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  • #1262
    New Home
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    Tell you what, you ask the next question, then, please - one good turn deserves another. :D (And I don't have a question ready.... :o)


  • #1263
    looksee
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    Tell you what, we will do one each...and with the skiing answer still owing a question we will get a bit of action going!

    Have to think...


  • #1264
    feargale
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    If and when Charles succeeds QEII he will be the first twice-married monarch of England/Great Britain since who?


  • #1265
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    Henry VIII? (He didn't stop at two, though).


  • #1266
    feargale
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    New Home wrote: »
    Henry VIII? (He didn't stop at two, though).

    Nope. He took an interest in Princess Anne of Denmark at one stage. Her response was that if she had two heads she would gladly marry him, but she couldn't afford to lose the only one she had.


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  • #1267
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    Myriad is understood to mean 'a lot of' or a great number of something. Originally (up to about the mid 16th C) its meaning was much more precise, indicating a specific number, what was the number?


  • #1268
    feargale
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    looksee wrote: »
    Myriad is understood to mean 'a lot of' or a great number of something. Originally (up to about the mid 16th C) its meaning was much more precise, indicating a specific number, what was the number?

    10,000?


  • #1269
    looksee
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    Ah you are too good! Yes you have it!


  • #1270
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    Which famous artist designed, among others, posters for JOB cigarette papers, Nestlé baby food and provided the artwork for banknotes?


  • #1271
    feargale
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    looksee wrote: »
    Ah you are too good! Yes you have it!

    Thanks. Process of elimination.


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  • #1272
    feargale
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    New Home wrote: »
    Which famous artist designed, among others, posters for JOB cigarette papers, Nestlé baby food and provided the artwork for banknotes?

    Dali?


  • #1273
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    No, not him.


  • #1274
    feargale
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    New Home wrote: »
    No, not him.

    Andy Warhol?


  • #1275
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    No, sorry.


  • #1276
    feargale
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    feargale wrote: »
    Nope. He took an interest in Princess Anne of Denmark at one stage. Her response was that if she had two heads she would gladly marry him, but she couldn't afford to lose the only one she had.

    Correction: her name was Cristina, not Anne. "If I had two heads, one should be at the King's disposal. Alas, I have only the one!"
    She married a Duke of Lorraine and is ancestor of all the Habsburg emperors/empresses/pretenders from Maria Theresa's son Joseph II down to 2020, (and including Joseph II's sister Marie Antoinette.)


  • #1277
    feargale
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    feargale wrote: »
    If and when Charles succeeds QEII he will be the first twice-married monarch of England/Great Britain since who?

    This one is outstanding.


  • #1278
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    New Home wrote: »
    Which famous artist designed, among others, posters for JOB cigarette papers, Nestlé baby food and provided the artwork for banknotes?

    Alphonse Mucha.

    Just noticed the question in passing - not got a question to post so if anyone fancies...


  • #1279
    looksee
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    Welcome to O&O. We can give you a little while to think of a question...Please don't answer unless you are willing to ask.


  • #1280
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    New Home wrote: »
    In nature, what's fasciation? You may answer in pictures, if you so wish.


    This is also still outstanding.

    (Visual clue - sort of...)


  • #1281
    looksee
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    I did actually know this, the aul brain just wasn't co-operating! So I will throw in the answer, its when a flower, for example, grows a particular kind of distorted flower, like two or more flower heads squashed together with a kind of seam down the middle. Or it can be a squashed flat stem with lots of small stems growing out of it. There are lots of variations of it.


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  • #1282
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    Yes, now you've got it - the way I see it is like Siamese twins (or triplets, etc) of the vegetable word (I'm sure that's the technical term for it).

    p057ccr6.jpg

    It's become very common in Japan, after Fukushima. :(


  • #1283
    feargale
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    New Home wrote: »
    Yes, now you've got it - the way I see it is like Siamese twins (or triplets, etc) of the vegetable word (I'm sure that's the technical term for it).

    p057ccr6.jpg

    It's become very common in Japan, after Fukishima.:(

    That's scary.


  • #1284
    looksee
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    You don't really see it all that often, but daisies seem to be affected quite a lot. They remind me of the Chrysalids mutant plants.

    Ok I will come up with a question.


  • #1285
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    Gerberas, also. And asparagus. :)


  • #1286
    looksee
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    Question:

    The term 'frogging' is used in the USA (and a little bit here) to describe a particular activity (clue: craft related). What is it more usually called this side of the Atlantic, or what is the activity?


  • #1287
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    Flogging off badly-made craftwork to French people?


  • #1288
    feargale
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    New Home wrote: »
    Flogging off badly-made craftwork to French people?

    Sacre bleu! Le blasphéme!


  • #1289
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    wallpapers_pepe-le-pew_02_1280.jpg


  • #1290
    looksee
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    Yiz are all not really in the right direction at all, at all.


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  • #1291
    IrishZeus
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    Wifey just took up knitting recently and has been listening to YouTube videos. “Frogging” is, I think, undoing some knitting you’ve already done to start over?


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