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Taking inspiration from The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy?


This part never made it into the books... from the radio theatre, fit the eleventh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFhrQDbemwA&feature=youtu.be&t=3m33s

The major problem which the medical profession in the most advanced sectors of the galaxy had to tackle — after cures had been found for all the major diseases, and instant repair systems had been invented for all physical injuries and disablements except some of the more advanced forms of death — was that of employment. Planets full of bronzed, healthy, clean-limbed individuals merrily prancing through their lives meant that the only doctors still in business were the psychiatrists, simply because no one had discovered a cure for the universe as a whole, or rather, the only one that did exist had been abolished by the medical doctors.

Then it was noticed, that like most forms of medical treatment, total cures had a lot of unpleasant side effects. Boredom, listlessness, lack of... well... anything very much, and with these conditions came the realisation that nothing turned, say, a slightly talented musician, into a towering genius faster than the problem of encroaching deafness. And nothing turned a perfectly normal, healthy individual into a great political or military leader better than irreversible brain damage.

Suddenly everything changed. Previously best-selling books such as "How I Survived an Hour With a Sprained Finger" were swept away in a flood of titles such as "How I Scaled the North Face of the Megaperna With a Perfectly Healthy Finger But Everything Else Sprained, Broken, or Bitten Off by a Pack of Mad Yaks".

And so doctors were back in business, recreating all the diseases and injuries they had abolished in popular, easy-to-use forms. Thus, given the right and instantly available types of disability, even something as simple as turning on the 3D TV could become a major challenge. And when all the programs on all the channels actually were made by actors with cleft-palettes, speaking lines by dyslexic writers, filmed by blind cameramen, instead of merely seeming like that, it somehow made the whole thing more worthwhile.



/J-Star

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42

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But what's the question?!

/J-Star

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the question is about all of existence and the answer is 42

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- Good evening.

- Good evening oh Deep Thought. Eh, do you have, um...

- An answer for you?

- Yes.

- Yes, I have.

- There really is one?

- There really is one.

- To everything? To the great question of Life, the Universe, and Everything?

- Yes.

- And are you ready to give it to us?

- I am.

- Now?

- Now.

- Wow...

- Though I don’t think you’re going to like it.

- It doesn’t matter, we must know it!

- Now?

- Yes now.

- Alright.

- ...

- Well?

- You’re really not going to like it.

- Tell us!

- Alright. The answer to everything...

- Yes?

- Life, the Universe, and Everything...

- Yes?

- Is...

- Yes?

- Is......

- Yes?!

- Forty-two.

- We’re going to get lynched you know that.

- It was a tough assignment.

- Forty-two?!

- I think the problem such as it was, was too broadly based. You never actually stated what the question was.

- B-but it was the Ultimate Question, the Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.

- Exactly. Now that you know that the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is forty-two, all you need to do now is find out what the Ultimate Question is.

- Alright. Can you please tell us the Question?

- The Ultimate Question..

- Yes.

- ...of Life, the Universe...

- ...and Everything?

- ...and Everything.

- Yes.

- Tricky...

- But can you do it!?

- No.


/J-Star

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What is the factorial required within the third bracket of the Anti-Life Equation to invert its potential and turn the caster into Super God?

Why, 42, of course!

(Saitama figured it out... that's his secret.) :O

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Saw the most recent trailer. It's nothing like what you quoted. It's a Gothic thriller where people are "altered" by their stay. The only thing in common is psychatrists.
-"Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense." -Steve Landesberg

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