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It's also the answer to life, the universe and everything. Which is nice.

It's the answer to the ultimate "question" of life, the universe, and everything. This is an important difference. What's the question?

"What do you get when you multiply six by nine?"

"I may be a sorry case, but I don't write jokes in base 13."

The people who were looking for a trick are missing the point. The joke is that the answer doesn't work.

What do you get when you multiply six by nine? Forty-two. That's the meaning of life.

"We apologize for the inconvenience."

The ASCII code page index for it anyway.