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Pub Quiz thread

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

  1. yorkshirehornet

    yorkshirehornet Well-Known Member

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    Something about the title
     
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  2. Bolton's Boots

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    In 1952 it was first in the US charts - sung by Patti Page?
     
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  3. yorkshirehornet

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    No.... something about the words
     
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  4. yorkshirehornet

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    This sort of sentence is a first
     
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    First #1 that the song title was a question? Though it was originally registered without the question mark.
     
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  7. yorkshirehornet

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    yes....was the first U.K. number one hit song that featured a full sentence question as its title...

    I was a bit worried it was too obscure!!
     
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    Blimey! It's a wonderful whimsy choon Love it. Just had our Xmas lunch so I'll set a question tomorrow... I actually have one lined up but saved on a different device!
     
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    Later than advertised, I lost the original question so...

    Saying the name of what dried fruit used to be used to encourage people to smile before a photo in the 1800s, before the phrase “cheese?”
     
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  10. yorkshirehornet

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    Prunes?/
     
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  11. Bolton's Boots

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    I just spent a 'fruitless' 15 minutes in front of a mirror trying to see if saying prunes made me look as though I was smiling!!

    I now realise why people never seemed to smile for the photographer back then...
     
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    All yours, Yorkie!

    Quite so!

    In Japan it's "Hai chizu!" which is basically pronounced Hi Cheese!!
     
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    Ah yes. That reminds me. I was always puzzled as to why there were so many Japanese families resident in Harrow - near my place of upbringing. So much so that a famous school South of the borough became the Japanese school when the original moved to Elstree. But I digress. It's all to do with the famous Japanese politeness. Apparently as the Japanese - in the Seventies particularly - arrived at Heathrow in droves, they immediately jumped into a taxi and said 'Harrow '. Oh never mind.
     
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    :headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang:
     
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  15. yorkshirehornet

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    Where do they always keep an ashtray just in case?
     
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  16. yorkshirehornet

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    for emergencies I guess
     
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  17. yorkshirehornet

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    but def no smoking
     
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    In a crematorium?
     
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  19. yorkshirehornet

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    No....

    In this case there many many of these and ther is def no smoking..... and they all have one ashtray
     
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    On an airplane there is still a requirement that there must be an ashtray in the bathroom. Although smoking is forbidden there has to be something there in case people take a quiet drag to make sure they don't put it in the waste paper bin. ?
     
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