The Daily Populous Monday November 25th, 2024 morning edition
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ShastaBeast87 on November 24th, 2024 at 21:48 UTC »

John Bonham, the drummer from led Zeppelin is buried just up the road from me in a tiny countryside churchyard in a Hamlet called Rushock. His grave is full of letters, symbols, coins and drumsticks from all over the world. Its great to see inspiring people continue to inspire people.

gggg500 on November 24th, 2024 at 22:08 UTC »

He also has the meaning of life (the number 42) next to his grave.

sucobe on November 24th, 2024 at 22:29 UTC »

If you’re like me and had no clue:

Douglas Adams wrote The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

> The number 42 is, in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything", calculated by an enormous supercomputer named Deep Thought over a period of 7.5 million years. Unfortunately, no one knows what the question is. Thus, to calculate the Ultimate Question, a special computer the size of a small planet was built from organic components and named "Earth". The Ultimate Question "What do you get when you multiply six by nine" is found by Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect in the second book of the series, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. This appeared first in the radio play and later in the novelization of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

> It is highly crucial to bring along a towel; which Ford remembers to tell Arthur as they escape aboard a yellow spaceship (huh? same color as the bulldozer that came to flatten his house). The Guide says a towel “is the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have … you can wrap it around you for warmth … lie on it … use it as a sail on a mini-raft … wet it for use in hand-to-hand combat … wave it as a distress signal in emergencies … and of course use it to dry yourself off, if it still seems to be clean enough.”