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Pete wrote: "Why is it, when it's your turn to make a cuppa, a)there are no more tea bags and you have to wrestle the cellophane off a new pack? and
b)there's never quite enough milk and you have to open a new..."
In my house, it means it's been a long time since you last made a cuppa as I buy those bags from Makro which have over a thousand teabags in them ;p
C is easy - it's always my turn to make the tea. B doesn't quite occur, because I'll swig the end of the bottle, so there's always enough milk or no milk. A must mean the end of the world has occurred or the zombie apocalypse or something, since there can never -- no, MUST never -- be no more tea bags.
Tim wrote: "there can never -- no, MUST never -- be no more tea bags. ."That's why we always have at least 4 spare 240-bag boxes in the understairs cupboard. i.e. a week's supply in reserve. If it gets below four we start to panic.
I noticed a distinct lull in this thread during the time I am told X Factor is on. PLEASE, please tell me you weren't watching it!!!! I shall never type to you again.
Pete wrote: "I noticed a distinct lull in this thread during the time I am told X Factor is on. PLEASE, please tell me you weren't watching it!!!! I shall never type to you again."I can categorically state that I never watch X factor. I rarely switch the TV on at all - but I was watching Kath's favourite scientist earlier. After that I have been reading.
I have never seen X Factor.I will however admit to watching an old two-parter episode of NCIS while eating dinner.
Patti (baconater) wrote: "Shit. My building wobbles at the best of times.Gotta love soviet construction."
Check the BBC website for an article about the first man (a cosmonaut) to perform an extra-vehicular activity (space-walk). Suit ballooned up once he got outside, so he had to bleed air out of it to fit back into the airlock. Then he and his partner landed in the middle of a Siberian forest and were there for days with wolves and bears circling them. None of this was publicized at the time, of course. Brave men, them cosmonauts!
David wrote: "Then he and his partner landed in the middle of a Siberian forest and were there for days with wolves and bears circling them. None of this was publicized at the time, of course. Brave men, them cosmonauts!"Lucky, too. If they'd landed in USA hunters would have shot the astronauts and rescued the bears.
Will there ever be a boy born, who can swim faster than a shark?
Michael wrote: "Will there ever be a boy born, who can swim faster than a shark?"Is that a quiz question?
If so, the answer is no. Nobody can swim fast when they are born.
Charles the First walked and talked half an hour after his head was cut off.Explain.
Pete wrote: "Charles the First walked and talked half an hour after his head was cut off.Explain."
Everyone watched it on catch-up TV.
Pete wrote: "Charles the First walked and talked half an hour after his head was cut off.Explain."
Punctuation required! Full stop or semi colon after 'talked' makes it sensible.
Kath wrote: "Pete wrote: "Charles the First walked and talked half an hour after his head was cut off.Explain."
Punctuation required! Full stop or semi colon after 'talked' makes it sensible."
Kath wins a lollipop! (also should be a comma after 'after'.)
Need a new question in here, folks!
What is the difference between a raven and a writing desk?
Gingerlily - Elephant Philosopher wrote: "What is the difference between a raven and a writing desk?"Licorice.
Patti (baconater) wrote: "Gingerlily - Elephant Philosopher wrote: "What is the difference between a raven and a writing desk?"Licorice."
What a frumious answer.
As a verb or an adjective?Although I'd quite like to be frumiously frumious.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
You're such a card! The 3 of clubs I think....
you'll probably come up trumps
or is that Dave trumping?
The 1811 census revealed that almost 25% of the female population of Great Britain had the same first name. What was it?
What is a 4-letter word ending in 'k' that means to have intercourse?
Right again. I see I'm not setting any worthwhile challenge.
But undaunted I'll have another go. Which author was short-listed 5 times for the Man Booker prize, but never won?
B J wrote: "But undaunted I'll have another go. Which author was short-listed 5 times for the Man Booker prize, but never won?"J K Rowling
Guessing here: Kingsley Amis?(Actually, didn't he win it for The Old Devils?)
I think he did, and he was shortlisted a couple more times - but he's not the answer.
Colm Toibin?(writer of one of the most tedious books ever, in my own personal awards, btw)
Nope. Time for a clue: same first and last initials as me - BB.
Ah Beryl Bainbridge!?
That's right. She was shortlisted so many times that, rather belatedly, after her death the organisers announced a special Beryl Bainbridge prize and the public was invited to vote on which of her five shortlisted books should win it.
Okay, I'll ask one. Doesn't seem reading related, but the only reason I know this without looking it up is that it featured heavily in a Kurt Vonnegut novel I read many years ago and has stuck in my mind ever since. What is the capital city of Ecuador?
Don't know! I've only read Slaughterhouse Five of his
If I recall correctly, the title of the novel is 'Galapagos'. That probably doesn't help...
It's Quito. Capital cities crop up so often on TV quiz shows that over the years most of them have sunk in.
Well done, BJ. I'm a member of a pub quiz team; have been for a number of years. I keep waiting for that question to come up...
Nonsense! Now, a new question : Why is it, when it's your turn to make a cuppa, a)there are no more tea bags......