09-25-2012, 02:48 PM | #9301 |
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How many total gifts are given in the song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas?"
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09-25-2012, 03:00 PM | #9302 |
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78 gifts
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09-25-2012, 04:40 PM | #9303 |
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09-25-2012, 04:43 PM | #9304 |
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Unless you count the maids-a-milking as two gifts each (maid and cow). But then we get into whether the partridge in a pear tree is one gift or two. And just how many eggs are those geese laying?
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09-25-2012, 04:48 PM | #9305 |
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The same gifts are repeated every day until Xmas? Never realized that, thought they were only given on that particular day.
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09-26-2012, 01:20 AM | #9308 | |
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But there have been jokes made about everything being repeated in the way they are repeated in the carol. There is a very funny series of thank-you letters, read by Penelope Keith, in which she gets more and more desperate as all the gifts keep arriving each day. |
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09-26-2012, 05:17 AM | #9310 |
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A question? Hmm.. that's the trouble with winning!
OK, one from a radio quiz: How would one expect Lord Attenborough to address General Melchett's adjutant, the heroine of the Forfarshire, and the ‘mother’ of Nibs, Slightly, Tootles, Curly and the Twins, and why? |
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09-26-2012, 06:28 AM | #9312 |
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Oh, I love these questions, when I am not only to dumb to know the answer, but even don't know what the question is about!
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09-26-2012, 07:52 AM | #9314 | |
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General Melchett is, of course, a fictional character from Black Adder Goes Forth, played by Stephen Fry. His adjutant is Captain Kevin Darling played by Tim McInerny. The heroine of the Forfarshire was Grace Darling, daughter of William Darling who was keeper of the Longstone Lighthouse. With her father, they took a 21ft rowing boat out in weather too rough for the local lifeboat on a journey of about a mile to rescue survivors of the Forfarshire, that had struck rocks and sunk. The 'mother' of the lost boys was Wendy Darling. And Lord Attenborough is Lord Richard 'Dicky' Attenborough, an actor, producer and director. His 'informal autobiography' is entitled "Entirely Up to You, Darling". He is indeed a 'luvvie'. Over to you, Bilbo1967. |
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