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An original Life, Pringle's Cook mixed with Zozo's gums all contained in hundred year old groceries mixed with croquet balls:
In a Karachi summer no issued forth.

Something declined; what by whom?



[ My first attempt at a QI and maybe my last so do bear with me if I get some things wrong or miss a point and of course I'm 10 hours ahead of you in Blighty so it might take awhile for me to reply.
Clive has been helping me but he's busy at the moment so being impatient I've popped this up (perhaps a bit prematurely) I've probably made it too easy ]

Posted by Taff:

gin and tonic

declined by the governor

result

death from malaria

Posted by jwf
Some stuffy old Brit, Major or Colonel probably, turned his nose up when offered curried goats testes by some major maharaja type. The perceived (and no doubt intended) insult sparked a massacre of goats not seen since Dumbo broke through the fence at Mister Ramsay's. It was from these goats that Kashmir sweaters were invented.
Four legs good

Posted by Taff

the decline of the british raj

the king turning down the title emperor of india????

Posted by Keith Miller

Well I've spotted 's in there jwf for Kashmir and curried goats but also a DGI+1 for ranks.

= Kashmir
=curried goat
DGI+1=Ranks

And Taff with: > the decline of the british raj < =

Also by Taff:

karachi is in what is now pakistan i believe

was it back when it was bengal???

the koh-i-noor or mountain of light diamond came from there and ended up as the centre piece of the crown jewels, suposedly cursed, was the largest cut diamond in the world at one time


Posted by me

> karachi is in what is now pakistan i believe < Yes it is.

> was it back when it was bengal???< No, Bengal overlaps Bangladesh 1000 k's away.

Yes that diamond was then cut up into the British crown jewels or something wasn't it?

I started a new thread with "QI" in the heading at Taff's suggestion.
Above are all the relevant posts

Post 18 on the original please Keith!!!

ed!!!



GT

not bengal

the punjab???

Interesting.

I've absolutely no idea.

Posted 22 Minutes Ago by gandalfstwin
Hi Cobber!! Do not worry about the 'QI' prefix...

Been there, done that, got the 'T' shirt!!!

Right then. Logico takes over!!!!

Croquet balls. The game originated in India. Balls originally made of Ivory....(BTW, Polo also originated in India. Their ball was also originally Ivory. Did you know that you hit the ball with the SIDE of the mallet, and not the head???)

Pringle's..(Aw, c'mon pal!!!!! that is a bluelight a parsec away!! No klaxon for me! It is in brackets as a comment, not an answer!!!)

So.....

Thinks......

Cook mixed with Zozo's gums...mmmmm.....puzzling at the mo!!

'In a Karachi summer, no issued forth'??????? Perplexed, does not even make sense to me!!!

exploding snooker / billiard balls

in an attempt to produce artifical ivory balls the inventor came up with nitro cellulose , and the billiard balls kept exploding because of the decline of the ivory trade due to lack of elephants

Hello Clive I'm botching it up a bit as you can see but I'll soldier on and see how it pans out.

@GT: >Croquet balls originally made of Ivory< Hmm, that would make Ivory Croquet ball's fairly old then I guess as you can't make them legally today can you.


> 'In a Karachi summer, no issued forth'??????? Perplexed, does not even make sense to me!!!<

Maybe I missed an apostrophe

"In a Karachi summer, no, issued forth.

Great fun in the Wild West Saloons where everybody carried guns!!!

"Watch out for the Bits!!!"



GT

@Taff: err, no.

Keith!

I said 'origionally' they were ivory.

I know that they are still made of wood or resin today!!!

Just fishing for points, old boy!!


GT

AFK for a bit, back shortly

I thought you were and I was trying to help a bit via my reply

Just fishing!!!


Going to bed now...

Seeyou whenever...


GT

Hmmm...
More-so to bump up this thread than quibble about it...
But I wonder if I could plead a case that in mentioning Kashmir sweaters
I did not actually hit the klaxon 'Kashmir' the place. For it is a quite interesting
fact that kashmir (cashmere) wool does not come from Kashmir the place.

The genuine article was originally woven by Turks from Tibetan goats.

Today, most of the commercial grade material comes from China, although
over the past century or so, attempts to raise developmental herds of the goats
for large commercial exploitation purposes have been conducted in France
and Australia among others. But Tibet - perhaps because of the climate or the
genetic purity of the species - is still the best source of the purest wool while
China produces the most and the best of the 'b' class 'industrial strength' versions.


~jwf~

all contained in hundred year old groceries

any link to Captain Scott's 1912 expedition stores which I seem to recollect may have been recently unearthed (or should that be unsnowed)?

> I did not actually hit the klaxon 'Kashmir' the place <

Well your case was well pleaded too and your right of course I did jump the gun a little bit so i'll retract the blue stuff for Kashmir but I have got goat dinners down as a klaxo along with a few other meals.

@ Pebble: Not Scott's expedition stores.

Food itself does not make up a very big part of this QI.

I've got to go to work so wont be back for 8 hours or so

jwf got a DGl+1 for ranks and food is only an indirect part of the question. I'll pop back as soon as I can to give further hints in the right direction.

"Something declined, what by whom ?"

Was wondering if a royal, like Mountbatten, or his Son turned down perhaps a princess bride offered by one of the then moguls, or could it be like a hundred year old Chinese egg....



jwf blakecat bakedcat, or bakedblackcat...

Just because I can make Zozo's gums into Zog and King Zog was King of Albania:

CB Fry England Cricket and Football international and all round good egg was offered the Albanian throne in the 1930's but declined the offer.