The promise that I issue to you is that by one o'clock today you will know more than you do now.

LBC 97.3 Mystery Hour with James O'Brien.

Four minutes after 12, you probably do what I do in the course of an average day.

You will encounter at least two or three things that have you completely, completely befuddled, baffled, confused. You look at the

thing in front of you. Sometimes it could be a sign or a piece of architecture, or it might be

something that somebody else does, or someone else might say something. And a little question mark

appears in your frontal cortex or whatever part of the brain deals with question marks. And you think to yourself, I don't know. Why does that happen? Who's responsible for that? Where does that come from? What? Why? Where, when, whither, who went, perhaps even the odd wherefore. This is your weekly opportunity to achieve satisfaction.

I'd probably start phrasing that somewhat differently.

The point is this, if you ring 0845-60-60973 in the course of the next

54 minutes or so, and pose your question, you will almost certainly get an answer to it. And a correct

answer, I should stress. That's how it works. You don't have to join in. I sometimes wish I

didn't have to. This is the one hour of the week. I sometimes wish I didn't have to join in.

I could just sit back and enjoy what you do, because of course you have to ring in with an answer

if you hear somebody else ask the question to which you know the answer. That's pretty much it. The only reason why your question won't be included is if it's dull or repetitious.

And I'm afraid that the management's decision is final on that.

So if you push them, they will actually say to you, I'm very sorry, that's just a bit boring.

But they try not to because they're much nicer than me.

If I was answering the phones, I'd say, no, boring, bye. But they try not to, because they're much nicer than me.

So they answer the phone, and they go, oh, well, I don't know if, and then you go, oh, please.

And eventually you push the producer into a position where she has to go, I'm really sorry, that's very boring.

Goodbye.

I often tell her, don't, you know, make a nuisance of yourself.

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