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Post 8221

shagbark

are you sure that is useless??? smiley - huh


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Post 8222

pedro

In Albania, as the Communist govt crumbled about 20 years ago, Ak-47's were cheaper than a loaf of bread at one point.


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Post 8223

Taff at home

""are you sure that is useless???""

depends on if you eat a lot of bannanas

smiley - bat


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Post 8224

kuzushi

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How strange that they should have problems with very small street gangs. Or do you mean they have very FEW street gang problems?


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Post 8225

Vestboy

The sieben dwarfs?


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Post 8226

kuzushi


New Zealand used to have the record for consecutive Test wins in men's rugby (17 wins in a row), but this was surpassed in 2010 by, er, Lithuania.


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Post 8227

Vestboy

NZ v Lithuania... The All Blacks v What do the Lithuanians call their team?


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Post 8228

Baron Grim

There is no proper clinical term for eye boogers*.





*Or whatever you may call it; "sleepy sand," "eye goop," "sleep," or "sleep dust."


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Post 8229

Mr. Dreadful - But really I'm not actually your friend, but I am...

Is it not rheum?


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Post 8230

Baron Grim

Rheum may be a component but according to Dr. Sherleen Chen, director of the cataract and comprehensive ophthalmology service at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston, she has yet to find a technical term for the wee crusties.


*source: http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/08/31/7544456-are-yours-crusty-or-wet-the-truth-behind-eye-boogers-ew


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Post 8231

kuzushi


Finland have the worst national rugby team in the world according to the IRB's rankings

http://www.irb.com/rankings/full.html


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Post 8232

drt

Hang on, thre may not be an official word for it (eye stuff), but what is wrong with 'Mugeary'? (Liff II)smiley - smiley


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Post 8233

Baron Grim

I have copies of The Meaning of Liff books, but they just didn't have as much appeal for a kid that grew up in Texas. smiley - erm


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Post 8234

drt

Sorry Count Zero, but I do not understand why not! Genuinely. Does the humour not travel, or is it that most of the place names used are British? or what? I'd really like to know as I think Liff is brilliant and consistently find applications for a lot of the words!smiley - ermsmiley - smiley

Anyway, if you do not want to derail this thread, answer me on my PS.smiley - ok

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The Welsh word for School is the same as the word for Ladder. (Ysgol)


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Post 8235

Baron Grim

It was still funny, but I think if the town names were even recognizable as town names, I would have enjoyed it better.


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Post 8236

drt

Aha- so basically, it does not travel well?

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The major exports of Lichtenstien are Wigs and False Teeth.


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Post 8237

MonkeyS- all revved up with no place to go


Painting your face in a black and white checkerboard fashion is an effective way of "pixelating" yourself out of cctv footage.


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Post 8238

toybox

Hey! Borderline useful stuff there smiley - cross


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Post 8239

Mr. X ---> "Be excellent to each other. And party on, dudes!"

Enough! Only ever useful in extremely specific situations that a mere .000001% of the human population will ever find itself in is still effectively useless. You don't need to call them out every time.

smiley - pirate


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Post 8240

toybox

smiley - sorry
You are right, of course smiley - blush

A useless fact to apologise:
The Monal Lisa was not painted on canvas, but on a poplar panel.


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