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#42
12-13-2001, 11:23 AM
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To the best of my knowledge, this is a creation of the 50 guys on my floor in residence in 1st year of college. Effa is short for "ah fer f*** sakes". More often than not it is said in a high pitched whiny tone - and it became a greeting as well. I'm sure none of this makes much sense, but it had a certain bonding charm to it at the time.
Coincidentally, it also sounds similar to the SOA exam I wrote this fall and, using the definition above, simultaneously reveals my feelings about my performance on that exam. 
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#43
12-13-2001, 11:23 AM
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#44
12-13-2001, 11:24 AM
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Contrary to popular belief, 42 is neither my I.Q., my age, or my waist size. (I wish, for all three!) 42 comes from the Douglas Adams sci-fi novel "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" - sort of like Monty Python, but set in space.
In one of the book's many asides, it discusses a race of people who build the largest, most powerful computer in the entire universe. It answers one question after another for them, until somebody gets the bright idea to ask it for "the meaning of life, the universe, and everything". The computer answers "Hmm, that's a good question. It should take me approximately 10,000 years to solve." It then slowly grinds to a slow humm as it dedicates 100% of its CPU to answering the question. 10,000 years later, it jubilantly reports its answer: 42. The people then decide that, if 42 is the answer, they need to build an even bigger, better computer to determine what the question must have really been in the first place. I chose this pseudonym because it was the most inappropriate one for me that I could think of. "42" is the epitomy of being too concise, but as you can see, I never say in 5 words what I can instead say in 5,000! <font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: 42 on 2001-12-13 18:43 ]</font>
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#47
12-13-2001, 12:07 PM
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Once upon a time, in my yoot, my friends and I would go to this little Spanish café called 'Dulcinea'. It was near our school. We'd go there for 'chocolate con churros' and this rich dessert called 'tocino del cielo'. Heavenly!
"Those were the days my friend We thought they'd never end....."
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#48
12-13-2001, 12:10 PM
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As I pointed out in a similar WC thread: I like to skip.
Hey MacDaddy, I'm only familiar from Mr. Adderly's work from the Davis quintet (with Miles & 'Trane), but it's great stuff.
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#49
12-13-2001, 12:11 PM
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My handle comes from a nickname I gave myself some time ago to be completely pompous in a self-effacing way--anyone who's ever seen me can verify that I am, in fact, NOT all that. Well, except maybe for my significant other.
To continue 42's explanation (because I think it's funny and somewhat relevant to an actuarial forum), the computer that was built to deduce the question to the meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything (which was discovered to be 42) was Earth, with all living things being the CPU processes. Sadly, just shortly before it was scheduled to deliver its results, the Earth was destroyed to build an interspace bypass. The last survivor from Earth, who got away by hitchhiking on a passing starship, crash landed on a primitive planet later in the series. He fashioned a Scrabble set out of wood and tried to get the primitives to play with him. At some point he realized that since he was on the earth just before it was scheduled to give its results, maybe his subconscious held the key. He put all the Scrabble tiles in a hat and chose them randomly, writing down the sequence. He came up with: "What do you get when you multiply six by nine?" Hilarious stuff (to me at least). It works on a lot of levels.
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