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

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  • #6362
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    I haven't near them called that in years - but I think the inventor was Austrian
    What, then, are they currently called? Mrs gf, a medical practicioner, would be interested to learn.

    The sphygmomanometer was invented by Samuel Siegfried Karl Ritter von Basch - a Czech - in 1881 and is not, therefore, the answer to the question.


  • #6363
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    garancafan wrote: »
    What, then, are they currently called? Mrs gf, a medical practicioner, would be interested to learn.

    A blood pressure monitor!


  • #6364
    beer enigma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,252 ✭✭✭beer enigma


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    The syringe or Hypodermic Needle.

    Blimey that was quick....correct indeed (sorry only just back online confirm).

    The Hypodermic Needle – In 1844 Doctor Francis Rynd, a Dublin-based doctor, invented the hypodermic syringe which has been used as an instrument of curing and terror millions of times since. The world’s very first subcutaneous injection was administered in Dublin’s Meath hospital.


  • #6365
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,642 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    A blood pressure monitor!
    They will always be "sphygs" to me.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #6366
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    OldGoat wrote: »
    They will always be "sphygs" to me.
    I can live with "sphyg". A "blood pressure monitor" is a sphyg that operates at set intervals and records its readings. It is usually also equipped with an alarm. I doubt that that is what the good Dr. Rynd invented.:)


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  • #6367
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Who invented the bacon rasher in 1820?


  • #6368
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Sir Francis?


  • #6369
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,757 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Did the rasher need inventing? No-one ever took a slice of a side of bacon before! Well holy god! :D


  • #6370
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    garancafan wrote: »
    Sir Francis?

    I love it ! But no.
    looksee wrote: »
    Did the rasher need inventing? No-one ever took a slice of a side of bacon before! Well holy god! :D

    Most certainly. It involved curing the bacon in strips using dry salt rather than soaking in brine.


  • #6371
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Nice segue by the way.


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  • #6372
    beer enigma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,252 ✭✭✭beer enigma


    Ah a foodie question, I'll have that one :)

    Not sure of which one it was but it was invented by one of the Denny Family as a way of increasing the shelf life of bacon

    In those days everyone travelled by horse, so could also be responsible for the term a ride and a rasher :)


  • #6373
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    beer enigma wrote: »
    Ah a foodie question, I'll have that one :)

    Not sure of which one it was but it was invented by one of the Denny Family as a way of increasing the shelf life of bacon

    In those days everyone travelled by horse, so could also be responsible for the term a ride and a rasher :)

    It's been sitting for a while, so you can have it. Henry Denny was the man.


  • #6374
    beer enigma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,252 ✭✭✭beer enigma


    ok thanks....

    Hollywood meets GAA....what do Mick O'Dwyer and Charlie Chaplin have in common


  • #6375
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,642 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    beer enigma wrote: »
    ok thanks....

    Hollywood meets GAA....what do Mick O'Dwyer and Charlie Chaplin have in common
    Waterville?

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #6376
    beer enigma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,252 ✭✭✭beer enigma


    OldGoat wrote: »
    Waterville?

    Correct, Mick's home town and Charlies favourite holiday destination


  • #6377
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,642 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    Who or what is a scrimshander?

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #6378
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    OldGoat wrote: »
    Who or what is a scrimshander?

    Someone who makes scrimshaw.


  • #6379
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,642 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    'tis indeed. Scrimshaw is the artform of etching and carving with bone or ivory as the medium.
    Scrimshander. Lovely word that I seldom have a chance to use. :)

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #6380
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    I was involved with some runcation today. What was I doing?


  • #6381
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Doing your laundry using a cationic detergent?


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  • #6382
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    garancafan wrote: »
    Doing your laundry using a cationic detergent?

    Me doing laundry? Not a chance. :)


  • #6383
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    I was involved with some runcation today. What was I doing?

    I've heard of people going on runcations as in vacations with lots of running/running camps.
    I've a feeling that isn't what you're looking for though..


  • #6384
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    I've heard of people going on runcations as in vacations with lots of running/running camps.
    I've a feeling that isn't what you're looking for though..

    Not for many years.

    I was involved with runcation today as well.


  • #6385
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    oddly enough I was also involed in runcation today at the behest of she who must be obeyed :D


  • #6386
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Weeding :)


  • #6387
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Weeding :)

    Taa-daa!

    The removal of weeds, indeed.


  • #6388
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    What is "chthonic"? What does it relate it?


  • #6389
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    What is "chthonic"? What does it relate it?

    Does it have something to do with evil spirits or something like that?


  • #6390
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,642 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    What is "chthonic"? What does it relate it?
    Related to H.P. Lovecrafts "Chthulu" stories?

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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  • #6391
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    What is "chthonic"? What does it relate it?
    Part of a remedy for sneezing. "A gin and a...a...a chthonic please".


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