NickPick
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Hello Dotty?
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Welcome Little Dorothy 5,5 Hello Dolly
She's My Wife 2,4,4 My Fair Lady
Pucker Up Miss Moss 4,2,4 Kiss Me Kate
Blow WithThe Breeze 7,4,3,4 Whistle Down The Wind
Address the Lady correctly 4,2,5 Dear Ms Right
edit - changed the colours of the answers to make them stand out.
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What is the connection between;
Fay Presto
"The Old Bailey"
07.06.1977
Posh Spice
and explain.
The ding goes to the person who gets the fourth explanation. Hope that makes sense!
Is it something to do with the Queen's Silver jubilee? The 1977 Date is about the time of the celebrations. I still have my Silver Jubilee coin which everyone at our school was given. I can't think of any link to any of the others though.
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With NickPick absent here's a caching related question.
I'm not absent, merely resting (or actually unusually busy). It wasn't actually my turn to answer a question as keehotee got the ding, I just made 4 Badgers laugh with my guess.
(Sorry, like NickPick I'm also from Hemel Hempstead)
I'm not actually from Hemel, I just happen to live there (although I suppose after 9 years of living there, I will shortly inevitably become 'from' Hemel)
(Tony from Watford / Berkhamsted)
Watford / Berko - that means that on average, you're from Hemel Hempstead aswell!
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Delays here as well.
OK, here's an easy one:
The Batt brothers - David Alan and Stephen. What names are they better known as, and - for extra points - who are the other three people they worked with most closely in the 70's and 80's
I think David was better know as Cricket, Alan as Baseball, and Stephen as Wom.
Not sure about the other three people though.
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Weird Al Yankovic
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Radiation, Ice, Steam, A********, S**, G***** and H*** are all types of what?
Do we also have to guess the ******* words? Is there any reason why they're ****'d out?
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Is it candles?
Candle in the wind, Four Candles, not sure about the others.
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You could make a puzzle cache of it...
-First puzzle - find pictures and read co-ords
-Second puzzle - find co-ords on google earth and answer questions about locations
-Third puzzle - use answers to calculate co-ords of physical cache.
Of course, she really ought to have a further tatoo of metadata explaining which world coord system they refer to (WGS84 etc, etc)
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I know some TBs are fans of "Living in a Box"
But the next line "Living in a cardboard box" would get a bit soggy!
Of couse, the obvious one for me is "I still haven't found what I'm looking for" by U2
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I don't quite understand the analogy of the births, deaths and marriages section of a paper getting cluttered up with news. Newspapers generally have a structure with sections, as do forums. This UK sub-forum is part of the structure of the Groundspeak forums. I don't see how it could be easily compartmentalised even further, although each thread is effectively a sub-section, that's why it has a heading and an optional sub heading.
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Hang on, didn't we have this thread a few weeks ago? I think we divided into 2 camps then with some people saying that congrats threads should be banned, and others saying they should be left. A few people in sub-camps pointed out that banning them would be impossible as people would still start them outside of the pinned topic / sub-forum, and another sub group of the 'anti' camp pointed out that there's a useful greasemonkey script to ignore threads that you don't want cluttering up your forum view.
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Hang on.... you wanted 3 difference: I gave them as, size (grasshoppers are bigger). they produce their songs differently (wings or legs) and in the two species the songs are produced by different sexes.....
I can give you another one that generally applies to most species of grasshopper and cricket, that grasshopper nympths have a shorter number of instars before becoming adults than crickets, hence grasshoppers (locust) are more of a pet to crops, they grow quicker!!
Chris
OK, this just goes to show that I should know more about the subject before setting a question. I also missed the bit about the sexes being different.
I'll give Chris Blorenge (that name always puts me in mind of a Bond villain) the ding, as I've learnt some more things.
The things I was expecting were the nocturnal/diurnal, the position of the 'ears'/tympanal organs, and that crickets either don't have wings or just have stumps and don't fly.
Your go Chris.
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At what point is it considered not to be the Cutty Sark anymore? from all the info given out it seems to be there is not too much orgiinal about it. but i have not been so its more of a genuine question and i mean no offense for a change!
Apparently all the masts, yards, rigging and most of the deck superstructure had been removed and are in safe storage at Chatham. The wrought iron frames seem to have survived without bending or warping and a lot of the timbers are charred but have not been totally consumed. If they rebuild her, then I suspect there will be more of the original than in a lot of other old 'stuff' that has been 'restored'.
