341o2
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DaleCooper
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I believe at that time Spain was using the Gregorian calendar but England was still using the Julian calendar. Does that make a difference?
341o2, DaleCooper: between you, you have both of the reasons for the statement being false, as it indeed is -- Cervantes actually died on the 22nd, with his funeral on the 23rd; and even if both had died on the same date, the events would have been actually ten days apart, because of the Gregorian / Julian calendars factor.
DaleCooper, you first stated "false"; so, your floor.
DaleCooper, you first stated "false"; so, your floor.
What is all this avocado business?
DaleCooper
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It's the old question: "Avocado?"
Answer: "No thanks I've just had one."
Also applies to Avogadro and Hava Nagila
Enough flippancy next question:
Querying why exporting rodents to York University is objectionable professor Adler said "Don't forget Germany's happy just knowing London Zoo X-rays coypus,voles but not mice".
What's all that about?
Off top of head, haven't the slightest idea ! I presume this isn't a sneaked-in cryptic anagram-type one
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DaleCooper
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Off top of head, haven't the slightest idea ! I presume this isn't a sneaked-in cryptic anagram-type one
No, it isn't a "sneaked-in cryptic anagram" and it doesn't require any special knowledge; anyone should be able to see the answer. I don't think Google will be any help though.
DaleCooper
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You're barking up the wrong tree.
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The answer is probably under your nose, it's certainly under mine.
Remember guesses beget hints.
HMS Ark Royal
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London Zoo does not xray them as a matter of course
DaleCooper
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Is that a statement or a guess? If the first it's irrelevant, if the second it's wrong.
HMS Ark Royal
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DaleCooper
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OK as it was a guess it deserves the promised hint.
According to my rough calculation only about 18% of the sentence is relevant to the answer.
krus_aragon
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At a scan, I see twenty-six words, and I think each letter of the English alphabet is used once for the start of each word.
DaleCooper
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Almost there but there's a bit more to it or the composition would have been a lot easier.
krus_aragon
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Ah, following the QWERTY keyboard, too!
OBJECTION!
I put it to you Sir this is indeed a "sneaked-in cryptic anagram" and you seek to misguide the efforts of the quizzing enthusiasts. What do you have to say for yourself Sir?
DaleCooper
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I wouldn't want to try anagrammatising those 144 letters but you're welcome to give it a go. As for the charge of "seeking to misguide"; I plead guilty and proud of it. As penance my next question will concern the amusing Battlestar Galactica episode when the commander's trousers fell down just as the ship's female chaplain entered his cabin.
That's it, your turn...
krus_aragon
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In which case I'll set this question for your enjoyment:
Who (or what) originally thought that we could play well with only five colours?
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HMS Ark Royal
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Joseph?
DaleCooper
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WPBSA (World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association)?
krus_aragon
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Nope.
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I like your thinking, but computers would more likely be limited to 2 or 4 (2^2) colours, rather than 5.
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Neither of those started with five colours, to my knowledge.
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Clue time:
Who (or what) originally thought that we could play well with only five colours?
Peter Mugridge
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A completely wild guess - football team colours?
krus_aragon
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No. This is more of an indoor activity.
Peter Mugridge
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Errr... pool, then?
DaleCooper
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Isaac Newton? - he originally divided the spectrum into five colours (red, yellow, green, blue and violet).
