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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 10, 2010
"it`s a long yelow fruit that you unzip and eat the white bits - it's a banana!"
Except this time it's also a
>>the inevitable conclusion that Bess entrapped her husbands using a love potion extracted from the scent glands <<
You are so close. DGI +1
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
pebblederook-The old guy wearing surfer beads- what does he think he looks like? Posted Nov 10, 2010
Does a score the same as 
?
In which case, only three more DGI's and I am back where I started 
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
A Super Furry Animal Posted Nov 10, 2010
Long shot...this doesn't have anything to do with an 18th-century mania for collecting orchids from around the world?
(Awaits )
RF
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 10, 2010
Not Orchids (sounds very similar though!)
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Geggs Posted Nov 10, 2010
Something from the Orkneys? Or porkrinds?
Geggs
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 10, 2010
Nope and Nope.
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Geggs Posted Nov 10, 2010
Ostrich?
Geggs
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 10, 2010
Nu-uh. 
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 10, 2010
Smaller than an ostrich egg, bigger than a grape.
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Geggs Posted Nov 10, 2010
Oranges?
I know a few Halls had Orangeries.
Geggs
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 10, 2010
Nope.
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Geggs Posted Nov 10, 2010
Hanbury Hall, which is near us, has an Orangery which contains a tile with a dog's paw print in it. The print have out-lasted the dog by several hundred years.
They had the roof of the Hall re-done last year. They allowed visitors up the scaffolding to see the bare roof. I've got a few pictures. It's not something you get to see all that often.
Geggs
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
hygienicdispenser Posted Nov 10, 2010
Sounds a bit like orchids.
Points for 'teaching Kryten to lie'.
Pork pies?
(Sorry to turn up a bit late. You were on 60+ posts when I first spotted it. Only just caught up.)
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
A Super Furry Animal Posted Nov 10, 2010
Sounds like orchids...
More kids?
RF
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Nov 10, 2010
Hmmmm
Looks like she is using some kind of aphrodisiac.........
GT
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 10, 2010
I'm not telling one - it's not porkie pies.
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 10, 2010
Ensnaring husbands with children.... a novel thought but wrong.
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 10, 2010
>some kind of aphrodisiac<
I think Pebble sort of covered that in #78 and was duly rewarded for their insight.
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 10, 2010
Oh yeah so taking that as a sort of a given - what aphrodisiac might Bess have kept about her person that she could reach for in a pinch if she saw Husband-material tearing up the driveway?
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
toybox Posted Nov 10, 2010
A banana?
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- 82: pebblederook-The old guy wearing surfer beads- what does he think he looks like? (Nov 10, 2010)
- 83: A Super Furry Animal (Nov 10, 2010)
- 84: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Nov 10, 2010)
- 85: Geggs (Nov 10, 2010)
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- 92: Geggs (Nov 10, 2010)
- 93: hygienicdispenser (Nov 10, 2010)
- 94: A Super Furry Animal (Nov 10, 2010)
- 95: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Nov 10, 2010)
- 96: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Nov 10, 2010)
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- 100: toybox (Nov 10, 2010)
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