* Posts by Lord Percy

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DARPA seeks self-aware AI robot mega-tanks

Lord Percy

I, for one,

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Campaign to name US street after Douglas Adams

Lord Percy

Origin of Forty Two

I once heard an interview with Douglas Adams in which he reveled where the inspiration for Forty Two came from. It was a training video featuring John Cleese and Michael Palin where Micheal was the ignored customer and John Cleese the bank teller. At the end of the skit, John finally looks up from the numbers he has been working on and shouts "Forty Two!"