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Post by Hunny on Nov 16, 2012 12:05:14 GMT
This week's quiz!...
1 Open the nearest book to page 47. What's the first sentence?2 Do you say something when someone has more than 20 items?3 Name three uses for fifty golf balls, other than to play golf.4 How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?5 If life is so short, why do we do so many things we don’t like and like so many things we don’t do?
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Post by trubble on Nov 25, 2012 1:39:05 GMT
1 Open the nearest book to page 47. What's the first sentence?These are easy to make from ingredients most of us usually have to hand, and are satisfyingly chewy. (The Home Cookbook - Monty & Sarah Don) 2 Do you say something when someone has more than 20 items?Only with my passive-aggressive eyes. 3 Name three uses for fifty golf balls, other than to play golf.- Sew onto the back and front and side of pyjamas to prevent snoring - and sleep.
- Spray red, silver, and gold, and hang them on a tree in your garden for Christmas.
- Start a windscreen-replacement company - emergency call outs a speciality. Stake out a golf course car park and covertly smash windscreens, placing a golf ball neatly in the driver's seat. Emergency rates also a speciality.
4 How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?With that sort of dodgy memory, probably somewhere in my nineties. 5 If life is so short, why do we do so many things we don’t like and like so many things we don’t do?Because we are all turning into our mothers.
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Post by Hunny on Nov 25, 2012 9:39:48 GMT
1 Open the nearest book to page 47. What's the first sentence?"Only 1% of all books sold in 1996 were travel or regional titles - but that's still a lot of books!" 2 Do you say something when someone has more than 20 items?No. 3 Name three uses for fifty golf balls, other than to play golf.1 - stand on the beach and shoot them all out into the ocean 2 - Put them in the couch cushions and when hubby finds them and wants to know what the hell happened, say "I don't know" 3 - play marbles! 4 How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?Sometimes 30, sometimes 60. 5 If life is so short, why do we do so many things we don’t like and like so many things we don’t do?because we have an unhealthy attitude towards what we call "work", and because we failed to turn our avocation into our vocation.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2012 22:49:49 GMT
1 Open the nearest book to page 47. What's the first sentence? Pounds he was speculating she lost after whatever had sent her running from Boston.2 Do you say something when someone has more than 20 items? hmm... not sure what this means..3 Name three uses for fifty golf balls, other than to play golf. See who can throw them the furtherest? roll them under you feet.bury them in the sand.4 How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are? 20 5 If life is so short, why do we do so many things we don’t like and like so many things we don’t do? Because we all want to fit in and that is what everyone else does.
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Post by mikemarshall on Nov 29, 2012 20:53:03 GMT
I think this is more of an issue for the ladies. I only own four pairs of shoes.
Too many shoes? I think so, yes.
(But then I'm not certain the ladies would agree with me!)
Put off paying a bill because of overspending on shoes? No, but I have sometimes put it off for other expenses!
A picture of my favourite pair of shoes? Oh dear, I had better go and clean them first!
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Post by Hunny on Nov 30, 2012 12:36:24 GMT
I think this is more of an issue for the ladies. I only own four pairs of shoes. Too many shoes? I think so, yes. (But then I'm not certain the ladies would agree with me!) Put off paying a bill because of overspending on shoes? No, but I have sometimes put it off for other expenses! A picture of my favourite pair of shoes? Oh dear, I had better go and clean them first! lol, Mike, you looked at the wrong quiz!
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Post by Hunny on Nov 30, 2012 12:38:33 GMT
2 Do you say something when someone has more than 20 items? hmm... not sure what this means.. In the US, we have lanes (aisles, checkout lines) in the stores that are for people with "20 items or less" in their basket. It helps those who just came in for a couple items not have to wait for those who are doing their whole week's shopping.
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Post by Hunny on Nov 30, 2012 13:39:47 GMT
This week's quiz!...
