Three minutes after 12 is the time. And look, a quick glance in the rearview mirror for the two hours we just spent discussing that High Court ruling on the triggering of Article 50.

In Mischiat, we do this thing where you have to go definitive, right? So some of the questions on the board, we'll get on to this in a minute.

Why do cats have the knowledge to cover up their own waist? That's going to be coming up later in the hour.

Now imagine that there was a definitive answer to that, right? There is a definitive evolutionary

explanation for why cats have the knowledge or whatever you want to call it to bury their own

doings. And someone rang in with that answer. The Brexit debate would not work,

because someone would ring in with the right answer,

and then I'd have to give a round of applause to someone else who rang in

and said, oh, it's because they've got spells on them, James.

That's where we are now.

I just suddenly occurred to me that Mystery is the only place now on the radio

where you go definitive.

You are either right or you are wrong. I mean, I ask you to prove

that you're right. You provide the evidence that allows us to decide whether you've gone definitive

or not. This world of impartiality and balance means you ring in with a right answer,

and if mystery hours to be conducted in the way that Brexit debates are conducted, I'd have to then

invite somebody else to come on and provide a completely wrong answer and treat both answers absolutely equally.

I'm glad we cleared that up. It's five minutes after 12. Time for some fun. This is your weekly opportunity to achieve the sort of satisfaction that is not ordinarily available anywhere on your radio dial. The phones tend to ring off the hook, but the first couple of minutes are spent, there I say, sorting wheat from chaff. Normally I say this would be the busiest hour of the week, but given the reaction to that last phone, and it's not even the busiest hour of the day necessarily, it is, however, a complete change of pace. You have a question in your mind right now, somewhere bubbling away in the back of your brain,

which really needs an answer, a who perhaps, a why, why do we do that, where does that come from?

What's the origin of that? What's the reason for that?

If this happened, what would happen then? Anything at all? Seriously.

From the sublime to the ridiculous, from the serious to the downright silly.

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