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    #1742
    New Home
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    Which landlocked countries are doubly-landlocked, meaning that they border only with other landlocked countries?


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    #1743
    feargale
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    New Home wrote: »
    Which landlocked countries are doubly-landlocked, meaning that they border only with other landlocked countries?

    Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan.


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    #1744
    New Home
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    That didn't take long at all.... unlike the phobia of marshmallows.


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    #1745
    looksee
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    Fear of Marshmallows seems like an odd one, but when my youngest was about 18 months she was given a marshmallow sweet (one of those pink, drum-shaped things) which she promptly inhaled. When I saw her choking I picked her up by her ankles, swung her upside down and gave her a whack on the back, at which the marshmallow popped out. The Heimlich manoeuvre wasn't well known at that stage :D The reaction to a toddler being suddenly hauled upside down in a supermarket was funny, varying between horror at 'what the hell are you doing' to 'that was quick thinking'!


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    #1746
    looksee
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    Calling feargale! We need you to confirm the storm question and offer another for the landlocked countries one.

    Meanwhile I will throw out another question see if we can get things moving again -

    What exactly is a decoction, (compared with, say, an infusion).


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    #1747
    New Home
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    Decoction is when you boil the leaves (roots, whatever) in the liquid, infusion is when you pour the boiling liquid on top of the leaves (roots, whatever) and let them steep, like with tea. I think you can also have a cold infusion, but you can never have a cold decoction.


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    #1748
    looksee
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    I should have known I would not slip that question past you NH! Yes, boiling is the essential part of the procedure.


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    #1749
    New Home
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    What's the Latin etymology of decoction? Approximate answers are perfectly acceptable.

    (Sorry but I can't think of any decent questions, at the moment)


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    #1750
    looksee
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    Is it something to do with reducing? I don't really know the Latin base though, I am vaguely muddling through 'decocting a concoction'.


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    #1751
    New Home
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    The "de" corresponds to reducing, ("down"), by and large. The "coction" part has the same root as many other words we use all the time. Hint: think of the process and to what happens.


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    #1752
    looksee
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    Yes I had kinda got 'together' from the 'co' bit, but I am floundering generally.


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    #1753
    looksee
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    Ok, looked it up, the co is wrong, its kind of obvious once you know.


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    #1754
    New Home
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    It's easier if you can speak another language, too. :)


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    #1755
    feargale
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    looksee wrote: »
    Calling feargale! We need you to confirm the storm question and offer another for the landlocked countries one.

    What is the capital city of Trinidad?

    Answer to storm question is Evert.


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    #1756
    New Home
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    Santa Cruz?

    Scrap that, that was where my pen pal lived (in Cantaro Village, Upper Santa Cruz, to be precise. :)).

    The capital is Port of Spain.

    Very easy one - on the same note, what's the capital of Haiti?


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    #1757
    New Home
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    Double bump.


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    #1758
    New Home
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    Nobody at all?

    Not for the root words of decoction, not for the capital of Haiti?


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    #1759
    IrishZeus
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    New Home wrote: »
    Santa Cruz?

    Scrap that, that was where my pen pal lived (in Cantaro Village, Upper Santa Cruz, to be precise. :)).

    The capital is Port of Spain.

    Very easy one - on the same note, what's the capital of Haiti?

    Port au Prince?


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    #1760
    New Home
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    Yes, that's correct.


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    #1761
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    New Home wrote: »
    What's the Latin etymology of decoction? Approximate answers are perfectly acceptable.

    (Sorry but I can't think of any decent questions, at the moment)
    New Home wrote: »
    The "de" corresponds to reducing, ("down"), by and large. The "coction" part has the same root as many other words we use all the time. Hint: think of the process and to what happens.

    Ok, time to put this to bed: the "coction" part has the same root as cooking. Decoction means cooking something down.

    https://www.etymonline.com/word/decoction#etymonline_v_867
    decoction (n.)

    late 14c., decoccioun, "liquor in which an animal or vegetable substance has been boiled;" early 15c., "act of boiling in water," from Old French décoction (13c.) or directly from Latin decoctionem (nominative decoctio) "a boiling down," noun of action from past-participle stem of decoquere "to boil down," from de "down" (see de-) + coquere "to cook" (from PIE root *pekw- "to cook, ripen").

    Anyway, this means I have to come up with another question. Darn.
    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Port au Prince?

    Hi IrishZeus, please don't forget about us!


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    #1762
    IrishZeus
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    New Home wrote: »
    Hi IrishZeus, please don't forget about us!

    Never... I was just... ahhh... building suspense.... 👀

    A topical one at the moment. For what is Neville Francis Fitzgerald Chamberlain known?


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    #1763
    Red Hare
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    He is know for appeasement of Hitler as far I remember . He came to some sort of agreement with Hitler ( i think it was the invasion of Poland by the Nazi's). there is early film footage of him waving the white paper containing the written agreement as if it were a white flag in the trenches.



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    #1764
    looksee
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    Yay, that must be the longest time for an answer so far! Well done RH, have to see if IZ comes back to confirm.



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    #1765
    IrishZeus
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    Ahh… I can’t argue with the answer as I don’t know, but the answer I was looking for is that he is the originator/inventor of Snooker 😬


    Please ask a question!!



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    #1766
    looksee
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    He was also appointed Inspector General of the RIC in 1900 till after 1916 when he resigned after he made something of a hash of intelligence gathering in relation to the Easter Rising.

    The appeasement Chamberalain was Arthur Neville Chamberlain.

    Ok, lets see if anyone is around to engage in the quiz...

    Teasel is a majestic weed that is native to Ireland and is valuable for many reasons. It has medicinal uses, is valuable to wildlife and produces a blue or yellow dye depending on how it is treated. Birds, especially goldfinches love the seeds.

    Question: The seedheads long had a use in one particular industry - for what?



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    #1767
    New Home
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    Chimney sweep?



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    #1768
    looksee
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117846096#Comment_117846096

    Oh, that's an interesting thought, but no not what I was looking for. AFAIK they used to use a bunch of furse or gorse (which would be much tougher) tied in a bundle and pull it down the chimney for cleaning.



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    #1769
    New Home
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    I can't think of anything else at the moment, Looksee - I know that some types of cardoons are used as rennet, but I don't think that applies here. I also know that some spiky plants like the butcher's broom (ruscus) are used to repel mice, but again, I don't think that's the case here.

    Meanwhile, I came across this picture and it brought back so many memories. Does anyone else remember that these were for?

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    #1770
    looksee
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    Its an unwindy yoke for a tin of corned beef or spam or sardines. Corned beef still has them.

    I didn't know that about cardoons and rennet. We have a couple of artichoke plants in the garden - very similar to cardoons - quite spectacular, though they have about finished now.

    I will leave the question open 24 hours in case anyone else pops in.



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    bonzodog2
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117855799#Comment_117855799

    Sardines keys were longer and thicker



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