History Challenge & Journal

[dtaai-maai]

Who said "When you sit with a nice girl for 2 hours you think it’s only a minute, but when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it’s 2 hours."? And in relation to what?

[pharvey]

Who said "When you sit with a nice girl for 2 hours you think it’s only a minute, but when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it’s 2 hours."? And in relation to what?

Ridiculously enough, I've been reading a book with the above quoted ...... Will be interested to see the answers coming

[dtaai-maai]

Knowing the answer doesn't rule you out from giving it!!

[pharvey]

Knowing the answer doesn't rule you out from giving it!!

It's all relative

[lindosfan1]

A complete guess, for fun, Kennedy about the Cuba crisis.

[dtaai-maai]

Nope, though there is a vague nuclear connection. See pharvey's post above for major clue.

[PeteC]

Einstein & the theory of relativity?

[dtaai-maai]

[PeteC]

Who said "When you sit with a nice girl for 2 hours you think it’s only a minute, but when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it’s 2 hours."? And in relation to what?

You're right that it's all relative. You put a gay guy next to a woman and 1 minute may seem like 2 hours, and seat a masochist on a hot stove for 2 hours may only seem like a minute to him. Perhaps we're going too deeply into this.

[dtaai-maai]

This should be a quickie for Brits, but we'll see.

Channel 4 began transmission on 2 November 1982; what was the first programme? And just to make it a little bit more difficult, who was the first person to be seen on Channel 4?

[lindosfan1]

A programme I used to watch regularly countdown, with Richard Whiteley RIP, I used to get home from work at at 4.30 sit down have a drink and watch tv for an hour.

[dtaai-maai]

Yep x 2 (couldn't stand Whitely myself)

[PeteC]

This day in xxxx. A monumental event concerning the structure of the UK Government.

[sateeb]

End of an absolute Monarchy?

[sateeb]

or.. Runnymede/Magna Carta?