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Bit of an impossible question if you don't know the answer.

The chap in question is a soap star actor. Either his character name or his real name will do.
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Jim off Eastenders?
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Wrong soap
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a yorkshireman in a soap. i'll go for the bald fella who says "i say, i say" in corrie. or that guy with the crazy buggers grips from emmerdale, seth is it?

as you can tell, soaps aren't a strong suit.
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Nor mine. But it's a bit of an impossible question unless you know the answer.

Which was Bruce Jones, who plays Les Battersby.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Jones_%28Actor%29

I'll give it to UP since he was closest, and has had an entire weekend to concoct a fiendish poser for us.
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ta.

this picture is of the brontë sisters painted by their brother branwell (also a novelist). originally his own face was behind the pillar in the middle but he painted himself out when he realised that his sisters had achieved much more fame than he would. the restoration was very amateurish hence the ghosting on the portrait as it looks now
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well that's my favourite painting but here is the question:

branwell brontë was notable in how he decided to die. riven with palsy and addled by drugs he knew he was dying and decided to prove a point, what was it?
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Ah, I'm afraid I know this one straight off. He died standing up and leaning on the mantlepiece just to prove it could be done. ;)
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spot on.
this is douglas adams's second favourite fact.

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Post by Weyland »

Let's keep it literary, and seeing as you mentioned Douglas Adams (for those of you who have read Dirk Gently)...

What, according to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ran "Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea"?

Name for bonus points, but I'll accept what type of thing it is.
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rivers seems too obvious so i'll go for erm, sewers?
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It is not sewers.
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Then i'll go for rivers, obvious as it may seem. Only thing i can think of that fits?

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Post by Weyland »

It is a river. ;) Sorry UP, I couldn't really give you that one...

"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea."

My fave poem by my fave poet. Anyway, over to Matt...
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bloody part time phœnix lurkers. grumble, moan, mither, bitch, whinge, gripe. i bet he doesn't even post a question until someone prompts him. all i have to do today is sign some christmas cards and that Matt is definitely off my list.
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I'm one of the original phoenix elite! It's just this thread has about as much life as a morgue these days. Seeing as i've nowt to do, a question shall follow in the next 15 mins..

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