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Four minutes after 12 is the time. Mystery Hour is upon us. Your weekly opportunity to achieve

the sort of satisfaction that can't be achieved anywhere else. Find out why if you're new to this

part of the program or indeed if you're one of the many people who are new to this program in general then I would compare it I think to the newspaper columns where a reader writes in with a question and then several weeks later another reader writes in with the answer you'll get your answer by one o'clock today and the guarantee that I make to people who don't join in is this by By 1 o'clock today, you will know more than you do now.

And given that the podcast of Mystery,

how frequently ends up in the iTunes Comedy Top Ten,

I could probably guarantee you a giggle or three as well.

But in the first instance, you have to provide me with the questions.

And you do that in time-honored fashion by dialing 034-5-60-60-9-7-3 is the number you need.

Hit those numbers now you will get through.

What is the why, the whither, the whence, the wherefore?

Why do we do that? Where does that come from?

What's the origin of this?

What does that mean?

Whatever the question is, as long as other people will be interested in the answer.

We went up a bit of a cul-de-sac last week with a question that I thought was poised to be the definition of a dull question,

because it began with someone describing his bus route home, but it actually turned up a really interesting revelation about a pet cemetery in Kensington Gardens. But generally speaking,

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