Silliness Quiz - Page 303

poohbear_nc · 11-09-2011, 02:19 PM

That insane woman who has had all the plastic surgeries to try to emulate Barbie?

HomeInMyShoes · 11-09-2011, 02:29 PM

^Lol. I see you've finally succombed to the call for dinner.

poohbear_nc · 11-09-2011, 02:30 PM

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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

^Lol. I see you've finally succombed to the call for dinner.

No - I've embraced my stardom!

Bilbo1967 · 11-09-2011, 02:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Shayne Parkinson

Top-heavy Barbie?

It is Barbie, yes!

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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

Morrisey?

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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

That insane woman who has had all the plastic surgeries to try to emulate Barbie?

No - the real Barbie.

Shayne Parkinson · 11-09-2011, 06:12 PM

History of a different sort:

New Zealand's Great Barrier Island (not to be confused with Oz's Great Barrier Reef) had very limited communication with the mainland until a cable supplied a telephone link in the early C20th. Before then, in the aftermath of one of New Zealand's worst-ever shipwrecks in 1894, the locals set up a special mail service. It seems to have been very reliable, with only occasional slips such as a letter going to Auckland via Sydney, Australia. How were the letters transported?

poohbear_nc · 11-09-2011, 06:24 PM

Seal mail?

Stitchawl · 11-09-2011, 06:43 PM

And my friend's laughed at me when I said my stamp collection would be a benefit in my old age!!!

Carrier pigeons! With special stamps honoring the clever birdies!

(By the way... The 'real' Barbie [she for whom the doll was created and named] lived about 10 miles down the road from my house in Vermont. Daddy really had a vivid imagination! Barbie didn't look a bit like the doll! Not a bit!)

Stitchawl

Shayne Parkinson · 11-09-2011, 07:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Stitchawl

And my friend's laughed at me when I said my stamp collection would be a benefit in my old age!!!

Carrier pigeons! With special stamps honoring the clever birdies!

Stitchawl

Philately will get you everywhere! Quite right.

http://www.thebarrier.co.nz/History/PigeonPost.htm

Stitchawl · 11-09-2011, 07:57 PM

As long as we have some geography going, and birds too...

Name the major Canary Island!

Stitchawl

SneakySnake · 11-09-2011, 08:32 PM

The big doggie?

WT Sharpe · 11-09-2011, 10:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Stitchawl

...(By the way... The 'real' Barbie [she for whom the doll was created and named] lived about 10 miles down the road from my house in Vermont. Daddy really had a vivid imagination! Barbie didn't look a bit like the doll! Not a bit!)

Stitchawl

Wikipedia says:

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Barbie is a fashion doll manufactured by the American toy-company Mattel, Inc. and launched in March 1959. American businesswoman Ruth Handler is credited with the creation of the doll using a German doll called Bild Lilli as her inspiration.

Stitchawl · 11-10-2011, 01:07 AM

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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Wikipedia says:

As usual, Wikipedia is incorrect!

Well, not incorrect, but incomplete. Ruth and Elliot had their home in Danby, Vt., although their business was located in California. The 'real' Barbie was not nearly so cute.

Stitchawl

SneakySnake · 11-10-2011, 01:26 AM

I think that stitchy should make it his life's work to update and correct Wikipedia.

It will be for the benefit of all.

Stitchawl · 11-10-2011, 01:32 AM

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Originally Posted by SneakySnake

I think that stitchy should make it his life's work to update and correct Wikipedia.

It will be for the benefit of all.

Wikipedia IS an on-going update, with loads of different people contributing to it. There is just as much complete mis-information as correct. The site for Charles Bronson says that he was 5'11". I'm 5'9" and he was considerably shorter than me. We stood side by side often in Vermont, when he had his house in Woodstock. At the time he rode a Yellow 750K Honda 'rat bike' and we would often be at the same overlooks on the weekends.

Stitchawl

HomeInMyShoes · 11-10-2011, 05:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Stitchawl

As long as we have some geography going, and birds too...

Name the major Canary Island!

Stitchawl

Tenerife?

11-09-2011, 06:43 PM	#4537
Stitchawl Opsimath Posts: 12,344 Karma: 187123287 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand Device: Sony PRS-650, iPhone 5, Kobo Glo, Sony PRS-350, iPad, Samsung Galaxy	And my friend's laughed at me when I said my stamp collection would be a benefit in my old age!!! Carrier pigeons! With special stamps honoring the clever birdies! (By the way... The 'real' Barbie [she for whom the doll was created and named] lived about 10 miles down the road from my house in Vermont. Daddy really had a vivid imagination! Barbie didn't look a bit like the doll! Not a bit!) Stitchawl Last edited by Stitchawl; 11-09-2011 at 06:46 PM.

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poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,850 Karma: 135242149 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	That insane woman who has had all the plastic surgeries to try to emulate Barbie?

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Shayne Parkinson Author Posts: 1,532 Karma: 5447804 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: New Zealand Device: Samsung Galaxy Tab	History of a different sort: New Zealand's Great Barrier Island (not to be confused with Oz's Great Barrier Reef) had very limited communication with the mainland until a cable supplied a telephone link in the early C20th. Before then, in the aftermath of one of New Zealand's worst-ever shipwrecks in 1894, the locals set up a special mail service. It seems to have been very reliable, with only occasional slips such as a letter going to Auckland via Sydney, Australia. How were the letters transported?

11-09-2011, 06:24 PM	#4536
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,850 Karma: 135242149 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	Seal mail?

11-09-2011, 07:57 PM	#4539
Stitchawl Opsimath Posts: 12,344 Karma: 187123287 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand Device: Sony PRS-650, iPhone 5, Kobo Glo, Sony PRS-350, iPad, Samsung Galaxy	As long as we have some geography going, and birds too... Name the major Canary Island! Stitchawl

11-09-2011, 08:32 PM	#4540
SneakySnake I'm watching you! Posts: 6,113 Karma: 22344652 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Sunny Coast Qld, OZ Device: Sony PRS-900(unused lately) iPadAir2, want me Kindle Oasis	The big doggie?

11-10-2011, 01:26 AM	#4543
SneakySnake I'm watching you! Posts: 6,113 Karma: 22344652 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Sunny Coast Qld, OZ Device: Sony PRS-900(unused lately) iPadAir2, want me Kindle Oasis	I think that stitchy should make it his life's work to update and correct Wikipedia. It will be for the benefit of all.

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