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  • #1472
    New Home
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    feargale wrote: »
    A hand grenade.

    Niet.


  • #1473
    looksee
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    A soup spoon of medicine...


  • #1474
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    Non.


  • #1475
    looksee
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    A rolled up magazine...'its a bit (Condé) Nast-y. Am I pushing it too far? :D


  • #1476
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    Nein.

    Need a clue?


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  • #1477
    looksee
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    Might help :D


  • #1478
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    Think synonyms.


  • #1479
    looksee
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    I've been thinking flippin' synonyms all evening and am no closer!


  • #1480
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    What's the epitome of round?


  • #1481
    keane2097
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    Vicious circle?


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  • #1482
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    Indeed it is. :)

    Your question, Keane2097.


  • #1483
    keane2097
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    There are three players with eight premier league red cards. A Frenchman, a Scot and one of our own. Name them.


  • #1484
    IrishZeus
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    Absolute guesswork here as I know sweet f all about soccer.

    Eric Cantona? Roy Keane?


  • #1485
    feargale
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    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Absolute guesswork here as I know sweet f all about soccer.

    Eric Cantona? Roy Keane?

    I came across this but I can't recall. I don't think it was Roy Keane. Kevin Kilbane? Thierry Henry?


  • #1486
    lucalux
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    I know very little about football but I know Thierry Henry and Eric Cantona are both Frenchmen


  • #1487
    keane2097
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    No right answers yet! The reason this one stuck in my mind is because I would have lost money on the Irish answer being Keane, but it's not.


  • #1488
    OldGoat
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    lucalux wrote: »
    I'm jumping in here sorry, but is it 100?

    There's one of them in the shed but i'm too cold to go count them :o

    (sorry for barging in here, but it's an interesting thread!)
    Sorry for being late back to this. Yep, spot on. There are 25 links to a rod and 4 rods to a chain. I too have a lovely old measuring tape that is scaled in links and chains.

    This is the only example I can think of that has a metric value as an imperial measurement...not that I've thought very hard about it.

    You realise that now you have to post a question for the rest of us to ponder. :)

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #1489
    Beasty
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    lucalux wrote: »
    I know very little about football but I know Thierry Henry and Eric Cantona are both Frenchmen

    I'm not sure Henry picked up any, but I reckon his teammate, Patrick Viera, picked up a few

    Now is he French or Irish?:pac:


  • #1490
    Beasty
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    The Scotsman had me flummoxed - then I remember seeing one on TV yesterday as a coach at Everton. Duncan "Disorderly" Ferguson had a hell of a lot over a relatively short PL career mainly with Everton

    Got no idea of the Irishman though


  • #1491
    keane2097
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    Those two are correct Beasty. The Irish one will seem obvious once you twig it I think


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  • #1492
    lucalux
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    lucalux wrote: »
    I know very little about football but I know Thierry Henry and Eric Cantona are both Frenchmen

    Sorry :o I thought the question only asked who was the Irish one... tired reading and posting don't mix too well!


  • #1493
    lucalux
    Registered Users Posts: 1,143 ✭✭✭lucalux


    OldGoat wrote: »
    Sorry for being late back to this. Yep, spot on. There are 25 links to a rod and 4 rods to a chain. I too have a lovely old measuring tape that is scaled in links and chains.

    This is the only example I can think of that has a metric value as an imperial measurement...not that I've thought very hard about it.

    You realise that now you have to post a question for the rest of us to ponder. :)

    Ha that's the exact reason I remembered it!
    A metric measure for something so old seemed odd to me.

    The old one here belonged to my great grandfather (at least, could be much older) and is rusty and unloved. Luckily I saved it from being thrown away with scrap metal, only because I had happened to ask about it.

    New question incoming shortly, in separate post :)


  • #1494
    lucalux
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    It's tough to think of good questions! :o Here's an attempt..

    What is a manuscript from which the text has been scraped off so that the page can be reused?


  • #1495
    looksee
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    Oh drat, I should know that one too, I'll leave it to ferment a bit. Good question!

    (Fascinating about the chain, I'd have that hanging up somewhere! I thought rods came with poles and perches, not chains! Such useless information, but I shall have to go and have a search for info on it)


  • #1496
    looksee
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    Wow this is fascinating (sorry I know I am a bit off topic from the quiz, but still):
    The rod or perch or pole (sometimes also lug) is a surveyor's tool[1] and unit of length of various historical definitions, often between 3 and 8 meters. In modern US customary units it is defined as ​16 1⁄2 US survey feet, equal to exactly ​1⁄320 of a surveyor's mile, or a quarter of a surveyor's chain, and is approximately 5.0292 meters. The rod is useful as a unit of length because whole number multiples of it can form one acre of square measure. The 'perfect acre'[2] is a rectangular area of 43,560 square feet, bounded by sides 660 feet (a furlong) long and 66 feet wide (220 yards and 22 yards) or, equivalently, 40 rods and 4 rods. An acre is therefore 160 square rods or 10 square chains.

    Its no wonder they missed Mars! And now we know where the term 'lug' came from, if they had to carry that lot. Or maybe its the other way round.


  • #1497
    feargale
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    lucalux wrote: »
    It's tough to think of good questions! :o Here's an attempt..

    What is a manuscript from which the text has been scraped off so that the page can be reused?

    Toilet paper?


  • #1498
    looksee
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    It has a specific name that I read not all that long ago, but it has disappeared whence most of my information goes.


  • #1499
    Beasty
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    looksee wrote: »
    I thought rods came with poles and perches, not chains!
    It's mods that come with chains....


    ...speaking of which, without looking can anyone name the 2 mods of this forum?


    :P


  • #1500
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    looksee and "sorry but the other name escapes me right now"?


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  • #1501
    looksee
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    There's a thing, I just noticed the second name at the bottom of the front page, which I was expecting but didn't know it had happened! Please welcome your new mod Beasty!


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