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Uhm ..they put their pants on one leg at a time?


jwf - incredulously wondering where and when the The Rolling Stones would ever have played, let alone recorded and released a version of a 'swing-pop' number like Route 66 - I can't imagine Mick even knowing how to pronounce Pomona - or being able to say 'get your kicks on Route 66' with a straight face. Admittedly the phrase 'motor west' is more Brit than Yankee but surely you jest, sir.

(Haven't looked anything up)

They all did impressions of Hitler?

jwf - Route 66 was on (I think) the first Stones album in 1964 called "The Rolling Stones" (original title ) and on an EP released aout a year later and then on US album "December's Children" 1965. Real early stuff when they were still doing R&B covers.

Trillians Child - you are on the right track - they all have a movie roll in common - but not Hitler.

Oops - movie role I mean

Well they've all played Silent Movie parts...

Have they all played a Tramp?

Well Dean Saki played his role in 1981 - I think that would have been a "talkie" and I think the Chaplin movie may have been a talkie -but not sure.

But you are on the right track Argon0 ... not a tramp but that's very close.
The role they have in common is a real person - we are looking for the name of that person.

This is a real good tough question Feisor! Thanks for the hints, but I honestly didn't recognise any of the actors names except Chaplin - and except for the Little Dictator I can only remember him playing his own 'nameless' little tramp character. So while I'm having fun remembering old films, I know I'll never get it. I sure hope someone does ..maybe if you gave us one more little hint.
jwf

Ok - one BIG hint - the answer is in the question.

Once again, if no one gets this by tomorrow - I will post the answer and this time will hand the honour of posting the next question to someone else. (While I go and find more useless information )

they all played Charlie Chaplin?

I know that Dean Saki played a CHINESE Chaplin in 1981....

*mumble mumble --the answer is in the question -- mumble mumble*

They were all married to Mary Pickford AND they put their pants on one leg at a time!

jwf

If the date 1916 is taken into consideration, it seems unlikely that they played either Hitler or Charlie Chaplin.

Right. I'm putting some work into this. Hey - Leslie Henson is a woman! (Well, that puts paid to the Hitler theory, then)

and Ern Vockler doesn't exist anywhere according to Google. ditto Chuck Wango. Perhaps they're anagrams? If so, what's the year for? Fred Evans and Leslie H are both around at the moment and certainly weren't then. Unless they had namesakes who were.

So. I give up.

Help! Somebody's gotta get this or Feisor will get to ask another one!

They all played Lincoln. How about Charlie Chan. Fu Manchu. Oh poop. I give up too.

jwf

Hooray!!! Argon0 got it!!!

Yes!! They all played Charlie Chaplin

Leslie Henson (English) played him in 1916 in a satire by James Barrie called "The Real Thing At Last" about an American film producer trying to modernise Macbeth

Fred Evans in 1916 played Chaplin in "Pimple - Himself and Others"

Ern Vockler (Australian) appeared in "Charlie At The Sydney Show"

Chuck Wango in British film of 1926 "Life Story of Charles Chaplin"

Dean Saki in 1981 played title role in "Charlie Chaplin and the Kung Fu Kid in Laughing Times"

and finally ...
Charlie Chaplin played himself in 1929 in "Show People"

WELL DONE!!!

The ball now passes to Argon0

oh! fk! That means I have to think of something....


OK...


(I may have posted this b4 but don't think so...)

What is heavier a pound of Bananas or a pound of Gold?


P.S. Sorry for the delay -been ...

Are those real Jamaican bananas or water-injected, otherwise underweight, picked while still green by slave labour Chiquita bananas? As for the gold, are you sure there's still a pound there? I'll bet someone scratched off a few ounces while your weren't looking. And if it's Acapulco gold you never get a true weight, somebody's always smoked some.
Shouldn't the question be "if you dropped them off the leaning tower of Pisa, which one would draw the bigger crowd?"

Final answer?
Neither.

*Warning: If I win I probably won't be able to think of a good question for a day or two - weekend you see - not thinking very hard or deep*

jwf

Well....


JWF....

You Isn't ther winner.....

But Entertaining NTL....

Any more for any more (I want a reason too...)

I think there is a different system used for gold under which a pound is less than a normal pound. Therefore the pound of bananas would be heavier than the pound of gold.

I don't know all the whys and wherefors - something to do with weight to volume ratio, pennyweights and grains. Pounds troy? is the name.

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Gold is measured using the Troy scale which has 12 ounces to the pound, whereas normal stuff is measured with the Avoirdupois scale which has 16 ounces to the pound.

I first heard this one when I was six. I believe a pound of gold and a pound of feathers is traditional

H2G2 holds the answer to everything. So does Mycroft, but here's another useful place to go: http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A471476

Actually I can't find a pount of gold there, only an ounce. But some of the pertaining conversations are instructive/amusing.