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From: marc@vieta.math.uni-sb.de (Marc Conrad)
Subject: Re: 6*9=42(13)
Organization: U of Saarbruecken, Dept. of Computational Linguistics
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 15:47:24 GMT

bpostow@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Brian Postow) writes:

>actually, the probablilty isn't about .25, it is EXACTLY .25.
ok.

>any number thta is of the form 4k + 2 is going to be 42 in some base,
>because that is what a base is, 42 in base 10 is 4 (10) + 2, etc. and
>since 1 of every 4 numbers is 4k +2, .25 of all numbers will be 42 in
>some base.


>this is a simpler proof, or actually just a simpler way of writing the
>proof above...
But this is a proof that an arbitrary number is by a prob. of 0.25 
equal 42 in some base and not,  
that the _product_ of _two_ arbitrary numbers is equal 42.
Take 41 instead of 42: 
then the prob, that the product of 2 numbers equals 41 in some base is 0.125 !
 Marc

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Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: loon@underdog.ee.wits.ac.za (LOON M J)
Subject: Re: 6*9=42(13)
Organization: Wits Electrical Engineering (Undergrads).
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 12:50:51 GMT

In article <1992Aug30.195814.26496@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> paf4@po.CWRU.Edu (Peter A. Fortman) writes:


>Hey, here's an idea... He said 6 * 9 = 42 just to incorporate not only 42
>but to bring up the whole issue of simultaneous oral sex! 69!
>Maybe Arthur does fuck!
>Maybe this IS the answer to our problems! 69!

>;)

>D.G. tms
>-- 
>-Pete Fortman
>"Non Ego Vecors Sum Sed Dumtaxat Male Sanus"
>        ^      ^       |     ^       ^
1
What base does 6*9 give 69?? Maybe 6.9? THAT would be spooky. I think I'd 
treat it as an omen and give up normal sex for good (not that I get much 
anyway!)!
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Marc Loon <loon@underdog.ee.wits.ac.za>
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University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg

Conversation: a voice competition between two people
in which the one taking a breath is called the listener.
From: Virginia.A.Reed@dartmouth.edu (Virginia A. Reed)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Young Zaphod
Date: 27 Aug 92 14:06:38 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

>Actually, if I'm not wrong, there are only six:  Zaphod, Zaphod's
>great-grandfather, Yooden Vranx, Zarniwoop, Roosta and someone whom I can't
>remember.

I belive that the seventh is Slartibartfast.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: c9106225@cc.newcastle.edu.au (Matt McLeod)
Subject: Re: Young Zaphod
Organization: Dept of Management, Uni of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 09:52:01 GMT

In article <1992Aug23.114258.8398@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>, hymowitz@whatever.cs.jhu.edu (Hymie!) writes:
> hey look... some of us know how to delete lines in our favorite editor!
> 
> glreno@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Gerald Reno) writes:
>>In article <14470@mindlink.bc.ca> Jeremy_Reimer@mindlink.bc.ca (Jeremy Reimer) writes:
>>>No, no, no, the Vogons were working for Gag Halfrunt, Zaphod's psychiatrist,
>>>who was worried that the Earth by its very unusual nature would, upon providing
>>>the Ultimate Question, make his profession obsolete.  It's in the first book.
>>
>>Ah, but who was controlling the psychiatrists?
> 
> who else? the love of money.  zaphod owed his shrink a small mint, if i
> remember correctly.

Or maybe the old man in the shack with a cat called The Lord...

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From: chil@fraser.sfu.ca (Keith Lim)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: NO! NO! NO!!!
Date: 31 Aug 92 13:43:30 GMT
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada

v120qldp@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (PATRICK FERREL) writes:

>It can't be the man who rules the Universe because he is clueless.

