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By clock on May 10, 2009.

For a whole year, I knew the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. Starting today, I am ignorant again.

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Happy birthday!

(When I first saw the title of your post, I thought perhaps you were writing something about George W. Bush.)

Happy birthday! You'll just have to change the base that you're counting in if you want to regain the answer (if you've heard the radio series, you'll know what The Question is, and may be aware that this proves that God has 13 fingers).

Happy birthday!

Herzliche Glueckwunsch! And thanks for not finding out the Question last year, it would have been darned inconvenient to have had to reset the Universe.