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Anything to do with grinding out flour from corn in a mill scenario?
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No -- it's less literal, and more figurative, than either of the above.
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People who live in the countryside? If so, is it city folk looking down on them as being old fashioned?
You've got it -- rural farming "types", a lot of whose activities involve the growing of one variety or another, of corn. Often excellent citizens, but tending to conservatism / limited horizons / old-fashioned-ness / preference for the simple and obvious. Quoting Google Books: "By the late 19th century, performers touring the 'provinces' began using 'Corny' to refer to the low theatrical fare preferred by such unsophisticated audiences". In the USA, an expression akin to this, used by big-city showbiz bods -- "playing the Corn Belt": a big area of the Mid-West, the chief crop there being corn = maize -- citizens thereof, famously far from sophisticated (and tending to be puritanically religious): entertainment which they would like, needing to be "simple and obvious" -- and free of anything which could be thought "unseemly": thus, for switched-on city slickers, feeble / boring / moronic !
@SteveM70: your turn to go out into the boondocks with a feeble and screamingly-obvious general-knowledge question for the hicks
.Resourceful thinking; but, afraid not -- see above.
(See above) -- ee-aye-ee-aye, no (sorry !)
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What is “a party game for horrible people”?
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"Monopoly" (because of the money angle) or "Cluedo" (because of the murder angle)?
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Neither of those
Spot on, and no you weren’t. The quote marks were because that’s exactly how it’s described on the box. And a mighty fine (and offensive) game it is too.
All yours........
One of my favourites...alas I’m currently in hospital and whilst this is keeping me very entertained my mind can’t currently compose a question, so yet again, open floor!
Hope this will keep you entertained, and you make a speedy recovery
What is missing from this series of letters:
CDILM?
Mcr Warrior
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V and X as they are Roman numerals?
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Continuing the 'Roman' theme, who was the Ancient Roman god of boundary stones and land markers?
The name we are looking for also has a modern day railway-industry meaning.
The name we are looking for also has a modern day railway-industry meaning.
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Might once have been a Japanese deity, but not an Ancient Roman god, as far as I am aware!
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Think he might have been a non-speaking extra in "Up Pompeii", wasn't an Ancient Roman god though!
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That'd be either Vulcan or Ogmius. No, not them.
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Nope. 'Datum' is indeed a word of Latin origin, as also is 'Plate', but together or individually, it's not an Ancient Roman god.