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  • #1702
    looksee
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    Fear of foam? I'm thinking like foam mattresses, it being about bed time and my nice soft squidgy memory foam awaits :D


  • #1703
    New Home
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    No, sorry. Also, sleep well. :)


  • #1704
    Jellybaby_1
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    New Home wrote: »
    I think I owe one - what's althaiophobia?


    Haven't been here for a looooong time. Clouds? Just picked it out of the air! :)


  • #1705
    New Home
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    No. :) Less damp.


  • #1706
    Beasty
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    New Home wrote: »
    No. :) Less damp.

    Damn! I was going to say blancmange

    Instead I'll say - fear of pillows


    :pac:


  • #1707
    IrishZeus
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    Jellybaby_1 wrote: »
    Haven't been here for a looooong time. Clouds? Just picked it out of the air! :)

    I see what you did there.


  • #1708
    New Home
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    Neither, Beasty, but you're, kind of, oh, so close!


  • #1709
    IrishZeus
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    Mattresses?


  • #1710
    New Home
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    No.


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  • #1711
    nompere
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    Feathers?


  • #1712
    New Home
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    nompere wrote: »
    Feathers?

    No, sorry, that's Pteronophobia (I've just looked it up). :)


  • #1713
    New Home
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    Funnily enough, Styrophobia (as in, polystyrene, I guess?) is the fear of foam, but there doesn't seem to be a name for the fear of mattresses (Is it mattressophobia? Mattressostyrophobia? Styromattressophobia???), or for the fear of blanc mange (blancmangeophobia?). I couldn't find a name for the fear of pillows, either.

    Nephophobia is the fear of clouds.


  • #1714
    New Home
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    BTW, I'd still like to know the only word that rhymes with relevance (aside from irrelevance, of course).


  • #1715
    feargale
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    New Home wrote: »
    BTW, I'd still like to know the only word that rhymes with relevance (aside from irrelevance, of course).

    I gave it: elephants.

    It was a trick question :D


  • #1716
    feargale
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    fear of bogs, swamps etc


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  • #1717
    New Home
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    Darn. And I even tried to sound it out... There aren't enough facepalms... :D


  • #1718
    New Home
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    feargale wrote: »
    fear of bogs, swamps etc

    No, too damp.


  • #1719
    feargale
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    Fear of this thread going six days without a post.


  • #1720
    looksee
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    feargale wrote: »
    New Australia was a utopian socialist settlement founded in 1893 in which country?

    I think this one is still outstanding.

    I think you may have to give up on the phobia New Home, I looked it up and would never have guessed it!


  • #1721
    New Home
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    Aaaaawwwhhhh, but then I'll have to think of another question... boo-hoooo...

    Right, last ditch attempt: it's a type of food.


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  • #1722
    New Home
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    The other questin was answered, too, Looksee. :)
    feargale wrote: »
    Paraguay is correct. Interesting story of supply and demand coinciding: a group of disillusioned socialists in Australia planned to settle in Argentina, but instead Paraguay, whose male population had been decimated in the war of 1865-1870, invited them there to replenish the population. One of their leaders was Gilbert Casey, an Irishman. Most of them, while classed as Australian, were born in Europe. Many of their descendants still live in the colony, now called Nueva Londres about 140 km east of the capital Asunción.


  • #1723
    looksee
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    So it was! I missed that.

    Mod Jim Hodge owes a question. Jim Hodge please do not answer any more questions until you have offered a question, and are willing to offer a question when you answer.


  • #1724
    looksee
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    Here is another question just to keep us going - if Jim Hodge comes back to answer we can run with three active questions.

    What is Angela Merkel's middle name?


  • #1725
    New Home
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    She looks like she could be a Christina...


  • #1726
    feargale
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    According to Met Eireann what namw will be given to our next storm if it occurs before 31st August 2021?


  • #1727
    New Home
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    Summer? :D


  • #1728
    feargale
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    New Home wrote: »
    Summer? :D

    Dream on :pac:


  • #1729
    New Home
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    April? June? Julie? :pac:


  • #1730
    looksee
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    New Home wrote: »
    She looks like she could be a Christina...

    Nope


  • #1731
    IrishZeus
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    looksee wrote: »
    Here is another question just to keep us going - if Jim Hodge comes back to answer we can run with three active questions.

    What is Angela Merkel's middle name?

    Dorothy?


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  • #1732
    looksee
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    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Dorothy?

    Nearly


  • #1733
    Beasty
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    If that's nearly I'm going for Doris


  • #1734
    feargale
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    New Home wrote: »
    April? June? Julie? :pac:

    Nope.


  • #1735
    Beasty
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    feargale wrote: »
    According to Met Eireann what namw will be given to our next storm if it occurs before 31st August 2021?

    Have we had one since Bella? If not my guess would be Ciaran....


  • #1736
    looksee
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    Beasty wrote: »
    If that's nearly I'm going for Doris

    Its more nearly than that.


  • #1737
    New Home
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    Dora?


  • #1738
    looksee
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    New Home wrote: »
    Dora?

    No


  • #1739
    New Home
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    Dorothea?


  • #1740
    looksee
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    You have it New Home, take it away!


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  • #1741
    New Home
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    Yay!! No, I mean, darn... I will have to think of another question, now... :/


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


  • #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.


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


  • #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'!


  • #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.


  • #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.


  • #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)


  • #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'.


  • #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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