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?

I 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?

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Now who'd like to take a shot at question 2?

Richard?

Answer to question #2: Just because I'd like someone who knows the answer to tell it to me.

Like Kalleh, I'd guess Richard.

And 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.

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sometimes you do remind me of the erstwhile Start Trek navigator.

Except that my contentions are (usually) correct!

...with emphasis on usually.

I think of the more recent Star Wars incarnation of Warf, who said "You really should read Shakespeare in the original Klingon."

You really should read Shakespeare in the original Klingon.

I have read Hamlet in tlhIngan Hol.

"taH pagh taHbe'."