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Leorning Cniht
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quote: Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan: Purple = 34 (1863) Brown = 25 (1906) Light blue = 16 (1968) Grey = 27 (1979)
I was going to say stamp colours, but the years don't match.
Given that you're the Trainfan, is it London Underground lines?
Jubilee line was opened in 1979, and might have 27 stations, and is coloured grey on the map. And so on.
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Baptist Trainfan
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You're exactly right - it is the number of stations, and the date of first opening! I knew that putting in the dates might make it a bit too easy, but I hoped that someone would be clever enough to think who was setting the question!
Over to you ...
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Leorning Cniht
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Let's stick with a colour theme:
1 red 2 blue 3 black
what's next?
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Sipech
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4 purplish
The number is the number of long, straight, vertical lines in the letters of the colour.
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Leorning Cniht
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That wasn't quite what I was going for, but it is a sequence and it's close. I should have crafted a better question. (I was going specifically for ascenders, so was thinking of 4 dark blue, perhaps.) I should have made the first colour pink.
Your turn.
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Sipech
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What connects:
Storytelling Parliament Mob Murder
(And before you say it, the answer is not 'New Labour')
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jacobsen
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I long to say Gilbert and Sullivan's "Iolanthe," in which a fairy ends up marrying the Lord Chancellor, and the members of the House of Lords marry the rest of the fairies....
but mob and murder don't come into it. Sadly.
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Dafyd
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quote: Originally posted by Sipech: Storytelling Parliament Mob Murder
A murder of crows and a parliament of rooks (or parliament of owls). Google tell me that you can have a storytelling of crows as well. And a mob of emus. Can you have a mob of crows?
A group of ravens of course is an unkindness.
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jacobsen
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Bump.
Come on, Dafyd - your turn.
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Doublethink.
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I am posting to keep this going, what connects:
- Childhood
- Southern Cross
- Destiny
- Eve
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Dafyd
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quote: Originally posted by jacobsen: Come on, Dafyd - your turn.
Sorry. I'll jump in when someone's got Doublethink's.
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Ariel
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Is this something to do with having perforce to move on from comfortable innocence to unknown territory?
(Either that or it's varieties of apples?!)
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jacobsen
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Puddings?
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Doublethink.
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quote: Originally posted by Boogie: Are the all graphic novels?
Very, very close - I'll give you that, they are all the titles of wordless books.
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Dafyd
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Am thinking of something.
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Dafyd
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Lawers More Snowdon Pen y fan
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Curiosity killed ...
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Highest peaks in various areas of Scotland and Wales?
Pen y Fan is the highest in the Brecon Beacons, Snowdon in Snowdonia, Ben More is the highest in the Crianlarich Hills Ben Lawers is the 10th highest peak in the UK and the highest in the southern Scottish Highlands
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Dafyd
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Kind of along the right lines, but there's a more specific reason. I could have put Binnein in between More and Snowdon.
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Dafyd
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Actually I made the list late last night, so I'll alter it a bit.
Lawers More Binnein Snowdon
is complete between the two ends. (Pen y Fan would be on the list, but there would be things left out between it and Snowdon.)
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Dafyd
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Yes. But there's a reason why those hills and not, say, Scafell Pike or Ben Lomond.
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Leorning Cniht
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Are they the highest peaks in their respective mountain ranges? But that doesn't give the ordering.
Maybe it's highest UK mountains ordered by longitude? The highest mountain south of Ben Lawers is Ben More, and so on.
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Dafyd
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quote: Originally posted by Leorning Cniht: Maybe it's highest UK mountains ordered by longitude? The highest mountain south of Ben Lawers is Ben More, and so on.
Yes. In each case there's no higher hill further south in the UK, which amounts to what you say (at least in the case of the second list).
Over to you.
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Leorning Cniht
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1. Potassium cyanide 2. Chloral hydrate 3. Blunt Instrument
What comes next?
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Leorning Cniht
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And then there was CK.
(These are, in order, the murder weapons in Agatha Christie's bestseller these days usually called "And then there were none".)
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Baptist Trainfan
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I'm sure that must be right (Agatha Christie: "And then there were none"/"Ten little Indians") but we'll have to wait till Canada wakes up before we can be sure ...
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Curiosity killed ...
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I am afraid my first thought when I read that list was Agatha Christie, helped by seeing a photography exhibition of her life a few weeks ago. The problem was remembering what to call the book because the title of the edition I read has definitely been changed.
What comes next:
Pearl Ruby Peridot
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Leorning Cniht
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quote: Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...: The problem was remembering what to call the book because the title of the edition I read has definitely been changed.
My copy has the original UK title, too.
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Pearl Ruby Peridot
Sapphire?
(Birthstones for June, July, August, September)
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Doublethink.
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Lapis lazuli for the same reason.
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jacobsen
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there has to be an Elvis connection.
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Chapelhead
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I'm wondering if the blue suede-iness of the shoes is a red herring and the fourth picture could be something like this.
From the children's rhyme quote: One, two, Buckle my shoe; Three, four, Open the door; Five, six, Pick up sticks; Seven, eight, Lay them straight: Nine, ten, A big, fat hen; Eleven, twelve, Dig and delve; Thirteen, fourteen, Maids a-courting; Fifteen, sixteen, Maids in the kitchen; Seventeen, eighteen, Maids a-waiting Nineteen, twenty, My plate's empty.
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Wet Kipper
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I think you're right
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Leorning Cniht
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Chapelhead finds both my fish and the solution. I was going to pick this, though.
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jacobsen
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I see a sequence of vowels - not in the right order, perhaps, but pandemonium
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LeRoc
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Now you're being facetious.
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LeRoc
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I knew I shouldn't have done that
This one is probably too easy: one, two, three. What's next?
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Leorning Cniht
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quote: Originally posted by Chapelhead: Well, I dont't think I've ever claimed to be abstemious.
I hope you're not arsenious, or indeed caesious.
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Doublethink.
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Are they linked by the golden mean ?
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