Thogey wrote:I found a couple dimes in this recent box.
This is the second silver dime I've found in a penny roll
nice penny
Thogey wrote:I found a couple dimes in this recent box.
This is the second silver dime I've found in a penny roll
henrysmedford wrote:Corsair wrote:henrysmedford wrote:What is the meaning of life ?
I got this one! The meaning of life, the universe, and everything, is 42.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a comic science fiction series created by Douglas Adams that has become popular among fans of the genre(s) as well as members of the scientific community. Certain phrases from it are widely recognised and often used in reference to, but outside the context of, the source material. Many writers on popular science, such as Fred Alan Wolf, Paul Davies, Richard Dawkins and Michio Kaku, have used quotations from Adams' work in their books to illustrate facts about cosmology or philosophy.
The number 42
Douglas Adams was asked many times why he chose the number 42. Many theories were proposed,[6] but he rejected them all. On November 3, 1993, he gave an answer[7] on alt.fan.douglas-adams:
“ The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought '42 will do' I typed it out. End of story. ”
Adams described his choice as 'a completely ordinary number, a number not just divisible by two but also six and seven. In fact it's the sort of number that you could without any fear introduce to your parents'.[3]
While 42 was a number with no hidden meaning, Adams explained in more detail in an interview with Iain Johnstone of BBC Radio 4 (recorded in 1998 though never broadcast)[8] to celebrate the first radio broadcast's 20th anniversary. Having decided it should be a number, he tried to think what an "ordinary number" should be. He ruled out non-integers, then he remembered having worked as a "prop-borrower" for John Cleese on his Video Arts training videos. Cleese needed a funny number for the punchline to a sketch involving a bank teller (himself) and a customer (Tim Brooke-Taylor). Adams believed that the number that Cleese came up with was 42 and he decided to use it.[9]
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HoardCopperByTheTon wrote:Great find on the dimes. Everyone finds those "darned dimes" in their penny rolls.. but finding silver ones puts you in a very exclusive club.. now to move up one level to an even more exclusive club you have to find a mercury dime in your penny rolls.
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