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  • #802
    looksee
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    Oh, not even close!

    Its the fourth food group that is the well known one, so if someone can come up with that we'll call it a win!


  • #803
    New Home
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    Ok, plan B: fat meat alcohol and cake?


  • #804
    looksee
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    Thats a good bit closer but still no cigar!


  • #805
    New Home
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    I don't smoke, anyway. :pac:


  • #806
    OldGoat
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    Crunchy, crispy, salty and spicy?

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #807
    IrishZeus
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    The late great Terry Pratchetts discworld.

    Hagras House of Ribs - sugar, grease, crunchy bits... the 4th escapes me at the moment!!


  • #808
    looksee
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    You are near enough Irish Zeus - 'sugar, starch, grease, and burnt crunchy bits'. From Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett.

    Good guess by Old Goat!

    Your question IZ!


  • #809
    IrishZeus
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    looksee wrote: »
    You are near enough Irish Zeus - 'sugar, starch, grease, and burnt crunchy bits'. From Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett.

    Good guess by Old Goat!

    Your question IZ!

    Amazing to think he has Alzheimer’s for the last 12 years of his life but continued to write books by dictation, even after losing the power to type.

    My question - what’s the link:

    Benjamin Franklin
    London
    1998
    William Hewson


  • #810
    IrishZeus
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    Any takers?


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  • #811
    looksee
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    Wild guess - they had wax figures put up in M. Tussauds in 1998?


  • #812
    looksee
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    Oh goodness! I'm wrong, I just checked it out, eek!


  • #813
    feargale
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    Something to do with lightning.


  • #814
    IrishZeus
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    feargale wrote: »
    Something to do with lightning.

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


  • #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.


  • #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?


  • #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?


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


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

    You’re up!!


  • #821
    keane2097
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,775 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    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!


  • #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.


  • #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?


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

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #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:


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


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

    Jeremy and his seven brothers?


  • #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?


  • #830
    feargale
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    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


  • #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
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    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?


  • #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.



  • #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.


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

    Might be worth throwing out a clue?


  • #836
    feargale
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    Some of you people must be regretting that you weren't born when drink was cheap.

    Europe.


  • #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.


  • #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.


  • #839
    New Home
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    Czech Republic?

    (Drink is cheaper, there)


  • #840
    feargale
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    New Home wrote: »
    Czech Republic?

    (Drink is cheaper, there)

    Not Cz. R.


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  • #841
    feargale
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    Come on dudes. Think rebellious cities in Western Europe.


  • #842
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Oh for goodness sake. Boil it down to the six original EEC member states.


  • #843
    Jim_Hodge
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    They were Dutch but I'm guessing Amsterdam - really haven't a clue of the city.


  • #844
    feargale
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    Jim_Hodge wrote: »
    They were Dutch but I'm guessing Amsterdam - really haven't a clue of the city.

    Correct. Take it away. Am I the only person here who remembers them?


  • #845
    IrishZeus
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    feargale wrote: »
    Am I the only person here who remembers them?

    They were disbanded 18 years before I was founded :D


  • #846
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,231 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    feargale wrote: »
    Correct. Take it away. Am I the only person here who remembers them?

    Obviously not. :)

    I'm taking a look at previous questions to see what type is usual here. Give a few minutes and I'll post one - I hope it won't have been asked already.


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  • #847
    Jim_Hodge
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    What is this symbol ~ called?


  • #848
    New Home
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    Cedilla (spelling tbc).


  • #849
    Jim_Hodge
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    New Home wrote: »
    Cedilla (spelling tbc).

    It's not that, no.


  • #850
    [Deleted User]
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    I know it in Vietnamese bũt can't remember it in English.


  • #851
    New Home
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    Is that "circa", then?


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