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

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    #302
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    TIME FLIES? - YOU CANNOT! - THEY GO TOO FAST!


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    #303
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    garancafan wrote: »
    TIME FLIES? - YOU CANNOT! - THEY GO TOO FAST!

    Excellent! Off you go with your question.


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    #304
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    All right then. Taking a cue from the last question (excellent question btw):
    Which composers were most closely associated with the Savoy Operas?


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    #305
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    garancafan wrote: »
    Which composers were most closely associated with the Savoy Operas?

    Hmmm, I saw "opera" and thought "oh well, it's leaba time for BrensBenz". But, as I tucked the woof into his leaba, I thought "Savoy?" opera. "That's not shoutie shoutie opera for obese people. That's the listen-to-able stuff that my grannie used to play. Her favourites were Gilbert and Sullivan so, final answer: Gilbert and Sullivan.


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    #306
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Spot on. You are the very model of a modern major-general.

    Over to you.


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    #307
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    The membership of the Masons, Ku Klux Klan, etc. is usually secret but, using a freedom of information request, I learned the identity of two members of the Loyal Order of Water Buffalo. Without peeking, can you name them? Of course, we don't want to endanger these people by "outing" them so.......use spoilers.


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    #308
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,210 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Wot eez zees Vater Buffalo (you have me at it now) of which you speak?

    Edit: cheated, oh right!


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    #309
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Without peeking I'm going to say Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble! :)


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    #310
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    BrensBenz wrote: »
    Hmmm, I saw "opera" and thought "oh well, it's leaba time for BrensBenz". But, as I tucked the woof into his leaba, I thought "Savoy?" opera. "That's not shoutie shoutie opera for obese people. That's the listen-to-able stuff that my grannie used to play. Her favourites were Gilbert and Sullivan so, final answer: Gilbert and Sullivan.

    By obese people do you mean the audience or the performers (like these)? :)


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    #311
    Rubecula
    Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    BrensBenz wrote: »
    The membership of the Masons, Ku Klux Klan, etc. is usually secret but, using a freedom of information request, I learned the identity of two members of the Loyal Order of Water Buffalo. Without peeking, can you name them? Of course, we don't want to endanger these people by "outing" them so.......use spoilers.

    I can tell you one member of the "Buffs"... Yes tis yours truly Moi!

    I joined the Buffs in 1999. Not really a secret organisation though, just an excuse to raise money for charity (and have a few drinkypoos with like minded folks ... and a bloody good laugh too.)


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    #312
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    Without peeking I'm going to say Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble! :)

    Correct! Mr. Flintstone and Mr. Rubble are honourary members of the Bedrock Chapter of Water Buffalo.

    So, hit us with a question. I'm braced.


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    #313
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Steady on.......(loved the Flintstones by the way)hmmmm...lemme tink fer a minute!


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    #314
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    OK, here goes, probably too easy for you clever people. There are some very talented people in the world, but a lot of 'em have something in common. So without peeking, and a wild guess will probably do, what do Jennifer Anniston, Whoopi Goldberg, Jamie Oliver, William Butler Yeates, and Oliver Reed have in common?


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    #315
    Samaris
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    Iiii am gonna make a guess that they all use noms de plume. Or don't use their original name as a public face, or however it's phrased.


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    #316
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    OK, here goes, probably too easy for you clever people. There are some very talented people in the world, but a lot of 'em have something in common. So without peeking, and a wild guess will probably do, what do Jennifer Anniston, Whoopi Goldberg, Jamie Oliver, William Butler Yeates, and Oliver Reed have in common?

    First thought, when I was just halfway through the list of names, was that they have all allowed details of their soap opera ailments / fears / phobias to be carefully leaked to the meeja in an effort to maintain their celebriddy status.

    However, W.B. Yeats and Oliver Reed had more than enough real talent not to have to resort to Max Clifford-type tactics.

    As for the rest: someone famous for having a talented hairdresser; an unfunny comedienne and a cooking obnox. Hmmmm....Nope. I'm out.

    (Was Oliver Reed allergic to water in his whiskey? Ohhh, no. That was WC Fields.)


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    #317
    Layinghen
    Registered Users Posts: 1,552 ✭✭✭Layinghen


    Would they all be left handed?


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    #318
    Jellybaby1
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    Samaris wrote: »
    Iiii am gonna make a guess that they all use noms de plume. Or don't use their original name as a public face, or however it's phrased.

    Nope! Well, at least Jamie uses his real name, dunno about the rest.


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    #319
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Layinghen wrote: »
    Would they all be left handed?

    Trust you to put a spanner in the works Hen, I haven't a clue if they were all left-handed or not. That's not what I'm looking for though. Keep going.


