42-Spot



barry bonds and baseball (Posted by Simms on 5/9/2006)
ok so I am a huge baseball nerd and as of right now there is a 42 homerun difference between the great Hank Aaron and the *cough, cough* drugged-up *cough* Barry Bonds. great in terms of baseball history, bad in terms of baseball integrity...


tv commercial (Posted by corinne on 9/11/2005)
Ok, this is totally random, but there is a commercial for Sealy beds and the joke of the commercial is that they are putting " counting sheep" out of jobs. So the counting sheep are upset and they show sheep with numbers on them... As part of a special deal they are giving away stuffed animal counting sheep when you buy a bed and the stuffed animal sheep they show as a give away has the number 42 on it..


lose control (Posted by Simms on 7/25/2005)
I was watching MTV and the new Missy Elliot video 'Lose Control' came on and in the background is the #42 written in graffiti behind the dancers. Kinda random...


42nd Mersenne Prime Number Discovered! (Posted by Big Daddy Fayz on 2/18/2005)
Mersenne numbers are numbers of the form Mn = 2^n - 1. Interestingly, this means that Meresenne numbers are simple strings of 1s when represented in binary. For example, M7 = 2^7 - 1 = 127 is a Mersenne number. In fact, since 127 is also prime, 127 is also a Mersenne prime. Before today only 41 were known. But now they discovered the 42nd!


I scream, you scream . . . we all scream for ICE CREAM! (Posted by Simms on 10/11/2004)
Hello all! so I love ice cream as many of you know (it is my favorite food and I can ask for it in 9 languages) and so after my LONG day at work I decided to get an ice cream cone at McDonald's. Although the cone is usually like 70-something cents, the McDonald's near my apartment had them for 39cents each and with tax....it was 42 cents!!!!!!!!!!! woohoo!


The Last Samurai (Posted by Jenn on 12/10/2003)
When Tom Cruise is packing to head back to the samurai village, he is confronted by his superior in his hotel room. The door is open and what number do you think is on the front in big, brass numerals? 42, baby.


LOTR: The Two Towers Extended DVD (Posted by Jenn on 12/9/2003)
They showed in the original movie that Gimli and Legolas were trying to kill more Uruk-hai than the other as a sort of contest. And at the very start of the Battle at Helms Deep, Gimli had 2 and Legolas already had 19. But even with that much of a head start, at the end of the Battle in the Extended version of the movie, when Gimli asks Legolas how many he's killed, he replies, "42."


ER (Posted by Buddy on 11/7/2003)
Tonight on ER, Susan walks up to a patient's door....of course, apartment 42 :-)


28 Days Later (Posted by Jenn on 10/2/2003)
Refuge is sought at the 42nd Street Bunker or something like that.


At work (Posted by stames on 8/19/2003)
There's a new program here at work (coincidentally written by me) that made its corporate debut on version 0.42! Now who could have planned that?


Bringing Down the House (Posted by Candace on 8/17/2003)
Steve Martin dresses like a "homie" and goes to this club where the "gangstas" like to "kick-it". He's wearing a baby-blue basketball jersey with a big #42.


Seabiscuit (Posted by Simms on 8/5/2003)
in the beginning one of the characters is talking about horsepower and I swear he said 42 (I could be wrong though, it HAS happened before) and the other one is said by the race announcer, he says "4 and 20 blackbirds" that counts right???


Padres Game (Posted by Simms on 7/6/2003)
So at the spur of the moment my friend Margarita and I decided to go to the Padre vs. Giants game (it was free padres beach towel night) Anyway when we got to the stadium and bought our tickets the available section was none other than section 42. (Ps: Padres won 5-2!!!!!)


bring it on! (Posted by Simms on 7/1/2003)
when the rancho carne cheerleaders are confronted about stealing cheers by the east compton clovers at their home football game, the rancho carne toros lose the game 0-42


Inner Geek Test (Posted by Abbey on 6/26/2003)
http://www.innergeek.us/geek.html I took this test and found out that i'm not even cool enough to be a geek... My score: 7.69231% - Poser I think it's because I couldn't check off the box in the I KNOW SECTION (2) (near the bottom) regarding understanding significance of the number 42...


Finding Nemo Sticker Book (Posted by Jenn on 6/11/2003)
Okay, I don't know if this was the "possible 3rd" 42-reference that I mentioned in my previous Finding Nemo 42-sighting, but I got a Sticker Book (just at Albertson's, nowhere special) and it has a little biography of all the different characters, and for Dory, it says: "Dory is very educated. She can read human, speak whale, and understand 42 different fish dialects." There's also a sticker of the address on the diver's mask: "P. Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney, NSW"


2 Fast 2 Furious (Posted by Jenn on 6/9/2003)
In the beginning race scene, one guy (the cute one with the light eyes from Barbershop) and his girlfriend are wearing kind of a matching Enyce outfit... both are white jerseys with an orangish-tan trim, and big 42s on them both.


