This morning I have received an email message which contained the following:

Subject: iron
sorry Nomme, its a secret. merry xmas, roger mcg

-- End of Messsage --

Question 1: Can you figure out who it is from?
Question 2: Can you figure out what my question was?

I should point out I do know the answers to these questions, but can you figure them out?

Nomme

I would guess it refers to the Polar bears and eating their livers and whether you would or would not die of an overdose of iron

In the useless info thread

Alas I dont know who Roger is, one of the Forumers obviously

I just put "Iron" into the search and "useless info" thread was first one on the list!

Hugs

B

try posting the source of the message - press CTRL+F3 in Outlook Express - it might reveal some clues...

Originally posted by Belle
I would guess it refers to the Polar bears and eating their livers and whether you would or would not die of an overdose of iron

In the useless info thread

Alas I dont know who Roger is, one of the Forumers obviously

I just put "Iron" into the search and "useless info" thread was first one on the list!


Nope. Nothing to do with polar bears, and Roger is not a Forumer (well as far as I know he isn't!)
If you can figure out question1 I think you stand a chance of figuring out question 2.

Nomme

Originally posted by ncrossland
try posting the source of the message - press CTRL+F3 in Outlook Express - it might reveal some clues...

Not necessary. I think there are enough clues in the message.
I suppose you could google for the email address but that would be too easy.

Nomme

OK. A further clue:

Roger is reasonably famous.

Nomme

Sorry

I thought this was genuine, that you didnt know who had sent you an email

I didnt know it was a quiz

I will try again then

Originally posted by Belle
Sorry

I thought this was genuine, that you didnt know who had sent you an email

I didnt know it was a quiz


Sorry I should have perhaps made it clearer. I've edited the original post now to hopefully avoid further confusion.
I hope it's not too cryptic/esoteric. I think if someone gets the first question right there's a chance someone can answer the second question.

Nomme

Is the answer to 1 Roger McGough? If not, I'll not waste my time trying to figure out number 2.

Originally posted by max
Is the answer to 1 Roger McGough? If not, I'll not waste my time trying to figure out number 2.

Bingo - you got it!

Nomme

is the question to answer 2

"How do you get your shirts so nice and crease free?"

Originally posted by ncrossland
is the question to answer 2

"How do you get your shirts so nice and crease free?"

LOL. No, sorry, but 10 out of 10 for effort though.

Nomme

Who is Roger McGough?

Oh BTW, hope you all saw that Sheffield came top on Test the Nation last night.

DIDs on r4.

PS to Belle: He's only one of Britain's foremost poets.

Originally posted by Belle
Who is Roger McGough?

'He is a true original and more than one generation would be much the poorer without him' - The Times

Here's one biography (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/presenters/mcgough_biog.shtml), though google may tell you more.

Nomme

Did I get answer 2 right?

Originally posted by max
Did I get answer 2 right?

Eh? I haven't seen your answer to 2. You said you weren't going to bother with the second question until you knew if Roger McGough was right first.
Or have I missed something?

Nomme

Originally posted by max
DIDs on r4.

PS to Belle: He's only one of Britain's foremost poets.

It was my post before my last post. The DIDs bit is the relevant bit.

Originally posted by max
It was my post before my last post. The DIDs bit is the relevant bit.

I assume by 'DIDs' you mean Desert Island Discs?
No its nothing to do with that, besides it's not a question.

Nomme

I thought the question might have been 'What luxury would you take...' on Desert Island Discs. Obviously not so I'll mark that one down to a crap google. :blush:

Something to do with his poetry perhaps?

Originally posted by max
I thought the question might have been 'What luxury would you take...' on Desert Island Discs. Obviously not so I'll mark that one down to a crap google. :blush:

Something to do with his poetry perhaps?

Right lines. It's to do with a song rather than a poem though.

Nomme

Thank you very much ( for the aintree iron)

Originally posted by playman
Thank you very much ( for the aintree iron)

WELL DONE playman!!!
You are absolutley correct!
I asked Roger McGough what he meant by 'The Aintree Iron' and as you've seen he replied "It's a secret".
I had heard the song and wondered about the lyric so I googled for it.
Came up with 3 different answers so in attempt to get a definitive answer I emailed Roger McGough. 2 weeks later I recieved said email and nearly deleted it as SPAM. Then I remembered what I'd done and frankly was gobsmacked that he'd actually replied!

Anyway...well done again playman. You win a beer.
You see - Sheffield really is the smartest city..

Nomme

You are all a little too cultured for me folks..