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

...Returning from brief wanderings...
(Relieved I wasn't here. None of those were Wombles in my day)

Readily confess to getting an answer to this one off a website, which says : Fastest goal in a World Cup match was scored by Czechoslovakia's Vaclav Masek after only 16 seconds against Mexico in 1962.

I actually knew the related fact that the latest goal in open play was Platt's v Belgium in 1990.

(BTW - watched yesterday's (anticlimax) in a bar in Stockholm. The Swedes were cool)

P.

Okay Pinniped, you're on .....



"Testing, testing, one, two, one, two ..... three ...."

Hang on a mo, the bidoos and hassans hasn't been answered yet. Or have I missed something....

You've missed something...

They were anagrammed Wombles apparently.
But while we're at it, what was the answer to six7s last one?
~j~

ooh me! me! I know! I know!

Hello All

Other than being film actresses, what do Brigitte Bardot, Whoopi Goldberg and Celia Johnson have in common?

P.

The all had the initials C J at birth, respectively being Camille Javal (reputedly), Caryn Johnson and Celia Johnson.

While Mycroft's succinct and seemingly confident response is very likely correct, and therefore negates any real need for me to post my 'guess', I still feel compelled to point out that they are all 'do-good busy-bodies' who love to stick their noses in and 'solve' other peoples problems while unable to handle their own.

~jwf~

That's particularly true of Celia Johnson, who has singularly failed to address the problem of being dead these past twenty years while her mummified septum is still wedged under the leg of a former neighbour's dining table to stop it wobbling.

He got it, of course.

One of these days I'll think of a question that occupies you lot for more than ten minutes.

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Oh THAT Celia Johnson!

"I was shocked to learn ... that some of my friends did not know who Celia Johnson was."
from:
http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/nikolas.lloyd/celia.html


~jwf~

I had to look her up too

Omigod Granny! Wha's happened to your name? You've lost a 'Gr' and and a 'y' and grown one 'i'.

Or is that how the wee-uns are calling you now?


~jwf~

Pinniped, I think the aim is to come up with a question that takes Mycroft more than 10 minutes - questions can go unanswered for days when he's not here.

*waits for Mycroft*

What do Cyprus, France, Germany, Russia, Poland and America have in common with each other but no other country?

You have been there on holliday?

I mean ..wow ..just look at that question! This will take a while. That's the most unlikely grouping of countries I've ever seen.
Poland, Cypus and America in the same sentence rattles my reality. And then he throws in Germany, Russia and France.
Not only do they have something in common but they (as a group) have it exclusively.
What could these six countries have in common that NO other country has... oh, sorry. Silly me. Thinking out loud and simply restating the question.

But I'm working on it.
Off to check current lists of various UN Committees and maybe a list of Yugo or Lada dealerships still in business.

~jwf~

Tentative guess...

...places George Dubya's been?
(Oh yeah. Can't be that. Cloud-Cuckoo Land should be on that list...)

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