Re: Is IQ usefully predictive? (and not in this case)

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat Aug 25 2001 - 21:22:15 MDT

At 03:45 PM 8/25/01 -0400, Mike Lorrey wrote:

>Of course, I've often wondered why numerologists haven't figured out
>Adams' joke. 42 is ascii for "DB", or database.

Damn! So close, so far, no cigar. But I might as well come clean. Yes, I
wrote the `Douglas Adams' novels, leaving this clue hidden in the text.
Anyone doubting this can compare the Hitchhiker books with my other comic
novel STRIPED HOLES (which didn't sell nearly as well, oddly enough).

DB

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