h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

LOL. I'm sure when the sun comes up down under six7s will be pleased to hear of his victory. It was after all the Aussies what invented the Australian crawl as the preferred swimming style. A stroke of genius all round!
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So the bicyling one was definitely wrong then huh <?>


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Kitchen window
General prototype
Purple exit
Silver penguin
Trucking banker
Volcano chimney
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Which line doesn't belong with the others <?>

six7's

Aha! All of these are arcane terms used in the novels of Anthony Burgess to describe the anus. All except for the Silver Penguin, which is a 'certain appliance' that the Weddell keeps at the very bottom of her handbag.



...or am I a bit off the mark here?

A bit off the mark?!?!
You're 'avin a young seal !

Hmmm... Trucking Banker...

Is that rhyming slang for something?

You are definitely on the right track Dr St J
So much so that I think it's fair to say you've got it

All of the other words are *prime rhymes* ... a subject of some debate within certain / circles...

See the exceedingly long post near the bottom of http://www.guardian.co.uk/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-18524,00.html
or then again, don't

six7's


the *young seal* clue (admittedly a pretty cr*p clue I'm afraid)[ / calf ] was not intended to patronise Pinniped

I think I've uncovered the way to get the right answers in this thread then - don't try! My 'guess' was only meant as a comment... but I guess I got lucky

So... your challenge (should you choose to accept it) is to find the odd one out (with a reason please!) from this list:

50YN10
100E500AR
E50AN500
100AME50
5050A1000A
BU5050

The odd one out is 'BU5050'. This is British aircraft registration mark, and collecting it will only get you funny looks. The others are from Greek aeroplanes and writing them down will get you 12 years

100E500AR:

50YN10
Lynx
100E500AR
Cedar
E50AN500
Eland - news to me http://www.nature.ca/notebooks/english/eland.htm
100AME50
Camel
5050A1000A
Llama
BU5050
Bull

So the reason is?

Cedar = flora, whereas the others = fauna

Or am I missing something

six7's

I was just being pedantic

Over to you...

Thanks Dr St J

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Alessandro Farnese
pope

Annie Lennox
singer, songwriter

Dinah Shore
singer, entertainer

Gioacchino Rossini
composer

Jimmy Dorsey
bandleader

Joss Ackland
actor

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Who in the above list is the odd one out, and (this time I have remembered to explicitly ask) WHY <?>

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six7's

Dinah Shore - the only one without a double letter in either name.

Well spotted some bloke, although this was not what I had in mind ...

My criteria is something rather more unusual

Okay, how about Alessandro Farnese because there are no award ceremonies he can win.

Unfortunately, Señor Rossini is unable to attend tonight's ceremony as he has been busy decomposing in Passy [near Paris] since the 13th of November 1868

OK, I acknowledge that Rossini could receive an award posthumously, but that ain't it

six7's

Dinah Shore, the only one who never had sex with a woman.