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

The answer I was looking for was "The Norwegian kept the cats", Marjin sort of answered my question by posting the complete solution there.

But I'll ask another question anyway.

In 1941, Hans Eysenck collected together all previous colour preference tests and amalgamated their findings into one overall order.
In the correct order with number 1 as the most popular favourite colour, what were the top 4 colours?

1 Blue
2 Red
3 Green
4 Purple

This Hans Eysenck wasn't a Norwegian who kept cats by any chance was he? The date (1941), considering the guy's name sounding suspiciously north European, is significant. There was a war on for gossakes! So it is important to know who he was, where he was and who he was working for. He coulda been a refugee in the UK for all I know, but if his study was funded by Aryan fascists I have to take the results with a grain of blue-eyed schnapps and a hair of the blonde dog.

jwf (wearing a lovely black and red ensemble today)

Eysenck's career has certainly not been unmarked by accusations of racism, but despite being German, no-one could ever have accused him of being a fascist: he was remarkably vocal in debunking anti-Semitism throughout his formative years, and eventually moved to Britain in 1934 in order to join the RAF (he was rejected on account of being German), as he expected war wasn't far off.

1934! Brilliantly far-sighted? or a German mole ..!
Lordy, Mycroft's answers are often more stimulating than his questions and now I've got to go do some research on this Hans Eysenck. If Myc's facts are straight old Hans sounds like a really out-there swimming-upstream kinda guy. Trying to join the RAF
in 1934 is Douglas Bader territory! Hitler had only just been elected, so how did Hans know? Unless he'd read Mein Kampf of course.

~jwf~

Mycroft can ask the next question as that is the correct order of colours.

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I have been reading Chris Brand's synopsis of the life of Hans E.
A bit of contention there wot! Best leave sleeping dogs and all that.
Suffice to say I don't have much use for clinical psychologists and none for those who are prejudging me on racial and hereditary grounds.

So we're waiting for Myc, uh? Ok. I can do that.

jwf

*still struggling to picture jwf in black suspender belt and red boa, sitting reading Eynsenk's biography*

What a picture!!!

Yeah, but what's that book hiding there?

*doesn't comment but waits for Mycroft's question*

Sorry for the delay...

A man walks into a bar and asks the barman for a glass of water. The barman pulls out a shotgun from under the counter and aims it at the man. The man thanks the barman and leaves. Why?

Cure for Hiccups ?

Is a shotgun here some kind of contraption that pours a standard amount of water into the glass of the customer?

The man had been asked to give a urine sample.

Bald Bloke wins although John deserves a mention in recognition of his services to the field of creative incontinence.

Thanks Mycroft


Now I'd better post a question.


Name three sports in which the winners succeed by progressing backwards ?

Swimming (backstroke)
Rowing (sculls, double sculls, coxless pairs, coxless fours)
High jump (Fosbury Flop)

Nice try Mycroft
But.....

I'd discounted the high jumper as they don't travel backwards throughout the run up and jump.

So one to go