+dakardrix Posted January 31, 2010 Posted January 31, 2010 I also had had to re-read the explanation a couple of times, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_while_J..._on_the_teacher You need to had had an understanding of what the context had had of "had had". I think.
+Discombob Posted January 31, 2010 Posted January 31, 2010 sure. Its about an english grammar test. John had written "had" as the answer to the question. Jack had writtten "hah had". "Had had" was the correct answer to the question, which is why it had had the teachers appproval
+CapeDoc Posted January 31, 2010 Posted January 31, 2010 That one took me a while to work out! What was the first pop album to be printed on a CD? (and a bonus question, which was the first album to be released onto CD?) Artists will also qualify.
+Discombob Posted January 31, 2010 Posted January 31, 2010 Let me try for Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. Thanks for that link Dakardrix. It lead me to an interesting sentence, that reads "Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo." Try and get your brain around that one!!
+cincol Posted February 1, 2010 Posted February 1, 2010 I would guess one of the Beatles albums - but don't know which one though.
+CapeDoc Posted February 1, 2010 Posted February 1, 2010 Nope and nope. They are really well known artists though.
+cincol Posted February 1, 2010 Posted February 1, 2010 Nope and nope. They are really well known artists though. Do I detect there is a hint in the word "artists" as opposed to "group" or solo artist? Was the Carpenters or maybe Simon & Garfunkel?
+the pooks Posted February 1, 2010 Posted February 1, 2010 (edited) I'll second Dbob, that rings a bell. (not that my reply counts) Edited February 1, 2010 by the pooks
+dakardrix Posted February 1, 2010 Posted February 1, 2010 I'm going with Michael Jackson? Maybe Bad (although I remember the album so well, difficult to associate with CD...)
+CapeDoc Posted February 1, 2010 Posted February 1, 2010 All wrong so far. Think a weenie bit further back...a really big name in music...it is a group. The bonus question answer was a soloist.
+Discombob Posted February 1, 2010 Posted February 1, 2010 ok How about the Rolling Stones? And is that further back that MJ or further back than Fleetwood mac?
+CapeDoc Posted February 1, 2010 Posted February 1, 2010 Dire Straits? Brothers in arms? Good guess. First CD to sell more than a million copies (I think), but no. ok How about the Rolling Stones? And is that further back that MJ or further back than Fleetwood mac? Nope. Right era, their early days... pop album ...not so much rock..
+Team Ginger Posted February 1, 2010 Posted February 1, 2010 It was ABBA. I don't remember the name of the album.
+CapeDoc Posted February 1, 2010 Posted February 1, 2010 It was ABBA. I don't remember the name of the album. YAY! Abba it was! The album was ""The Visitors" (wonder what one of those would be worth today?) The first album released onto CD was by Billy Joel (52nd Street). Take it away TG!
+dakardrix Posted February 1, 2010 Posted February 1, 2010 It was ABBA. I don't remember the name of the album. YAY! Abba it was! The album was ""The Visitors" (wonder what one of those would be worth today?) The first album released onto CD was by Billy Joel (52nd Street). Take it away TG! Hey, that's my favourite ABBA album! There I said it, I like ABBA...
+Team Ginger Posted February 1, 2010 Posted February 1, 2010 Oh goodie!!! ...not that I prepared a question..... yet... hehe Give me a minute or two...
+cownchicken Posted February 1, 2010 Posted February 1, 2010 Fear of marriage I think. "Or maybe fear of games like rugby, golf, soccer tennis etc. that men must always watch on Saturday afternoons instead of going caching!"
+Team Ginger Posted February 1, 2010 Posted February 1, 2010 Fear of marriage wow that was fast! Ding!!!! You're it!
+CapeDoc Posted February 1, 2010 Posted February 1, 2010 A mound of something that will make you quite wasted if you smoke it?
+dakardrix Posted February 1, 2010 Posted February 1, 2010 ...after you've eaten spinach and you haven't brushed your teeth..?
+cownchicken Posted February 2, 2010 Posted February 2, 2010 Thought Discombob would have answered this one long ago. A classic example is: "scuse me while I kiss this guy."
+Discombob Posted February 2, 2010 Posted February 2, 2010 not sure why I would know what a mondegreen is? But basd on your example, its a misheard song lyric? check out www.kissthisguy.com for examples
+cownchicken Posted February 2, 2010 Posted February 2, 2010 You're it D'Bob. Sylvia Wright coined the term mondegreen in her essay "The Death of Lady Mondegreen," which was published in Harper's Magazine in November 1954.[3] In the essay, Wright described how, as a young girl, she misheard the final line of the first stanza from the 17th-century ballad "The Bonnie Earl O'Murray." She wrote: When I was a child, my mother used to read aloud to me from Percy's Reliques, and one of my favorite poems began, as I remember: Ye Highlands and ye Lowlands, Oh, where hae ye been? They hae slain the Earl O'Murray, And Lady Mondegreen. The actual fourth line is "And laid him on the green". As Wright explained the need for a new term, "The point about what I shall hereafter call mondegreens, since no one else has thought up a word for them, is that they are better than the original".
+Discombob Posted February 2, 2010 Posted February 2, 2010 He He, thanks for the hint. I'll give a fairly straightforward type question this time, cos I can;t think of anything else more intersting at the moment Who is credited as having discovered Macchu Picchu? Bonus points for guessing the approximate year.
+Discombob Posted February 3, 2010 Posted February 3, 2010 Anyone there? Is this a bit hard? I am sure the might Globalrat will know I'll give it until tomorrow and then ask a new question if no luck
+CapeDoc Posted February 4, 2010 Posted February 4, 2010 I don't know. Remember a documentary on how the Spanish went on a major mission to pillage the place and ended up with a roomful of gold.
