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    #1232
    IrishZeus
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    Bump. I think looksee is correct!


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    #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.


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    #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.


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


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    #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


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    #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?


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    #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.


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

    Bonus clue: think nurses.


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    #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.


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    #1243
    New Home
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    No, sorry. :D


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


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    #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.


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


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    #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.


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    #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.


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    #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. :)


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    #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.


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    #1251
    New Home
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    BINGO!! :)


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    #1252
    feargale
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    New Home wrote: »
    BINGO!! :)

    Well, that's a French word I won't forget in a hurry. I did, for the first time, look it up, not for kudos but because I've been straining at the leash to ask one or two questions,
    Here goes:

    Many Scottish people object to the inscription Queen Elizabeth II ( or equivalents such as QE II or Eliz. II Regina etc.) on their coinage, banknotes, postage stamps etc. Why?


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    #1253
    New Home
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    Because she's not technically their Queen? (wild guess) Or are they objecting to the II?


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    #1254
    feargale
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    New Home wrote: »
    Because she's not technically their Queen? (wild guess) Or are they objecting to the II?

    Tell me more.


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    #1255
    New Home
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    More.


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    #1256
    New Home
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    Now what? :D


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    #1257
    feargale
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    New Home wrote: »
    Now what? :D

    Well you've given two answers, both a bit vague.


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    #1258
    New Home
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    Elizabeth I wasn't queen of the Scots? I'm utterly rubbish at history, it was by far my least favourite subject in school, so, like I said, it's a wild guess.


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    #1259
    feargale
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    New Home wrote: »
    Elizabeth I wasn't queen of the Scots? I'm utterly rubbish at history, it was by far my least favourite subject in school, so, like I said, it's a wild guess.

    That's it. Elizabeth I didn't reign in Scotland. They say that the current queen is QEI of Scotland, or perhaps more correctly simply QE since there is only one.

    Poor Chaws will have the same problem unless he takes a regnal name such as George or Ebenezer.

    P.S. Should I say Queen of Scots rather than Queen of Scotland, or is that obsolete?


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    #1260
    New Home
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    feargale wrote: »
    That's it. Elizabeth I didn't reign in Scotland. They say that the current queen is QEI of Scotland, or perhaps more correctly simply QE since there is only one.

    Poor Chaws will have the same problem unless he takes a regnal name such as George or Ebenezer.

    P.S. Should I say Queen of Scots rather than Queen of Scotland, or is that obsolete?


    It depends on whether she was ruler of the people or the land, I guess.


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    #1261
    looksee
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    Its very unreasonable of you to answer the very occasional question I know the answer to New Home! :D


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