MYSTERY OBJECTS
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You've got it Gloria!
Next one anyone?
Next one anyone?
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Here is the story of the Craven heifer, courtesy of Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craven_Heifer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craven_Heifer
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Stanley Challenger Graham
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
For removing a car's oil filter?
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I can see why you guessed that Tiz. Sorry, much older than that. Clue, it's made of bronze.
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It has a nautical link if I remember correctly. And that is a clue!
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Good memory China, you're on it. Let's see how the others are at memory tests!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
It was the pull chain on Titanic's ships bell that was recovered as a keepsake just before it went Glug, glug, off the Scottish coast.
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Off the Scottish coast? That must be a different Titanic to the one I know about!
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I was using the same kind of terminology you get in sales adverts-- Up to 50% off. which is anything as little as 1% to a max of 50%. My 'off' can mean anything up to 2000 miles. I may have been wrong with the name it could have been the Olympic, but that's another conspiracy theory. Olympic.
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You're ever so close P! If nobody gets it I'll do the reveal tomorrow....
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The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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It's a piece of bronze chain that ran inside a pipe from the bridge to the engine room and connected the 'telegraph' for issuing orders for engine speed on the bridge to the repeater in the engine room. It came off a Liberty Ship that sank off the Isle of Skye during the war.
Next one?
Next one?
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
This object is made for a special and very useful purpose. What is its purpose?
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That looks like a sucker on the bottom so is it for attaching to a smooth surface like glass or a fridge door? It looks as though it's meant to attract attention to something but that's as far as I have got China.....
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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No idea what it is but I like it!
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Homing decoy transmitter for bee hives
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A bottle stopper??
Gloria
Now an Honorary Chief Engineer who'd be dangerous with a brain!!!
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Now an Honorary Chief Engineer who'd be dangerous with a brain!!!
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http://www.lfhhs.org.uk
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Strategically placed on the base of a bath it stops you sliding about.
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Yes, that's a sucker on the base but not for a fridge door. You wouldn't have needed one of these 10 years ago.
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A mini Bluetooth speaker?
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No, sorry, Tiz.
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Now you have me puzzling as to what happened inside the last ten years!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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You stick it on your smart phone and when it vibrates it giggles about and lights up. If this is wrong it will be right next week.
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Near enough P. Well done. It is just a support for hands free operation of a smart phone when video calling.
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Well I never! I would never have thought of that in a month of sundays. I haven't got a smart phone and nobody wants to talk to me anyhow.