Monday’s questions were:
1. Who uses these phrases and what do they stand for: Dirty Gerttie, Tweak of the Thumb and Red Raw?
2. Name six members of the G8?
3. It’s farfalla in Italian, mariposa in Spanish and papillon in French – what is it in English?
4. Who said: “If you want something said, ask a man . . . if you want something done, ask a woman.”
5. The first four lines of our National Anthem in Maori are: E Ihowa Atua/O nga iwi matou ra/Ata whakarongona;
/Me aroha noa . What are the next four lines?
Gravedodger gets the electronic bunch of flowers with 4 right.
Paul got 2 1/2 right (they are numbers used by housie callers but you forgot to say which numbers they refer to) with a bonus for good try for # 3 and accuracy and humour for #5.
Adam got 2 right. I’m not familiar with Lilo Lil but he can have a 1/2 for her too and a bonus for humour for #4.
PDM got two right, 1/2 for being close and making me smile for #1 and 1/2 for #4 because he may be right.
The answers follow the break:
UPDATE: Bearhunter answered after I’d done the marking this morning and scored 4 1/2 which earns an electronic bunch of flowers too.
1. A bingo caller – 30, 51 and 64.
2. Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
3. Butterfly.
4. Margaret Thatcher.
5. Kia hua ko te pai;/Kia tau to atawhai;/Manaakitia mai/Aotearoa.

Where can I post this link to my Don Nicolson letter? Here?
http://robertguyton.blogspot.com/2010/06/duck-donald.html
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Robert – that’s what they call a thread jack. You’ll get away with it once but in future if you want to get traffic to your blog on an unrelated matter you’d be better to join a general debate elsewhere.
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Thank you ms. homepaddock. I felt that you might genuinely be interested in some to-ing and fro-ing between an environmentalist such as myself and Don Nicholson and couldn’t spot your ‘genearl’ thread. Feel free to scrub the link and forget I exist. I’ll manage.
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Sorry, Robert, I jumped on my high horse without thinking.
I don’t have a general debate but I do have a Your Page – under the photo, to the right of home, about, comment policy & where do you come from.
I set it up so people could introduce new topics but I’ll excuse you for not finding it because I’d forgotten it was there.
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robert – try it over at Red Alert or on Gotcha.
See what happens there – you are lucky HP is so tolerent.
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Thanks for the redirection hp.
Red Alert pdm?
That sounds like a commie enclave 🙂
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Many a truth spoken in jest
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Lilo Lil.
The other woman in the Liverpudlian comedy ” Bread “
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Ah, Adam, of course, that was a brilliant series.
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