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October 25, 2010, 08:54:02 PM »
Which king asked to be buried in a dunghill, beneath the epitaph: 'Here lies the worst of kings and the most miserable of men.' "
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October 26, 2010, 08:24:25 PM »
Robert III (c1340-April 4, 1406), King of Scots (reigned 1390-1406), the eldest
son of King Robert II by his ... Robert asked to be buried under a dunghill with
the epitaph: Here lies the worst of Kings and the most miserable of men.
Googled the answer.
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October 26, 2010, 11:47:30 PM »
Well done, kitkatz. Miserable bugger, wasn't he?
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October 27, 2010, 01:54:09 PM »
Yes, he was. Here goes. New question....
What is a lamington?
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October 27, 2010, 08:45:52 PM »
kitkatz!! Lamingtons are the greatest taste treat ever created!!
Lamingtons
Small squares of plain cake, dipped in melted chocolate and sugar and coated in desiccated coconut. Said to have been named after Baron Lamington, a popular governor of Queensland from 1896 to 1901.
SPONGE CAKE
3 eggs
1/2 cup castor sugar
3/4 cup self-raising flour
1/4 cup cornflour
15g (1/2oz) butter
3 tablespoons hot water
Beat eggs until thick and creamy. Gradually add sugar. Continue beating until sugar completely dissolved.
Fold in sifted SR flour and cornflour, then combined water and butter.
Pour mixture into prepared lamington tins 18cm x 28cm (7in x 11in).
Bake in moderate oven approximately 30 mins.
Let cake stand in pan for 5 min before turning out onto wire rack.
CHOCOLATE ICING
3 cups desiccated coconut
500g (1lb) icing sugar
1/3 cup cocoa
(extra cocoa can be added, according to taste)
15g (1/2oz) butter
1/2 cup milk
Sift icing sugar and cocoa into heatproof bowl.
Stir in butter and milk.
Stir over a pan of hot water until icing is smooth and glossy.
Trim brown top and sides from cake.
Cut into 16 even pieces.
Holding each piece on a fork, dip each cake into icing.
Hold over bowl a few minutes to drain off excess chocolate.
Toss in coconut or sprinkle to coat.
Place on oven tray to set.
(Cake is easier to handle if made the day before.
Sponge cake or butter cake may be used.
May be filled with jam and cream.)
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October 29, 2010, 12:14:44 AM »
Hooray Galvo!!!! ( I can't help but agree with a man who says that lamingtons are the greatest cake etc, even this trivia question had nothing to do with me. Ahem. )
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October 29, 2010, 05:02:37 PM »
You are up! Those sound like our donuts here.
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October 29, 2010, 10:23:35 PM »
Lamingtons make donuts taste like doggy-doo!
Now, onto the question:- Kermit, the Muppet frog, didn't start out as a frog. For the first 12 years of his life he was a what???
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October 30, 2010, 12:03:24 AM »
Kermit was a lizard-like creature. (I googled it, good trivia, I didn't know that!)
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Correct. Take the baton.
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October 30, 2010, 11:19:23 PM »
Where is the world's largest stained-glass window?
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October 31, 2010, 10:50:33 PM »
World's Largest Stained Glass Window
The world's largest stained glass window is actually in the mausoleum at Resurrection Cemetery in Justice. It contains 2,448 panels and is a whopping 22,381 square feet. '
Google says:
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Ivanova: "Old Egyptian blessing: May God stand between you and harm in all the empty places you must walk." Babylon 5
Remember your present situation is not your final destination.
Take it one day, one hour, one minute, one second at a time.
"If we don't find a way out of this soon, I'm gonna lose it. Lose it... It means go crazy, nuts, insane, bonzo, no longer in possession of ones faculties, three fries short of a Happy Meal, wacko!" Jack O'Neill - SG-1
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November 02, 2010, 08:58:51 AM »
Yep, you got it Kit. It WAS the giant stained glass window at JFK airport until it was dismantled
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2008-02-20-jfk-stained-glass-wall_N.htm
You are up!
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Jenna is our daughter, bad bladder damaged her kidneys.
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New kidney in a paired donation swap July 26, 2017.
Her story --->
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November 02, 2010, 08:54:54 PM »
What is the name of Fred and Ethel's dog in I Love Lucy?
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Ivanova: "Old Egyptian blessing: May God stand between you and harm in all the empty places you must walk." Babylon 5
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November 02, 2010, 11:04:08 PM »
Fred
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November 03, 2010, 05:52:32 PM »
That was Little Ricky's dog, not Fred and Ethel's dog.
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Ivanova: "Old Egyptian blessing: May God stand between you and harm in all the empty places you must walk." Babylon 5
Remember your present situation is not your final destination.
Take it one day, one hour, one minute, one second at a time.
"If we don't find a way out of this soon, I'm gonna lose it. Lose it... It means go crazy, nuts, insane, bonzo, no longer in possession of ones faculties, three fries short of a Happy Meal, wacko!" Jack O'Neill - SG-1
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November 03, 2010, 07:31:11 PM »
Fred and Ethel's dog was called "Butch".
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November 04, 2010, 04:49:29 PM »
That's right!
Fred and Ethel Mertz have a dog named Butch who appears in one episode of I Love Lucy, "The Diet", in which Lucy tries to lose 12 pounds so that she can fit into a size 12 outfit and perform at Ricky's club. In one particularly memorable scene, Lucy wrestles Butch for a scrap of meat. After this episode, Butch is never seen again.
Okay you are up!
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Ivanova: "Old Egyptian blessing: May God stand between you and harm in all the empty places you must walk." Babylon 5
Remember your present situation is not your final destination.
Take it one day, one hour, one minute, one second at a time.
"If we don't find a way out of this soon, I'm gonna lose it. Lose it... It means go crazy, nuts, insane, bonzo, no longer in possession of ones faculties, three fries short of a Happy Meal, wacko!" Jack O'Neill - SG-1
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November 07, 2010, 12:23:00 AM »
Already close to death, an English king was given lethal injections of morphine and cocaine shortly before midnight, to ensure that news of his demise would be broken in "The Times" rather than the less prestigious evening newspapers?
Who was he?
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November 07, 2010, 06:41:13 AM »
George V ?
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Correct, kristina. Over to you.
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November 08, 2010, 01:23:30 AM »
Thanks, galvo. I remembered this because it is such a cruel evidence of snobbism...
Here is my question:
The piston-engine (used in steam-trains and automobiles) was a great invention.
But, equally as great, was the invention which allowed cars to drive safely at speed round bends.
It also made it easy to reverse a car into a parking space and to perform a U-turn equally smoothly, etc...
This invention, if it had not been made, would have restricted the speed of cars
such that they would not have gone faster than the old horse-driven coach.
What was this invention?
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Bach was no pioneer; his style was not influenced by any past or contemporary century.
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November 08, 2010, 07:56:33 AM »
power steering
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November 08, 2010, 09:04:32 AM »
Differential gearing
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November 08, 2010, 09:26:12 AM »
Stoday beat me (or rather Gwyn) to it!
Although, he said technically it is a differential axle, but then remarked in confidence that he supposes it is differential gearing within the axle, so he would give it to him.
OK! I just made a tactical error in telling Gwyn that I thought Stoday was a civil engineer, and he then retracted his agreement with/respect of Stoday's answer and muttered "Pfft! What the hell does a brickie know about it?" Just the messenger here....
(Gwyn's older bro is a civil engineer, so easy does it on the bridges in south Wales!)
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