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

  1. yorkshirehornet

    yorkshirehornet Well-Known Member

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    Ok..... must be nearly there .....

    27 mentions as compared with 3 mentions

    (It made all the main news)
     
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  2. yorkshirehornet

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  4. colognehornet

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    The third party <confused> ........The Lib dems. The Ed.......Ed Davey <doh> At his part speech he mentioned the idiotic Tories 27 times and Labour only 3 times ? As Oscar Wilde said there's only one thing worse than being talked about.......
     
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  5. yorkshirehornet

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    You got it.... over to you
     
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  6. colognehornet

    colognehornet Well-Known Member

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    Cheers Yorkie. Which science gets its name from the old Greek word for a pebble ?
     
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  7. andytoprankin

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    Psephology?
     
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  8. colognehornet

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    All yours Andy ! The Greeks used to use pebbles for voting.
     
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    Oh, I like that! Didn’t know that. <ok>

    Who, almost furtively, wishes whom ‘Good night!’ in ‘A Scandal in Bohemia’, and why?
     
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  10. Bolton's Boots

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    Irene Adler? Wishing Sherlock Holmes goodnight after agreeing with him to see the King of Bohemia the next morning - but knowing that she was leaving the country before then.
     
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  11. andytoprankin

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    That's pretty much it. She had outwitted Holmes (which he admired - thereafter always referring to her as 'the woman') and her bidding him goodnight was to prove her outwitting.
    Over to you.
     
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    Cheers Andy.

    What changed from white to black in 1912?
     
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  13. colognehornet

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    Rubber is naturally white and tyres were that colour until 1912 when Michelin started blending carbon chemicals into them which turned them black ?
     
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  14. Bolton's Boots

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    You got it.

    Over to you
     
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    colognehornet Well-Known Member

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    Cheers BB. Which great writer was a regular traveller on the Mersey Ferry ?
     
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    A novelist.
     
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  17. yorkshirehornet

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    ....cant find anything............................
     
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  18. Bolton's Boots

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    Helen Forrester?
     
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  19. colognehornet

    colognehornet Well-Known Member

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    Not Helen Forrester BB. She came originally from the Wirral and grew up in poverty in Liverpool (the fee for the daily ferry was beyond their means). The writer I am thinking of could definitely afford the ferry and used it daily to cross from Rock Ferry to Liverpool for a period of his life. Also much earlier. He held a very important job in Liverpool though it was not his homeland.
     
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  20. colognehornet

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    Few clues needed I think. Not a scouser <laugh> He was actually born in a town which had a bad reputation for one historical event. Lived for a time in Rock Ferry and took the ferry to Liverpool daily for a very important job. A
     
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