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  • #1202
    OldRio
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    I immediately thought of the Star Trek theme. Also Jimmy Page played one. But that is the Theremin.


  • #1203
    feargale
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    IrishZeus wrote: »
    In Donegal, we just call them all sheep.

    That's no way to talk about Donegal people.


  • #1204
    feargale
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    looksee wrote: »
    And midges get called midgets, and builders call lintels lentils, but however I will bow to the weight of evidence :D and ask another question...I do seem to have a gift for questions with ambiguous answers though!

    I have to protest that Hiberno-English has as valid a place in the world as American, Australian or South African English. What the English call a stoat we call a weasel. The Queen would insist that there are no weasels in Ireland, only stoats.

    looksee wrote: »
    What is a Theorbo - a general idea will do, you don't have to get technical! Hint, think music.

    I think we all need a clue about the orbo. Nobody here seems to know what an orbo is. :)


  • #1205
    looksee
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    Clue - It is related to a lute - but what is the noticeable difference.

    (then have a look on Youtube, its amazing)


  • #1206
    New Home
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    Is it an electronic lute? Or a water-operated one? Oh!!! Oh!! I know!!! Is it a vegetable instrument?!?


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  • #1207
    looksee
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    No, no, no. :D


  • #1208
    New Home
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    Darn, darn, darn.


  • #1209
    New Home
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    Ok, I still don't know the answer, but for the sake of keeping the thread going I'll attempt another answer. Going by the "Theo" part, I'm taking a leap and say that it's God, as in theology, so is it a musical instrument played by the gods?

    Also, still in the name of keeping the thread going, what links winter sports and ornithology?


  • #1210
    nompere
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    New Home wrote: »
    Also, still in the name of keeping the thread going, what links winter sports and ornithology?

    Eddie the Eagle?


  • #1211
    New Home
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    No.


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  • #1212
    looksee
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    Oops, sorry, I had forgotten about this, thanks for taking up the baton (see what I did there :D) New Home?

    A Theorbo is a huge lute with a very long neck and two sets of strings - the added strings are low register, bass strings - that makes the most amazing sounds. It was used in the Baroque period.

    I will see if I can come up with another question, but we should have two going for interest. I have no idea about ornithology and winter sports though!


  • #1213
    feargale
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    New Home wrote: »
    Ok, I still don't know the answer, but for the sake of keeping the thread going I'll attempt another answer. Going by the "Theo" part, I'm taking a leap and say that it's God, as in theology, so is it a musical instrument played by the gods?

    Also, still in the name of keeping the thread going, what links winter sports and ornithology?

    Hunting the wren? :confused:


  • #1214
    New Home
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    No. No hunting.


  • #1215
    New Home
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    No. No hunting involved.


  • #1216
    feargale
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    New Home wrote: »
    No. No hunting involved.

    Robin? At the Sochi Winter Olympics the Russians were hellbent on robbin' every medal they could.


  • #1217
    New Home
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    Fnar! No. Think French.


  • #1218
    looksee
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    William Morris was well known as an interior decorator, also as a socialist and environmentalist. However he did not entirely follow through on his beliefs when practising his chosen career. In one respect in particular his family's business and his own-produced decorating supplies combined to create what dangerous - ie killing people dangerous - situation?


  • #1219
    New Home
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    Lead paint?


  • #1220
    looksee
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    Sucks teeth! You are kinda in the right area, but that's not it.


  • #1221
    IrishZeus
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    Asbestos?


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  • #1222
    looksee
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    No!


  • #1223
    New Home
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    CYANIDE?!? :eek:


  • #1224
    looksee
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    So close....but no. And anyway, cyanide what?


  • #1225
    New Home
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    That thingy... you know... like... whatchamacallit?


  • #1226
    New Home
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    It was Mr Morris with the slow release cyanide on the wallpaper paste. In the library.


  • #1227
    looksee
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    It wasn't cyanide, and it wasn't the paste, but you are close.


  • #1228
    New Home
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    Arsenic in the wallpaper paint itself? In the music room?


  • #1229
    looksee
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    Ta-daaaa! You have it.