You sure. I've always felt that the ruler of the universe was more aware
than he let on. The scene which he is in is too short for me to be sure
about this, but one bit in it that startled me was the part right at the
end. The ruler deliberately waited until he heard the faint sound of the
ship's engines starting, then spoke to cover the sound of it. Zarniwoop
was left stranded on the planet as a result. The ruler shut and locked
the door behind Zarniwoop when the latter left, and did not open it
again when Zarniwoop knocked on it.

Clueless? I have reason to doubt it. Read (/listen) to the whole scene
again, and you might feel that there was a calculated cunning to the
ruler; the Chance-the-gardener behavior being all an act. He might well
be the sixth person.

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Forum (Cog Sci); Senate; CDSU; ASC. ...but all opinions are my own only.

"Oh yeah, I remember you...the soup girl."
"No, the *soap* girl...S-*O*-P-E."         --from "Married...With Children"
From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Young Zaphod
Date: 31 Aug 92 04:26:03 GMT
Followup-To: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central

DN> == Dipesh Navsaria <navsaria@bass.bu.edu> 

 DN> The funny thing is that half the bookstores in Boston that have a
 DN> bargain books section seem to have copies of the "trilogy" (the one
 DN> with HHGTG, RATEOTU, LTUAE, and SLATFATF...oh, and Young Zaphod)
 DN> available for the wonderful price of $11.98.  This includes the big
 DN> Barnes and Noble at Downtown Crossing and the wonderfully
 DN> overpriced Boston University Bookstore Mall, if anyone cares...

Hey, it was $9.98 at the BU Crookstore "Mall" when I got it.  Y'all are
getting ripped off.  Not that that's anything new, of course.

ObHHG: it sounds *great* on WGBH's SAP broadcast of the BBC World
Service, finally a good reason for cable besides the Discovery Channel
and NICK at NITE :)
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From: umehn@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Paula M. Ehn)
Subject: Re: Adams' books
Summary: Where to find
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 15:47:49 GMT


> 1. Can anyone tell me where I can find the Meaning of Liff. I have been 
> racking my brains finding it.

I also found it difficult to find some of DNA's books, but I now have
an almost complete collection.
Here's were I found the ones I have:

A Book Store's Science Fiction Section:
   The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
   The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
   Life, the Universe and Everything
   So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
   The More than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide
   Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
   The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

A Book Store's Humor Section:
   The Meaning of Liff

Ordered from Britian:
   The Deeper Meaning of Liff  (could not find it anywhere else)

A Book Store's Non-fiction Section:
   Last Chance to See

Well, I hope I helped a lot of people out there, because in the
6 months I've been reading this news group, nobody has mentioned
that not all DNA's books are found in the Science Fiction section
of the book store.

Paula
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| University of Manitoba      | With Ron and Sid and Meg      |
| umehn@ccu.umanitoba.ca      | Ron stole Meggie's heart away |
| paula@inqmind.bison.mb.ca   | And I got Sidney's leg.       |
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From: roek@emerald.egr.msu.edu (Daniel Roek)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: British vs. American versions
Date: 28 Aug 92 22:47:11 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering, Michigan State University

I just picked up the British version of "Long Dark..." in a used book store
and I was wondering if there were subtle differences (other than the
funky spelling of words like "colour") similar to the ones mentioned
in HHGTTG.
From: bod@apple.com (Paul Chambers)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Great song
Date: 4 Sep 92 00:42:57 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9
X-Xxdate: Thu, 3 Sep 92 17:42:34 GMT

In article <1992Aug28.032434.14820@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> Joseph P. Graves,
jpg7@po.CWRU.Edu writes:
>There is a great song called Journey of the Sourceror I'm listening to...

There were a couple of HHGTTG albums released in England, with an
interesting variation of the radio series story on them, including a
track by Disaster Area. The original radio series was also released on CD
& Cassette.

