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xotGD
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Illustrious?
Spamcan81
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Was an American battleship IIRC. Iowa has already been mentioned so I’ll guess at USS Missouri.
Peter Mugridge
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It was a USS example, yes, however...
Iowa was recommissioned in 1984.
Missouri was recommissioned in 1986.
...so it was neither of those two. The other vessels mentioned are not battleships; Illustrious was a light aircraft carrier ( although she was indeed commissioned in 1982, she was in any case a new build not a recommissioning ) and the HMS Belfast is a preserved cruiser.
Iowa was recommissioned in 1984.
Missouri was recommissioned in 1986.
...so it was neither of those two. The other vessels mentioned are not battleships; Illustrious was a light aircraft carrier ( although she was indeed commissioned in 1982, she was in any case a new build not a recommissioning ) and the HMS Belfast is a preserved cruiser.
Spamcan81
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USS Wisconsin?
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Mcr Warrior
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USS Enterprise?
DaleCooper
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New Jersey
randyrippley
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USS Long Beach
Peter Mugridge
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DaleCooper
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Thank you.BOOM!!! Right on target...
You may fire the guns of the next question.
Next question:
What was the Pasilalinic-sympathetic compass?
Gloster
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A compass that always points towards the Pasila district of Helsinki?
Or does not point to magnetic North Pole, but points to Pasila?
DaleCooper
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That wouldn't be much use unless you wanted to go to Pasila but still more useful than the actual thing.
Isn't that the same as the above answer?
DaleCooper
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Hint:
Despite its name it doesn't indicate direction nor draw circles and as far as I'm aware it has no Finnish connections. It is (very) loosely connected to the "tempest prognosticator" which was the subject of my last question.
GRALISTAIR
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This isn't something to do with that French Inventor who was into the occult and black arts is it?
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A concept that all animals eventually evolve to become crabs
DaleCooper
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Yes, the inventor was a French occultist.
That's a concept that deserves a suitably esoteric name but that name isn't "Pasilalinic-sympathetic compass".
GRALISTAIR
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My memory is not what it used to be. ISTR it was something really weird and stupid. Two earthworms could communicate by some telemetric/telepathic/other weird nonsense when they were about to reproduce and this instrument was supposed to detect the telemetric waves - anyway, really silly.
DaleCooper
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Near enough.
It was a telepathic communication device using snails that had previously mated, obviously worth trying just in case it worked.
Full bizarre details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasilalinic-sympathetic_compass
Your turn...
GRALISTAIR
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Lets have a nice easy one. Music lyrics.
Name album, Band and song.
Where does the lyric "Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way" come from?
Name album, Band and song.
Where does the lyric "Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way" come from?
DaleCooper
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Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd, Time
GRALISTAIR
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Wow that was quick. Perfect answer. Your turn
DaleCooper
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That's because I am of a certain age however I haven't got a question so open floor...
Peter Mugridge
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James I...?
That's the guy -- old Slobberchops himself. (A late uncle of mine, born and brought up in Chester: told of how when he first heard, at school, that uncomplimentary characterisation of James; it was his first encounter with the word "Christendom" -- he mentally mixed it up with the village of Christleton, just outside Chester, and wondered whatever the King could have been doing in that rather obscure settlement.)
@Peter Mugridge: next question is yours to set.
Peter Mugridge
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Thank you; I'll stay with history this time and I hope it's not too obscure as it relates to an ancestor of mine...
Which (in)famous Lord chief Justice of England ended up in the Tower of London but died of pneumonia before he could be tried?
Which (in)famous Lord chief Justice of England ended up in the Tower of London but died of pneumonia before he could be tried?
I believe it was Judge Jeffreys (spelling?), of the "Bloody Assizes" after the Duke of Monmouth's rebellion. As a supporter and servant of the ousted James II, the Judge was deeply "in bother" with the new regime.
Peter Mugridge
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Oh Gawd - that was easier than I though it might be!!! You spelt it right as well. You must really know your history to be that quick; do you plead guilty or very guilty? Anyone wondering, he's my great-10 or great-12 ( I forget how many "greats" exactly!" ) grandfather on my mother's mother's side...
I condemn you to set the next question.
It just so happens that recently, I was reading a historical novel whose principal characters are on the rebel side in the Monmouth uprising; suffering consequently, in the Assizes -- whence things discovered concerning your august (if ferocious) ancestor, and what finally became of him.
My thanks, sir. A nearly-seasonal one, concerning the carol The Twelve Days of Christmas (the one with the partridge). Taking things fully verse by verse, all verses: what is the ultimate total number of presents which the lucky -- or not so lucky -- loved one; ends up receiving?