[HPforGrownups] Re: Rock #47 (OT)

[John Walton]

No: HPFGUIDX 11170

msmacgoo at one.net.au wrote:

> 1. so a. like a real rock (peice of stone) or b. 'rock' as in sassy,
> hoopy, generally cool attitude?

No, an actual piece of rock -- a stone, a boulder, a geological extract. Bit
O'Planet.
 
> 2. Why is #47 the theoretical maximum?

It's a LONG story, and has to do with 47 being the "magic number" in Star
Trek -- it keeps cropping up on consoles, ship registration numbers,
personnel numbers, that sort of thing. As I said, LONG story.

--Rocky

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John Walton                 john at walton.to

"Con-ser-va-tive, n. A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as
distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others."
--Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary", 1842-c.1914

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