Paul (English ex-pat and faithful fan from the original transmission of
the original series)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.itchy-n-scratchy
From: cddukes@c00507-119rd.eos.ncsu.edu (PakRat's Anonymous)
Subject: Re: a cartoon within a cartoon
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 20:50:04 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.034118.22640@sequent.com> courtney@sequent.com (Courtney Powell) writes:
>
>	Just where DO these idiots come from?
>
>-Cabel "Darn stupid chub night..." Sasser

Pot Kettle Black *Plonk*
Newsgroups: alt.fan.itchy-n-scratchy
From: courtney@sequent.com (Courtney Powell)
Subject: Re: a cartoon within a cartoon
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems Inc.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 03:41:18 GMT

	Just where DO these idiots come from?

-Cabel "Darn stupid chub night..." Sasser
Newsgroups: alt.fan.itchy-n-scratchy
From: ipgrier@steam.uwaterloo.ca (Iain P. Grier)
Subject: I didn't do it
Organization: University of Waterloo
Distribution: alt
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 14:41:58 GMT

Lemonade?

Please!

I made it myself!

You make good lemonade Itchy...

Thank you Scratchy...

Newsgroups: alt.fan.howard-stern
From: mxl@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (marc.a.levy)
Subject: Comments/questions
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 11:58:51 GMT


Early this morning, (around 6:30) howard re-played a telephone
call from a "Fat Woman" complaining about howard's FAT
BASHING.  The strange part is that howard played it in such a
way where if you did not hear the call when it first came in,
you would have thought it was live, then when he came back
live, gary came in, and said there was another fat person on
the phone, and howard refered to the previous caller in such a
way where you would think the call just came in...    What's
going on??  Is howard trying to pull a fast one?


And my question...


Did anyone hear Mark Harris call in, or come in yesterday? If
so, about what time was he on??  (Mark Harris is Martha Raye's
husband).

Thanks!

Marc.
From: df2tg2n@ties.bell-atl.com (Steve Rosen)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.howard-stern
Subject: Re: Howard vs. Larry King
Date: 4 Sep 92 14:05:19 GMT
Reply-To: df2tg2n@shoes.bell-atl.com
Distribution: usa
Organization: Bell Atlantic - Phila, PA

RE: Howard Stern plugs on Larry King Live

|> 
|> According to a radio guy I know, Howard actually encourages people to
|> do this.  I haven't been able to listen to Howard lately, so I can't
|> tell if he really does. I'm a huge Stern fan, but that really doesn't
|> amuse me too much.  I feel sorry for Larry, since the poor guy can
|> barely stand up anymore.  I was listening to him on the radio
|> recently, and he actually fell asleep during his show!  A caller was
|> talking, and asked Larry what he thought, and there was No response.
|> "Larry?  Larry?"  Finally he woke up and made some excuse about his
|> medication.

I honestly wouldn't say Howard encourages this behavior, but he certainly
doesn't discourage it either.  I tend to agree with you though on it not
being amusing.  It was funny the first three or four time, but it's pretty
stupid and dull by now even if it does heat up Larry a bit, which I am sure
Howard loves.  It's the fans which keep doing it that get the kick out of
it.  Captain Janx (sp?) probably does it half the time.  If you follow that
guy at all you realize that he needs to get a live in a big way. I doubt
Howard lives for him and others doing that.

That's my biggest complaint about Howard, he's very talented no question,
but he tends to rehash things over and over and over again and he lives off
that (yea, I know and so do his fans).  He isn't continually creative the
way he was/is on the TV show.  A couple of years ago when he was doing bits
all of the time he was constantly funny, now he is just sporadically funny
- he tends to live off his past now that he has a solid foothold, but it
doesn't seem to hurt him a bit.

