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Doublethink.
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Would you like some clues ?
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Doublethink.
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Fraid so - though 'The Knowledge' referred to is the London taxi driver's knowledge.
The connection is not about London.
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Curiosity killed ...
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What various cities are known for?
Northampton - Shoes / Cobblers - and that's the nickname of the football team there,
Sheffield - knives - Sheffield United is known as the Blades,
London - the Knowledge?
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Doublethink.
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Tis not a geographical connection.
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Sipech
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Is the answer rather neurological in nature?
I'm wondering if these are all things that have been specifically mapped in the brain.
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Schroedinger's cat
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Along the same line, are they skills that show a physical difference? I believe that the Knowledge does show up in cabbies brains.
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Baptist Trainfan
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By the way, if it's a "what's the Link?" question (rather than "what's the next in sequence?", we should have four clues, not three (hint, hint) ...
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Baptist Trainfan
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All traditional British things that have been threatened by cheap foreign imports?
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Albertus
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'The Knowledge' was a play by Jack Rosenthal. Is that anything to do with it?
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Doublethink.
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quote:
Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
Along the same line, are they skills that show a physical difference? I believe that the Knowledge does show up in cabbies brains.
I think I will give it you, they are all cultural products that have the incidental effect of changing the body. Only humans who use cutlery routinely have an overbite, (only the last 250 yrs in the west - a lot earlier in China), shoe wearers have differently shaped feet to non-shoe wearers, and doing the knowledge changes the shape of the hippocampus.
I thought the taxi driver connection might give it away !
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Schroedinger's cat
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Thank you - I think an honorary mention to Sipech who pointed me in the right direction.
I will think of a connection, and post it as soon as I can.
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Schroedinger's cat
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OK, what links these:
The great gig in the sky
Love is like a butterfly (Theme song)
Love to love you baby (Abigails Party)
Yellowstone park
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LeRoc
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Hm I had a look at the chords for those three songs; couldn't find anything there.
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Curiosity killed ...
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Palmer?
Geoffrey Palmer in Butterflies,
Palmer House at Yellowstone Park
Robert Palmer - Love to Love you
I'm sure Amanda Palmer will be in there somewhere (just because we follow some of the same people on Twitter)
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Doublethink.
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Is the connection the singer Clare Torry ?
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Doublethink.
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I'm on a roll ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
Will go have a little think.
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Doublethink.
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OK, what is the connection:
- Prombron Monaco Red Diamond Edition SUV
- Christina
- Why brother?
- Honda Civic Kevlar Induction Kit
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Doublethink.
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Let me know if you want additional clueness.
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Ariel
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quote:
Originally posted by Doublethink.:
I think I will give it you, they are all cultural products that have the incidental effect of changing the body.
I would never in a million years have got that.
(Nor your latest, whatever the answer.)
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Baptist Trainfan
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No, I think they need to be a little less obtuse!
(But only a little).
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Doublethink.
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I asked what connected the things I listed, and what connected them was they all change human body shape. Is that really more obscure than pyongyang metro stations ?
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Doublethink.
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Cluezoid: Christina was Aristotle Onassis' yacht.
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LeRoc
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Why brother is a Weezer song?
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The Honda Civic thing is know as a "whale penis", and the Prombron could come (sorry) with allegedly whale penis leather seats, but apparently it was not true. So probably this is something to do with whales or false whales.
Maybe one of the entertaining Christinas like Aguilera was called a whale when pregnant, or when she sang with Noah and the Whale (which is a band).
Why Brother might come from the movie/book What's Eating Gilbert Grape. His mom's morbidly obese and housebound - i.e. a whale, and his brother keeps climbing the town watertower and he asks why.
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Obscurity? Many of these are hopelessly obscure, particularly if they are about things unique to one country, like Clare Torry (who I googled, never heard of her), The Knowledge (Googled, never heard of it).
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Doublethink.
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[crosspost]
Possibly, but the relevant version is a different group.
[ 15. October 2015, 18:57: Message edited by: Doublethink. ]
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LeRoc
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I think the connection is whale penises.
Sorry, this was a crosspost.
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LeRoc
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The yaught has parts made of whale foreskin. The Honda part is also called a whale penis intake.
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LeRoc
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Ah, another band that did this song is called Inside a Whale's Cock.
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Doublethink.
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quote:
Originally posted by LeRoc:
I think the connection is whale penises.
Yup, well done ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Both the car and the yacht were reputed to have whale foreskin seats, Why brother? is a song on an album by the Cassetteboy group called Inside the Whale's cock volume 1 and and the car part is widely known as a whale's penis.
(In my defence, the car and yacht were facts on QI, cassetteboy has been referenced on BBC national news a couple of times. The car part came up when I googled whale penis for a fourth clue.)
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LeRoc
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The connection is funny. But I admit I'd never have known without googling.
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So do I get half marks?
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Doublethink.
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I think maybe No prophet takes it as having got the key words first ?
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Doublethink.
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quote:
Originally posted by LeRoc:
The connection is funny. But I admit I'd never have known without googling.
I feel the same about the Korean metro.
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LeRoc
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Hehe. Give me a moment. I'll try to come up with one that's more about lateral thinking than about knowing obscure trivia.
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LeRoc
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Doublethink.: I think maybe No prophet takes it as having got the key words first ?
Oh sorry, I'd missed this post. It's fine for me if No prophet does the next one.
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Schroedinger's cat
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Originally posted by no prophet's flag is set so...:
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Obscurity? Many of these are hopelessly obscure, particularly if they are about things unique to one country, like Clare Torry (who I googled, never heard of her), The Knowledge (Googled, never heard of it).
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They are supposed to be obscure. Very few people have heard of Clare Torry, but it is one of those bits of music trivia that she sang on the great Gig and the Butterflies theme song - the other two I had to dig up.
I suppose this version is about finding something that might link a couple, or something obscure about one, and then trying to find some way these are connected to the others. It is a voyage of discovery for everyone.
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That's exciting. I really think I get half points, and only guessed luckily. But I have one. What connects:
white
blue
black
red
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x-post. Thanks for the clarification SC
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LeRoc
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Schroedinger's cat: It is a voyage of discovery for everyone.
So just to be sure, it's OK to google in this game?
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Schroedinger's cat
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Originally posted by LeRoc:
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Schroedinger's cat: It is a voyage of discovery for everyone.
So just to be sure, it's OK to google in this game?
I would say yes. For most of the questions, of course, that will not help. Like the current one.
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LeRoc
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Schroedinger's cat: For most of the questions, of course, that will not help. Like the current one.
Hehe. I'm thinking whisky labels, but that's probably wrong.
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Doublethink.
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I am thinking somekind of nautical flag signalling sequence.
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Not nautical flags, nor anything to do with navigation. Not whisky or anything similar.
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Doublethink.
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[crosspost + plus I notice a lack of black]
Ooh now that I remember the Aubrey Maturin novels - are those the admiralty divisions ?
Admiral of the red, the white, the blue ?
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Good try, but nothing near that either.
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