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").