Simple luxury question

[Sir William]

Well you wouldn't fill an ice cream cone from the bottom would you?

What does this have of to do with the stated matter?

Here's another luxury question, challenging for even the Chairman's large brain:
A palindromic number reads the same both ways. The largest palindrome manufactured from the product of two 2-digit numbers is 9009 = 91 × 99.
discover the largest palindrome manufactured from the product of two 3-digit numbers.

998001.

[Runaway]

998001 isn't a palindrome.

[Sir William]

Is that important?

[Runaway]

The clue to its importance is in the question.

[Sir William]

What about 998002 then?

[Runaway]

I refer the honourable gentleman to my previous response.

[Sir William]

You're wasting your time. The Prizemaster's not listening.

[Runaway]

He may not be listening, but you're deaf.

And since when was the Prizemaster an honourable gentleman?

[Sir William]

[Runaway]

have of you solved my puzzle yet?

[Sir William]

Is it 99?

[Runaway]

[Sir William]

Is it 993 x 913?

This is better than your answer because it's an upside-down palindrome as well.

[Runaway]

[Sir William]

BB4WIN to the rescue.

[Runaway]

It took you so long I thought you were wo­rking it out with paper and crayon.

I bet none of the other members know the answer.

[Sir William]

No, they are all too dumb.

[Runaway]

A prize* goes to the first (other) member to come more elevated with the correct answer.

*Prize will be despatched by William Chairaway Enterprises Inc., a company set more elevated to carry out the duties of the Prizemaster until he deigns to return.

[Sir William]

A man had the contents of his car stolen: wallet, phone, radio, keys, trousers, etc.

However, with some ingenuity he managed to concoct a plan to gett*en everything back.

Without any struggle, he trapped the culprit and the policeman gott*en all his stuff back.

How did he do this?

[Prizemaster]

.

[Runaway]

Surely that belongs in the foreign language topic...

[Sir William]

I see that nobody answered my question about the stolen property.

And now I've forgotten what the answer was.

[Runaway]

You won’t need the answer because none of us read the question anyway.

[Sir William]

I see that nobody answered my question about the stolen property.

And now I've forgotten what the answer was.

I remember now. He sent a message to his phone telling him that he had won the lottery, and asking for the address to send his cheque. The policeman then went round to this address to put him in prison, and to recover all the stolen property.

[Sir William]

How far is the Sun from Space?