Which Singer said the only cultural advantage of L.A. was a quirk of the traffic laws?
Alvy Singer, played by Woody Allen in Annie Hall comments about Los Angeles:
“I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.”
*Note. There are two versions of this quote, one says move to, one says live in. Can somebody with the video give me a definitive answer? Ideally with a sound file.
What's the link?
Breeding.
Andre Agassi, who is married to Steffi Graf, and is breeding with him. Can we expect another world class tennis player?
The second picture is Milene Domingues, highly talented footballer who is as beautiful as her estranged husband Ronaldo is ugly. They have a child, Ronald, if he has inherited half the talent of either parent he will be a professional footballer. Let's hope he gets his looks from his mother's side of the family.
And finally a racehorse. Any racehorse would do as they all tend to breed the best with the best but this one is specifically Secretariat, a true legend among the horse racing and breeding community.
“101,389 metres! Just by changing out of these spikes into those things? Sounds great, but are you sure they're approved?”
Explain the problem.
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The speaker is salivating at the prospect of shattering Jonathan Edwards' 18.29 metres world record in the triple jump; the problem is that the killjoys at the IAAF might frown upon the use of seven-league boots (triple 7 leagues = 63 miles = 101389m.). |
Alan
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What is the link?
Surnames derived from occupations. Jimmy CARTER, Ted TURNER (wood lathe operator), Angela Lansbury as Jessica FLETCHER (arrow maker), Helmut Schmidt (iron worker, blacksmith), Alice COOPER (wooden cask maker), Enzo FERRARI (iron worker, blacksmith), Lord ARCHER.
What do these schools have in common, and why is this list necessarily incomplete?
Ithaca College,
New York University,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Temple University,
Albertus Magnus College,
Rhode Island College.
These schools are each in the same city as a school in the Ivy League (Cornell, Columbia, Harvard, Penn, Yale, Brown). There are no other universities in Princeton, NJ (Princeton) and Hanover, NH (Dartmouth).
Zack
Which fictional bully met Abraham Lincoln, hated Balaclava, and got out of Afghanistan just before the British lost control?
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Brigadier-General Harry Paget Flashman, V.C., K.C.B., K.C.I.E.; Chevalier, Legion of Honour; Order of Maria Theresa, Austria; Order of the Elephant, Denmark (temporary); U.S. Medal of Honor; San Serafino Order of Purity and Truth, 4th class; and "the biggest rogue ever to pull on a pair of Cherrypickers". |
Alan
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"I give the advice for what it is worth: if you want to learn a language properly, learn it in bed with a native girl - I'd have got more of the classics from an hour's wrestling with a Greek wench than I did in four years with Arnold."
Flashman is a wonderful literary creation, by being a cad he can get into entertaining situations no real gentleman ever would. Flashman is the notorious Rugby School bully of the classic Tom Brown's Schooldays grown up into a Victorian empire builder. Anti-heroes have more fun and allow better stories to be told.
Phil
On US telephones, letters are assigned to the number keys as follows:
2 = ABC, 3 = DEF, 4 = GHI, 5 = JKL, 6 = MNO, 7 = PQRS, 8 = TUV, 9 = WXYZ
My friend often has to tap out her social security number, which is 737-29-5222. She finds it easy to remember, in a self-referential way. Why?
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Very sneaky. The numbers "spell" SDRAWKCAB (BACKWARDS, when read backwards). |
Zack
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Alan
I was born in 1973. Using the digits 1 9 7 3 in that order, add as many of the following symbols: ( ) + - * / as you need, in order to make sums that result in each of the positive integers in turn.
Example: 1 + 9 + (7 * 3) = 31
You can also alter the positions of the digits as long as they remain in the correct order.
Example: 19 + 7 + 3 = 29
Can all the numbers from 1 up to 20 be made in this way and if not, which ones cannot?
It seems that 16 and 17 cannot be calculated. 8 and 10 require the use of either superscript or ** to indicate 'raising to the power of'.
1) (1+9)/(7+3)
2) 1-9+7+3
3) (1-9+7)*(-3)
4) -1+9-7+3
5) 1*(9-7+3)
6) 1+9-7+3
7) 1+((9-7)*3)
8) 1*(9-7)**3
9) 19-7-3
10) (1**9)*(7+3)
11) -1-9+(7*3)
12) -1+9+7-3
13) 1-9+(7*3)
14) 1+9+7-3
15) 19-7+3
16)
17)
18) -1+9+7+3
19) 1*(9+7+3)
20) 1+9+7+3
If anybody can calculate a way to do either 16 or 17 please let me know.
Vicky
In my trusty dictionary between slightly tainted or stoned and upright and fair I find a cultural snob, the only one there can be, the furthest behind, the sticks, a racecourse, hairy, stagy, an awkward youth, a welcome break, a whole burnt offering and sameness.
I also find an implement used in the killing fields.
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Between high ("slightly tainted" was new to me!) and honest, we find highbrow, Highlander, hindmost, hinterland, hippodrome, hirsute, histrionic, hobbledehoy (what a great word!), holiday, holocaust and homogeneity. We also have (ugh) a hoe. |
Zack
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Their worldly claim to fame just might be considered an oxymoron.
The second of eighteen will tell you their namesake. (Don't stray too far in your research!)
Don't go too far away, stay on this site. Go to Quiz 18, and the answer to question 2. John Sutter is the man after whom the Sutter Buttes were named. This runt of a volcanic mountain range has been called the smallest mountain range in the world. Which if you think about it is a very strange claim indeed. Bonsai mountains? Almost.