At the office today, while listening to an overly symphatetic (read: honey dripping from her gums) American woman presenter over a long-distance, hissing telephone line telling the participants about Appreciative Inquiry approach in problem solving, a discussion surfaced from the past - the origin of the name of the band Level 42.
According to Wikipedia, the story goes (shortened):
"The origin of the band's name has been described being inspired by a sign in a lift in a tall building in the US; top level of the biggest car-park in the world, in Japan; the floor on which J. Pryce's character resides in the film Brazil or after Tower 42 (NatWest Tower) a tall building in London.
...both claim to have been reading Douglas Adams' comical science-fiction novel, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy wherein the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything, is '42'."
Mooses says: Being a fan of the book, the later version is most likely true.
(That Woman is making me feel short of breath - she is so huggingly enthusiastic and sweet. My European taste can hardly tolerate...)
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