Spies Like Us (Posted by Dykstra Mike on 6/8/2003)
When the launch the rocket, Dan Akroyd says "We have roughly 42 minutes until the end of civilization"


The Italian Job (Posted by Gavin on 6/2/2003)
1.5 references in the Italian Job: 1.) Wrench's shirt is a #42 jersey. .5) The apartment number in the very beginning is 4209.


Finding Nemo (Posted by Jenn on 6/2/2003)
Two, possibly three references, but I'll have to watch again to be sure. The two are as follows: 1. The address of the dentist (and repeated over and over and over) is 42 Wallaby Way. 2. The length of time the dentist is expected to take in the bathroom is 4.2 minutes.


Seinfeld (Posted by stames on 5/29/2003)
Both Kramer and Kenny Bania wear a size 42 suit.


Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (Posted by Jenn on 5/27/2003)
The little nerdy boy Nicky calculates that at their shrunken size, a butterfly's wingspan is roughly 42 feet.


Sex in the City (Posted by Buddy on 5/25/2003)
Miranda slept with 42 people and she finally got a VD....so be careful all you 'sex it up people" out there


Felicity (Posted by Candace on 5/19/2003)
Watching an old rerun of Felicity: Felicity and Ben had been broken up for like, 5 minutes when he gets with some other chick. Of course, Ben and Felicity get back together in the next few days, but a few weeks later, the chick tells Ben that she's pregnant! (Large gasp here) Ben goes to the chick's apartment because he feels bad about how he reacted when she first told him. What apartment number is she? Do you REALLY need to ask...a big, brass 42 is right on the door!


The Matrix (Posted by Buddy on 5/16/2003)
Though i wasn't able to pinpoint any specific 42 references in the movie, it did break the record with over $42 million on Wednesday/Thursday alone...and thats for a rated R movie


Ghost (Posted by Buddy on 5/5/2003)
In the classic movie with Demi Moore, Patrick Swayze, and Whoopi Goldberg, when Patrick's character is learning how to move objects they are at the 42nd Subway station.


My BMW (Posted by Jenn on 3/24/2003)
The reserve light on my dashboard goes on when there's 42 miles left to go on the tank of gas according to the computer. I'm not joking, it's been true every time I've gotten low enough on gas that the light comes on. Go German Engineers!


Prime Polynomial (Posted by stames on 3/21/2003)
The polynomial

x2 - x + 41

is prime at the first 41 natural numbers. In other words, the 42nd natural number is the first time it is composite! Coincidence? Clearly. But cool nonetheless.


Jackson put voodoo curse on Spielberg (Posted by Jenn on 3/4/2003)
According to Vanity Fair's article, Michael Jackson apparently attended a voodoo ritual in Switzerland where a witch doctor promised that Spielberg and twenty-three other people on his "list" would die. (See the article)

Here's the pertinent excerpt from the above cnn.com article:
"Jackson, who underwent a "blood bath" as part of the ritual, then ordered his former business adviser Myung-Ho Lee to wire $150,000 to a bank in Mali for a voodoo chief named Baba, who sacrificed 42 cows for the ceremony, the magazine reported."


Britney Spears Video (Posted by Dykstra Mike on 3/3/2003)
In the video for "Lucky" - I saw the video doing research at work (i see the jokes coming here, but i actually was doing research), the hotel room # is 42


Seinfeld (Posted by stames on 3/2/2003)
In the episode "The Cartoon" Elaine writes a cartoon for the New Yorker, and while George is examining it, he notes "what's this little number 42 in the corner?" Elaine notes that it's the page number of the magazine. I don't think they chose to put it on page 42 by accident, do you?


Speed (Posted by Josh on 3/2/2003)
Right before the Elevator starts to fall we watch the floors go by 42 ... then 41 ... and then it falls


Hower is gonna die when he is 42 years old (Posted by Buddy on 3/1/2003)
In the simpsons, Homer takes a quiz and finds out he is gonna die when he is 42....Matt Groaning wouldn't do that on purpose now would he?


