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

Today's question to keep you on your toes in Greebo's absence is:

An old scarf, a carrot and some lumps of coal are lying in the middle of a field. What has happened?

Sorry, it should be Wednesday 28-Nov-2001.

The snowman melted

that has melted

** happily munching on a carrot, after beating Titania (with a scarf) ***

boo it was so obvious and yet i was too late

*attacking Marjin with a *

** seeing the melt to become an **

Oh drat - that always seem to be happening to me...

Dr Who (personified by Tom Baker) visited and left his scarf. The other item s probably fell out of his pocket.

(If it were a snowman melting - why was it in the middle of the road? Ho did it get there? they usually don't move on their own and aren't usually made in the middle of the road where they can be run over)

How did I get field and road mixed up?

Is that a new quiz? Eh - both words and with 'd'?

Anfield Road?

Maybe but I can't award points. 8)

someone wandered into the field carrying a scarf, a carrot, and some sticks was it?
anyway, they got really tired, and couldn't be bothered to carry them any more so they left them there. asnd wandered out of the field again.
^. .^
= ' =

But there should also have been a broom! Did some come along and went with it?

What has happened?

Well, there's probably a very angry farmer jumping around because some fiend has burned his crop down using coal as the initial fuel. All he has to go on for forensic evidence is the remains of the culprit's pack lunch and their neck attire.

Well, someone already nicked the Doctor Who answer I was going to give

A dinosaur died in the field. 65 million years later, its body had turned to coal. Seeing the coal and mistaking it for fertilizer, a passing farmer decided that the field would be a good place to plant a carrot. The scarf was placed there to keep the carrot warm during the approaching winter.

santa has just stopped by to give s to the local rabbit family, leaving the carrot there, also the scarf so that their den will be more comfy. some of the coal he gives to naughty children fell out the back of the sleigh.

A thaw, apparently. Or spring. Or a heat wave.

Whatever weather conditions would cause a snowman to melt.

That includes the wielding of various heat torches....