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A natural animal would be a Badger I guess, but pit ponies work underground...if there are still any left?

Cant think of anywhere they'd still be used... but bigger than a badger... depends on the pony as per Gary Neville!

 

Teletubbies? Does Tubby Custard count as milk?

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I Googled after making my post and, rather strangely, the Bittern seems to have the reputation of having the loudest call even though scientific measurements suggest otherwise.

 

The Bittern is an elusive bird and its 40dB is easily drowned by 55dB traffic noise, which is one of the reasons given for its decline -- potential mates cannot hear its call above traffic noise. In contrast, herring gull calls have been recorded at 85db+ (i.e. more than 64 times as loud as the Bittern) and you wouldn't want to be in a gull colony for very long as levels over 110dB have been recorded!

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There isn't one. However, I'll give way as I wasn't trying to get the ding; merely trying to point out that the question was ambiguous and not as straightforward as one might think. FWIW, I've even found YouTube footage of bitterns booming and being drowned out by more-distant geese! Loudness is subjective and depends on frequency as well as sound pressure.

 

That said, I suspect that in terms of sound pressure measured in dBm (i.e. dB at one metre distance), that the bittern probably has it!

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There isn't one. However, I'll give way as I wasn't trying to get the ding; merely trying to point out that the question was ambiguous and not as straightforward as one might think. FWIW, I've even found YouTube footage of bitterns booming and being drowned out by more-distant geese! Loudness is subjective and depends on frequency as well as sound pressure.

 

That said, I suspect that in terms of sound pressure measured in dBm (i.e. dB at one metre distance), that the bittern probably has it!

 

From what I've read the loudest bird in Britain is neither of those - and nobody's got the right answer yet ;)

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The one that goes cooooook coooooo cooooook oooooooooo down the blooming chimney pot at 5 in morning and wake everyone up <_<

Yes! I have one of those too. (Or two..or probably several by now.)

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Sticking with nature....what British bird has the loudest call?

 

Peggy Mitchell?

 

Or

 

The Bittern

Ding on that because it was what I was thinking of (rightly or wrongly!)

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OK. Hopefully an easy one...

 

Which compositional work ends with the words, "And that's how the High Command took my Daddy from me."

The Wall?

The right band, but AIUI this wasn't in the original 'Wall' (stage version). As it was included in the film (but not at the end), I'll give it to you if nobody gives the name of the track by tomorrow evening!

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DING! to goosegogger

 

It's the last line of "When the Tigers Broke Free", by Pink Floyd.

 

As The Patrician wrote, the song is an account of the fate of Floyd songwriter/bassist/vocalist Roger Waters's father, who was killed in action at Anzio.

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The 'Swastica' , in modern times has come to symbolise evil, thanks solely to German Nazism, this is in complete paradox to its earliest (and still used) meaning-by whom ?

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Natty, yer too blerdy good at this

DING !

Hinduism can't be classified as a religion as its too diverse and holds no 'rules' regarding heresy, its described as a 'faith', has the worlds largest membership of any faith related group, and includes Jain- where the earliest recorded Swastica symbol came from.

Posted (edited)

Natty, yer too blerdy good at this

DING !

Hinduism can't be classified as a religion as its too diverse and holds no 'rules' regarding heresy, its described as a 'faith', has the worlds largest membership of any faith related group, and includes Jain- where the earliest recorded Swastica symbol came from.

Well... I didn't know that about Hinduism!

 

Hmmm... Ok...

 

For those of us in the Uk, Kinder Scout is significant for us all to be able to enjoy this hobby/sport. 80 years ago next year, the mass trespass on kinder scout gave us, eventually, the right to roam and other such accesses that our forefathers didn't have.

 

The question? What date in 1932 did the trespass take place?

 

Oh... And as it's 80 years next... Anyone up for an event on Kinder in the anniversary?

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The folk song "Manchester Rambler" is based on the mass trespass, so thinking it might hold a clue I grabbed my old song book:

I once met a maid, A spot welder by trade,

She was fair as the Rowan in bloom,

And the bloom of her eye matched the blue moorland sky,

I wooed her from April to June.

On the day that we should have been married,

I went for a ramble instead,

For sooner than part from the mountains,

I think I would rather be dead

Lore has it that the singer met his love at the mass trespass. If so, it was in April 1932 and probably a weekend. A quick dig of my desktop calendar Shows that the 16th was a Saturday and as that date popped into my head before I did the research, I'll guess: Saturday 16th April 1932!

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The folk song "Manchester Rambler" is based on the mass trespass, so thinking it might hold a clue I grabbed my old song book:

I once met a maid, A spot welder by trade,

She was fair as the Rowan in bloom,

And the bloom of her eye matched the blue moorland sky,

I wooed her from April to June.

On the day that we should have been married,

I went for a ramble instead,

For sooner than part from the mountains,

I think I would rather be dead

Lore has it that the singer met his love at the mass trespass. If so, it was in April 1932 and probably a weekend. A quick dig of my desktop calendar Shows that the 16th was a Saturday and as that date popped into my head before I did the research, I'll guess: Saturday 16th April 1932!

Close!

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Oh... And as it's 80 years next... Anyone up for an event on Kinder in the anniversary?

 

Yep!

Will work on it... From and to Hayfield (to stick to tradition) and a decent Ale House in the Royal Hotel.

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Close!

Sunday 17th April 1932?

:)

 

Hmmm... Maybe better weather... But after church for sure!

OK, I'll bite. A week later? That is, Sunday 24th April 1932!

DING!

 

Wanted to give it for your first answer... 8 days out 80 years on is very impressive deduction!

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DING!

 

Wanted to give it for your first answer... 8 days out 80 years on is very impressive deduction!

Thanks but it isn't that impressive as I should have known it was a Sunday from the last line of the chorus:

 

I may be a wage slave on Monday, but I am a free man on Sunday

 

Anyway, from a real ramble to that of the fictional 'Brother Francis', who is the central character of the novel "A Canticle for Leibowitz" by Walter M Miller Jr. (I do so hope that someone's read this book, which I understand was a 'set book' in some areas for GCSE English Literature during the 1980s and may still be. If not, then I'm in trouble! ...)

 

The novel is set in the future after a global nuclear war and the following 'simplification' -- during which anyone of learning (or who could even read) was likely to be killed by rampaging mobs. Fairly early in the novel, Brother Francis came upon a fallout shelter in which he discovered a relic attributed to Leibovitz himself. The relic would be an everyday object to most of us, but what was it?

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Anyway, from a real ramble to that of the fictional 'Brother Francis', who is the central character of the novel "A Canticle for Leibowitz" by Walter M Miller Jr. (I do so hope that someone's read this book, which I understand was a 'set book' in some areas for GCSE English Literature during the 1980s and may still be. If not, then I'm in trouble! ...)

 

 

You're in trouble!

 

Guess - a book?

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