Lord of the Rings 42

Bayern 42

image from Twitter

Jamal Musiala is a German professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder, left winger or central midfielder for Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and the Germany national team. 42 is his jersey number.

Star Trek Voyager 42

There is no image, but the entire episode The Haunting of Deck Twelve is built around an entity in section 42 of Deck 12.

from the transcript:

MEZOTI: This has something to do with deck twelve, doesn't it?
NEELIX: Well, what makes you say that?
ICHEB: Deck twelve section forty two is off limits to everyone but senior officers with a level six security clearance.
MEZOTI: That's because it's haunted, isn't it?

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As some of you may recall, The Husband spent about 5 years not living here full-time and was only here a day or so a week. My practice during those years was to do my blog visiting in the mornings over coffee. Now he's here for morning coffee, and my schedule is in need of reconfiguring. I'm sure I'll get there... Maybe I could do blogland after he leaves for work, but usually by then I've started laundry and other housework and just haven't made it to my laptop. I'd do it during lunch, but he's home for lunch. I'm not making it to my laptop for days on end. When do y'all do your computer activities, anyway?

Shetland 42

This 42 is on a building in Norway visited by Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez and Detective Sergeant Alison "Tosh" Macintosh as part of their investigation into a murder. Shetland is an excellent award-winning British television series, and we get them on DVD as they are released so we can re-watch them as the mood strikes us. This screen shot is from the third episode of the fourth season. The series should be watched from the beginning.

The Escape Artist 42

This is a screenshot from the first episode of the TV series The Escape Artist. We did not like this, not at all, and did not watch more than that first episode.

A Day at the Races 42

from the Tootsie-Frootsie Ice Cream scene from A Day at the Races:

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For the last several years The Husband's work has had him living about 2 hours away. He came home on weekends (Thursday night through Saturday midday for him), and I would sometimes go visit him. He's being transferred back to Memphis, and we are in the process of moving his stuff back to the townhouse. I've let the blogging part of my life go to pot, sadly. I'm able to keep up with Facebook on my phone, but don't do any blogging that way. I hope to be back in the swing of things by mid-July. I'm sure it'll take some effort to mesh our ways back into common living -our eating habits and schedules, for example, couldn't be more different- but we are so grateful we can be back together full time!

Rosemary & Thyme

That "42" address appears in the middle of the 5th episode of the 1st season of the cozy mystery series Rosemary and Thyme.

The English Game 42

As the end credits were rolling when I first saw The English Game and I was critiquing the series (too many dining rooms, too little football, too much Oh-how-I-wish-I-had-a-baby, too much Plight-of-the-Unwed-Mother, and sadly musing on why they make up stuff when the facts would do as well), I noticed that it came from 42 Productions. Cool!

Death in Paradise 42

This 42 locker key makes an appearance as a key piece of evidence in episode 1 (Murder on the Honoré Express) of the 8th season of the tv series Death in Paradise.

Murdoch Mysteries 42

a screenshot from The Hangman, Season 3 Episode 11:

Marty 42

The apartment number 42 is in a scene in the classic film Marty.

Mastermind 42

from a scene from the Mastermind episode from the first season of Henning Mankell's Wallander.

Daughter 42

The Daughter texted me this image.

E-mail 42

It's rare that I find the number 42 in real life.

Unit 42

Unit 42 is a Belgian detective series I watched simply for the name.

Alice 42

from Chapter 12 Alice's Evidence of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland:

At this moment the King, who had been for some time busily writing in his note-book, cackled out ‘Silence!’ and read out from his book, ‘Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.’

Everybody looked at Alice.

‘I’m not a mile high,’ said Alice.

‘You are,’ said the King.

‘Nearly two miles high,’ added the Queen.

‘Well, I shan’t go, at any rate,’ said Alice: ‘besides, that’s not a regular rule: you invented it just now.’

‘It’s the oldest rule in the book,’ said the King.

‘Then it ought to be Number One,’ said Alice.

The King turned pale, and shut his note-book hastily. ‘Consider your verdict,’ he said to the jury, in a low, trembling voice.

Phantom of 42nd Street

Phantom of 42nd Street is a 1945 film directed by Albert Herman, starring Dave O'Brien and Kay Aldridge. Wikipedia offers this plot description:

An actor is killed during the performance of a play while critic Tony Woolrich (Dave O'Brien) is attending. Initially Woolrich is reluctant to investigate, even though he's encouraged to do so by his friend Romeo (Frank Jenks), who is also the taxi driver who brought him to the show, and acts as a sort of sidekick throughout the story.

Tony is chewed out by his editor for not investigating when he happened to be at the scene of the crime, and so he takes an initially reluctant interest. Tony becomes more involved in the investigation when there is another murder, and when Claudia Moore (Kay Aldridge, in her last movie role), the girl he loves, is suspected, and is also possibly threatened by the killer.

There's not all that much to it, but it's under an hour long and for its length they tell a good yarn.

TCM has information.

42 as the sum of three cubes

Thanks to Boing Boing for this interesting piece of math history:

"42 was the last remaining number below 100 which could not be expressed as the sum of three cubes (*) - UNTIL NOW"

Ruler 42

I've had this ruler for as long as I can remember but had never before noticed the 42.

City Homicide 42

This 42 is on a locker in the police station featured in the Australian TV series City Homicide. Shown in this shot is Nadine Garner, who plays one of the homicide detectives and who you might better remember as Jean Beazley from The Doctor Blake Mysteries.