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

Cowgirl Greebo rode into town on Friday. She stayed three days and left on the Saturday.

How is this possible?

Friday was her horse.

Friday is the name of the horse

friday is her horse

Greebo wasn't even online according to my who's online window! How did that happen?

for Gnomon

The town crosses the International date line

Perhaps it was Man Friday?

The dateline answer seems to fit: She arrived at 00:30 on Friday, stepped across the date line back to 23:30 on Thursday. She stayed the rest of Thursday, the whole of Friday and a lot of Saturday (three days), then left. The only places on dry land which cross the date line are in Antarctica, so she must have been riding a Walrus!

I never said she wasn't!

Actually Gnomen, I think that if she arrived at 00:10 on Friday and the crossed the date line (as opposed simply to a time-zone boundry), it would be 00:10 Thursday the other side. So she could actually stay almost 3 lots of 24 hours & still leave at 23:50 on Saturday.

The Saturday is a train or a bus

Ugi, I was wrong. There are a few places along the dateline where the time is the same on both sides of it, but they are all over the sea. In most places, it runs along a time boundary, so if it is 00:10 Friday on the West side of it, it will be 01:10 Thursday on the East side.

Thanks Gnomon - you learn something new every day, as they say.

I was only being perverse really, since I have been subscribed to ths quiz for about a month and have not yet read a question that didn't already have several answers!

One of these days....

I know the feeling Ugi, I have got a point on the board,but only cus there was six direrent answers and he gave a point for each answer

manda

(when is H2G2 going to get a spell checker)

Manda, don't let Greebo hear you calling her a 'he'...

Only Terry Pretchet may write that (in "Carpe Jugulum" at least)

oops slip of the finger

But in the Pratchett books, Greebo is a "he" - and a very masculine one at that (there is a quote somewhere that goes "Greebo had fathered the last 30 generations" or something)

And why can't it be on water? You just have to change "Greebo rode" into "Greebo rowed"..........

Aaaah... but then this isn't a Terry Pratchett book, but a DNA one - sort of...