    Arsenic was used to get the colour green in lots of things in Victorian times. It was especially dodgy in wallpaper though as the dampness of the houses caused some sort of gas (I'd have to check that up) to be formed that spread the arsenic around. They also used it to get a particularly popular, nasty virulent shade of green in clothing dyes and lots of other things. People kind of knew about it but it was treated a bit like believing in climate change, ah sure what harm? And it just so happened that Morris's family had arsenic mines, their fortune came from them and Morris's design business was funded by them. He used a lot of green in his wallpapers.


  • #1230
    New Home
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    In nature, what's fasciation? You may answer in pictures, if you so wish.


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  • #1231
    looksee
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    Thats when lots of little shoots grow out of a branch, isn't it?


  • #1232
    IrishZeus
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    Bump. I think looksee is correct!


  • #1233
    feargale
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    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Bump. I think looksee is correct!

    Didn't the Romans call it a fasces? From which the word fascist derives.

    P.S. Questions are coming very slowly here of late.


  • #1234
    looksee
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    I am only a bit kinda right, its not really what fasciation is - I knew but had forgotten. Ochone ochone, the old memory isn't what it was :D

    Come in New Home and sort us out!

    We seem to be missing a question, I'll go and see if I can find it.


  • #1235
    looksee
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    Ah, New Home's ornithology and winter sports question is outstanding too.


  • #1236
    New Home
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    looksee wrote: »
    Ah, New Home's ornithology and winter sports question is outstanding too.
    That's a silly question, anyway. Name the first winter sport that springs to mind and I'll tell you if you're on the right track.


    As for fasciation, not quite there. Will I out you out of your misery?


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  • #1237
    looksee
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    Skiing


  • #1238
    Cody montana
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    New Home wrote: »
    Ok, I still don't know the answer, but for the sake of keeping the thread going I'll attempt another answer. Going by the "Theo" part, I'm taking a leap and say that it's God, as in theology, so is it a musical instrument played by the gods?

    Also, still in the name of keeping the thread going, what links winter sports and ornithology?

    Snowy owl?


  • #1239
    feargale
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    looksee wrote: »
    Ah, New Home's ornithology and winter sports question is outstanding too.

    Ailsa Craig, a Scottish bird sanctuary, is the source of most of the granite used to make curling stones.


  • #1240
    New Home
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    No, much sillier. Think French, think skiing, think birds...

    Bonus clue: think nurses.


  • #1241
    New Home
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    feargale wrote: »
    Ailsa Craig, a Scottish bird sanctuary, is the source of most of the granite used to make curling stones.
    Now, that would've been a great question!


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  • #1242
    feargale
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    New Home wrote: »
    No, much sillier. Think French, think skiing, think birds...

    Bonus clue: think nurses.

    Some young fellas who have been there, done that tell me that the apres ski is a great place for bird watching. Maybe nurses to be seen there too. I wouldn't know.


  • #1243
    New Home
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    No, sorry. :D


  • #1244
    New Home
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    Right, let's see if we get there. What's a "nickname" for nurses?


  • #1245
    feargale
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    New Home wrote: »
    Right, let's see if we get there. What's a "nickname" for nurses?

    Angels of something or other. Nightingales???!!!

    Before reading your last post I was about to suggest that skiing is seen by many as unfriendly to the environment. I was thinking that it could be upsetting the habitat of birds.


  • #1246
    New Home
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    Yes! Nightingales!. Now think French.


  • #1247
    New Home
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    feargale wrote: »
    Angels of something or other. Nightingales???!!!

    Before reading your last post I was about to suggest that skiing is seen by many as unfriendly to the environment. I was thinking that it could be upsetting the habitat of birds.


    Artificial snow is abominably bad, let's face it.


  • #1248
    feargale
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    New Home wrote: »
    Yes! Nightingales!. Now think French.

    Never took French at school. Bird = oiseau. Nightingale? Je ne sais pas.


  • #1249
    New Home
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    In that case I think you'd be allowed to look up the translation, if you like, unless you want to leave it for someone else. Entirely up to you. :)


  • #1250
    feargale
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    New Home wrote: »
    In that case I think you'd be allowed to look up the translation, if you like, unless you want to leave it for someone else. Entirely up to you. :)

    Rossignol, makers of winter sports equipment.


  • #1251
    New Home
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    BINGO!! :)


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