TSA Airways and Lieutenant Pricefighter are offering a FREE 2 a.m. Monday morning flight from Glasgow Prestwick Airport to Duisburg Airport (Germany) to the first person to send in a correct answer to the following question*:
If a hole were drilled at the point of the Okavango Delta, which bodily function/s would be most affected?
*Prize valid until 16.00 on 11 July 2005.
posted by Bob @ 4:08 pm
5 Comments:
At 4:52 pm,
Dave said…
It's still only 15.41 in th UK. Assuming that's an eye in the area of Botswana, I would say that the hole would have some influence on one's vision.
At 4:54 pm,
Dave said…
Of course, if the drill bit were long enough/hole deep enough to penetrate the brain, then the bodily function most affected would be living.
At 5:30 pm,
Bob said…
17:27 (continental time) 16:27 (Blighty time) Unfortunately I don’t know what you have assumed eye to be.
There is an eye in the picture but it is located over Lake Victoria/ Nyanza in Kenya/Uganda/Tanzania, which is quite a considerable distance from Okavango, even by crow. Okavango is on a horizontal line with the middle of the island of Madagascar, in the centre of southern Africa - or slap bang in the middle of the forehead.
Although not widely embraced as good practice by the medical community, drilling holes in the head (trepanation) is thought by some to relieve cranial pressure and increase blood flow. Crackpot therapies notwithstanding, from the little the TSA Airways team has read about brain function this area is responsible for movement and judgement. Were I to have a hole drilled in this place then I would either 1) die, (as you suggest) 2) or become a better football player and a cracking magistrate.
Nevertheless, this picture is not of a human head but of a goblin-type creature (which I invented myself) whose brain is in its right buttock and whose head is full of candy floss. Drilling the hole would have no effect on body function and would only serve to get the drill bit sticky.
I therefore regret to inform you that you have not won the flight to Duisburg.
P.S. I hope you do not feel cheated.
At 5:33 pm,
Dave said…
Now I look more closely - I was trying to get my reply in before 16.00! I see that it was the eyebrow I was looking at rather than the eye.
I rather suspected that I wouldn't win a prize.
At 6:03 pm,
Bob said…
The TSA team would like to inform you that it was extremely impressed with your reply, which featured among the better responses. Participants who went away empty handed are urged not to be discouraged as a new competition to win a visit to Rotterdam’s outer industrial ring is to be announced shortly.
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