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OK ......

 

Who said.....

 

1. "Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him well."

 

2. "Spare the rod, spoil the child."

 

3. "Money is the root of all evil."

 

4. "Play it again, Sam"

 

5. "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here."

 

6. "Water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink"

 

7. "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."

 

8. "Elementary, my dear Watson"

 

9. "Beam me up, Scotty"

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no one did. people just think that they are quotes.

DING!

 

Actually to be really pedantic, lots of people have said them, usually misquoting a popular source
gets chizu a pedantic dinglet......

 

Edited to add - at work at the moment, but when I get home I'll put up the originals for comparison....

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1. "Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him well." Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio - Hamlet

 

2. "Spare the rod, spoil the child." He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is careful to discipline him. Proverbs 13:24

 

3. "Money is the root of all evil." For the love of money is the root of all evil - 1 Timothy 6:10 (King James Version)

4. "Play it again, Sam" Play it

 

5. "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here." Abandon all hope, you who enter - Dante, The Divine Comedy

 

6. "Water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink" Water, water, every where,And all the boards did shrink ;

Water, water, every where,Nor any drop to drink. - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 

7. "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned." Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. - William Congreve

 

8. "Elementary, my dear Watson" Not Sherlock Holmes

 

9. "Beam me up, Scotty" Not James Tiberius Kirk

 

 

From: Famous Misquotes

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If we are talking current volcanos on earth my guess would be the volcano on Hawaii but I am not sure of its name

 

As for the biggest ever on earth it would have to be the super volcano "under" Yellowstone park

 

The biggest known volcano anywhere is Olympos Mons on Mars I believe

 

Helen

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Ok then.

 

Mark Beaumont (a Fifer) is about to beat the world record for cycling around the world. What is the time he has to beat?

 

Sitting here reading this and it was only just on the radio. The current record is 276 days, and Mark is scheduled to complete in 195 days.

 

Richard

 

I believe the bell on his bike goes DING

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Hang on while I run to the phone to ask my road racing mate to Google this............ (no other way I'd know the answer -- anybody here got an encyclopedic memory?)

 

Ahh. My father rode the TdF in 1949 and again in 1950. I am an ex road racer, but not in that league, so I guess I am a bit biased, but...

 

I am more than happy to bow out if this is considered too hard.

 

Richard

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Hang on while I run to the phone to ask my road racing mate to Google this............ (no other way I'd know the answer -- anybody here got an encyclopedic memory?)

 

Ahh. My father rode the TdF in 1949 and again in 1950. I am an ex road racer, but not in that league, so I guess I am a bit biased, but...

 

I am more than happy to bow out if this is considered too hard.

 

Richard

 

No no- let it run.....you never know.. :ph34r::(

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MARMITE - it's the type of pot it was originally made in

QUINK - as a guess - quick ink?

RADOX - radioactive oxygen???

RAYBURN - wood burner invented by someone called Ray??

RENNIES -

SHELL - The founder (don't know his name) originally imported sea shells

SKOL - cheers !! :blink:

SPAR -

VASELINE -

VAUXHALL - company founded at vauxhall iron works

VICTORY V -

VIYELLA - worlds first proprietary fabric - no idea of name though

VOLVO - from "I roll" in latin - used to know a joke about this one.....

WHITE HORSE. -

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MARMITE - it's the type of pot it was originally made in

QUINK - as a guess - quick ink?

RADOX - radioactive oxygen???

RAYBURN - wood burner invented by someone called Ray??

RENNIES -

SHELL - The founder (don't know his name) originally imported sea shells

SKOL - cheers !! :blink:

SPAR -

VASELINE -

VAUXHALL - company founded at vauxhall iron works

VICTORY V -

VIYELLA - worlds first proprietary fabric - no idea of name though

VOLVO - from "I roll" in latin - used to know a joke about this one.....

WHITE HORSE. -

 

SPAR: from the German 'sparen', - to save

 

Pete

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WHITE HORSE : This has been bugging me for days because I'm sure I know about it. From the murky depths of what is laughingly referred to as my mind comes an idea. Is it "named" after the horse that became famous in an early FA Cup final involved in on-pitch crowd control? Don't have any othr details because I know more about white horses than I do about football which obviously ain't much! :drama:

 

Of course, I might well be completely wrong, as usual. :drama:

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I don't know of any company or product called White Horse - apart from several pubs! As far as I know, they are named after the white horse figures carved into several chalk hillsides.

 

Lisa

 

Was the distillery established by a White Horse called Arthur- but the printers kept getting his name wrong, so he just stuck with a description ?????????/ :):o

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