On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:19:42 +0000, Bill Pragnell wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>>>> 2^2677009:1 against.
>>>>
>>>> (Name that number!)
>>> Picking up Ford and Arthur in the ship (whose name I can't recall) in
>>> Hitchhiker's.... ?
>> 
>> Close enough; it's the odds of being picked up by a passing spaceship
>> in deep space within the 30 seconds it takes to asphyxiate.
> 
> Surely that's an Islington phone number ? ;-)

It is also that, except for in the film, where the odds were changed for 
some bizzare reason.

Jim

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