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Post 61

Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic.

Right I'm off to bed.

So I'll leave you with a summary.

The Flamingos Tongues is

a) white

b) doesn't live in lakes

c) or in Africa with the rest of the flamingo.


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Post 62

Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic.

Don't feel too bad Hd.

B'elana said algae is what flamingos eat, I simply agreed that *is* what flamingos eat!


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Post 63

Gnomon - time to move on

Is it a type of flower?


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Post 64

Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic.

Out-of -the box thinking: I like it! smiley - ok

No, it is not a flower.


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Post 65

hygienicdispenser

You cad you. The Flamingos tongues is something else entirely. Like a hotel in Marbella or something.


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Post 66

Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic.

I've been called worse! smiley - tongueout


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Post 67

hygienicdispenser

Not a hotel in Marbella then.smiley - biggrin


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Post 68

Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic.


Not a hotel in Marbella. smiley - bubbly


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Post 69

Gnomon - time to move on

Another summary:

- It is called a flamingos tongue
- It is not in Africa
- It is white
- It is not a hotel in Marbella

That really narrows it down, doesn't it?


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Post 70

hygienicdispenser


Lanzarote?


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Post 71

Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic.

I'd love to. Who's paying?


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Post 72

hygienicdispenser


Actually I don't even know where Lanzarote is. Is it Canary Islands? Isn't it amazing how you can suddenly come upon huge lacunae in your knowledge?


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Post 73

hygienicdispenser


Come to think of it, I don't know where Marbella is either.


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Post 74

Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic.

Ask h2g2 exists to fill in people's ignorance. smiley - geek

QI exists to exploit it! smiley - evilgrin


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Post 75

Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic.

I really, really, must go to bed. (Caddishness takes it out of one, y'know!)

I did not expect to be within orbit of 100 posts, on this one so keep going You oly have to narrow down white things that aren't hotels in Lanzarote, Marbella or flowers.


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Post 76

hygienicdispenser


>>Ask h2g2 exists to fill in people's ignorance.<<

My ignorance is pretty damn full already, thank you.


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Post 77

Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic.

I suppose I should have said remove.

What with my defunct definition of "circumference" from earlier I'm sucking at metaphors today.


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Post 78

hygienicdispenser

Just don't get too obsessively obsessed about it.


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Post 79

Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic.

Or I might become flummoxed smiley - winkeye (good word!)


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Post 80

hygienicdispenser

smiley - runsmiley - runsmiley - run


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