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

It's Holst...the Planet Suite, yeah?
Jollity - Joy - Jupiter, by Jove...
War...Mars...

Oldest...Mystic...


Yeah, well, I'm sure this is the right idea anyhow...
* plunges back into Google *

...OK...
so Neptune is the Mystic, and Saturn is the Bringer of Old Age, aka Wedlock...

...now...Venus is the Bringer of Peace, and I reckon the Canadian Ono thing might be Give Peace a Chance?

...leaving Mercury=Winged Messenger and Uranus=Magician

* wonders why he didn't do Earth... *

I just remembered that the estimable Mr Lehrer Poisoned Pigeons in the Park. And Merlin was in the Wakeman-thing (pleased to say I haven't experienced that particular gouge in vinyl for a few decades).
So that's Mercury and Uranus respectively.

Hey, Wumbeevil! That was a beautiful question...

* gulp * ...I guess that means...

Congratulations Pinniped , well may you gulp.

Bonzo's track from Gorilla involving - JOLLITY farm
Jupiter - Bringer of Jollity

Fred Wedlock's greatest hit - the OLDEST swinger in town
Saturn - Bringer of Old Age

An early U2 album beloved by Edwin Starr - WAR
Mars - Bringer of War

The best-known(?) Tom Lehrer song - Poisoning PIGEONs in the park
Mercury - The Winged Messenger

A Rick Wakeman track from King Arthur - Merlin the MAGICIAN
Uranus - The Magician

An alliterative Peter Tosh album - MYSTIC man
Neptune - The Mystic

A Canadian Plastic Ono Band album - Live PEACE in Toronto
Venus - Bringer of Peace
(Live Peace was recorded at the Toronto Rock'n'Roll Revival Festival at the Varsity Stadium on 13 September 1969 in front of a very young, very stoned jwf)

Over to you Pinniped

peace

Blimey, so you got that quickly, but took a week to get my Thomas the Tank Engine question?

B

>> Do I sense a certain reluctance to set a question <<


No! I used to be able to fool my teachers the same way. They all thought I was so smart I just couldn't be bothered. Fact is, I knew nought! Experience has since taught me I'm better off being honest about how dumb I really am, but it's good to see the tactic still works after all these years.

Truth to tell, I haven't been able to answer a question in this thread for months. I'm either too slow in the figgering or so culturally deprived the clues are beyond me. I mean, who would name a kid Fred Wedlock

And now I've seen the answer [Yay, Pin!] it does look like it was a brilliantly constructed question and my hat is off to thee and the Pin-head for being so deviously complex.


~jwf~

Put in order and explain why :

Tom Cruise
Robert Donat
Max von Sydow
Bette Midler
Orson Welles
Peter Weller
Kenneth Branagh
Gladys Cooper

Pin
(How come it takes him this long to think of a Q and it's STILL useless?)

I was having a grand old time googling all those names. I actually recognised them all. Robert Donat's son Richard, a star in his own right, lives here in Nova Scotia and I have worked with him a few times.

Anyways, I was working on a theory that they had all played in at least one film based on one of Shakespeare's regal histories...

Then I came to this:
http://www.sho.com/lockout/us.cfm

What's this, I thought.

US putting Iron Curtains up on the internet!

And representing it with an oriental's armpit.

And my mood's been heading downhill ever since.

Perhaps I'm just in need of a little something.
I'll get back to your question 'later'.

~jwf~

..that is truly depressing, ~jwf~
(Democracies of the World Unite; throw the US and France off of the Security Council; put Bush and Chirac in adjacent cages in Guantanemo Bay and let them talk to each other...)

Anyway, back to the Q. I can see one of these who's played a King in Bard-Stuff. Yeah, one, right. Doesn't seem enough, somehow.
Still, I bow to your 'sperience in these matters, venerable actor-person. You're probably righter-onner than I'll ever be.
* would certainly tug forelock if had one *
Pin (ooh, my . I've been plied tonight...)

Plying tonight!

Yeah, chance would be a fine thing...

...second thoughts, no it wouldn't...leave me alone!

All I can think of is to put them in height order, but that would seem a poitnless exercise...

Oh, I don't know. Could look quite decorative.
Pin

More imaginative than me, I've got stuck on alphabetical order as thats the really obvious order foor sorting strings by...

jwf if you've nothing better to do just go to http://www.anonymizer.com and put that sho URL into the box on the top left. You're not missing anything tho.

OK onto the question

Bette Midler - The First Wives Club
Max von Sydow - The Second Victory
Orson Welles - The Third Man
Tom Cruise - Born on the Fourth of July
Ken Branagh - Henry V
Robert Donat - Inn of the Sixth Happiness
Peter Weller - The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the Eighth Dimension
Gladys Cooper - The Eleventh Commandment

Wumbeevil's more or less there.
Ogh, go on - more then.
Gladys Cooper's actually The Second Mrs Tanqueray and Max von Sydow goes with The Seventh Seal (hence the dodgy title), but otherwise spot on.

So...over to you Wumbeevil

Pin * resolving to start thinking of a good question right now, just in case *

>> Wumbeevil's more or less there. <<

I've long thought so myself.
Oh, except on Sundays of course.

I'll be giving thanks myself today that I didn't actually start trying to do the list by birthdates. I had already started a list by date of death and had done quite a bit of work when I was more or less discouraged to discover that they aren't all dead yet. The arrangement by height looked promising. Wumbeevil's serial numbers from their movie titles would never have occurred to me. I'm dumber than dirt.


~jwf~

That height thing reminded me of the sketch with John Cleese, Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett, but that's enough ukcentricity for one posting....

Nice heading, saves me changing it --> http://www.caledonian-brewery.co.uk/

Gimme one word which links to the answers to the following

1) Da san yuan (told ya it wasn't ukcentric) and a Singaporean Inn

2) An American football team that isn't, and a Japanese pub that is.

3) A brewery in Nago City, Japan named after a giant beer hunter

4) A brewery in Windsor, Vermont that sounds like it should be in Wales

5) A brewery in NY and an unadventurous God of the Sea

6) A brewery in Dallas, Wisconsin whose Norwegian namesakes recently played against 2 in La Manga

7) An old Dutch Brewery much appreciated after a hard day's labouring, that should be in Gibraltar or Jebel Musa

8) Latin motto that should mean "Bless me with thy jobbies my liege" (free largactil to anyone with a mind warped enough to get this), oh yeah, and an inn in Napa, CA

9) A musical highway and a wine bar in Ann Arbor

.....oh I can tell by your that's enough for now

...oh, and the word isn't "bevvy"