You might be to young to catch the reference, Michael. It's from
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, a book lots of us read when we were younger...
Long story short...
He relates the story of a race of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings who built a computer named Deep Thought to calculate the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. When the answer was revealed as 42, they were forced to build a more powerful computer to work out what the Ultimate Question actually was, but their plans never come to fruition.
I just posted that because of the thread title and because Gravel already gave you an answer. Thought someone would catch the reference and find it funny. Oh well.
