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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
Not really
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 13, 2010
200 posts!!
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Geggs Posted Nov 13, 2010
Okay, not going that far then. Maybe it implies that advances that were made by the suitor woyld be warmly received, or at least, not dismissed out of hand?
Geggs
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Nov 13, 2010
Q: What's the difference between Vitamins and Hormones?
A: You can't hear Hormones!
GT
(You have to SAY it to yourself)
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 13, 2010
How might a pair of star-crossed lovers make use of it?
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Geggs Posted Nov 13, 2010
Both eat it, possibly at the same time?
Geggs
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
toybox Posted Nov 13, 2010
Both hold it under their armpits at the same time 
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 & nope.
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Geggs Posted Nov 13, 2010
Cut it in half, and the suitor then places one half about his person, and gives the other half back, as an indication that the two persons are two halves of the same whole?
Or do the pips coming into play in some way?
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
No the apple stays whole and intact (after peeling)
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 13, 2010
Think about where this apple has been. you probably wouldn't want to eat it but if you were an Elizabethan gentleman with amorous intent what *might* you want to do with your maiden's love-apple?
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Geggs Posted Nov 13, 2010
Put it in your codpiece? Or under your ruff - close to your Adam's Apple?
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
It's more of an action...
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Geggs Posted Nov 13, 2010
Plant it? "Our love will grow in like manner" or some such?
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
no it stayed about his person... it's not that symbolic either
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Geggs Posted Nov 13, 2010
Rub it on your face, our somewhere else on your person. So that her scent, as obtained from armpit, is now on your body. Since your aren't going to wash for the best part of a year, her scent will linger.
Geggs
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Geggs Posted Nov 13, 2010
Or you sleep with her apple under your pillow, for much the same reason.
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
Yes either of those will do.
He kept the apple so that he could keep a reminder of her scent when they were apart.
Correct +3
Finally - mercifully - I call this QI closed!
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Geggs Posted Nov 13, 2010
Thank goodness for that! I can go to bed now.
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
I still have to score it! 
(maybe tomorrow!)
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- 205: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Nov 13, 2010)
- 206: Geggs (Nov 13, 2010)
- 207: toybox (Nov 13, 2010)
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