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Lip Gloss Jan 2021 9:35pm, 4 Jan 2021 47,699 posts	0 Lip Gloss ( hopefully the other never returns )
mr d Jan 2021 9:48pm, 4 Jan 2021 4,206 posts	0 mr d (tries to work out who you are talking about)
57.5 Days of Xmas Jan 2021 10:01pm, 4 Jan 2021 6,463 posts	0 57.5 Days of Xmas [I hazard a guess that many know!] The tales of East Coast seafaring prompted me to look at Goole (where my great grandad captained a coastal freighter) on Wikipedia. I now know it is the country's most inland seaport (and much more besides).
jabberknit Jan 2021 8:24pm, 5 Jan 2021 3,814 posts	0 jabberknit Why the Germans call New Year's Eve Silvesterabend. It's named after Pope St Silvester I, who died on December 31st, 335. Apparently it was unwise to eat fish near him, as unbelievers would choke on the bones, so fish is perhaps best avoided as a New Year's Evening meal.
ChrisHB Jan 2021 9:49pm, 5 Jan 2021 20,365 posts	0 ChrisHB Is it not just Silvester? But do you know why they watch "Dinner for One"?
jabberknit Jan 2021 10:34pm, 5 Jan 2021 3,815 posts	0 jabberknit I've heard both, ChrisHB, Silvesterabend was what our German teacher at school told us so that's the one that's stuck for me. As for the film, I know they watch it, but I have no idea why (or why anyone would want to, personally).
ChrisHB Jan 2021 11:57pm, 5 Jan 2021 20,367 posts	0 ChrisHB that if you cut a Tunnock's chocolate teacake in half and scoop the gunge out, what remains is quite nice.
mr d Jan 2021 12:12am, 6 Jan 2021 4,221 posts	0 mr d Not a cheery discovery. I knew the Donner Party had resorted to cannibalism. I didn't realise that the Forlorn Hope party killed their two Miwok guides and ate them. They were near death, mainly because they slipped away nine days earlier having been warned by one of the party of a plan to kill them. Some dayd later the party stumbled into a Miwok camp. The Miwoks shared their food.
buttscratcher Jan 2021 8:15am, 6 Jan 2021 428 posts	0 buttscratcher Ireland's first Olympic medal was silver.....for painting!
Diogenes Jan 2021 9:02am, 6 Jan 2021 56,384 posts	0 Diogenes Won by the brother of W.B. Yeats!