What is the meaning of life??

[wiktor]

What is the meaning of life?

[Lord Cthulhu]

To please the almighty Gaben and aquire games from sales.

[Mr. Light]

What is love?

[Dendrobates Tinctorius]

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http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BeamMeUpScotty
edit: whoops, ninja delete. I'll just leave this here for the people who never read the book.

The line "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything" is straight from the book, having one person misquote it hardly makes it a "Beam me up, Scotty!".. learn your tropes :p

just sayin..

Oh, and my purpose in life is to correct other people and be fun at partys. ;)

Check the TVTropes literature section. 42 is in there.

[Neithan]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Dendrobates Tinctorius:

Check the TVTropes literature section. 42 is in there.

And that has actually how much to do with him labeling the other quote as a "Beam me up, Scotty!"?

That trope refers to "quotes" that are actually not from the source material, but found their way into pop-culture, and mostly refers to lines said by a character and associated with them. Hence the "Beam me up, Scotty", since that line was never actually said by anyone in the original series. But the concept of "42 being the ultimate answer to life, the universe and everything" and someone refering to it in the context of this thread has nothing to do with that trope.

[Mark S.]

to survive and procreate.

[Dendrobates Tinctorius]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Neithan:

And that has actually how much to do with him labeling the other quote as a "Beam me up, Scotty!"?

The BEAM ME UP SCOTTY page lists examples of BEAM ME UP SCOTTYs. One such example is that people commonly answer "42" when asked "what is the meaning of life?":

Ask "What is the meaning of life?" on the Internet and it's almost guaranteed that somebody will respond "42." Technically, 42 isn't the meaning of life - rather, it is the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything, whatever that may be.

This is because they misremember the books as saying something along the lines of "What is the meaning of life? 42."

For example:

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What is the meaning of life?

Opprinnelig skrevet av Max Headroom:

42

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42

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42

I'm not sure why you're arguing that a common misstatement of this passage isn't a beammeupetc. when the page on tvtropes lists it as a beammeupetc. and it is clearly not from the source material as commonly used.

[Neithan]

Ok, seems I got it wrong there (and regarding the late hour and me not being in the best state, I hope it's understandable), but I took it as it was going like

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42.

What was the question again?

Opprinnelig skrevet av Gustave5436:

The purpose of an object is the reason for its creation. If life is simply the result of natural processes, then there is none. Else, ask the gods/aliens which seeded the planet.

Opprinnelig skrevet av Aspalax:

What was the question again?

"How many people are there left in the world who still think that joke is funny?"

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Opprinnelig skrevet av Takfel:

The meaning of life, the universe, and everything else.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BeamMeUpScotty
edit: whoops, ninja delete. I'll just leave this here for the people who never read the book.

So to me it seemed as he aimed the BmuS! at Takfel and his quote, that was answering to Aspalax. While you are right about the initial mentioning of 42, Takfel was giving a "serious" answer to a "not so serious" question (as Aspalax surely was making a joke of the "real" question not being known) when (somewhat) quoting the "question" that in the book led to 42. Probably realizing the joke in Aspalax question, he then deleted that post (just a theory).
You see, applying the trope this way makes little sense, while ofc you are totally right when applying it to 42. ;)

[edith] Oh my now I even got the names all wrong, should really get some sleep.. xD

[Dendrobates Tinctorius]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Neithan:

So to me it seemed as he aimed the BmuS! at Takfel and his quote, that was answering to Aspalax. While you are right about the initial mentioning of 42, Takfel was giving a "serious" answer to a "not so serious" question (as Aspalax surely was making a joke of the "real" question not being known) when (somewhat) quoting the "question" that in the book led to 42. Probably realizing the joke in Aspalax question, he then deleted that post (just a theory).
You see, applying the trope this way makes little sense, while ofc you are totally right when applying it to 42. ;)

[edith] Oh my now I even got the names all wrong, should really get some sleep.. xD

The takfel quote appears to be a straight attempt to answer aspalax with the formulation as seen on tvtropes, i.e. What is the meaning of life the universe etc.? 42.

Whether they realized the mistake or whatever, as stated that's basically the bmus with the order inverted. What is the meaning? 42. What is 42? The meaning.

[Neithan]

No the point is, and I think that should be clear from tvtropes, that saying 42 when someone ask for the meaning (that would be intechangeable with answer to) of Life, that 42 is not the answer to Life, but "Life, the universe, and everything". Thus applying the number wrongly to only a part of the "initial question". In other words (with a hint at the book ;)) - While "What is Six times Nine" would do, just "What is Six" won't. So 42 is not the answer to life, but the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything. But since it has become a part of pop culture even in coming up as a regular answer to the "question of life" although that being a misquote of the source, the BmuS trope does apply. But only to 42 when given as the answer to life, but not in the context of 42 and the real (initial) question from the books.

Opprinnelig skrevet av tvtropes:

Ask "What is the meaning of life?" on the Internet and it's almost guaranteed that somebody will respond "42." Technically, 42 isn't the meaning of life - rather, it is the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything, whatever that may be.

[jpcerutti]

The meaning is whatever you make of it between birth and death. What you do with it gives it meaning - or leaves it meaningless.

You get only one. Choose wisely, but *choose*. Regrets have meaning too but there is no bigger regret than just being without doing.

[Mathiacus]

The meaning of life is... hold on I'll answer this in a second just give me one more turn...

[Rye - U (Serenity)]

To learn the meaning of life,

[Dendrobates Tinctorius]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Neithan:

No the point is, and I think that should be clear from tvtropes, that saying 42 when someone ask for the meaning (that would be intechangeable with answer to) of Life, that 42 is not the answer to Life, but "Life, the universe, and everything".

It's not an answer to life, the universe, and everything, it's the answer to the ultimate question (of life, the etc.). It is not the meaning of life. It is not the meaning of life the universe and everything. It's an answer to a question which not known, but for some reason is the ultimate question. That's the joke from the book.

[jpcerutti]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Lord_of_Light:

What is love?

Baby don't hurt me. Don't hurt me... no more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1usGCnVqIqA

[McFlurry Butts]

AYYY LMAO