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

'eel boy. 'eel?

Nah. I knew there would be something in at least one of those pics that would distract each of you enough to throw you off the scent.

Parts of the URLs are related, find the relationship and then provide a pic for the missing part. If it helps any, this is a closed set so I can't really add any more pics without extendin the set or repeating a a part. Don't all at once......

http://www.happyfamilies.com/graphics/Mattingly.jpg
http://www.tomstrainstation.com/images/richardgordon.jpg
http://www.neiu.edu/~rghiggin/ephem/Evans,Alice.jpg
http://www.knutselclub.nl/knutselkids/kinderen/wakker%20worden.JPG
http://personal.inet.fi/koti/kenneltiarnian/kuva/roosa.jpg

I'll go first then.

~jwf~

boys are children and the canine pup is a cocker-spaniel...

Look...I refuse to answer this until you acknowledge the significance of the smoked eels.
I mean, even before JFK declared that Americans would be smoking eels by whenever-it-was, Mankind's Dream was always to Smoke Eels.
There will never be a scientific project more inspirational than America's quest to find a new way of preserving the shelf-life of fish products.
"That's one small wriggle for an eel, one giant leap for..."
Well, you know what I mean, anyhow...
Pin

Sorry Pin, I did initially acknowledge the eels, but then I thought someone would have taken my flippant remark as a hint and then there'd 'ave been an elver to do.

If it's any consolation you're the closest yet, but with your latest post, not the eels pic. If I was you, reincarnated as an eel, I'd fall over trying to kick myself.

I will read the post I'm replying to and not look at eels when I reply to someone.
I will read the post I'm replying to and not look at eels when I reply to someone.
I will read the post I'm replying to and not look at eels when I reply to someone.
I will read the post I'm replying to and not look at eels when I reply to someone.
I will read the post I'm replying to and not look at eels when I reply to someone.
I will read the post I'm replying to a......

Right, I see now that I was on completely the wrong tack...
Y'see, by outrageous coincidence, these guys called Ken Mattingly II, Ron Evans, Dick Gordon, Stuart Roosa and Alfred Merrill Worden all packed in their jobs with some failing travel company around the mid-70s, whereupon they set up this chain of eel-smoking parlours.
Since I'm off for a few days, it's just as well I got it completely wrong, yeah?
Up to someone else to find a piccy and set the next Q then.
Bye-ee
Pin <<< This is an eel with a tongue in its cheek...
(Oh, BTW, "smoked apollo" is an unregistered Googlewhack, just in case anyone wants to render themselves immortal)

*checks post he's replying to and then forgets all about it*

The eel-smokin' parlour was set up before those guys came along, but it didn't take off, so they tried smoking their eels on a long journey instead of clicking them, but someone forgot to pack the eels so they just came home.

Someone gimme a pic, but avoid the sisters puhlease.

Erm, smoked apollo only works as a googlewhack if you put it in quote marks, which isbn't allowed is it? I'm relatively new at whacking, so forgive me if I'm talking rubbish.

Good point, Cupid. (I was just making one myself, yeah?)

I wonder if this is what you're looking for

http://www.ourplanet.com/imgversn/105/images/collins.jpg

Seamus

Well it's a much nicer pic than the ones I was dreading, so I pass the baton (which some might say bears an uncanny resemblance to a smoked eel) over to you, Seamus.

The names were those of the Command Module pilots who didn't take the trip down to the moon due to them being ex-taxi drivers and the time being after midnight.

What's missing from the list below?

A Launch
Marcel's cushion
A Tri-plane
Atomic explosion
Alien child
?
The outer skin of a type of plant
A Pirate
A flying lizard



And if anyone wants any more details on the last answer

Michael Collins was Command module pilot on Apollo 11, the 1st moon landing
Richard f Gordon Jr. was Command module pilot on Apollo 12, the 2nd moon landing
Stuart Allen Roosa was Command module pilot on Apollo 14, the 3rd moon landing
Alfred Merrill Worden was Command module pilot on Apollo 15, the 4th moon landing
Thomas K Mattingly was Command module pilot on Apollo 16, the 5th moon landing
Ronald E Evans was Command module pilot on Apollo 17, the 6th & last moon landing

Seamus

I don't suppose there's much use in my guessing at a certain flightless bird?

Thanks for filling in the info, I'd lost my envelope of scribbles.

I'm guessing either ray or nettles.

Flightless birdnot really, although there is a slight connection to a mythical bird made of ice cream.

"ray or nettles"doesn't mean anything to me.

Seamus

Clue anybody?

Seamus

*lurks, wondering if smoke has cleared*

*wonders why the sprinklers have came on again*

A Launch - Cutter
Marcel's cushion - Pillow
A Tri-plane - Fokker
Atomic explosion - Nuclear, Nagasaki, Hiroshima
Alien child - ??????
?
The outer skin of a type of plant - Bark
A Pirate - Pierce
A flying lizard - Draco

Something to do with James Bond?

Ah maybe we're getting somewhere at last. Not 007 though.

*Pillow* is half right.
*Hiroshima, Nagasaki* yep, it's one of those, not sure which one though and I don't think it'll help you much.
*Bark* spot on.

Let me put some dates in here for you


A Launch 1966
Marcel's cushion 1967
A Tri-plane 1967
Atomic explosion 1968
Alien child 1969
? 1969
The outer skin of a type of plant 1971
A Pirate 1972
A flying lizard 1974

And there's also one in 1989 but I can't really give you a clue for that one, perhaps you should go ask Alice.

Seamus