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Mark Betts
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Hey this isn't fair - how can I be bottom of t' class when bunnywithanaxe only got 8 correct? (I got 9)
Anyway, since we've started a new page, here's the link again for the New Crew's Quiz.
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Uncle Pete
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Compare your times, dear Sir. The Axe took 48 seconds to get 8 right. You, on the other hand, took 164 to get 9 right.
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Piglet
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Question 1 took far too bloody long to read. I hate those riddles - always have.
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Welease Woderwick
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Stupid beep-beep modem decided to play silly buggers just as I completed the quiz then had to reconnect itself!
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Uncle Pete
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Bloody fillums!
Is it not possible to have a quiz without thes f*****g questions?
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Heavenly Anarchist
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Well, I did better on cities I have never heard of than on urban rumours about food I've never heard of.
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Tree Bee
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What the heckedy heck is pop rocks candy?
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Piglet
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I have absolutely no idea, TB, but fortunately the Guessometer (which excelled itself today) does.
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Kelly Alves
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quote: Originally posted by PeteC: Compare your times, dear Sir. The Axe took 48 seconds to get 8 right. You, on the other hand, took 164 to get 9 right.
And you know what?
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Ariston
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quote: Originally posted by Tree Bee: What the heckedy heck is pop rocks candy?
It was popular, I think, a decade or two before my time, but never went entirely out of fashion. Pop Rocks are small little candies that look like neon-colored gravel that, when you put a few in your mouth, start foaming, fizzing, and, well, popping.
Great fun, really.
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Uncle Pete
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quote: Originally posted by Kelly Alves: quote: Originally posted by PeteC: Compare your times, dear Sir. The Axe took 48 seconds to get 8 right. You, on the other hand, took 164 to get 9 right.
And you know what?
Videos and sound tracks are lost on me.
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Kelly Alves
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I am going to plaintively hope that attempts at friendliness aren't.
he's just chanting "it just doesn't matter" over and over.
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Welease Woderwick
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The first shall be last, and the last shall be first...
...at the moment I am both.
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Kelly Alves
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(ponders mathematical implications of that statement.)
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Welease Woderwick
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Don't worry Kelly, I specialise in being an enigma...
...or perhaps I was just first to play.
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Heavenly Anarchist
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quote: Originally posted by Ariston: quote: Originally posted by Tree Bee: What the heckedy heck is pop rocks candy?
It was popular, I think, a decade or two before my time, but never went entirely out of fashion. Pop Rocks are small little candies that look like neon-colored gravel that, when you put a few in your mouth, start foaming, fizzing, and, well, popping.
Great fun, really.
Aah, it's popping candy.
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Mark Betts
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Please don't let me be bottom of t' class again today....
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Mark Betts
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10/10 - and many were just guesses too!
So why am I still third from bottom?
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Mark Betts
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Anyway... I got 92 Fun Trivia Bucks now...
Got my eye on that Yellow Convertibe.
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jedijudy
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quote: Originally posted by Mark Betts: Anyway... I got 92 Fun Trivia Bucks now...
I have 6957. If there was a way to pass some on to you, I would!
(Do I really need a money tree?)
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Kelly Alves
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quote: Originally posted by Welease Woderwick: Don't worry Kelly, I specialise in being an enigma...
...or perhaps I was just first to play.
I know. I was trying to think up a formula for what you said, though.
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Piglet
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On a Very Easy day, 10/10 in 45 seconds just doesn't cut it, mustard-wise.
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Welease Woderwick
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quote: Originally posted by Kelly Alves: quote: Originally posted by Welease Woderwick: Don't worry Kelly, I specialise in being an enigma...
...or perhaps I was just first to play.
I know. I was trying to think up a formula for what you said, though.
Have you ever considered I might be a Divine Paradox?
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jedijudy
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gasp!! First place for a minute or two!
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Kelly Alves
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(Sigh) Every where I go, Judy, I'm looking at your tail feathers.
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Spike
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quote: Originally posted by Kelly Alves: (Sigh) Every where I go, Judy, I'm looking at your tail feathers.
Mine too now
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Tree Bee
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again, this time by number 10.
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Piglet
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quote: Originally posted by Tree Bee: again, this time by number 10.
Me too, TB, and the Guessometer was no help. Maybe someone might enlighten us once today's quiz is finished.
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jedijudy
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quote: Originally posted by Kelly Alves: (Sigh) Every where I go, Judy, I'm looking at your tail feathers.
You know we can take turns saying that! You are ahead of me (everywhere) more often than not.
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Grits
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I do think these quizzes are very American. _________ Pet Tricks is a segment on the David Letterman Show. I mean, it was years ago when I actually watched it. I assume he's still doing it.
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Kelly Alves
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quote: Originally posted by jedijudy: quote: Originally posted by Kelly Alves: (Sigh) Every where I go, Judy, I'm looking at your tail feathers.
You know we can take turns saying that! You are ahead of me (everywhere) more often than not.
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... I get the feeling that Angry Birds is dicking with the two of us.
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Tree Bee
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quote: Originally posted by Grits: I do think these quizzes are very American. _________ Pet Tricks is a segment on the David Letterman Show. I mean, it was years ago when I actually watched it. I assume he's still doing it.
Oh, right. I hope that question doesn't recur!
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Piglet
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quote: Originally posted by Grits: ... these quizzes are very American. _________ Pet Tricks is a segment on the David Letterman Show ...
That makes me feel much better. I can truthfully say that I've never watched the David Letterman Show; I'm not sure that I would recognise David Letterman if he came up in my soup.
The Guessometer was also decidedly wobbly on Old Testament kings ...
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Uncle Pete
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The "answer" to one of the questions is only partially correct.
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Spike
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I know the one you mean and I've complained about it before.
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Welease Woderwick
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I'm terrible with pop music questions!
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Heavenly Anarchist
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quote: Originally posted by Welease Woderwick: I'm terrible with pop music questions!
Whereas I'm young enough to fail on the old music hall song questions
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Mark Betts
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Who's bottom of the class today, PeteC?
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Tree Bee
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quote: Originally posted by Mark Betts: Who's bottom of the class today, PeteC?
I'm keeping you company Pete. I was rubbish today.
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Leorning Cniht
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quote: Originally posted by Heavenly Anarchist: quote: Originally posted by Welease Woderwick: I'm terrible with pop music questions!
Whereas I'm young enough to fail on the old music hall song questions
ETA: posting the answer was silly :-) [ 02. April 2013, 16:31: Message edited by: Leorning Cniht ]
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Grits
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The Bee Gees and the Beatles are hardly "pop" music, are they? Very iconic... and very British!
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Ariston
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quote: Originally posted by Grits: The Bee Gees and the Beatles are hardly "pop" music, are they? Very iconic... and very British!
And very Britpop to boot!
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tessaB
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The music was no problem for me, the geography however Note to self, try to remember that Canada has states as well.
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Piglet
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quote: Originally posted by tessaB: ... try to remember that Canada has states as well.
Er, sort of no. It's got provinces and territories. Americaland has states.
quote: Originally posted by Ariston: And very Britpop to boot!
Not at all - Britpop was much later.
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Ariston
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quote: Originally posted by piglet: quote: Originally posted by Ariston: And very Britpop to boot!
Not at all - Britpop was much later.
...which might explain why I never do well on those questions...
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