A Conversation for Wind force twelve abaft the Beam
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toybox Posted Jan 28, 2003
Fingernails contain less gold than toenails 
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Mu Beta Posted Jan 28, 2003
I bet Michael Caine's don't after the Italian Job...
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Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Jan 28, 2003
i once had a hook made of solid gold, but i guess that doesn't count
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GreyDesk Posted Jan 29, 2003
No it doesn't, but the answer of Rugby League does 
Q2: Name the two boxing baers?
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Seamus...the forbidden Posted Jan 29, 2003
Max and Buddy
Seamus
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GreyDesk Posted Jan 29, 2003
I'm going to have make my clues more cryptic aren't I 
Q3: What have diesel, boycott and a mackintosh all have in common?
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The Ghost of Polidari Posted Jan 29, 2003
They are all eponyms...
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GreyDesk Posted Jan 29, 2003
They are indeed
Q4: Which city's public transport lost property office is the busiest in the world?
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Flanker Posted Jan 29, 2003
I can't find the answer anymore .... I had it on the bus/train/subway 
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Mu Beta Posted Jan 29, 2003
@ Flanker
I would guess, and this is not my final answer, that it is London. We have more public transport than New York, so hence more lost property...
Or not...
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Flanker Posted Jan 29, 2003
* @ Master B* You missed me 
*slips on tomato gunge * 
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GreyDesk Posted Jan 29, 2003
You know I don't really approve of these 'thinking out loud' type answers. I might at some point decided to start penalising folk for making them, or on the hand I might not.
* GD making a 'thinking out load' answer of his own *
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Mu Beta Posted Jan 29, 2003
Oh, now, thinking out loads is definitely not allowed.
2 tonnes of empty marmite jars from Strathclyde to Exeter, eh?
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GreyDesk Posted Jan 29, 2003
Well if they are Marmite jars from the early part of the 1900s then that load would definitely be worth having
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Mu Beta Posted Jan 29, 2003
I thought they hadn't changed their design for nigh on 95 years anyhow.
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GreyDesk Posted Jan 29, 2003
Oh no they havn't much. There is a difference and folk are prepared to pay good money for early examples of the bottles and jars
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Mu Beta Posted Jan 29, 2003
Were we doing a quiz at some point?
Oh, nuts to it - no-one else seems to care...
London.
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Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Jan 29, 2003
that will cost you, master b
or bureau gris 
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Mu Beta Posted Jan 29, 2003
Well, I don't care...I'm campaigning for a new quiz format, anyhow.
Champagne 15-1 anyone?
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GreyDesk Posted Jan 29, 2003
The answer is Tokyo. Sorry folks, new chain...
Q1: What is Dizzy Gillespie's real first name?
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- 43: Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ (Jan 28, 2003)
- 44: GreyDesk (Jan 29, 2003)
- 45: Seamus...the forbidden (Jan 29, 2003)
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- 47: The Ghost of Polidari (Jan 29, 2003)
- 48: GreyDesk (Jan 29, 2003)
- 49: Flanker (Jan 29, 2003)
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