he whispered.

"It was a tough assignment," said Deep Thought mildly.

"Forty-two!" yelled Loonquawl. "Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' work?"

"I checked it very thoroughly," said the computer, "and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."

"But it was the Great Question! The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything!" howled Loonquawl.

"Yes," said Deep Thought with the air of one, who suffers fools gladly, "but what actually is it?"

A slow stupefied silence crept over the men as they stared at the computer and then at each other.

"Well, you know, it's just Everything ... Everything..." offered Phouchg weakly.

"Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means."

The origin of Forty-Two, extracted from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams.

Guys, would you help me out please.

Say I want to put a link to a website in my signature and I want to name it instead of the whole web address row. How do i do that?

Type what you want to name it. Highlight that text, click the hyperlink button, paste text.

I don't even want to know wher eDoc Fluffer might send us........but I won't be able to resist.

Thanks!!

Oh ye David of little faith. :D

Or running scared!!!!!!

I keep going back to the Vizio's as well. 3D isn't that important as Xbox and PS3 quality. The LG seems to have a lesser quality picture than the Sony or Vizio.

I must do something wrong. I open my CP and go to edit signature. I type what i want to name it in that box, under my name. I highlight it (make it blue?) but then I am lost. What is the hyperlink button? The web address up in the right corner? I click on that? And then what? I don´t get it. I am a durn for'ner.

Like this markus


Highlight the text and make it blue. Then click the globe and chain button and past the link you want it to go to.

Hmm... It would seem that links have been disabled in Sigs. I guess the guys that are sporting links have had them since before the last round of changes. Try appealing your case to Zman.

Try creating in a post, then copy/paste into your sig. Haven't tried it to see if it would work...

Oh OK. Thanks anyway!

I will try that too, thanks.

I do believe it's not possible anymore.

Have you got a Sams Wholesale club near you? They have an excellent price, and their warranty is good too. If it dies within the warranty period, they will usually just refund the money, or let you pick out a new TV.

We have 42" and two 32" and if I wasn't about to move out of my apartment, I would be picking up a 32" as it gets closer to christmas they will start going on sale. They get cheap then.

I like the DLP because they look more like a movie screen. They aren't as flat and can't be mounted on the wall.

Yes, and when the bulb goes out they are stupid expensive.