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From: v079m8ta@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Jon J Klaybor)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.howard-stern
Subject: Best of Howie!
Keywords: Howard Stern videotape
Date: 1 Sep 92 23:26:00 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


	I hereby humbly offer a BEST OF HOWARD STERN videotape to the
underpriveleged (or merely fanatical) people who miss seeing his show, week
after week.  All the commmericals are cut out (except for the ones with the
lovely spokesmodels!), and from the reviews I've gotten from my friends, it's
a pretty damn good piece of editing!
	I'm not charging anything for a copy of this, merely the cost of
postage, and that you send your own blank video tape.  Any serious inquiries
should *E-mail only* __no posting__!!!!!!  Hell, you got nothing to lose
except a few bucks in postage...
	That's right, freaks!  3 and 1/2 hours of HOWIE!!  Response time is
limited, only a finite number will be released!  So order NOW!

Jonny B.
From: ben@monmouth.edu (Bennett Broder)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.howard-stern
Subject: Re: Infinity buys ZLX in Boston
Date: 26 Aug 92 18:07:06 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Monmouth College, W. Long Branch, NJ  07764

In article <Aug.19.14.24.49.1992.16701@andromeda.rutgers.edu> rotter@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Valerie A Rotter) writes:
>You should also remember that Howard went to Boston College and that is where
>he got his start in broadcasting.

Small nit:

It wasn't Boston College, it was Boston University.

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From: ronnie@media.mit.edu (Ron Schnell)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.howard-stern
Subject: Re: Howard vs. Larry King
Date: 4 Sep 92 13:30:48 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: MIT Media Laboratory

In article <6154@huxley.cs.nps.navy.mil> jxxl@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil (John Locke) writes:
>I imagine folks have noticed how often Howard Stern's name gets shoe-
>horned onto Larry King Live. Last night the guest was Theodore Brisenio, one
>of the LA cops tried for beating Rodney King. A caller, announced as being
>from Belize City, Belize, asked in a heavy accent, "Why is it that Los
>Angeles cops treat all the black people different from Howard Stern?" Hee,
>hee. Is anyone keeping track of these?
>
>John

According to a radio guy I know, Howard actually encourages people to
do this.  I haven't been able to listen to Howard lately, so I can't
tell if he really does. I'm a huge Stern fan, but that really doesn't
amuse me too much.  I feel sorry for Larry, since the poor guy can
barely stand up anymore.  I was listening to him on the radio
recently, and he actually fell asleep during his show!  A caller was
talking, and asked Larry what he thought, and there was No response.
"Larry?  Larry?"  Finally he woke up and made some excuse about his
medication.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.howard-stern,junk
From: aavvaa@mixcom.com (Fred Falk)
Subject: 50 Ways To Rank Your Mother
Organization: Milwaukee Internet Xchange BBS, Milwaukee, WI U.S.A.
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 02:54:05 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: 1st Album

I have ONE copy of Howard's first album available.  It's from his
days in Washington, DC.  It is open and does not contain the poster.

TITLE:  50 WAYS TO RANK YOUR MOTHER
PHYSICAL GRADING: M-/M-

The first $60 (+$6 shipping) gets it.  Terms are COD (Certified Check,
Money Order or Cash).

Message me for more info.

Fred

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From: kretz@remus.rutgers.edu (Kevin Kretz)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.howard-stern
Subject: Re: Howard vs. Larry King
Date: 4 Sep 92 16:04:56 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

In article <1992Sep4.100519@ties.bell-atl.com>, df2tg2n@ties.bell-atl.com (Steve Rosen) writes:
> RE: Howard Stern plugs on Larry King Live

> I honestly wouldn't say Howard encourages this behavior,

Yes, he does.  When a guy pulled some burning kids out of a fire, and
the NYC news asked him why he did it, he said, "I did it for Howard
Stern."   Howard gave him a trip to Vegas with a playmate as his date
and ringside seats at some heavyweight boxing match.   Howard always
encourages people to call other call-in shows and mention his name.
Capt. Janx (sp?) started the trend, but others have followed.  Howard
has bestowed titles upon especially inventive callers ("Minister of
VCR's", "Corporal Punishment").
Organization: Central Michigan University
Date: Tuesday, 1 Sep 1992 12:50:23 EDT
From: <3TANVOZ@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.howard-stern
Subject: Re: Chicago blues
Distribution: na
 <1992Aug27.182252.27537@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
 <1992Aug27.214110.29450@cbnewse.cb.att.com>

