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Tuesday, March 13, 2012

"fingers crossed"

I sat there quietly working on my homework (getting paid for this, this is the best job for a preoccupied student). And all of a sudden, professors must have had a meeting because there was a large influx of professors walking the halls each snickering and laughing to themselves as if they held the key to the ultimate answer on this earth.

"Fingers crossed," one would say, and the other would reply, "yes, fingers crossed" (insert hearty chuckle sound).

I heard this maybe more than ten times, and I began to wonder why these English professors would be keeping their fingers crossed.

Heaven forbid "among" be changed back to the old school "amongst."
"Let's keep our fingers crossed that the Oxford comma remains."
"Fingers crossed that our students write Sonnets with 14 lines and not 15 lines."

Goodness. This is more than an inside joke.
But I know the answer.
The answer is 42.


Some Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for you.


"Only when you know the question, will you then know what the answer means."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aboZctrHfK8 

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