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QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 13, 2010
This job really is the pits....
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Geggs Posted Nov 13, 2010
Armpit!
Geggs
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 13, 2010
Finally!
Correct +3
(I need to lie down....)
Okay - now WHY???
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Geggs Posted Nov 13, 2010
Early form of deodorant?
Geggs
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 13, 2010
Nope.
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
toybox Posted Nov 13, 2010
"Let your armpit become your charmpit."
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 13, 2010
Well quiet.
And how do you think Elizabethan ladies communicated this to their husbands-to-be?
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
toybox Posted Nov 13, 2010
, even.
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
toybox Posted Nov 13, 2010
What's so special about having an apple in one's armpit? Don't you?
Maybe the apple forced the ladies to hold their arms against their body (instead of holding them up or something, like confident people in deo adverts)
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 13, 2010
Ah like some sort of finishing posture?
Nice idea but wrong
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
toybox Posted Nov 13, 2010
Er, I'm a bit confused again. Elizabethan ladies are wearing (peeled) apples in their armpits, and need to communicate this to their husband-to-be? Because these would get the message then?
Or is the fact that the ladies are wearing apples already obvious to the husbands-to-be?
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Nov 13, 2010
An apple in the armpit excercises the pectorals and thrusts the bust forward!!!
GT
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 13, 2010
Elizabethan ladies are wearing (peeled) apples in their armpits, and need to communicate this to their husband-to-be?
Almost. 
They don't need to communicate that they have peeled apples in their armpits - rather the medium is the message in this instance.
Having put the apple there - and maybe gone jogging round the ample gardens, for instance - what would they do with the apple?
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 13, 2010
>thrusts the bust forward!<
Underwiring / lift and separate 
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Nov 13, 2010
Pheromones??????
GT
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
toybox Posted Nov 13, 2010
"Here, hold the apple for me will you?"
Would they ask their suitor to hold the apple, making sure that he won't start wooing someone else, because it will be obvious that he's already taken, and if he leaves the apple somewhere and the lady comes back to find him appleless she will become suspicious?
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
toybox Posted Nov 13, 2010
Or they would eat it?
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 13, 2010
"Here, hold the apple for me will you?"
Correct +3
They gave it to them.
WHY?
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 13, 2010
Pheromones may have been included but not necessarily DGI +1
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Geggs Posted Nov 13, 2010
Does it constitute "a promise"?
Geggs
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- 183: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Nov 13, 2010)
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- 185: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Nov 13, 2010)
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- 190: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Nov 13, 2010)
- 191: toybox (Nov 13, 2010)
- 192: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Nov 13, 2010)
- 193: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Nov 13, 2010)
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- 195: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Nov 13, 2010)
- 196: toybox (Nov 13, 2010)
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- 198: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Nov 13, 2010)
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- 200: Geggs (Nov 13, 2010)
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