Foster & Michelle's Wedding Day (Posted by Jenn on 1/23/2003)
Ironically enough, I was putting Foster & Michelle's Wedding Day in my little datebook, and it happens to say at the top of each page what week of the year it is. And, you guessed it, October 18th falls on the 42nd week of 2003. Was this a subconscious geekism on Foster's part, or sheer coincidence? Either way, it's pretty cool. :)


Commercial during Smallville (Posted by Buddy on 1/14/2003)
There are two commercials playing in SB and this is the final quote. The commercial is a lesson to be learned for those who drop put of school... "Dropouts make 42% less money than graduates." How nicely said


Undergrads (Posted by Jenn on 1/9/2003)
I've never seen it before, but it's this cartoon about, well, undergrads, on some channel last night around 11-ish. There's a jock, a computer geek, and a "normal guy" or whatever, and the normal one was complaining about not having gotten his financial aid check yet. The nerd boy says, "What do you care? It's only for $42.16!"


Anti-Trust the Movie (Posted by Buddy on 1/5/2003)
They have 42 days to complete their goal.....computer movie....obvious reference


You've Got Mail (Posted by Simms on 12/29/2002)
in the movie Meg Ryan's character has to close down her "around the corner book shop" after 42 years of business. .....yay I contributed!


Dammit.... (Posted by Buddy on 12/16/2002)
I know this isn't a really citing, but i saw like 3 in Fight Club and decided to wait until the next morning to report them...damn the memory fart. Gavin you can delete this if you want :-)


The Seven Sacred Pools (Posted by Jenn on 12/11/2002)
A few miles past Hana, Maui are the beautiful Oheo Falls. At the top (a 2 mile hike) is a huge 400 foot waterfall after a massive bamboo forest. Anyway, that was one of the most amazing things we did while in Hawaii. And at what mile marker was this State Park located? You guessed it: 42.


Beavis and Butthead serving a purpose? (Posted by Buddy on 12/10/2002)
I was flicking through the television stations in hope of somehow entertaining myself at 3:23 in the morning. I come across a rare and never to be offered again deal. Beavis and Butthead collection tapes. One has the ability to watch these episodes over and over and over....how many episodes one might ask? well 42 episodes to be exact.


That 70's Show (Posted by Gavin on 12/3/2002)
It took Eric 42 minutes to get into trouble and for his sister to replace him at the adult table.


Simpsons (Posted by Jason on 12/3/2002)
Homer got tickets to the skybox for "Event 42 Hockey". Also at the end of the episode they are watching the TV show "Law & Order: Elevator Inspection Unit" and the location was Building 42.


James Bond: Die Another Day (Posted by Gavin on 11/30/2002)
The pesky South African dude who becomes a prop for Bond is in room #42. :-)


Office Space (Posted by Jenn on 10/28/2002)
I watched the DVD again on Friday night (after seeing The Ring to try to calm my nerves) and realized that the boss guy at Initech Lumbergh has his 41st birthday (and that's when poor Milton ends up not getting any cake). Could this be another "42 would be too obvious" moment? Or just coincidence? How can there be NO 42 references in Office Space?? And what about Peter's apartment number: 222? Add the first two's together and get 4, then it's like 42!! Okay, now, I'm getting carried away. Anyways... Foster took my Angels one, but that's okay. Giants are still better, and Barry will one day have that ring on his finger!!


Angels (Posted by Foster on 10/14/2002)
You'll never guess how long it took the Angels to make it to the World Series... 42 seasons! Not a coincidence, I tell you! I hear Troy Glaus' best friend is a superintelligent mouse, and Adam Kennedy is looking to install friendly, talking elevators at Edison Field... the evidence is overwhelming if not total baloney.


Friends & ER (Posted by Gavin on 10/8/2002)
On Friends last Thursday there was one 42 reference and on ER that same night there were TWO distinct 42 references. I can't remember what they were exactly....but they weren't coincidences. Wait I think I do remember. On Friends Chandler's boss had a 42-point plan and on ER the one doctor had been doing chest pumps for 42 minutes I believe. Can't remember the other one.


Kornshell User Commands on the Web (Posted by Jenn on 10/8/2002)
This is totally coincidence, but since NO ONE is posting anything lately (well, almost no one), I said f%$& it, I'm going to post it anyway. I printed out this Kornshell user command thing I found on Princeton's CS webpage for this project I'm working on at work, and it came out to be 42 pages.


Boomtown (TV show on NBC) (Posted by Gavin on 9/29/2002)
In the series' first episode, the cops walk up to a door to interrogate a suspect and guess what apartment number it is?! :-) That's right....good old 101010....or 42 for those non-binary people.


Signs (Posted by Jenn on 9/3/2002)
During the movie, at an especially tense point, someone is watching the news and the newscaster's voice says that a 42-year old woman submitted the following footage. I don't know, maybe that's kind of pushing it, but she didn't have to be 42!!


