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New Home · 25-01-2021 9:27pm

I thought he was "just" the Admin!

Now you can really say you've made it big, Beasty. :cool:

Beasty · 25-01-2021 10:06pm

Thanks. I've swapped the bike for a mobility scooter. Let's see if I can crash that at 55 km/h.....

lucalux · 26-01-2021 4:04am

feargale wrote: »

Toilet paper?

Not this... though they do make recycled toilet paper now..
So perhaps in some ways it could be applicable:)

OldGoat · 26-01-2021 10:49am

Beasty wrote: »

It's mods that come with chains....

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

:P

Looksee and, err, not me anymore?

Belated welcome Beasty.

looksee · 26-01-2021 11:23am

All I can think of (re-used manuscript) is palindrome and I know its not that, no it has vanished. Maybe a clue?

keane2097 · 26-01-2021 11:35am

looksee wrote: »

All I can think of (re-used manuscript) is palindrome and I know its not that, no it has vanished. Maybe a clue?

You've tipped me off. Palimpsest!

lucalux · 26-01-2021 11:49am

looksee wrote: »

All I can think of (re-used manuscript) is palindrome and I know its not that, no it has vanished. Maybe a clue?

Verry close with palindrome!

looksee · 26-01-2021 11:49am

Lol, so near!

lucalux · 26-01-2021 11:50am

keane2097 wrote: »

You've tipped me off. Palimpsest!

Ding ding ding, we have the correct answer!

Isn't it a nice word?

New Home · 26-01-2021 11:52am

It is! But I always associated it to TV schedules. I didn't know they had TV studios, back then! :pac:

lucalux · 26-01-2021 11:53am

looksee wrote: »

Lol, so near!

So very near, I would have been the same, as I only rediscovered the word lately, having read it years ago.

Googling where I heard of it, I think it was '1984' the Orwell book.

"Orwell used it as a metaphor in 1984 when describing Big Brother's way of eliminating memory —

“All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and re-inscribed exactly as often as was necessary.” "

keane2097 · 26-01-2021 11:56am

I only know it from highlighting it about 30 times for a definition on the kindle in the last few months, and still forgot it until the mention of palindrome!

keane2097 · 26-01-2021 11:57am

I'm still waiting on my Irish soccer player with the most red cards.

A clue:

Think of a guy that had a long career but spent a lot of it under serious pressure!

New Home · 26-01-2021 12:04pm

Best? Paul McGrath? Keane? I don't know any other Irish footballers...

keane2097 · 26-01-2021 12:04pm

Ok here's one -

There's a fairly common word in English that means to split/slice apart, but also means to attach/stick to something.

Can you name it?

OldGoat · 26-01-2021 12:25pm

keane2097 wrote: »

Ok here's one -

There's a fairly common word in English that means to split/slice apart, but also means to attach/stick to something.

Can you name it?

Cleave and "cleave to..."?

feargale · 26-01-2021 1:19pm

keane2097 wrote: »

I'm still waiting on my Irish soccer player with the most red cards.

A clue:

Think of a guy that had a long career but spent a lot of it under serious pressure!

Steve Staunton?

keane2097 · 26-01-2021 4:52pm

OldGoat wrote: »

Cleave and "cleave to..."?

Correct! I think I got that one from University Challenge

keane2097 · 26-01-2021 4:53pm

feargale wrote: »

Steve Staunton?

Nope. Right part of the pitch but this player would be more recent. Retired more recently than Keane as well.

OldGoat · 26-01-2021 5:24pm

keane2097 wrote: »

Correct! I think I got that one from University Challenge

What is the tallest lighthouse in Ireland/UK?

feargale · 26-01-2021 6:56pm

OldGoat wrote: »

What is the tallest lighthouse in Ireland/UK?

Fastnet?

lucalux · 26-01-2021 11:49pm

I'm no use with the soccer one atall, Roy Keane and Robbie Keane are the limit of my knowledge of soccer players

The lighthouse, I keep thinking Wexford and Cork coasts, but I don't know the names of any of them.

Must resist Googling

feargale · 27-01-2021 1:24am

keane2097 wrote: »

Nope. Right part of the pitch but this player would be more recent. Retired more recently than Keane as well.

Mick McCarthy?

OldGoat · 27-01-2021 9:30am

feargale wrote: »

Fastnet?

Yep, Fastnet it is at a fine 54 meters high. It's 'character' (it's unique light signature for ships to recognize) is Fl, W, 5s - Flashing white every 5 seconds.
It's on my bucket list to photograph it.

Beasty · 27-01-2021 11:04am

feargale wrote: »

Mick McCarthy?

I suspect McCarthy never even played 8 PL games...

... and he's from Barnsley:pac:

keane2097 · 27-01-2021 12:59pm

Not Mick either.

As a further clue, this player was a centre half and played in the premier league for Everton, Man City, Aston Villa and QPR. Russia once famously ran out of Russians trying to overcome him.

looksee · 27-01-2021 1:17pm

I'm beginning to suspect there are not many soccer experts among the O&Os

Beasty · 27-01-2021 2:07pm

Alas there is one....:pac:

Diccky Dunnit?

Also know as Richard Dunne - definitely a blast from the past!

Oh and McCarthy predates the Premiership (he's a year older than me:o)

feargale · 27-01-2021 5:49pm

OldGoat wrote: »

Yep, Fastnet it is at a fine 54 meters high. It's 'character' (it's unique light signature for ships to recognize) is Fl, W, 5s - Flashing white every 5 seconds.
It's on my bucket list to photograph it.