1 What's your partner's most annoying habit? (Be careful!)2 What's their sweetest habit?3 What is your earliest memory?4 What does your future hold?5 Why do you have to 'put your two cents in'... but it's only a 'penny for your thoughts'? Where's that extra penny going to?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2012 14:11:10 GMT
2 Do you say something when someone has more than 20 items? hmm... not sure what this means.. In the US, we have lanes (aisles, checkout lines) in the stores that are for people with "20 items or less" in their basket. It helps those who just came in for a couple items not have to wait for those who are doing their whole week's shopping. Oh okay, I see what you mean. The thing I like about Walmart here is that there is a 'fast lane' of 10 or less items, it's goes through really quickly and there's also a 'self-serve' lane, where you can check your own items in and pay for them through a machine they have there. What would I say to someone who had more then 20 items and I only had two. Probably nothing. I tend to just mind my own business when waiting in queues in stores etc. Sometimes I just walk out if the line-up is too long. I don't like talking to people if I don't have to! Maybe I'm just unsociable. And if I have 40 items and the person behind me has one or two, I'd say 'too bad'. I was here first! The only exception being a disabled person or an elderly person or a young kid. These I'd let go in front of me. I'm not completely heartless.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2012 14:42:03 GMT
1 What's your partner's most annoying habit? (Be careful!) Snoring 2 What's their sweetest habit? Too X-rated to say! 3 What is your earliest memory? Discovedring the beauty of flowers in my garden 4 What does your future hold? Hopefully many more years of happy marriage, grandchildren when the time comes and maybe getting some of my stuff published 5 Why do you have to 'put your two cents in'... but it's only a 'penny for your thoughts'? Where's that extra penny going to? That's easy - a penny for your thoughts is British and two cents is American and the pound is worth more than the dollar!
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Post by sadie1263 on Nov 30, 2012 16:51:47 GMT
1).......my hubby seems to believe that passing gas is an activity that should be shared......I am highly opposed to this. 2) When I'm coming home late from a business trip he always has a hot bath drawn for me. 3) Good grief......I have no idea..........I'll get back to you 4) determined to go sky diving........sometime soon 5 well the person telling you their opinion always thinks it's more important than it really is
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Post by Hunny on Nov 30, 2012 20:10:04 GMT
1 What's your partner's most annoying habit? (Be careful!)
I don't let him annoy me, when he does something less than ideal I just say "I wouldnt have it any other way", and to me that's love.
2 What's their sweetest habit?
The way he kisses me.
3 What is your earliest memory?
I remember playing with toys under the weeping willow when I was just turned 4.
4 What does your future hold?
money, satisfaction, fulfillment, happiness, health --I wouldnt be silly enough to wish for anything less!
5 Why do you have to 'put your two cents in'... but it's only a 'penny for your thoughts'? Where's that extra penny going to?
Well, you know when you go to spend a penny? That's where.
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Post by mikemarshall on Nov 30, 2012 21:40:44 GMT
Hm, this is a difficult set of questions.
1 My partner's most annoying habit?
The same as Sadie's remark.
2 Her sweetest habit?
There are so many I am not sure that I could pick simply one.
3 My earliest memory - nearly drowning; it has left me with a lasting fear of water and of sailing on ships.
4 What does my future hold? Hopefully in some years time grandchildren, perhaps I will eventually find time to finish the philosophical magnum opus on which I have been working in a desultory fashion for the last twenty years.
5 Two cents and a penny - ah, the vagaries of language!
Both of course are metaphors; presumably at the time these phrases were coined the expressions carried more monetary weight than they do in our present era!
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Post by Hunny on Dec 6, 2012 14:05:23 GMT
This week's quiz!
1 What are you getting for Christmas? (Should you buy yourself something?)2 Name three things that make you happy.3 Your fondest wish?4 Name 5 things that could be found under a bed.5 Why do people point to their wrist when asking for the time, but don't point down when they ask where the bathroom is?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2012 15:50:29 GMT
1 No idea 2 Three things that make me happy - my family, Nature, West Ham doing well! 3 My fondest wish - happiness for my children 4 Five things under a bed - shoes, pens, clothes, letters, books 5 Because it's not embarrassing to ask for the time but the other is!
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