Also, when a wooden boat is in use, bits of it get replaced all the time, so apart from the keel and the iron ribs, most of the cutty sark (planks, decking, masts, sails etc.) would have been replaced at one point or another. I suppose it's still the original if it's repaired rather than completely rebuilt from new parts (that would make it a replica)
A similar thing applies if you're restoring a car and use a new chassis, engine, transmission and suspension. If you replace all these bits, DVLA won't let you use the original registration unless you've used (I think) at least 50% of the parts from a donor car.
It's also a bit like my great great grandfather's old axe, which is still going strong after 150 years. We had to replace the handle recently, and my father put a new head on it when the original broke, but it's amazing that that axe has lasted so long!
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Ah.. as an amateur entamologist.....
Grasshoppers (female) 'sing' by rubbing their legs against their bodies.
Crickets (male) 'sing' by rubbing their wings together.
Can't think of a third difference other than grasshoppers grow considerably bigger than crickets - I've caught grasshoppers in Africa that are 5 inches or more in length!
Chris
Well, strictly, I'd have put that as one difference (they sing differently). I didn't know it was female grasshoppers that sang - I though both males sang.
since this seems to be taking a long time, I'll give some clues to the differences I was thinking of:
How do they tell that others are singing?
When do they sing?
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Yay! My turn...
What are the 3 main differences between a Cricket and a Grasshopper?
There are a few differences, and I may not know all of them, so I might award it for 3 that aren't necessarily what I'm currently thinking of.
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As Wadders seems to be out caching I'll jump back in:
When cycling home from the station of an evening I pass an establishment showing the following on the door,
MING
OL
what is the establishment in question? and explain how you arrived at your conclusion.
It's a Swimming Pool, and the two words are written accross a double set of doors, one of which is open, so the other door would say:
SWIM
PO
edit: the bit above is supposed to be justified, but although I've typed in 6 spaces to line the right margin up, it keeps getting left justified!
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C=2*pi*r
A=2*pi^2
surely you mean A=pi*r^2 ?
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A hint...
Ludolph van Ceulen (28 January 1540 – 31 December 1610) was a German mathematician.
Is it a calculator?
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My guess is Gary Numan in his video.
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Now I've googled it, I know I'm wrong, but I'd like to place my bet on Simply Paul getting the correct answer.
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I think they've sent you the forms for general events (like if you were organising a village fete on the council owned village green. I don't think that caching is really covered by that classification.
You shouldn't need public liability insurance for placing a cache (and if you get it, you might be setting a precedent). If the council have any problems with this, you could refer them to Hampshire County Council, who have a blanket agreement allowing caching on their land. See the GAGB website for more details about the HCC and many other agreements.
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The 'french speaking' forum is quite low volume. Especially when compared to the UK one.
Yes however the lack of a specific plea makes this hard reading.
The jist is read the guidelines before placing a holiday cache.
Jon
I thought that aswell, but since an awful lot of people probably don't, I also thought it was a well intentioned reminder together with a humourous list of the ways in which people try to pretend that they are meeting the guidelines, and how the local reviewer will check things such as the 'local cacher' really exist.
I also found it particularly funny as I'm working in Folkestone for 2 weeks and was thinking about a quick daytrip to Calais, but when I noticed there are not many caches there (mostly virtuals set by holiday makers), I had a momentary thought of "I could set one, pretend a local is looking after it.... etc. etc."
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I like this ( and remember seeing something similar on a tv program when I was a kid, but I can't remember the name - the teams had to do all sorts of outward bound type things - makeshift bridges, river crossings etc).
I remember it now, It was called "Now get out of that!"
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One of my all-time favourite hides was one of xxx (No cache name mentioned...)
It is a floating micro in a hollow metal gate post. The post has no cap so the 'tube' is full of water. In dry periods you have to bring your own water and pour into the tube to flush the micro up to the top! Clever
Jon
amended to protect the innocent
I like this ( and remember seeing something similar on a tv program when I was a kid, but I can't remember the name - the teams had to do all sorts of outward bound type things - makeshift bridges, river crossings etc).
one question though - when you've filled it up with water, and it floats to the top, how do you re-hide it? Do you need to siphon some water out again or is there a hole in the bottom of the post to let it out slowly?
The All New All New Groundspeak UK Pub Quiz
in United Kingdom and Ireland
Posted
Thanks very much to The Biffas and Scanker.
What is the most successful rally car?
In case you need clarification, in the World Rally Championship, in terms of championship wins.