h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Does it have anything to do with their hands/gloves? If they've been handling various chemicals, a smart spy might be able to analyse what they've handled by looking at residues on their gloves/hands.

You always see rubber gloves in CSI. In French a, ahem, different kind of rubber is called a capote Anglais or English letter and men of letters could be the MIB, Men in Black, who have their fingerprints removed to avoid leaving forensics.

Not rubber gloves or fingerprints.

>> a smart spy might be able to analyse what<<

I'll give that a DGI +1.

there was someone, a type of person who Vandeveer Bush lived in mortal fear of, and became the focus of the secret project that is the basis of this QI - and it wasn't spies, at leas not initially.

A Communist???

A Nazi???

Did he oppose resettlement of Nazi scientists into the USA after the war??




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- Nazis

- Comunists

>after the war<

This is 1942, remember.

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former nationals living in america

2-3rd gen french??

canadians

Re: 1942.

It's important to recognise that by 1942 no bomb had been constructed or tested, it was until December of that year that Enrico Fermi performed the 1st man-made (the at least 17th terrestrial-bound) nuclear fission chain reaction (see "QI - 'Culture and Infamy') Oppenheimer is doing his work on chain reactions around this time. It's all building towards the climax we are terribly familiar with.

and it's in this febrile and creative period that Bush acts. But what did he do?

Taff - you escape - for now. I didn't think of that.

Squash players? The first nuclear pile was created in the squash courts of (iirc) the University of Illinois.

Indeed it was. but that's got nothing to do with it.

and - correction - it was Chicago, not Illinois.

Well, Chicago is in Illinois, so I was half right.

So V.B wasn't worried about squash players getting their balls *really* warm then?

Point taken, but we strive for accuracy at all tines.

Nope V.B was intensely relaxed about squash players sporting activities, but if you like he was professionally concerned about what they might get up to in their spare time off the court.

It's not homos is it? We get the blame for *everything*

Oh, and isn't there an old reference to homosexuality as the French malaise?

You're in the clear this time. (Just don't tell McCarthy)

I draw your attention to the DGI I awarded Vip for post 72.

Could it be that a paper that should have been labelled 'secret' wasn't to disguise its real importance???

(Please, no klaxon!!)



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