(To begin with, let's just hope this works... I'm used to Unix but working on
VMS... on top of that, I just moved from New Jersey to Michigan, so I'm
currently *sob* Sternless...)
Anyway


In ref. to the cancellation of the WWOR show, I was pretty much given the
impression that Stern wanted out of the thing after the first summer.  The
show was originally intended to just be for one summer, but high ratings made
WWOR pick it up for additional time.  Stern constantly complained about it
on the radio show (though, as mentioned before, you can't always take him
seriously).
m
Also, someone talked about Stern's TV ratings as compared to other WWOR
shows... as far as I know (which admittedly ain't all that far..), he had
the highest rated weekly show on the station....  So my thought is that if
enough money is offered, Stern will start the TV show up again (after he
finishes the movie of course...)

Here's hoping Stern moves his radio show to Central Michigan....

- Glen "Trroy" Reed -                    /-------------------------------
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Newsgroups: alt.fan.howard-stern
From: wnbc@wam.umd.edu (Joseph Samuel Kaufman)
Subject: "Howard Stern Just Won't Shut Up" -- Pt. 3 of 7
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 23:44:28 GMT

	During the first year and a half, things went from worse to abysmal.  
Almost daily, Fioravanti and Meheny would sit Stern down to two-hour 
meetings, trying desperately to agree on changes.  "Howard's a little cynical 
about the ability of people who don't do what he does on the air to tell him 
how to do something," says Sherman.  Metheny began giving Stern frantic hand 
signals to cut him off when he talked over his limit.  He even resorted to 
shutting off Stern's mike and using the seven-second delay.  Once, during a 
show, he threw a telephone at Stern.
	Miserable, Stern and Quivers, who had finally come aboard, each 
gained about 50 pounds (which they've since lost), and a newscaster remarked 
on the air that Stern had the hips of a childbearing woman.  "I was begging 
them to let me out of my contract," Stern says, "but then something told me 
to shut up and wait them out - they'd leave first."  In the short run, he was 
right.
	To management's surprise, the show began to find an audience, and 
ratings began to climb.  Metheny, who compares negotiating with Stern to "an 
emotionally combustible chess game," concedes in retrospect that many of 
Stern's ideas about radio were right. "As time went by, his program worked in 
spite of everything we'd believed," he says.  "We've come to recognize that 
some radio personalities can be compelling enough to break the rules."
	By January 1984, Metheny had left the station to become the 
vice-president of VH-1, the adult contemporary-music-video channel, and Dom 
Fioravanti had become senior vice-president and general manager of MTV.  
WNBC's new general manager was Randy Bongarten, a man Stern would describe 
shortly before his firing as "one of the greatest people who ever lived."  
Bongarten called Stern into his office and told him, "Okay, do your act.  
Just be yourself."




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From: af185@yfn.ysu.edu (Robin L. Gibson)
Subject: Re: New Sterns?
Reply-To: af185@yfn.ysu.edu (Robin L. Gibson)
Organization: St. Elizabeth Hospital, Youngstown, OH
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 12:19:39 GMT


In a previous article, v089l3s3@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Jeremy B Horwitz) says:

>Before I left the country this summer, there were some trailers on Stern for
>"all new episodes" and there was video footage of one of them. Of course, when
>I got back, I was told that the show was off the air. I also saw that first
>part
>of "Howiewood Squares" Saturday... but wondered - Did they at least show the
>already taped one?
>
>-> J
>
They did show one or two new shoes (somebody out there help me out -- my memory is failing), in addition to the "final" show (I'm hoping it really isn't).  Then they went back to earlier shows, which is cool for those of us who missed one or two.
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