As usual I came across this rather humourous set of pages written by Douglas Adams purely by chance, the one that I really found quite amusing was a page about his nose. Another about dongly things is fairly cryptic but makes a strong case, would cut polution too 
In recent mathematical discoveries 42 may have a significant value relating to prime numbers and their patterns so, not is 42 actually the answer to life, the universe, and everything but it could hold a key to prime numbers.
Enough of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy stuff already …
