42!

Many of the friends were a bit tricked by the '42 wishes' bit in the NY wishes below.

I had even put out a prize carrot for someone who could get the inner meaning of 42...

There were some very good responses albeit incorrect :-)

1. My waist size - they missed it by a mile!
2. My age - some even had the gall to suggest that I passed that number in early-90s :-()
3. A certain Tamil Actress' waist size - give me a break guys; how can you be so mean... that number has to be something like 82!!!
4. Since I had said that the number is linked to literature and that Shakespeare had written 37 plays in all... Abhishek came back and said:

Significance of 42 :: Does this have any relation with Shakespeare's contemporary John Fletcher author of comedy sequel "The Tamer Tamed" and supposed to have wrote about 42 plays in his life time.

Good Try Abhishek... (Even though I could not trace 42 plays after trolling through the web!)

But nobody got the link between 42 and one of the cult science fictions ever written....

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A756317