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    #812
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,047 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Oh goodness! I'm wrong, I just checked it out, eek!


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    #813
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Something to do with lightning.


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    #814
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    feargale wrote: »
    Something to do with lightning.

    No. Looksee was close with the wax figures. It has to do with “bodies” :D


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    #815
    feargale
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    IrishZeus wrote: »
    No. Looksee was close with the wax figures. It has to do with “bodies” :D

    Tell us and ask another.


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    #816
    IrishZeus
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    In 1998 construction workers dug up 10 bodies in a London house previously owned by Benjamin Franklin. There were there due to William Hewson, who was a surgeon and anatomist, who worked on cadavers in the basement. (Simpler times, eh? :D)


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    #817
    IrishZeus
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    By what is an octothorpe more commonly known?


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    #818
    looksee
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    Octo - eight, thorpe - some kind of area/field/village so would it be a conurbation? A collection of villages or towns?


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    #819
    keane2097
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    I believe that's the hashtag symbol, i.e. #


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    #820
    IrishZeus
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    keane2097 wrote: »
    I believe that's the hashtag symbol, i.e. #

    You’re up!!


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    #821
    keane2097
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    Someone asked me lately what Miss Piggy's full name is and I hadn't a clue, so let's go with that to see if I'm the only one!


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    #822
    IrishZeus
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    looksee wrote: »
    Octo - eight, thorpe - some kind of area/field/village so would it be a conurbation? A collection of villages or towns?

    Just as an extra bit of trivia - there is some belief that the hashtag is a representation of a central village with eight fields around it. So you weren’t far off Looksee!


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    #823
    New Home
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    keane2097 wrote: »
    Someone asked me lately what Miss Piggy's full name is and I hadn't a clue, so let's go with that to see if I'm the only one!

    Miss Piggy Banks? :pac:

    I always imagined her name to be Patricia, though.


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    #824
    IrishZeus
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    keane2097 wrote: »
    Someone asked me lately what Miss Piggy's full name is and I hadn't a clue, so let's go with that to see if I'm the only one!

    Piggy Lee?


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    #825
    OldGoat
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    Is "Piggy" her first or surname?

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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    #826
    keane2097
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    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Piggy Lee?

    This is it. Apparently she was modelled in some way on a jazz singer called Peggy Lee.

    The internet also reckons Piggy is short for Pigathia derived from the Greek for 'River of Passion' if you don't mind :pac:


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    #827
    IrishZeus
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    Quick and easy one - how many Emmys did Elvis win? (Bonus for how many he was nominated for)


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    #828
    feargale
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    IrishZeus wrote: »
    By what is an octothorpe more commonly known?

    Jeremy and his seven brothers?


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    #829
    IrishZeus
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    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Quick and easy one - how many Emmys did Elvis win? (Bonus for how many he was nominated for)

    Not so easy maybe. Nominated for 14, won 3 only!!

    Another - what do the M’s stand for on the M&M sweets?


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    #830
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Not so easy maybe. Nominated for 14, won 3 only!!

    Another - what do the M’s stand for on the M&M sweets?

    Mars and Murray


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    #831
    IrishZeus
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    feargale wrote: »
    Mars and Murray


    Mars and Murrie*, but we'll allow it :P


    You're up!


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    #832
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Mars and Murrie*, but we'll allow it :P


    You're up!

    The Provisional IRA is nicknamed "the Provos." But this moniker was originally applied to a movement that had nothing to do with Ireland, a
    counterculture movement in the mid-1960s that focused on provoking violent responses from authorities using non-violent bait - in which city?


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    #833
    OldGoat
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    It sounds like an American hippy movement so I'll guess at San Francisco.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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    #834
    feargale
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    OldGoat wrote: »
    It sounds like an American hippy movement so I'll guess at San Francisco.

    Welcome back to the land of the living.

    Nope.


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    #835
    IrishZeus
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    Googled it as hadn't a clue.

    Might be worth throwing out a clue?


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    #836
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Some of you people must be regretting that you weren't born when drink was cheap.

    Europe.


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    #837
    looksee
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    Spain? I have no idea about the answer, and even if Spain is correct I couldn't say what the group is.


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    #838
    feargale
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    looksee wrote: »
    Spain? I have no idea about the answer, and even if Spain is correct I couldn't say what the group is.

    Not Spain.


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    #839
    New Home
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    Czech Republic?

    (Drink is cheaper, there)


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    #840
    feargale
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    New Home wrote: »
    Czech Republic?

    (Drink is cheaper, there)

    Not Cz. R.


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    #841
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Come on dudes. Think rebellious cities in Western Europe.


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