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    #320
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,210 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    They all wrote poetry, or at least one wrote poetry and the others wrote pomes.


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    #321
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    looksee wrote: »
    They all wrote poetry, or at least one wrote poetry and the others wrote pomes.

    I suppose Jamie might have written an ode or two to one of his oily creations, but no, that's not it either. On, on, on.


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    #322
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    ........I can hear wheels and cogs turning...


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    #323
    Samaris
    Registered Users Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭Samaris


    BrensBenz wrote: »
    First thought, when I was just halfway through the list of names, was that they have all allowed details of their soap opera ailments / fears / phobias to be carefully leaked -

    By any chance do they all share a specific ailment?

    Edit: Are we allowed more than one guess?


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    #324
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Samaris wrote: »
    By any chance do they all share a specific ailment?

    Edit: Are we allowed more than one guess?

    Go for it Samaris!


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    #325
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    Samaris wrote: »
    By any chance do they all share a specific ailment?

    Edit: Are we allowed more than one guess?

    Come on, Samaris. I think we're getting close!
    Here's a few "allergies" that I've actually (yes, really) heard. And not from celebriddy airhead TV shows. Well, mostly from people who "think" they should be on celebriddy airhead TV shows:

    Spiders? (Not really original enough.)
    Spanish Euro coins? (Obviously not applicable to W.B. Yeats.)
    Aeroplanes with less than four engines?
    Dogs with spikes on their collars?
    Lemon curd?
    Ship's compass?
    Adhesive on the back of stamps?
    Taking batteries out of appliances?
    Sitting in the back seat of cars?
    Chicken?

    How about "they all have a phobia of marzipan?"

    So, JellyBaby1, on a scale of 1 - 10, how warm are we?


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    #326
    Samaris
    Registered Users Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭Samaris


    BrensBenz wrote: »

    Spiders? (Not really original enough.)
    Spanish Euro coins? (Obviously not applicable to W.B. Yeats.)
    Aeroplanes with less than four engines?
    Dogs with spikes on their collars?
    Lemon curd?
    Ship's compass?
    Adhesive on the back of stamps?
    Taking batteries out of appliances?
    Sitting in the back seat of cars?
    Chicken?


    Some of those are amazing. I wonder what the technical term for an allergy to two-engined planes is? :D

    Hm, so it's something that both genders can have, so that cuts out a certain amount of..well, anything pregnancy-related. I'm coming down to speech impediment at some point in their lives, or dyslexia.


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    #327
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    Samaris wrote: »
    I wonder what the technical term for an allergy to two-engined planes is? :D

    Dunno but there is a cure which even non-qualified people can administer. You grab the eegit poor unfortunate victim by the lapels and give them a good shake. In fact, this will work with pretty much all of that list.

    Speech impediment has possibilities though:
    Anniston talks through her nose but then all Yank women do;
    Jamie Oliver can't talk but that has been obligatory on the BBC for decades;
    Oliver Reed slurred but we know why. Did he have a stammer in his youth?;
    Whoopie Goldberg's grammar is appalling but that too is obligatory among American black folks.

    I thought maybe a fear of flying but W.B.Yeats would have been flying before a fear of flying became trendy. But....Hmmm....Didn't he write a poem, from the point of view of a pilot about to die?

    I know that I shall meet my fate
    Somewhere among the clouds above.....

    OK. Best guess: They all have or had a fear of flying.....when a fear of crashing would make a lot more sense.


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    #328
    Layinghen
    Registered Users Posts: 1,552 ✭✭✭Layinghen


    Hmmmmm, I'm leaning towards dyslexia........


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    #329
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    YES!! They were all dyslexic! Samaris mentioned dyslexia before Layinghen did. So Sam, your turn I believe.

    (now wasn't that entertaining?)


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    #330
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Samaris wrote: »
    I wonder what the technical term for an allergy to two-engined planes is? :D

    How about "bimotoaviophobia". I looked it up and it doesn't exist. So I hereby invent it.


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    #331
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    Samaris wrote: »
    I wonder what the technical term for an allergy to two-engined planes is? :D
    garancafan wrote: »
    How about "bimotoaviophobia". I looked it up and it doesn't exist. So I hereby invent it.

    Very good, but three-engined planes were also included. So, most McDonnell Douglas and some Boeings (early 727's) are no-nos too. Perhaps "minusquattuoraviophobia" to cover single, twin and tri-engined aircraft?

    PS: Aren't phobias usually expressed in Greek? Although people were still speaking Latin when I was a chiseller, I wasn't allowed to play with the Greek boys so I never learned Greek.


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