I saw it only once, walking northwards on Cape Clear. When I reached the summit I turned around and saw this apparition a few miles south. It's called the teardrop of Ireland, the last sight of the old sod by many an emigrant.
Incidentally since you said Ireland/UK I was tempted to guess Eddystone. I think it may be the tallest in UK.

QUESTION:
According to citypopulation.de which sovereign country has comparatively the longest coastline per square km of area?
You will get equal credit if you can name the second ranking in that list.
No cogging please.

feargale · 27-01-2021 5:51pm

looksee wrote: »

I'm beginning to suspect there are not many soccer experts among the O&Os

I would have some knowledge of international soccer, but to follow club soccer overseas, especially in England, you would need to give up the day job. In normal times it seems to be on tv every day.

looksee · 27-01-2021 7:59pm

Longest coastline - would that be Greece?

feargale · 27-01-2021 8:15pm

looksee wrote: »

Longest coastline - would that be Greece?

No, and I'm not sure if you misunderstand the question. Not absolutely longest coastline.

which sovereign country has comparatively the longest coastline per square km of area?

looksee · 27-01-2021 8:36pm

No, I got that, it always strikes me that Greece isn't that big but has a very wiggly coastline, I am sure there are smaller places that are even wigglier though.

IrishZeus · 27-01-2021 10:28pm

Japan?

looksee · 27-01-2021 11:33pm

Indonesia has to be a possibility?

New Home · 27-01-2021 11:38pm

Micronesia? French Polynesia? Or is it Chile?

OldGoat · 28-01-2021 9:19am

I'd say that Norway has the jaggiest coastline followed by, errrr, Scotland?

keane2097 · 28-01-2021 11:41am

Beasty wrote: »

Alas there is one....:pac:

Diccky Dunnit?

Also know as Richard Dunne - definitely a blast from the past!

Oh and McCarthy predates the Premiership (he's a year older than me:o)

Yes, that's right

feargale · 28-01-2021 1:34pm

OldGoat wrote: »

I'd say that Norway has the jaggiest coastline followed by, errrr, Scotland?

Norway has the longest coastline of any European country, but not at all the longest in then world in proportion to its size.

feargale · 28-01-2021 1:35pm

New Home wrote: »

Micronesia? French Polynesia?

No, but you're on the right track

P.S. French Polynesia is not a sovereign state. Is Micronesia sovereign? I think it's controversial.

looksee · 28-01-2021 2:15pm

Oh lord, I just looked it up. Indonesia isn't in the ha'penny place. The ensuing debate should be good though!

IrishZeus · 28-01-2021 4:12pm

IrishZeus wrote: »

Japan?

??

feargale · 28-01-2021 6:42pm

IrishZeus wrote: »

??

Nope.

I never said it was on the Pacific.

Beasty · 29-01-2021 1:48pm

keane2097 wrote: »

Yes, that's right

Well I'm going for another footie one

An Irishman who played for both NI and ROI. Picked up the FA Cup. Although an outfield player on one occasion played in goal (from the start of the match) for his English team....

feargale · 29-01-2021 2:08pm

Beasty wrote: »

Well I'm going for another footie one

An Irishman who played for both NI and ROI. Picked up the FA Cup. Although an outfield player on one occasion played in goal (from the start of the match) for his English team....

Jackie Carey?

looksee · 29-01-2021 2:47pm

So...who else owes us a question?

oh yes, we are still waiting for the coastline one.

Beasty · 29-01-2021 8:12pm

feargale wrote: »

Jackie Carey?

Yep

Played for the IFA XI and the FAI XI - playing England twice 3 days apart, losing 7-2 at Windsor Park, and 1-0 at Dalymount

First non-British player to captain an FA Cup winning team (Manchester United in 1948 - the first team to win the FA Cup without any home ties - mainly because Old Trafford had been bombed in the war!)

One Stephen's Day United were playing Sunderland at Roker Park. The goalkeeper went down with an illness and with no travelling reserve Carey played in goal. United regularly looked to their Irish players whenever they needed someone to replace an injured goalkeeper, mainly because of their GAA Football skills

feargale · 30-01-2021 1:21am

Coastline question is outstanding but I now owe another:

Which Irish venue was destroyed by fire on 18th July 1951 following an exhortation to "Keep the home fires burning"?

OldGoat · 01-02-2021 10:31am

feargale wrote: »

Coastline question is outstanding but I now owe another:

Which Irish venue was destroyed by fire on 18th July 1951 following an exhortation to "Keep the home fires burning"?

My father was on duty with the fire brigade the night of the fire so I've heard the tale of it so many times. It was the Old Abbey Theatre.

feargale · 01-02-2021 2:55pm

OldGoat wrote: »

My father was on duty with the fire brigade the night of the fire so I've heard the tale of it so many times. It was the Old Abbey Theatre.

Correct, the theatre caught fire following a performance of Sean O'Casey's The Plough And The Stars. In the final scene of O’Casey’s play about 1916, two British soldiers guard the dead bodies of a working class Loyalist woman and two children in the attic of a Dublin tenement. They drink tea and sing the army marching song “Keep the Home Fires Burning”.

Not to be outdone by the Liffeyside impostor, the real capital of Ireland had its own theatre fire on 12th December 1955 when the Cork Opera House went up in flames. A young recently married couple who were both professional performers at the Opera House had lodgings in the city while they were saving for a house. Husband looked out the window, saw the fire and called his wife saying "look at that." She exclaimed "oh, that's Rory Borey-Alliss. Isn't it magnificent!" He retorted: "Rory Borey-Alliss my
a---. That's our mortgage gone up in flames."

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