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

OK, there are six sections. We don't have a complete answer to any of them, but some have partial answers.

1) A queasy Lord Mayor - travel sickness was mentioned

2) Something from Homer - something to do with Telemachus's chariot

3) Thom Yorke - he's the lead singer for Radiohead

4) Baggy trousers - nothing so far

5) A chore for the goddess Hebe - something to do with preparing a chariot for use

6) HMS Victory - nothing so far

And tying them together:

7) What is the link?

Did Hebe have to attach the horses? A chariot isn't going to go very far without something to pull it along.


Geggs

Nothing to do with the horses. But it is a pretty important thing. Without this job being done, that chariot was going nowhere.

Take the brake off?


Geggs

More effort than just taking the brake off.

Kill a bear, render it down, wheels off, grease the axles, wheels on, away you go.

Ithink in those days, wheels were taken off the chariot to stow it away after use, so to use it again, the wheels needed to be put on again....



GT

GT! The right answer but not precisely for the right reasons.

Hebe's morning chore was to put the wheels on Hera's chariot.

Correct. +3 points.

...and Hera's chariot was drawn across the heavens each night. The Greeks believed that the 'Milky Way' was actual milk, sqirted from Hera's breast!



GT

Lets have another recap

Assembling things....

Don't know about Hera's chariot being drawn across the sky. Apollo's chariot dragged the sun about every day. The Milky Way was formed when Hera discovered she was being made to suckle Heracles while she was asleep. She woke, pushed him away, and the spray of milk became the Milky Way. The Greek word for milk, galactos, gives us galaxy, galactose and lactose (milk sugars) and a superior to Cadbury's.

GT

Bob. >Lets have another recap<

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Baggy trousers makes me think of the group Madness. All I can think is that their style of dancing looked a bit like traveling by wheel...

Hms victory had a wheel to steer it by.
All to do with travel?
Homer - Telemachus chariot had wheels.
So did hera's
Thomas yorke radio head, radios are found in cars, which have wheels
Baggy trousers, song by madness who also had a hit with driving in my car - thus wheels again


Wheels is the link...?

Teasswill - sorry, mentioning Madness was a mistake... -5

Argon, wheels isn't the link.

Read the bit from Homer (post 17). Something about the chariot...

I thought mentioning the nutty boys would be ill-advised. Hence why I referenced, but did not explicitly name, them back in post 5.

Thankful that I managed to restraint myself there.


Geggs

I refrained from mentioning Radiohead for fear of klaxons, but someone else did & that merited DG points!