March 16, 2005, 15:35
BobHaleTwo questions.
1. What do the following all have in common?
Cinderella
Scotch whisky
Shakespeare
The Cheshire Cat
The Garden of Eden
The saying “Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.”
2. What has prompted me to ask this question?
March 17, 2005, 16:16
BobHaleI never thought for a moment that anyone would know the connection.
Here it is.
They are all things that the Star Trek character Mr. Chekov claimed were Russian. (Scotch whisky was, he said, "inwented by a little old lady outide Leningrad.")
Now who'd like to take a shot at question 2?
March 17, 2005, 19:37
Kallehquote:
Now who'd like to take a shot at question 2?
Richard?
March 17, 2005, 20:39
amnowAnswer to question #2: Just because I'd like someone who knows the answer to tell it to me.
March 17, 2005, 23:23
arnieLike Kalleh, I'd guess Richard.
March 18, 2005, 00:42
BobHaleAnd sure as I was that no-one would get Q1, I was equally sure that, given Q1, Q2 would be dead easy. Right you are, the latest "who invented TV" from Richard prompted the questions.
(Hope you don't mind Richard - sometimes you
do remind me of the erstwhile Start Trek navigator.
March 18, 2005, 01:58
Richard Englishquote:
sometimes you do remind me of the erstwhile Start Trek navigator.
Except that my contentions are (usually) correct!
March 18, 2005, 19:56
CaterwaullerI think of the more recent Star Wars incarnation of Warf, who said "You really should read Shakespeare in the original Klingon."