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

Not being from Canada, this has taken me well over 55 minutes. Actually, I'm still not sure I have the answer, but I have managed to find a native american story that involves a raft, a muskrat, a raven and a wolf. Apparently, it all started when Wisagatcak tried to spear the great beaver (which sounds dirty, but really isn't). The great beaver then flooded the world, which is why everyone was on the raft in the first place. The muskrat drowned after going out to search for land. The raven, then, flew around the world looking for land, but could find none. Luckily, the wolf started running around the raft, which somehow transformed it into a large land mass and everyone lived happily ever after (except for the muskrat, of course). I'm not sure if that's what you're looking for, but that's what I found.

You found out all that and without picking up that Wisagatcak and the Canadian Grey Jay are both called Whisky Jack? Ack! I knew I shouldn't have made it so easy.
Anyway, to be pedantic, the muskrat died because the waters were so deep that it drowned before it could swim all the way down to the ground and back.

Get your next question ready.

This once popular children's toy was actually an updated version of an ancient pasttime and was not invented by Tim Robbins as some would have you believe.

Castanettes ..?
No, no wait!
Tickle-Me-Elmo!

ono
jwf (a real yoyo)

I was thinking yo yo - but I wasn't thinking you were one.

Beth

I'm going to plump for spinning top.

Nope, sorry. Not a top, a yo-yo, or a tickle-me-elmo.

I think it's worth noting that this is the first question I've posted that wasn't answered in under an hour. Yay, me!

I guess I have to do some serious research then.

Have you actually come up with something Mycroft doesn't know?

Beth

It would seem so. Either that or Mycroft just isn't on-line. I prefer to go with the former, though.

Clackers?

Am I allowed more guesses?

Nope on the clackers. Yep on the more guesses. Or at least I think so. Since jwf started this thread, maybe he should be the one to answer that question, but I say go ahead.

I'll go along with the Professor of Cheatology.
The goal of any contest is to win.
Win! At any cost, by any means!



Rules? We don't need no stinkin rules!



*I suppose it would help if I thought Tim Robbins was someone other than the poofter in Rocky Horror Show who's only real toys were 'boys' ..or if I 'cheated' and used a search engine - LOL*

jwf (luddite extrordinaire)

Rocky Horror? Are you sure you aren't thinking of Tim Curry?

OOps - got his Tims twisted.

And the answer is... HULA-HOOP!

Arthbard, you're lucky I haven't been on-line all day as I watched The Hudsucker Proky on video just last week. For those who don't know, Tim Robbins plays a fictional inventor of the hula-hoop in the film.

By the way, another correct answer could be 'a toy that destroys other toys', assuming you could find an example of this resembling an ancient pastime. There was a Simpsons episode in which some evil corporation whose boss was voiced by Tim Robbins produced a doll called something like Fonzo which was designed to destroy the competition.

Yeah, well......back to you. The real answer is...umm...well...Okay, okay, you win. Are ya' happy?

Hi Mycroft - I guess i just don't watch enough movies. I just couldn't get the Tim Robbins connection.

Beth

Not just happy, Arthbard; my nipples explode with delight, as someone once said.

Beth, it is not that you watch too few, but that I watch too many. No movie knowledge required for the next one though...


A sober man walks into an empty bar and asks the bartender for a little water. Upon being served the man drains his glass and promptly leaves in a completely inebriated state. How?

Perhaps he was served "a little water" which was added to a large glass of something alcoholic - so that although he drank "a little water" it was part of a much more lethal drink ????

What do you think???

The man left in an inebriated state because the incident took place in the state of Ireland. He was the only sober man in this completely inebriated state. (I'm allowed say that because I'm Irish).