I used to know the orchid thing. It may be something to do with the roots resembling the female reproductive organs. I dont know, it's been about 6 years since i studied any of this stuff.

Machie wrote:
> @ Grix
>
> All correct :) except the capital of Norway which is Oslo. As
> for your questions, I'm sorry to say I didn't know them, but I
> got curious and googled ;)

:D

The Orchid thing is straightforward and fun, but the Venus Fly-Trap may -possibly- be a little more.. ruder!

lol - i cant recall which ones i used to have or where they went, probably lost in time and space like so many child hood toys.

I've got Prime.  The others I gave to a kid up the road that I was babysitting or sold to parents who were desperate for the toys while they were out of stock (and made money on them, of course).

The new animated toys look great. Not sure about the cartoon though, it's a bit too cheesy at times.

okay you win :D

I wouldnt be sruprised if you still had a few figures from your childhood still. I wish I did. :( I want my Stegosaurus and Hot Rod back.

I don't need to tell you that I've got the 2 disc ultimate edition of that with 2 versions of the animated movie and 5 hours of extras!

pb you can keep your Michael Bay movies, I prefer the classics. ;P

@ Grix

All correct :) except the capital of Norway which is Oslo. As for your questions, I'm sorry to say I didn't know them, but I got curious and googled ;)

It's being read as a 32GB drive. Same thing happened with my backup drive. It was 20GB, i stuck it in and it was down to 10Gb. I reinstalled on it and it's now down to 4GB. I can only imagine there is some sort of invisible partition on it.

Nin wrote:
> Bleh harddrives continue to confuse me. I bought a new one last
> week, 80GB, set it all up and it's only registering as 32GB. It's
> not the first time i've had this problem, it's happened with
> every drive i've put in. There has to be something wrong with the
> BIOS settings.

Do you mean the bios is seeing it as a 32GB drive or that you can only format it to 32GB?

Black8704 wrote:
> This day is dragging.... Should have booked the whole week off
> work!
> Everyone have a good bank holiday?

Yeah! Except I worked saturday and monday and now have a cold too boot. Life is grand.

Bleh harddrives continue to confuse me. I bought a new one last week, 80GB, set it all up and it's only registering as 32GB. It's not the first time i've had this problem, it's happened with every drive i've put in. There has to be something wrong with the BIOS settings.

Not bad.  I need to get my hands on a PC from a mate of mine.  he's giving it to me in a bid to clear out before he moves to London.  All it should be missing is a Hard Drive.

This day is dragging.... Should have booked the whole week off work!
Everyone have a good bank holiday?

Emmie87 wrote:
> Moring all. Hope your all ok today!
>
> I was lucky enough to have the Bank Holiday Monday off, but with
> that comes a lot fo work waiting for me today and means i have
> less time to come on here and chat : (

Same here (though it doesn't seem to stop me trying)...

Moring all. Hope your all ok today!

I was lucky enough to have the Bank Holiday Monday off, but with that comes a lot fo work waiting for me today and means i have less time to come on here and chat : (

Just make sure you exploit it to the maximum by asking for sympathy from everyone.  :D

Hours are alright unless you are me *cough*

On the plus side I've got a cold too. So the weeks going fantastic so far :)

Not good.  What are the hours like in Freeola?  Any flexitime? :)

Still grey and wet here.  My wasp sting seems to be clearing up quite well, only ichy now and occassionally reminds me it's there.  I think I got off lightly!

Little bright here this morning so not too bad, my car wouldn't start this morning though I think the battery is gone. Had to wake up the old dear for a lift in!

Not a good start in my book....

Morning.  Bit of a grey start to the day here.

Not too bad a day, apart from getting stung on the shoulder by a wasp.  Stung him back...with my foot.

Back to the ol' office tomorrow.  I'm sure there's lots of 'fun' in store there.

I'm deciding to totally ignore the carnival, and make my way down to Hyde Park for a picnic. (I'm heading to Soho for a drink-up)

Hey guys I'm working on getting chad and lil girl banned, why I can't already doesn't make sense to me but that's a different story.


Also bank holiday great fun, worked Saturday 9-6 and doing the same again today yay!

(Apologies for a PMT joke, sincerely, I'm so bored of those myself I don't know why I made it)

And I also realise My Very Easy Method perhaps shouldn't end in Planets any more, which makes it a bit stranger, although I guess you could say mnemonics sounds like harmonics, and you could say music does indeed make the world go round and My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Neptune, which makes me wonder if Neptune was all that musical because he doesn't sing in The Little Mermaid if I recall. But then he wasn't Neptune, he was Triton.

Let's see if I can think of a few questions.

How did the beautiful flower Orchid get it's name? (Clue - it's not a beautiful name, and it's got something to do with the shape of the roots)

And staying with plants: What is the tipitiwitchet? (Clue - it's covered in tiny hairs and very sensitive to the touch)

I'll do them honestly for a change

Machie wrote:
> - What is the capital city of Norway?
Hmm.. Valhalla is all I can guess

> - How many strings does a violin have?
Damnit, really should know this one. Four?

> - Which planet is the fifth from the sun?
Jupiter I think (My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets)

> - Which classical composer became deaf near the end of his
> life?
All of them! Maybe. Gershwin died from brain cancer. I thought Mozart was deaf when he was younger anyway, I forget. Did he have some sort of infection that killed him off slowly? I'll say Mozart for now.

> - How many months have 28 days?

Well according to my calculations which I'm pretty sure are correct, the average woman's menstrual cycle lasts 28 days, which means there must be about.. 70 or so days in a month, so I guess as you can fit so many lunar cycles in, that'd make it every month!

Hi. Interesting weekend so far.  Got that tv from Argos, spent today playing games and watching films.  Not sure what we're doing tomorrow though.  Hope everyone else is having a fun bank holiday weekend.

We love quizzes on Freeola. I'm not a very good quiz master though, my questions are always too easy.

- What is the capital city of Norway?
- How many strings does a violin have?
- Which planet is the fifth from the sun?
- Which classical composer became deaf near the end of his life?
- How many months have 28 days?

:D

I prefer the 'arguing on the internet is like competing in the special olympics' photoshop but maybe not

I feel like playing a pub quiz.

See what I mean.

No you haven't

Someone write something before I overload the server with my nonsense opinions

I'm not a mod of chat, only the sport forum as far as I'm aware.

Come on GP, you're a mod, do something :)

Emmie, your buddy chad is back.

2 quizzies to look forward too :) I better start revising.

The quiz sign-up thread is now up, make sure to get your registration in before the quiz starts!

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