The famous fruit-chat quiz!
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by Istenem » Thu Jun 08, 2006 3:13 pm
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.
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by Cardinal Sin » Thu Jun 08, 2006 3:20 pm
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?
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by Istenem » Thu Jun 08, 2006 3:26 pm
shiver me timbers. you are mighty close me handsome. just missing one link.
you wouldn't get to heaven unless...
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by Cardinal Sin » Thu Jun 08, 2006 3:31 pm
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?
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by Istenem » Thu Jun 08, 2006 3:34 pm
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).
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by Cardinal Sin » Thu Jun 08, 2006 3:42 pm
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?
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by Istenem » Thu Jun 08, 2006 3:52 pm
how about angola? don't they all play in portugal?
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by Cardinal Sin » Thu Jun 08, 2006 4:01 pm
Not all of them!
(this snippet was lifted from the BBC website, so if it turns to be baloney then apologies in advance).
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by darcle » Thu Jun 08, 2006 4:06 pm
isnt it Trinidad and tobago?
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by Istenem » Thu Jun 08, 2006 4:11 pm
his may be from left field but perhaps argentina?
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by Cardinal Sin » Thu Jun 08, 2006 4:16 pm
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.
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by Istenem » Thu Jun 08, 2006 4:21 pm
paraguay?
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by thehut » Thu Jun 08, 2006 4:21 pm
Ghana?
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by Cardinal Sin » Thu Jun 08, 2006 4:38 pm
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
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by Istenem » Thu Jun 08, 2006 4:52 pm
my super dooper new computer can actually make that bbc game work
croatia?
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