I heard a comedian the other day ask: "What if the Hokey Pokey IS what's it all about."

Someone saw this sign on a subway wall: "Life is one contradiction after another." Underneath it someone else had scribbled: "No it's not."

And on a bulletin board someone found this cryptic message: "This life is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual life You would have received Further instructions on Where to go and what to do!"

In Douglas Adams Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a hyper-intelligent race builds a computer to calculate the answer to "life, the universe, and everything." The computer says it will reveal the answer in seven and a half million years. After that length of time, this great throng of partying people arrives to hear "the answer to life, the universe, and everyth…