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Title: QI : Fact Of The Day
Post by: Bugloss2009 on August 11, 2010, 08:58:36
thought i'd share today's

The word 'adolescent' comes from one of two Latin verbs spelt adoleo. One means 'to make bigger' and the other means 'to emit a smell'.

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Title: Re: QI : Fact Of The Day
Post by: caroline7758 on August 11, 2010, 09:05:21
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Title: Re: QI : Fact Of The Day
Post by: manicscousers on August 11, 2010, 10:17:47
haha, so true  ;D ;D
Title: Re: QI : Fact Of The Day
Post by: Kea on August 11, 2010, 11:50:39
Yep...my big hairy adolescent is home from 4 weeks with his Dad...and he pongs and so do his clothes...however it's because his father doesn't clean his house and the smell is 10 years of mould.
Not surprisingly he has some mystery illness too.
Title: Re: QI : Fact Of The Day
Post by: antipodes on August 11, 2010, 13:58:56
They must have been inside my son's room...
He is 13 and now he is taller than me by a few inches! he's a nice lad, but he has started sleeping at bizarre times, getting all spotty and generally talking as if parts of his brain were controlled by a baboon. Roll on the next decade!!!
Title: Re: QI : Fact Of The Day
Post by: PurpleHeather on August 11, 2010, 15:22:03
I wonder what the word

antediluvian

breaks down as, or dare I ask?
Title: Re: QI : Fact Of The Day
Post by: Obelixx on August 11, 2010, 15:40:28
Literally?  Before the flood so pre Noah's Ark and so on.

Not something to worry about here.  Last night we had our first decent rain since July 15th and that was  the first since May.    My garden is very grateful and would like a bit more.
Title: Re: QI : Fact Of The Day
Post by: Bugloss2009 on August 11, 2010, 19:43:36
there was  a kids say the funniest thing.....

small child - Grandad, were you in Noah's Ark?

Grandad - No, of course not!

small child - then why didn't you drown?

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