Fruit Machine Chat

am tempted to flout convention and give you that for the visual gag. but not that tempted.
bear in mind that piracy was a hugely dangerous lifestyle and much time was spent in choppy seas.

right, so there was a likelihood that they would be lost at sea.

so did they were gold earrings in the belief that they needed to pay to get into heaven?

shiver me timbers. you are mighty close me handsome. just missing one link.
you wouldn't get to heaven unless...

so you used to the earrings to pay for your funeral???

or a coffin...



though surely if you were lost at sea, they'd never find your body anyway?

correct, if your corpse was washed ashore your gold earrings would pay for a dignified burial and your safe passage to the afterlife.
over to His Eminence (who fights like a cow).

Cheers, me old salty sea-dog.

Right, back to the World Cup, and following on from tka's question the other day...

Which is the only team to have none of its players playing in its national league?

how about angola? don't they all play in portugal?

Not all of them!

(this snippet was lifted from the BBC website, so if it turns to be baloney then apologies in advance).

isnt it Trinidad and tobago?

his may be from left field but perhaps argentina?

It's not the answer I have on my card.

If I wasn't at work, I'd actually go and find out whom out the teams that you've mentioned actually play in their own country.

paraguay?

Ghana?

nope and nope.

for all you quiz fiends, there's quite a good quiz on the BBC website about the World Cup. I've just gone Iran and lost 4-0 to England in the Quarters

my super dooper new computer can actually make that bbc game work

croatia?