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The all new, revised and easier quiz! (mod note posts 1 and 2042)

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  • #5102
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    George Bernard Shaw?

    Nope. It was an 'actor' and singer.


  • #5103
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,180 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    :(

    I'll call my boss and ask for my day job back, so. :(


  • #5104
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,802 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Spike Milligan


  • #5105
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    Spike Milligan

    No, he would be wittier.


  • #5106
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,802 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    No, he would be wittier.

    was doubting it was Spike, just knew he had a few witty one-liners.


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  • #5107
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Bing Crosby?


  • #5108
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    New Home wrote: »
    I'll have to get my thinking cap back on, so.

    Meanwhile...

    What does ALDI mean?

    Something to with inititials of the original two owners?


  • #5109
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,180 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Almost.


  • #5110
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    Bing Crosby?

    No.


  • #5111
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Who famously said :

    Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

    Frank Sinatra?


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  • #5112
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    Frank Sinatra?

    No, Frank was a better singer and actor, in my option, to this person.


  • #5113
    stevep1018
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 148 ✭✭stevep1018


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Who famously said :

    Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

    No one man has famously said this. Numerous men have claimed to have coined the phrase,at least 3 from the fifties.


  • #5114
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    stevep1018 wrote: »
    No one man has famously said this. Numerous men have claimed to have coined the phrase,at least 3 from the fifties.

    Name a few then.

    I have checked 2 books of quotations, and on line, and all attribute it to this person.

    One of your three is possibly the answer I'm looking for.


  • #5115
    stevep1018
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 148 ✭✭stevep1018


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Name a few then.

    I have checked 2 books of quotations, and on line, and all attribute it to this person.

    One of your three is possibly the answer I'm looking for.


    Maurice chevalier is what your probably looking for. Harry oliver is another


  • #5116
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    stevep1018 wrote: »
    Maurice chevalier is what your probably looking for. Harry oliver is another

    Yes, Chevalier said it. Oliver is reputed to have written a version of it that's usually cited as “Growing old isn’t so bad—what if you hadn’t?"

    Your question.


  • #5117
    stevep1018
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 148 ✭✭stevep1018


    What item of clothing is named after its Scottish inventor......easy one.


  • #5118
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Macintosh? At a guess.


  • #5119
    stevep1018
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 148 ✭✭stevep1018


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Macintosh? At a guess.

    Correct. I just didn't have time to think of a difficult one


  • #5120
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,802 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Someones been watching the Chase ad's ;)

    Macintosh


  • #5121
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    What floor covering is named after a town in Somerset?


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  • #5122
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,180 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Tarmac? :pac:

    (I'll get my Macintosh...)


  • #5123
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,802 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Tarmac was named after John McAdam is what the hazy memory is telling me.


  • #5124
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    Tarmac was named after John McAdam is what the hazy memory is telling me.

    My hazy memory is telling me that John McAdam came up with the ground stone named after him that was subsequently mixed with bitumen to give tarmacadam which was later shortened to tarmac. I don't know if the bould John had anything to do with that.
    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote:
    What floor covering is named after a town in Somerset?
    Mrs gf (a West-country lass) has suggested that you might be thinking of Axminster which, although close to Somerset, is actually in Devon.


  • #5125
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    garancafan wrote: »
    My hazy memory is telling me that John McAdam came up with the ground stone named after him that was subsequently mixed with bitumen to give tarmacadam which was later shortened to tarmac. I don't know if the bould John had anything to do with that.

    Mrs gf (a West-country lass) has suggested that you might be thinking of Axminster which, although close to Somerset, is actually in Devon.

    You, as usual, are right. Axminster it is and it is just over the border in Devon. It's part of the Devon & Somerset Fire Service where a relation I visited there works.


  • #5126
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    You, as usual, are right...
    Thanks for that but I've often been wrong. In this case it was "herself" that was right!

    What is daguerreotopy?


  • #5127
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    garancafan wrote: »
    What is daguerreotopy?

    A primitive kind of photography


  • #5128
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    feargale wrote: »
    A primitive kind of photography
    I'll accept that.


  • #5129
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Here's one that I posted elsewhere, that failed to elicit an answer:


    Name the West Cork clergyman's daughter who was the author of "The Dark Side of the Moon: The Incredible Story of What Really Happened in Poland During the Russian Occupation 1939-45."


  • #5130
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    What floor covering is named after a town in Somerset?

    Axminster?

    Why did Ford motor car company ask permission of Triumph motorcycles to name a model of car.


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  • #5131
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    Axminster?

    Why did Ford motor car company ask permission of Triumph motorcycles to name a model of car.

    Axminster was already answered.


    Because Triumph had the Thunderbird name???


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