Sorry to be pedantic, but wouldn’t this be the correct line:

cat mum (making faces): that means 6 7 is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything!

42 is the answer

He’s a friend of Monty’s.

It’s actually the only one of his movies that I somewhat regularly come back to think about. Not to slag his more serious or funnier movies, but something with the remote fast-forward analogy, and how often I wish I could skip or speed over a real-life situation- it really hit close to home, especially the illustrated consequences of that.

It do be like that.

I meant the more human-centric origin myths, e.g. like the Romans believing they were totally the decendants of Aeneas and the Trojans fleeing Troy’s destruction.

What’s funny is Rome and Greece (and probably every other ancient culture) mythologized their origin history, too, due to lack of history records from that far back, or just by plain human nature. Nothing new under the sun.

Edit: I meant the more human-centric origin myths, e.g. like the Romans believing they were totally the decendants of Aeneas and the Trojans fleeing Troy’s destruction.

Offtopic, but after reading these comments, I’m so glad I first opened Lemmy today rather than Reddit. Thoughtful, varied discussion, instead of sifting through a ton of samey “joke” comments to maybe (if ever) find some nugget of humanistic or original thought, or get bored, doomscrolling and lose hope in humanity.

I just love this community, thank you all for being here.

Haven’t seen someone so salty in a long time.

You don’t go out much, do you?

Let’s replace them with AI

It’s a joke that the long-haired person might be trans and had their testicles removed previously.

I’m not sure that was the original joke, but works quite well.

LSD