From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!fred.umcp-cs@UDel-Relay
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Title: Re:  Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series
Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.494
Posted: Tue Jan  4 14:09:58 1983
Received: Sun Feb 27 03:23:16 1983

From:      Fred Blonder 

From: Marla 
	
	. . . when the 'Disaster Area' ship is about to plunge into the sun
	with our heroes, Marvin reveals that HE knows the question to Life,
	the Universe and Everything, to which the answer is 42.

No. Marvin didn't say that he knew the question, just that he was able to
look into Arthur's mind and see the question stored there, which as we
learned later, was the WRONG question.

To save you all a lot of useless speculation I will now reveal the correct
ultimate question of Life, the Universe and Everything. It is:

	How many Vogons does it take to screw in a lightbulb?