Super Troopers (Posted by Jenn on 9/3/2002)
In the movie, one of the state troopers is filling up on gas, and he notices a sign that says if you get 10 gallons of gas, you get a free hot dog. As he's reading the sign, his tank gets full, and it's at 9.133 or something gallons. So he looks around and sees no one, and he starts pumping gas into the garbage can. The camera does a close up when he stops pumping gas, and it's at 10.042 gallons.


XXX (Posted by stames on 8/28/2002)
There's a scene in XXX where there's something written in Czech (I think?) followed by the #42 on the top of a whiteboard, and it pans across it pretty close-up.


BAND (Posted by corinne on 8/23/2002)
ok, so its not a coincidence, but its the first time ive noticed it.. theres a band called Babblefish 42.. one of the researchers here has a poster up for them


Smallville (Posted by Gavin on 8/19/2002)
The bad guy of tonight's episode went to visit the "EPA Director of District 42". The little plaque was on his desk and the camera clearly showed the 42.


Austin Powers Goldmember (Posted by Andrea on 7/28/2002)
Ok, unless I'm out of my mind, I coulda sworn that in the scene where Dr. Evil and Mini-Me are in jail and they bust out into "it's a Hard Knock Life" complete with gangsta attire and thug gear, Mini-Me's or Dr. Evil's jersey # was 42...it's sick how i catch those things now:)


Teen Wolf (Posted by stames on 7/23/2002)
Michael J. Fox's character's jersey number on the basketball team is 42.


Final Fantasy (The Movie) (Posted by Josh on 7/15/2002)
The City that they are in is "Barrier City #42: New York City" ... I still can't believe that I contribute to Gavin's sickness =).


Men in Black II (Posted by Jenn on 7/7/2002)
Okay, first, I saw this thing where the number they showed was 42747 or 42474 or something like that, and I'm like, "Hmm, maybe that's a 42 reference," but dismissed it. Then, there was this part where Agent J (Will Smith) talks to this alien dude and says, "Hey, it's been a while. Like what, 5 years?" and the alien replies, "And 42 days." So no coincidence there. :)


Apple's Xserve (Posted by stames on 5/14/2002)
Apple's new rack-capable Mac OSX servers were designed to be able to have 42 of them fit in an industry standard 8-foot server rack.


107.7 The End (Posted by Gavin on 5/12/2002)
The Seattle radio station 107.7 were giving away tickets to caller #42. I guarantee that he didn't pick this number out of thin air. :-)


Baby shirt at Target (Posted by Gavin on 5/12/2002)
At Target there are a whole bunch of kid's shirts which have the #42 on the front in big letters, but for no apparent reason (it's not a sports jersey or anything).


Ariel by Lawrence Block (Posted by Gavin on 5/12/2002)
The number of the house which is central to the entire storyline of the book is 42.


IBM Co-op Electronic Timecard (Posted by Jenn on 5/7/2002)
For co-ops (interns) at IBM, since they're not salaried, they have to fill out a time card. The default times for getting in and leaving work are 8:30 am and 5:12 pm, meaning 42 minutes for lunch. :)


Crock Comic on 4/25/2002 (Posted by Gavin on 4/25/2002)
The two prisoners who live in adjacent prisons where you never actually see their faces are talking about how long they've been in prison. The first guy says "42 years". (In case you were wondering, the second guy says "I've got six hours. Your watch must be fast.")


Geek Code v3.12 (Posted by Jenn on 4/23/2002)
There are instructions on how to create your "Geek Code" at www.geekcode.com. This can be found there:

In addition, if you wish to give your exact age, you can place the number after the 'a' identifier. For example: a42.


C# Book (Posted by Jakub on 4/18/2002)
In a C# book I am reading, there was a variable declaration: int theAnswertoAllofLifesQuestions = 42; No joke =)


Lethal Weapon (Posted by Gavin on 4/15/2002)
The house number of their main suspect is 4241. My guess is they didn't want to make it TOO obvious with 4242. The next best thing though would be 4241! :-)


American Beauty (Posted by Jenn on 4/15/2002)
Lester Burnham is 42 years old in the movie.


Adobe Tech Summit (Posted by Foster on 4/8/2002)
I am in a tech summit right now and they have quiz questions before the sessions... one of the questions was a math one and it's answer was 42. In a tech summit, amidst a whole bunch of computer nerds? Not a conincidence...


Panic Room's house is 4,200 square feet (Posted by Gavin on 4/7/2002)
The virtually opening line of Panic Room is "This house sounds nice...it's 4,200 square feet." I refuse to believe it's a coincidence.