+the pooks Posted February 4, 2010 Posted February 4, 2010 I was going to say Christopher Columbus in 1504 just to say something, but it sounds to far off. What about Ferdinand in 1744?
+Jors Posted February 4, 2010 Posted February 4, 2010 I don't think is was as early as the 1700's. Wasn't it only discovered in the early 1900s? Dr. Livingstone, I presume?
+Discombob Posted February 4, 2010 Posted February 4, 2010 Jors you are right with the time period - 1911 I think. I'll give a few more hours for someone to come up with a name, if not I'll give it to you
+GlobalRat Posted February 4, 2010 Posted February 4, 2010 Indiana Jones? No idea I'm afraid, some American, can only recall that it was a fairly recent find.
+Discombob Posted February 4, 2010 Posted February 4, 2010 woo hoo, always nice to pull one over on Globalrat The answer is Hiram Bingham in 1911 - an American Jors, your turn for knowing the period
+Jors Posted February 5, 2010 Posted February 5, 2010 Unexpected, but here goes.. Name the artist for my avatar?
+dakardrix Posted February 5, 2010 Posted February 5, 2010 Giving my age away... T.O. Honiball! Used to catch up on all the Adoons comics in the Landbouweekblad when I visited my grandparents' farm in the holidays.
+Jors Posted February 5, 2010 Posted February 5, 2010 Giving my age away... T.O. Honiball! Used to catch up on all the Adoons comics in the Landbouweekblad when I visited my grandparents' farm in the holidays. Go dakardrix!
+dakardrix Posted February 6, 2010 Posted February 6, 2010 Ok, staying on the Jors/Adoons theme... why am I dakardrix and who got me started with caching?
+cincol Posted February 6, 2010 Posted February 6, 2010 Ok, staying on the Jors/Adoons theme... why am I dakardrix and who got me started with caching? I know you ride a BMW so I presume it is a "Dakar" with the "drix" coming from Asterix perhaps? Did Obelix get you into caching?
+GEO936 Posted February 6, 2010 Posted February 6, 2010 Definitely "Dakar" from the old BMW FS650 Dakar bike that you used to have. (Nice replacement by the way). I'm not sure about the "Drix"? Something from when you were a young lad? I think it was GreenJaM that got you hooked into geocaching if my memory serves me correctly.
+dakardrix Posted February 6, 2010 Posted February 6, 2010 (edited) Definitely "Dakar" from the old BMW FS650 Dakar bike that you used to have. (Nice replacement by the way). I'm not sure about the "Drix"? Something from when you were a young lad? I think it was GreenJaM that got you hooked into geocaching if my memory serves me correctly. Jip! Never mind the Drix, just a name evolving from Hendrik (birth certificate, but you'll ruin a friendship if you call me that! ) which was replaced by Drikus to distinguish between all the Hendriks in the family years ago, which became Drix by friends after school. And yes, my current F800GS is the official Dakar F650GS replacement, but they didn't call it the Dakar or the Adventure as some expected... to me, the Dakar (bike) will always be special as it started my second life as a biker (or more specific an adventure biker, as these bikes are classed) and my geocaching path started soon after, the perfect marriage! Trackz introduced me to geocaching, but I didn't quite get it - GreenJaM made me get it, so I'm grateful to both! A real highlight is still doing our 500th find together (with GreenJaM) within 12 months from registration (for both of us) - took some juggling near the end to make it co-incide. So, although I don't ride a Dakar anymore, it will be my great memory forever, so dakardrix it will stay... Over to you... maybe you can explain your own Bavarian/BMW link..? Edited February 6, 2010 by dakardrix
+dakardrix Posted February 6, 2010 Posted February 6, 2010 Ok, staying on the Jors/Adoons theme... why am I dakardrix and who got me started with caching? I know you ride a BMW so I presume it is a "Dakar" with the "drix" coming from Asterix perhaps? Did Obelix get you into caching? Funny!
+GEO936 Posted February 6, 2010 Posted February 6, 2010 Definitely "Dakar" from the old BMW FS650 Dakar bike that you used to have. (Nice replacement by the way). I'm not sure about the "Drix"? Something from when you were a young lad? I think it was GreenJaM that got you hooked into geocaching if my memory serves me correctly. Jip! Never mind the Drix, just a name evolving from Hendrik (birth certificate, but you'll ruin a friendship if you call me that! ) which was replaced by Drikus to distinguish between all the Hendriks in the family years ago, which became Drix by friends after school. And yes, my current F800GS is the official Dakar F650GS replacement, but they didn't call it the Dakar or the Adventure as some expected... to me, the Dakar (bike) will always be special as it started my second life as a biker (or more specific an adventure biker, as these bikes are classed) and my geocaching path started soon after, the perfect marriage! Trackz introduced me to geocaching, but I didn't quite get it - GreenJaM made me get it, so I'm grateful to both! A real highlight is still doing our 500th find together (with GreenJaM) within 12 months from registration (for both of us) - took some juggling near the end to make it co-incide. So, although I don't ride a Dakar anymore, it will be my great memory forever, so dakardrix it will stay... Over to you... maybe you can explain your own Bavarian/BMW link..? Oh yes, forgot about Trackz...sure I read about that in one of your logs. Oops, I got the model name all incorrect...it is late, I haven't had much sleep lately !! So does this mean it is our turn to go? Can't believe it 'cause I haven't been able to be on line much lately!
+DamhuisClan Posted February 7, 2010 Author Posted February 7, 2010 My boet made an adventure on his F650 from London to Cape Town, down the west coast of Africa. And this all by him self, doing it in 8.5 weeks. Nice bike, and hopefully one day I will own one two.
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