Quinn Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Nice one clobha - a further clue is that as previous questions - drink is involved ! Quote Link to comment
bumblebee Posted July 16, 2020 Author Share Posted July 16, 2020 Anything to do with a break for booze while doing a printing job :) Quote Link to comment
sydneyjohn57 Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 7 hours ago, Tomcat said: what are these items ....they were made for a Steam Punk movie but copied from an old invention....you only get 60 seconds to look Part of the picture is missing and one would probably get it within a minute .. if no one gets it ill post the whole picture and one can deduce by logic what they are (like an IQ Question)... however enough info here methinks Look like dice to me. 2 Quote Link to comment
Quinn Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 2 hours ago, bumblebee said: Anything to do with a break for booze while doing a printing job :) Not quite - tho' years ago the pubs on Fleet Street used to open odd hours for the newspaper workers. Not sure about the name of one popular pub - but it was known as The Flying Piss Pot ! 2 Quote Link to comment
Tomcat Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 14 hours ago, sydneyjohn57 said: Look like dice to me. yes , spot on Syd 1 Quote Link to comment
Pdoggg Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 While we are banging our heads against the printing press regarding Wayzgoose, here is a multiple choicer. Where is it illegal to own a rabbit unless you're a magician? Auckland, New Zealand Queensland, Australia Las Vegas, Nevada Beverly Hills, California 1 Quote Link to comment
Tomcat Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 ill go with Australia as i think they have had issues with these buggers over the years 1 Quote Link to comment
Pdoggg Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 4 hours ago, Tomcat said: ill go with Australia as i think they have had issues with these buggers over the years Correctomundo! Quote The government of Queensland says that rabbits are a serious environmental pest, responsible for between $600 million and $1 billion in damage every year. You are only allowed to have a rabbit under a strict permit for entertainment (like magic shows) and certain kinds of research. And if you expect the penalty to be a civil citation or a slap on the wrist, think again — the maximum sentence for owning a rabbit as a pet without a license is $44,000 or up to six months imprisonment. If you do own a bunny, you are required to turn it in to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) so that it can be relocated to another state in Australia. Quote Link to comment
Quinn Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 On 7/15/2020 at 3:52 PM, Quinn said: New question. What is a 'Wayzgoose' ! Well - thousands of replies - none quite right - ciobha gracefully standing back. So here is the answer - https://www.thefreedictionary.com/wayzgoose However it says an 'annual' outing - they were more frequent than that ! 3 Quote Link to comment
ciobha Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 Yep, it was well before my time so I was never fortunate enough to witness it personally, but basically what happened was that the boss would treat all he printers to a free "jolly up" to mark the end of summer, and the start of 6 months printing practically in the dark. The tradition faded away many years ago. When I was on the branch committee in the printing union (the NGA it was back in those days) we tried to keep the tradition in a way, and held charity events through the year so we could have a free Christmas dinner and drinks for retired members. This also faded out as the various unions merged through time, but it was quite a popular back then, The old fellas would have turned up by the dozen to enjoy a free afternoon of drink, and of course more important, a chance to catch up with their old colleagues and have a good old chin wag about the old days. Some of them used to somewhat overdo the drink, I remember several times daughters coming to pick up the elderly old dad, and finding him in the corner lying upside down behind the piano, totally sozzled!! Great days. 4 Quote Link to comment
Pdoggg Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 What are Canada's two national sports? Quote Link to comment
globetrotter1 Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 5 minutes ago, Pdoggg said: What are Canada's two national sports? Hockey and lacrosse although lacrosse is officially considered the national sport 1 Quote Link to comment
Pdoggg Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 Just now, globetrotter1 said: Hockey and lacrosse We have a winner! Quote Link to comment
Tomcat Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 anyone reading the news last week must know what the below refers to..............now this has probably been in every pub quiz recently Ophiuchus 1 Quote Link to comment
ciobha Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 It is something to do with everybody's star sign now being totally wrong, and we have been assigned new signs depending when your birthday falls. 1 Quote Link to comment
bumblebee Posted July 24, 2020 Author Share Posted July 24, 2020 16 minutes ago, ciobha said: It is something to do with everybody's star sign now being totally wrong, and we have been assigned new signs depending when your birthday falls. Think that’s it, I heard something a week or so ago on the news that there were originally 13 star signs and ... 3 hours ago, Tomcat said: Ophiuchus is the missing thirteenth one. 1 Quote Link to comment
Tomcat Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 yes , well done both of you Gents 1 Quote Link to comment
Pdoggg Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 How long does it take one drop of water to travel the length Mississippi River? Quote Link to comment
Imran Khan Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 24 minutes ago, Pdoggg said: How long does it take one drop of water to travel the Mississippi River? its non-goog;e trivia isnt it ? ;) Quote Link to comment
Pdoggg Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 1 minute ago, Imran Khan said: its non-goog;e trivia isnt it ? ;) Yes. Non-Google. Quote Link to comment
stoolpusher Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 About as long as it takes a jockey to ride a beetle through a barrel of treacle. I am probably wrong 1 Quote Link to comment
ciobha Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 6 hours ago, Pdoggg said: How long does it take one drop of water to travel the length Mississippi River? Wild stab I will say 6 months. 1 Quote Link to comment
bumblebee Posted August 2, 2020 Author Share Posted August 2, 2020 I’ll undercut Ciobha by 4 months and got with 2 months ish. 1 Quote Link to comment
Tomcat Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 maybe it never arrives at the end. Sounds like one of those questions the Greeks used to ponder two thousand years ago. 1 Quote Link to comment
Woodie Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 This question is symptomatic of what happens to people when something like Covid is around!. Quote Link to comment
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