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Discussion in 'Watford' started by colognehornet, Jun 26, 2013.

  1. oldfrenchhorn

    oldfrenchhorn Well-Known Member
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    A couple of years ago New York banned plastic cups for takeaway coffee.?
     
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  2. yorkshirehornet

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    No this is a country Frenchie.... double barrelled
     
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  3. Bolton's Boots

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    New Zealand?

    Bosnia Herzegovina?

    Trinidad & Tobago?
     
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  4. canary-dave

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    St Kitts and Nevis?
     
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  5. yorkshirehornet

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    put all that together....

    which country has done what?
     
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  6. colognehornet

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    Costa Rica has announced a plan to remove all single used plastic by 2021.
     
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  7. NZHorn

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    Ha! The current NZ government encourages environmental degradation. We have so many National Parks that could be more use as landfill sites. Hopefully that will change next month.
     
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  8. yorkshirehornet

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    <bubbly>

    Costa Rica Sets Goal To Become The First Country To Ban Single-Use Plastic


    Well done
     
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  9. colognehornet

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    Cheers Yorkie. Which 2 writers were human guinea pigs in the first tests with laughing gas ?
     
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  10. yorkshirehornet

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    Was one of them William James.... the mystic psychologist who wrote the varieties of religious experience?
     
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  11. colognehornet

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    Sorry Yorkie....a little bit earlier than that.
     
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  12. yorkshirehornet

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    Was it Robert Davy and Samuel Coleridge?
     
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  13. colognehornet

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    Yorkie.....you are so close that I have to give it to you. The scientist Humphrey Davy was experimenting with laughing gas (as a possible anaesthetic) at the beginning of the 19th Century - 2 of his closest friends were Samuel Coleridge and Robert Southey - they became his human guinea pigs. Over to you.
     
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  14. yorkshirehornet

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    Ah I get it.... Joseph Priestley influenced Davy... and halls at Leeds Met where I worked were named after Priestley.....again very interesting..

    when did watford score no goals for the first 5 league games?
     
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  15. yorkshirehornet

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    ... i repeat..... when did Watford score no goals for the first 5 league games?
     
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  16. colognehornet

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    Season 69/70 our first ever season in the old Div. 2. Our first goal was a Keith Eddy penalty against Sheff. Utd. I was on the Rookery for that.
     
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  17. yorkshirehornet

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    My times too!

    • Aug 16 1969 … Watford 0, Bolton Wanderers 0 – Vicarage Road’s first Division 2 fixture. There was no Watford goal in a League match, home or away, until the sixth game of the season.


    over to you......
     
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  18. Bolton's Boots

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    Mine too - I nearly fell over backwards a fortnight later when we had two 3-0 victories in a week, Villa at home & Blackpool away. A short-lived recovery though...
     
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  19. colognehornet

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    Cheers Yorkie. Of the books and texts which have been translated into the most languages the Bible comes top of the list - many of the others have been religious texts or political ones (eg. Declaration of Human Rights) - which is the highest book on the list (translated into 253 languages) which does not come into these catagories ?
     
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  20. Bolton's Boots

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    I'd guess one of the classic kid's books which are/have been read all over the world -

    Andersen's Fairy Tales?

    Alice in Wonderland?

    Winnie the Pooh?

    Adventures of Pinocchio?
     
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