Three minutes after 12, a little mention for Donnie, who's listening in Tulum in Mexico, where it's just turned 7 o'clock in the morning.

Yeah, all right, mate, no one likes a show off. The rest of us, however, confined to our more quotidian experiences, now gather to worship at the altar of knowledge.

This is your weekly opportunity to get an answer to the question that has had you puzzled for the longest time.

It's a weekly venture into the unknown.

It comes with two guarantees.

One is that you will know more by one o'clock today than you do now.

Might not be knowledge you're grateful for, but I promise you'll know more than you do now.

And the second promise I've made recently, and it hasn't been broken yet, is that you'll have a proper laugh-out-loud moment, at least once between now and close of play.

But I need your questions first.

If you already know what you're doing, hit the numbers now.

If you don't know what you're doing, bear with me one moment.

This is the radio equivalent of the magazine and newspaper features, whereby a reader will write in with a question,

why do we do that? Where does that come from? What's this? What's that? Where, when, when,

you think of an interrogative pronoun, are clumsily working into an example question. And you ask that

question on air. Someone else knows the answer. They ring in and provide it. Okay.

Two rules, very, very polite rules, but I suppose the imposition can be a little impolite sometimes.

Don't be boring.

Never be boring.

Don't be dull.

Seriously, don't ring in with a dull question about miles to the gallon or fuel economy or roundabouts.

Some dull questions might not be about motoring, but historically the motoring questions lend themselves to the accusation of dullness most readily.

So don't be dull.

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