dodgydaved
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Cheers!
Le Tour is on! I know what the Lanterne Rouge signifies, but what is the Flamme Rouge?
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Thanks Opti!
So, what is the connection between "Hark the herald angels sing" and "The Wedding March"?
Mendelsson wrote the music for both
That's ,the fellow - over to Sharpset!
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Thanks Opti!
So, what is the connection between "Hark the herald angels sing" and "The Wedding March"?
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Christmas Crackers>?
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comes from the fear of being buried alive.
when someone was burred a bell was attached to a rope in the coffin and a man would sit in the grave yard at night (grave yard shift bonus origin)to listen for the bell and dig you up if need be.
That's it - so a big "YES CHEF!" to you kidder.....
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Sticking with the origins of sayings (ish):
How about an origin of - "saved by the bell!"?
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Was this not a trial or discussion in secret, derived from an occasion when such a happening occurred in a room with a marble rose in the ceiling?
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I have googled it - talk about niche knowledge - I wonder if the setter could reconsider the rule about the questions being at a level that would be normally asked in your local pub quiz!
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The 528ft rule is fine for open locations, but IMHO irrelevant in many urban locations. I once had a cache in my front garden, it was there for about 8 years I think. My son wants to replace it with a cache of his own - an ammo box. However there is now a micro 459ft away. But this is across peoples houses and gardens! to walk to it is well over 528ft.
Is straight line distance appropriate in urban conditions - discuss. (Rider: the guideline [rule] was I believe originated not so much for density reasons, but to ensure that a cacher could be certain which cache they had found as, many years ago, GPSr's reputedly only had an accuracy of 30ft +/-)
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I seam to remember hearing this term when my son had his appendix out.
so my guess will be the appendix location
A cuttingly good answer from martin&lindabryn. Two thirds of the way down a line between the umbilicus and the superior iliac spine (and I don't think I have trotted that description out since about 1965!)
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DING! for DD
Cheers Kidder,
How about a location for......... McBurney's Point
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Thanks for the ding beach_hut.
Where or what is the mandibula.
Lower jaw bone.
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Thanks for the ding, it was just a guess really. The race is normally between 3300 and 3600km.
Staying wih the race. Who heads the list of multiple winners and include number of wins. I will accept 1 of 4 names.
I'll go with the obvious one, Froome!
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Hermione Grainger, in the Harry Potter books
That'd be a magical DOING!!!!!!!!!!
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DING to dodgydaved, and a bonus point for other! Over to you ...
In literature, who owns a cat called Crookshanks?
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Thanks for the ding. Personally, I love some of the more unusual collective nouns, particularly those that follow stereotypes such as a "Lie" of politicians, a "Squabble" of seagulls and a "Shower" of meteorologists. So, to continue the theme, for the ding give a collective noun that applies to whales and dolphins?
Pod?
(How about a wunch of bankers?)
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When you see a car on the roads that's from another country, it's supposed to have a white oval shaped badge with a specific letter/two/three letters on it.
My question is: - if you saw a car with a badge showing the letters 'KN', which country would it be from?
This tweaked my interest so I googled it and was gobsmacked.
:lol: Mind as the footnote (head note) on Wikipedia said :"Note: an asterisk (*) indicates that this code is unofficial (does not appear in the UN list of distinguishing codes)."
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I've nothing to add at this stage. I just wanted to check if I'd been banned or blocked from these forums for mentioning- anything. Seems OK. Cheers. Happy caching ?
For what it is worth Paul it seemed you were making a genuine and positive suggestion to mediate the discussion/dispute and I felt using your post to lock the thread ill-judged & linking it in to Godwin's Law quite unnecessarily offensive.
Had the invocation of Godwin's law not taken place in the first place the thread wouldn't have been locked.
I felt there was no comparison to the actions of a certain dictator - more a reflection on the "findings" of experts.
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I've nothing to add at this stage. I just wanted to check if I'd been banned or blocked from these forums for mentioning- anything. Seems OK. Cheers. Happy caching ?
For what it is worth Paul it seemed you were making a genuine and positive suggestion to mediate the discussion/dispute and I felt using your post to lock the thread ill-judged & linking it in to Godwin's Law quite unnecessarily offensive.
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The main difference is that geocaching events have to be arranged via GC.com, so there is the capacity for the website owners to enforce arbitrary restrictions as they see fit and not have to explain their reasoning. This is what seems to have happened here.
Which both you and I, and many others, have commented on many times in the past!!
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I'm glad this has come about. The reviewer team in the UK with a few minor exceptions have lost touch with how the game is played nowadays. Many have been reviewers for years and years sometimes a decade. Many of them don't even go out caching anymore. Why are the people making decisions about geocaching in the UK, when they have no idea what is going on out there?
I am not sure that any of the current reviewing team have been in place for more than 8 years........almost exactly
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...or is it all, again, just about the fundamentalist attitude of not wanting to make a smiley too easy to get?
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I will have a punt at (Woolwich) Arsenal, Emirates, Highbury and somewhere in Woolwich!
:) 
:lol: Mind as the footnote (head note) on Wikipedia said :
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The All New All New Groundspeak UK Pub Quiz
in United Kingdom and Ireland
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More correctly marking the last kilometre - but its a maillot jaune and a ding to Sharpeset!!