Originally posted by EternalOptimist
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Previously on "Thursday quiz - who is this"
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And yet they don't mind calling people "retarded", which doesn't really wash over here.
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Originally posted by EternalOptimist View PostIn fact in the USA , he can not be called the fat controller, because all the obese Americans wonder why they keep calling that little skinny guy fat.
FTFY
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Originally posted by thunderlizard View PostYou only need the first name when addressing a knight.
<acceptance-speech>I wouldn't have been able to do this without Wikipedia, surely the only reference work that carries a full biography of a painted clothes peg. And DiscoStu of course, who actually got it first.</acceptance-speech>
But how come he was knighted in the 20s and again in 1948?
I introduced some retrospective legislation because DS got it so fast. In fact in the USA , he can not be called the fat controller, he is always called sir Toppham. Because calling some one 'fat' is a major insult.
He was knighted twice because Burkes Peerage (2006) allows that 'fictional characters and animated , marionetted, or painted clothes pegs, are exempt from the rules governing the real world'
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Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostAt school he could call himself Sam.
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You only need the first name when addressing a knight.
<acceptance-speech>I wouldn't have been able to do this without Wikipedia, surely the only reference work that carries a full biography of a painted clothes peg. And DiscoStu of course, who actually got it first.</acceptance-speech>
But how come he was knighted in the 20s and again in 1948?
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Originally posted by thunderlizard View PostAnother vote for Sir Topham.
close enough
Sir Topham Hatt
well done.
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Originally posted by DiscoStu View PostThe fat controller
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Originally posted by Moscow Mule View PostIf it were up to me, I'd name my first born son Isambard. Awesome name.
Mrs MM thinks he might get bullied at school or some bollocks.
Hey Disraeli, Palmerston, Sherlock, gis a hand quick, lets apply some fisticuffs over here
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Originally posted by EternalOptimist View PostNot Isambard
what a name though.
Mrs MM thinks he might get bullied at school or some bollocks.
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Originally posted by sweetandsour View PostI take it Isambard Kingdom Brunel is the wrong answer.
what a name though.
they had Isambard Kingdom Brunel
we get Clive fkng Sinclair
or dyson
its not fair
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