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

Vanni Treves is the chair of Equitable - I take it that's the insurance company link

Frederick Treves the actor played a character called Brotodac in Dr Who - an anagram of "bad actor"

I'd hoped he played the Brigadier, but sadly, I was wrong....

but he played The Brig in The Cazalets!

Did jwf not already say that?

*goes off to read through previous postings*

The Holy Coat of Treves is the seamless coat that Jesus wore. Is that the St Johns gospel bit?


so to summarise:

The Brig - plaved by Frederick Treves in the Cazalets
Bag head - the elephant man, written by Sir Frederick Treves
insolvent insurers - Equitable boss Vanni Treves
St Johns Gospel - the Holy Coat of Treves

Do I win a prize???

Your question next, Luckystar! (I reckon you've got most of this, and you contributed all the key ideas)

To summarise :

TREVES is the connection (various pronounciations) :

Frederick TREVES (actor) played "The Brig" in The Cazalets (BBC, 2002)
- as Luckystar pointed out

TREVES (or Trier) was the place of origin and the long-time repository of a venerated version of the Book of Revelations (said to be the earliest illustrated one), known as the Treves Apocalypse : hence St John etc.
- Luckystar mentioned the town

Vanni TREVES was brought in as new Chairman to sort out the wreck of Equitable Life in 2001 : hence the Insurer
- as Luckystar pointed out

Sir Frederick TREVES (MD) was the accidental biographer and companion to the unfortunate John Merrick, aka the Elephant Man : hence Bag-Head
- Luckystar first mentioned the Elephant Man


....Phew....I'm glad that's over!
(Where's Mycroft when you need him!)

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Hi Luckystar
Simulpost!
As you see, you're up next - undoubtedly so with your correct summing-up just back there.
(I didn't know about the Coat of St John specifically, though the place bristles with Relics. I'll go look that up!)
See ya

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OK guys and gals! What connects



the last words of Quantum Leap
blurry
Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle

The last words of Oscar Wilde were, "Either this wallpaper goes or I do!"

But don't think you've heard the last of me.


~jwf~

Oh boy.

Concorde?

Sorry Poli!

* thinks that wine must have been stronger than she thought *

oh boy is good - follow that lead!

Bartle and Trubshaw first developed Multi-User Dungeons (or MUDs)
Blurry is a song by Puddle of Mudd
Mud looks promising...but can't find the Quantum Leap connection.

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you're nearly there - read the previous postings

um...nobody's going to care about something that happened a couple of leds ago, but when i said i had nothing to say, it had absolutely nothing to do with anything. i just didn't have anything to say, except to say that i didn't have anything to say, so i said it.
again, i have nothing to say.
^. .^
= ' =

Well said

Dr Sam Beckett said "Oh boy" pretty often in QL, so these were probably the last words of the last episode?
But "Oh boy" was also a single by Mud (c.1973-ish?). They apparently all wore yellow teddy-boy outfits, or so an elderly relative tells me. They had a better-known hit with "Tiger Feet", which I'm going to pretend that I don't remember either...

...should have pleaded the 5th, shouldn't I? Like Clelba or the Worldcom guys...

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You got it - the connection was all mud!

Well done. Your turn!

What do the following have in common?
- the yellow one with the straight head-gear
- originally one of 151 that could go 3 ways; latterly one of 251 that can go 5
- Honolulu Handle? (dim.)
- Ranger Smith's lesser pain
- Attire of choice for the ampler nucular safety operative

Oops - just a little title-tidying here folks...nothing to see...move along now...question as per last post...


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