I Ask, You Answer...
 

Years back there was a great thread on E-Budo which continued for some time but has drifted off recently, and considering the equal levels of brilliance and stupidity on here (mixed with copious amounts of humour and sarcasm), I thought it would make a good thread for the Kendo World joeys...

One person asks a question and someone else answers. If they are correct (the person posting the question needs to confirm first), it is their go. The questions can be about anything at all. Try and post questions that can't be easily Googled...

Here's a first easy question to get it all started:




"Why are Guns and Roses named such when there isn't anyone named 'Guns' in the band?"

Because the band was a mixture of the LA Guns and some other band with "roses" in the title. That's the real answer. The fake one is that they suck and so does their lame assed name.

Because Axle was high when they named it?

Maybe a link with the french sentence "partir la fleur au fusil" (leaving with the flower on the gun)? It means leaving to fight without worries, like at the beginning of WWI in France and Germany.

Good enough.

GnR was formed by W Axl Rose and Traci Guns. Traci was in GnR until he got kicked out (just before they became famous) and he went on to form LA Guns.

Your go, Dave.

This could be really hard or really easy depending on how nerdy you are...

What... is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow!?

http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/

I cheated. Ignore my answer...

Scott saves himself from the bridge of doom!

Soooo, a question?

You answered mine I guess. I was hoping for an awesome Monty Python in-joke but I guess I asked for it!

Edit- Mike got the real answer. I love that scene.

BRIDGEKEEPER: What... is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
ARTHUR: What do you mean? An African or European swallow?
BRIDGEKEEPER: Huh? I-- I don't know that. Auuuuuuuugh!
BEDEVERE: How do know so much about swallows?
ARTHUR: Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.


What's your favourite colour?http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...es/biggrin.gif

Mike's go then...

What killed the Golgafrinchans? (Not the middle-class ones on the Ark, the ones that stayed at home...)

I think it was a telephone spread infection (a disease carried by a dirty telephone). http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ies/tongue.gif

Hitchhikers Guide To The Galexy right?

Correct!

The people left behind on Golgafrincham "stayed firmly at home and lived full, rich and happy lives until they were all suddenly wiped out by a virulent disease contracted from a dirty telephone." Yes, it seems that fate dealt a deserving hand to the rich and hard-working folk of planet Golgafrincham.



The moral being - keep your phone well sanitized...http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...es/biggrin.gif
Over to you, Jorge!

Ok, the answers are here, so I can kill all the fun.
Wikipedia rules!
Guns N Roses the answer is in the first line of "early history
unladen swallow the first answer of the search is the page for Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Once you have found this, the answer is easy to find.
Golgafrincham

Sorry.

Fortunately you are too late. Answers provided sans wikipedia...
Actually it took me an awful long time figuring out how to spell Golgafrinchan. Slight dyslexia and wiki wouldn't get it!
Slartibartfast is easier, however...

Except that the moral isn't to keep your phone clean. The real reason they died is that they launched all the supposedly useless people into space, including telephone sanitizers. The consequence of that was the telephone-born disease.

OK, not a moral. More "bitter irony"...http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...es/biggrin.gif