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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 11, 2010
>I feel a 'Clive-play-on-words' here.<
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
>In those days as the Aristos rarely washed.< DGI +1
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Nov 11, 2010
Errrrr..............
Pomace?
Pomade?
Pome?
Pomegranite?
Pomelo?
Hmmm...........
GT
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 11, 2010
Honestly, it's just an apple....
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Nov 11, 2010
But did she crush them to a pomace, and then rub herself down with it to make her smell, well, appley??
GT
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 11, 2010
No.
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Nov 12, 2010
Apple Blossom!!!
She used Apple Blossom!!!
GT
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 12, 2010
Rather than what the apple did to her it's what she did to the apple (and why)
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 12, 2010
Apple blossom 
No she didn't.
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Nov 12, 2010
2 klaxons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GT
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 12, 2010
I know. Life can be tough. 
Maybe what you need to console you is a mate who can be a shoulder to cry on. 
You really want them always be thinking of you and all you have is an an apple.
What quiet interesting thing could you do with it that circa 1558–1603 might have enticed a suitor back to the boudoir?
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Nov 12, 2010
I'll get you back!!!
Revenge is sweet, I say!!!!
GT
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 12, 2010
I've only two klaxons left so you'll have to be working really hard to trip any more now.
You have the majority of the salient facts before you now.
So what was the Countess of Shrewbury doing stuffing fruit into her undergarments?
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 12, 2010
What quite interesting thing could you do with it that circa 1558–1603 might have enticed a suitor back to the boudoir?
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Drilling a hole in it and inserting a 50 groat note always worked for me 
Or perhaps carving a subtle message onto the apple along the lines of "Hi there, big boy, is that a spare ruff in your tights or am I about to be glad I saw you?"
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 12, 2010
DGI +1 for 'a subtle message.'
and it's not carving......
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 12, 2010
So what was the Countess of Shrewbury doing stuffing fruit into her undergarments?
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1. She was in charge of catering at aristocratic Elizabethan orgies?
2. She was famous for her after dinner treasure hunts?
3. She redefined the expression "Pop round for a fruit cocktail next Wednesday?"
4. She was one of the earliest proponents of the banning of plastic carrier bags and excessive packaging from supermarkets?
5. None of the servants was prepared to do it for her?
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 12, 2010
None of the above.
How best do you tell someone "I love you" 500 years before the invention of the text message?
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Rod Posted Nov 12, 2010
Wonderful thing, manual dexterity...
For him, she
Cored it
Peeled it
Sliced it
- in that, or any other, order
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Rosemary - reincarnated courtesy of BBCiD Posted Nov 12, 2010
It's possible to cover young apples/carve the skin in such a way that they grow with the message on them.
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
logicus tracticus philosophicus Posted Nov 12, 2010
well you could write it in invisible ink (urine being one source)lemons being another
QI - "It's The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in The South Pacific!"
Geggs Posted Nov 12, 2010
Could the colour of the apple be important?
Like, red apple means "I love you", green means "You make me sick" for instance. When a fellow approaches you retreive the desired colour apple from your person and hold it aloft so that it can be careful seen.
I think it was mentioned in an ep of QI a while that there was a lady who had a string of lovers and who wore a flower to indicate her current availability. If the flower was red then it was her 'time of the month', and all advances would be rejected.
Geggs
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