From: utzoo!decvax!cca!csin!cjh Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Title: 42 Article-I.D.: csin.284 Posted: Mon Mar 14 13:07:32 1983 Received: Thu Mar 17 19:03:09 1983 Douglas Adams has been quoted as saying that he picked 42 because it seemed like a relatively ordinary number which wouldn't be a joke in and of itself. It seems that his memory or subconscious may have tricked him; I was told yesterday of an English fanzine editor who has published a zine called "42" for several years and has recently (to his distress) been inundated with "Hitchies" (well, that's what \he/ calls them). He named his zine after mentions in the works of Lewis Carroll (among other things, 42 comes up in "The Hunting of the Snark").