Guessing the Answer
"HED lost gallons of blood. He was dead."’ Personally, I was glad, even although I did wonder whether anyone could live among the tough unconvincing hyperboles and clichés of the modern gunman’s world. But Jack Davey and his panel are always good for a laugh, so I left ZB stations on. Every bit as lively as the earlier overseas session, Twenty Questions, a good deal of the fun in Ask Me Another comes from putting the question beside the object sought. Jack Davey and the audience know the answer, the benighted panel does not, but treads none too warily sometimes on a slightly naughty tightrope. This kind of humour is, of eeurse, perennial. It has, in fact, a very fine precedent in Robert Herrick, though possibly Jack Davey and a certain brand of literary man might not see the connection between Jack Davey’s comment on the danger of windy days and Herrick’s "Upon Julia’s Fall." But allowing for a difference in touch the substance of the humour is the same. With that amazing speed the panel suddenly, like a safe breaker, click to the answer, when often it seems furthest from it. At times one wonders if telepathy does not play its part in helping the panel to guess the answer.
Westcliff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 791, 17 September 1954, Page 11
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215Guessing the Answer New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 791, 17 September 1954, Page 11
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