The REAL reason (fun thread!)

[stratmad]

Ed said we'll never know the real reason for the OES tour, and that's just fine.
I wouldn't even want to speculate in a serious way.

But can we have a fun thread to speculate about the most absurd reasons for that tour?
(If this is a bad idea, just go ahead and delete it!)

My theory is this: some fine day between 1986 and 1989, MK lost his favourite guitar pick, but he couldn't remember where and when exactly. So he told Ed to plan a tour that would take him back to all the hotels he'd stayed at during that time, which would save him a lot of travel expenses, of course.  :-)

Theory 2:  a feud with a neighbour about the garden gnomes?

[quizzaciously]

Challenges like this are usually called "Wrong answers only"

It's funny. As I'm a huge magic tricks fan as another user here (MagicElliott?), I'd speculate that the real reason must be very stupid or ugly if nobody wants to share it. So ironically, by sharing wrong answers only people might fire within the range of truth.

I can't come up with a decent wrong answer now, but I encourage everybody to try it, it's a fun thought experiment.

[Robson]

I'm sorry this won't be a funny discussion thread, but I didn't think I'd be thinking about this after 30 years. I wrote:

The last DS tour could have been one big escape for MK.

Ed:

It was and it wasn’t. That's for the book IF I ever ….

I can't understand it. And how not to speculate

[MagicElliott]

Challenges like this are usually called "Wrong answers only"

It's funny. As I'm a huge magic tricks fan as another user here (MagicElliott?), I'd speculate that the real reason must be very stupid or ugly if nobody wants to share it. So ironically, by sharing wrong answers only people might fire within the range of truth.

I can't come up with a decent wrong answer now, but I encourage everybody to try it, it's a fun thought experiment.

Yes, I’m a magician by hobby. Especially card and coin magic. Decided not to pursue it as a career.

[Mia176]

Absurd theory?Mark just wanted to revisit every restaurant serving the best fish and chips during previous toursSomeone has to rank them, right?
On a more serious note – maybe he just wanted to escape from something that was bothering him?Ed hinted it might be for the book, if he ever writes it...

Mia

[stratmad]

I like the restaurant theory!  Maybe not fish and chips, because it's hard to find in many countries, but some nice hot vindaloo

[dustyvalentino]

My theory is that he went on tour to avoid having a haircut, so he could finally achieve his lifelong dream of becoming a cocker spaniel.

10AB10DC-E130-4161-B12F-C4DD8F82403F by Dusty Valentino, on Flickr

[stratmad]

ROTL

[dmg]

He he.  And they both love sausages!