Mormons

Is it just me or does it seem from this picture that if you want to become a Mormon (not that I do), you must first possess a top row of straight pearly-white teeth? If you don't get the image straight away (it's obvious trust me - you'll know it when you see it), then hit 'refresh' a coupla times. It'll come up eventually.

And yes, you were all correct. 42 certainly is most definitely the answer.

The following information is provided by that most handy of web-resources: Wikipedia!

"According to the Hitchhiker's Guide, researchers taking the form of mice, which are actually 3-dimensional profiles of a pan-dimensional, hyper-intelligent race of beings, construct Deep Thought, the second greatest computer of all time and space, to calculate the answer to the Ultimate Question. After seven and a half million years of pondering the question, Deep Thought provides the answer: "forty-two".

"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."

Deep Thought informs the researchers that it will design a second and greater computer, incorporating living beings as part of its computational matrix, to tell them what the question is. That computer was called Earth and was so big that it was often mistaken for a planet.

The question was lost minutes before it was due to be produced, due to the Vogons' demolition of the Earth, supposedly to build a hyperspace bypass. (Later in the series, it is revealed that the Vogons had been hired to destroy the Earth by a consortium of philosophers and psychiatrists who feared for the loss of their jobs when the meaning of life became common knowledge.)"

Erudite. That's all I have to say about that.

Except this one last thing: the whole entry reminds me of a Terry Pratchett novel. Are any of you out there Pratchett fans?