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"Life, the universe, and everything" is a common name for the off-topic section of an Internet forum, and the phrase is invoked in similar ways to mean "anything at all". Many chatbots, when asked about the meaning of life, will answer "42". Several online calculators are also programmed with the Question.
The Meaning of Life was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival. [29] While the Cannes jury, led by William Styron, were fiercely split on their opinions on several films in competition, The Meaning of Life had general support, securing it the second-highest honour after the Palme d'Or for The Ballad of Narayama. [30]
"42" (Doctor Who), a 2007 television episode "42" (2001), the final episode of the television series Buzz Lightyear of Star Command "42" (Coldplay song), 2008; 42, the 2012 debut album of Cthulhu Rise; 42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams, 2023 book by Kevin Jon Davies; 42 Entertainment, an alternate reality games company founded in ...
The first English use of the expression "meaning of life" appears in Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus (1833–1834), book II chapter IX, "The Everlasting Yea". [1]Our Life is compassed round with Necessity; yet is the meaning of Life itself no other than Freedom, than Voluntary Force: thus have we a warfare; in the beginning, especially, a hard-fought battle.
Targum Onkelos (1st century CE) gives the meaning of the name as "the man to whom hidden things are revealed"; [1] Targum Pseudo-Jonathan, "the man who revealeth mysteries"; [2] Josephus [3] (c. CE 94), "a finder of mysteries". Rashi (11th–12th century CE) in his commentary on the Torah gives the meaning "explainer of hidden things". [4]
Guy (/ ɡ aɪ / ghy, French:) is a masculine given name derived from an abbreviated version of a Germanic name that began either with witu, meaning wood, or wit, meaning wide. In French, the letter w became gu and the name became Gy or Guido. In Latin, the name was written as Wido.
Cage The Elephant – After one of their shows, a mentally ill man approached frontman Matt Shultz, hugged him and said "you have to cage the elephant".; Cake – Rather than referring to the foodstuff, the name is meant to be "like when something insidiously becomes a part of your life...[we] mean it more as something that cakes onto your shoe and is just sort of there until you get rid of it".
The word "man" is still used in its generic meaning in literary English. The verb to man (i.e. "to furnish [a fortress or a ship] with a company of men") dates to early Middle English. The word has been applied generally as a suffix in modern combinations like "fireman", "policeman", and "mailman".