Forty-two

A parody of Taylor Swift's 22 which is an ode to Douglas Adams.

lyrics:

It feels like a perfect night to pack up our towels and thumb down the Vogons.
It feels like a perfect night to ride on the Heart of Gold Improbability Drive.

Yeah, the ships hung in the air the same way that bricks don't, but Arthur Dent survives it.
Oh yeah, the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster is delicious, it's true.

Sass a Hoopy Frood, the Answer's 42.
Check the Hitchhiker's guide, cause the galaxy is huge.
Ford Prefect's here and Trillian too.
Meet Zaphod Beeblebrox, 'cause Deep Thought assures us that it's 42.

It seems like one of those nights we hit the restaurant that's at the Big Crunch.
It seems like one of those nights we steer our spaceship to Slartibartfast on Magrathea.

Yeah, ear me a Babel fish and I will understand you, no matter what the language.
Oh yeah, the paranoid android is here his name is Marvin, it's true.

Sass a Hoopy Frood, the Answer's 42.
Check the Hitchhiker's guide, cause the galaxy is huge.
Ford Prefect's here and Trillian too.
Meet Zaphod Beeblebrox, 'cause Deep Thought assures us that it's 42.

Life, the Universe, and Everything
Don't Panic is the key
Life, the Universe, and Everything
We'll be hitchhiking
Life, the Universe, and Everything
Don't panic is the key
We'll be hitchhiking
We'll be hitchhiking

[fractalMD]

Behind The Music:
Those are Star Trek towels.

[fractalMD]

Behind The Music:
The entire video was shot and edited in under 4 hours.

[allenhuffman]

Kudos to having the old school 80s editions of the paperbacks.

[patkelley]

Big Hitchhikers Guide fan from back in the 80's when reading Douglas Adams. You never forget to take a towel with you! We had it good back then.

[jules]

Hey Taylor, hey Amy x It's two years on since i first took up my towel and listened to this awesome 42 song !!! 😊 My friend showed me this video way back then, played it on repeat and loved every word..he even bought me a "Don't panic, Jules is hitchhiking" towel..
Thanks for the videos, i don't know much about the IT, computers and the games, but i love watching the content about what was out there over past years..you make it informative, exciting and love it when it all comes together.
Great channel, great ideas, two awesome people. Thanks for bringing us smiles !!! 😃

[joegardiner]

My favorate slice in those books was when the missle was changed into the sperm whale as it plummeted down towards the planet having exestiential thoughs before just splatting on the so happy you are both keeping this series alive!

[dangoswick]

OMG, I love this! It was awesome meeting you two at VCF MidWest!

[hollybrereton]

OMG I love it, and so glad you gals like our Douglas

[Fredthefat]

can't stop watching this video, love it.

[ApoplecticDialectics]

This sparks considerable joy. I just asked Alexa what 42 is. The answer was hoopy. Of course, you can also tell her to "Close the pod bay doors." It should probably be a convention that 42 / What is 6x9 / What is the answer to the Life, the Universe, and Everything should be a kind of diagnostic built into every AI going forward, like a kind of absurdist Hello, World.

[fbr]

What a great video!! Always know where your towel is!

[subethasoftware]

Now this makes me want to dig out my old Hiker songs… We always tried to hide some Hitchhiker's related Easter egg in our programs. Our checkbook program had a calculator with a hot key that would enter 42.

[mogwaay]

Lol had a heck of a day and this nonsense is just the tonic I needed, smashing effort there!

[ColinGagnon]

You know, this was shaping up to be a pretty lousy morning, but I'm taking this as a permission to have a good day. Think I'll dig out my copy of the radio series.

[gmf]

Just shown this to my best friend Jules. She says "WOW... AMAZING". She thinks it's fantastic and it's made her day. Thankyou so much. Can't stop Humming it. 42....OOH OOH.. 😆😆

[shanescott]

I'm reminded of Poor Yorick performances, and other good times.

nice jerseys, by the way

[CurtisBoyle]

lol... That was great! I forwarded the link to Allen Huffman, our resident Coco guy who is the expert on all things Hitchhikers (his software company & blogs were/are called Sub-Etha Software... he truly a cool frood!).

[stuartsmith]

Yhe more I see your videos, the more I like you. Not only do you like retro computers, but I now find you are connoisseurs of fine literature.

[marksuper]

Love it! Happy late, late, really late towel day (May 25th)! 😀

[nickblackburn]

Brilliant, cheered me up today, thanks ladies :)