The Mandy Moore Movie!! (Posted by Candace on 3/16/2002)
When "nerdy, loner" Mandy Moore starts hanging out with the "cool, popular boy who's also a jerk," he says something totally mean and annoying and she says, "Number 42." He says, "Huh?" And she answers, "Number 42 on the list of things to do in my lifetime is to befriend someone who is difficult to get along with." Yes, that line is indicative of how cheesy the movie was, but I liked it and at least I got a 42-sighting out of it!!


Round Table Pizza Commercial (Posted by Jenn on 3/15/2002)
On the new Mama Bella or whatever it is pizza promo for Round Table, the dude is sitting there with a picture of his grandma (who's really him with a wig) and talking about how this pizza is better than hers. He's wearing an obnoxious orangey-red football jersey with no team name or anything on it, just a huge white 42. Coincidence? YOU make the call. (But how many geeks who read Hitchhiker work in pizza marketing??)


The West Wing (Posted by (Chad) Nian on 2/27/2002)
Hartsfield's Landing has 42 registered voters that determine the fate of the next election!


Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Posted by Josh on 2/17/2002)
The score of the football game is 42 to 0


Secret of my success with Michael J Fox (Posted by Dykstra Mike on 1/14/2002)
In one scene in his office building, Michael J Fox is running away from his boss and he runs through a door and the door # is 42 and is shown twice just so there is no confusion if it is a conincidence.


Website (Posted by stames on 1/5/2002)
This guy has WAY too much time on his hands.
http://empirenet.com/~dljones/


Luigi's Mansion (Posted by Foster on 1/2/2002)
I was watching some kid playing a GameCube in the mall today and Luigi sucked up this ghost and got the ghost's profile... apparently the man (or ghost) was 42 years old.


Maden 2002 Football (Posted by Josh on 12/30/2001)
The number on the guy when creating a player is 42


Amélie (Posted by stames on 12/30/2001)
In the French movie Amélie, they show a close-up of a pair of shoes, and they are size 42.


Not Another Teen Movie (Posted by Gavin on 12/15/2001)
The score of the initial football game is 42-0. Not a coincidence I promise! :-)


C# Programming Documentation (Posted by Gavin on 12/12/2001)
The example for Picture Number Formatting:
int MyPosInt = 42, MyNegInt = -42;

Excerpt from StringBuilder.AppendFormat Method:
...the return value will be "Brad's dog has 42 fleas."

GetCustomAttribute:
[Developer("Joan Smith", "42", Reviewed = true)]

SendKeys Class:
For example, {LEFT 42} means press the LEFT ARROW key 42 times;

XmlElementAttribute Class example:
group.ExtraInfo.Add(42);

This is just a small sampling! The JScript documentation is full of them too!


Spy Game (Posted by Jenn on 11/29/2001)
The code between two people on walkie-talkies for the go-ahead of the assassination of the Sheik was 0420. It was written across the bottom of the screen because it was being subtitled.


MS .NET Developer Training class (Posted by Jenn on 11/28/2001)
I don't think I fully comprehend the topic, but there's a TCP/IP port that is used for sessions or something in .NET? It's accessed like: "blah blah MySomethingSession:42424" which means it's on port 42424. Coincidence? Probably not.


TD Waterhouse Bank (Posted by Gavin on 11/27/2001)
The TD Waterhouse Bank website resides on a server called 'webbanking42'. This is NOT a coincidence :-)


Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) Spec (Posted by Foster on 11/26/2001)
An Aldus/Microsoft Technical Memorandum: 8/8/88

This memorandum has been prepared jointly by Aldus and Microsoft in conjunction with leading scanner vendors and other interested parties -- States:

...

Bytes 2-3: The second word of the file is the TIFF _version number._ This number, 42 (2A in hex), is not to be equated with the current Revision of the TIFF specification. In fact, the TIFF version number (42) has never changed, and probably never will. If it ever does, it means that TIFF has changed in some way so radical that a TIFF reader should give up immediately. The number 42 was chosen for its deep philosophical significance. It can and should be used as additional verification that this is indeed a TIFF file.


Level 42 - The 80s Band (Posted by Gavin on 11/16/2001)
The band admits that the number 42 in their name comes from "Hitchhiker's".


15 Minutes (Posted by Gavin on 11/16/2001)
When Edward Burns gets out the cab, the fare changes from $41.75 to $42.00 and there's a closeup on the number 42.


Die Hard with a Vengence (Posted by Gavin on 11/16/2001)
The fake refridgerator in the school with the bomb has a painted on temperature which is how they know it's a fake. That temperature is 42 degrees.


Windows NT Add User (Posted by Gavin on 11/16/2001)
When you set up a new user in Windows NT, the default time that a password will expire is 42 days.


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