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At last I have some more QI's on the way!
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Started conversation Feb 27, 2014
Knee-deep in waders day after dreary disappointing day the sifting ceaselessly the slurping sandy silts for those glimmering golden nuggets of Quiet Interestingness Oddness - it is I your humble QI prospector Clive the flying ostrich - I was about to pack in the pickaxe and call it day when AT LAST I have in recent days hit upon a new vein of freakishly peculiar factoids and thus have been watching Sherlock all evening, which I find the perfect vehicle to getting myself in the mood of thinking through corkscrews in the dark.
Now I just have to think of how in the hell I'm going to make these almost but not totally fiendishly unsolvable.
I'll be back when I have my riddles wrapped up inside several folded layers of mystery tied off with a ribbon of cunning.
Meanwhile you are all hereby put on notice - QI is back in business!
This may require several cups of tea and solving the padlock combination on the biscuit tin.
I'll be right back.....
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Rod Posted Feb 28, 2014
Oh, Clive - - - WooHoo!
I, for just one of us, have missed your 
'what you said' efforts
At last I have some more QI's on the way!
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Feb 28, 2014
Not since that day the security guard at work told me how he calibrated his radar gun ( F7180006?thread=8303028 ) have I been this enthused to get scheming! 
At last I have some more QI's on the way!
pebblederook-The old guy wearing surfer beads- what does he think he looks like? Posted Feb 28, 2014
I am so excited I might just decide to dig my way back to the surface. 
At last I have some more QI's on the way!
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Feb 28, 2014
As an aside - does anyone have access to the online journal PNAS (Proceedings of National Academy of Science) - there's something I want to fact check, which I know is in a paper stored there but can't read beyond the abstract.
The pay-wall is proving thus far to be frustratingly unbreachable
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SashaQ - happysad Posted Feb 28, 2014
Excellent 
I look forward to that 
Sorry I can't help with the journal, though...
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Feb 28, 2014
It's okay. I will find a copy. 
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MMF - Keeper of Mustelids, with added P.M.A., is now in a relationship. Posted Feb 28, 2014
Looking forward to locking horns with the Moriarty of h2g2's despicably fiendish QI.
May we all prove worthy Sherlocks, although I'm probably more a Mycroft, but will do my best.
MMF
At last I have some more QI's on the way!
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Mar 1, 2014
But if you trip my klaxons - the worst you'll suffer is a deduction of 5 points - I won't turn you into shoes.
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McKay The Disorganised Posted Mar 2, 2014
Every Sherlock needs his Watson ~ here I am.
At last I have some more QI's on the way!
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Mar 14, 2014
Gears are turning, notes are being made, ideas are forming.....
At last I have some more QI's on the way!
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Mar 27, 2014
First one is done cooking. Mmmm...freshly baked QI Muffins of Mystery! 
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Rod Posted Mar 28, 2014
Whoops! Sorry...
- but I've no idea so far. Praps a clue will emerge
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Mar 28, 2014
Well Rod, we've had the front line troops go over the top, and judging from the body-count they found the land mines I had generously strewn around about, but a few stragglers made it over the barbed-wire netting into no-mans-land.
If you take a torch and follow their footprints it should lead you to relative safety before the next assault.
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- 1: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Feb 27, 2014)
- 2: Rod (Feb 28, 2014)
- 3: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Feb 28, 2014)
- 4: pebblederook-The old guy wearing surfer beads- what does he think he looks like? (Feb 28, 2014)
- 5: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Feb 28, 2014)
- 6: SashaQ - happysad (Feb 28, 2014)
- 7: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Feb 28, 2014)
- 8: MMF - Keeper of Mustelids, with added P.M.A., is now in a relationship. (Feb 28, 2014)
- 9: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Mar 1, 2014)
- 10: McKay The Disorganised (Mar 2, 2014)
- 11: Superfrenchie (Mar 2, 2014)
- 12: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Mar 14, 2014)
- 13: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Mar 27, 2014)
- 14: Rod (Mar 28, 2014)
- 15: Rod (Mar 28, 2014)
- 16: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Mar 28, 2014)
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