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by torbanite
13 Jul 2013, 00:14
Forum: Speak Easy
Topic: what am I?
Replies: 2776
Views: 209925

Re: what am I?

Jools wrote:May I be rude and jump in? What lustrous South American is an anagram of "A Cannibals Sexy Truth Slur"?

Jools
ooh.. anagram



Carry on!

Edit: oops nvm.. someone beat me to it. :ymblushing:
by torbanite
05 Apr 2012, 05:41
Forum: Speak Easy
Topic: For the Gearheads-what am I
Replies: 47
Views: 10001

Re: For the Gearheads-what am I

Darien Darien, as in "dumbest place in the universe to try and establish a colony"..? So, of course, that's what exactly we Scots tried to do! X_X Cue bankruptcy, shotgun wedding with our southern neighbo r, and funny red bits in our national flag. Have you tried it when no one was lookin...
by torbanite
04 Apr 2012, 03:19
Forum: Speak Easy
Topic: For the Gearheads-what am I
Replies: 47
Views: 10001

Re: For the Gearheads-what am I

But motorcyclist never care if they get to their destination. My corner store is one kilometer away but it's 11 lefts and 15 rights. :-BD That is so true! I regularly take about an hour longer than necessary to get home from work because the route somehow modifies itself to include every road in th...
by torbanite
03 Apr 2012, 04:48
Forum: Speak Easy
Topic: For the Gearheads-what am I
Replies: 47
Views: 10001

Re: For the Gearheads-what am I

she's a few horses short of the full hooligan you really have to translate that one, I googled it, but I have no clue what it means Sorry, one of my "hobbies" is taking perfectly good idioms and mangling them beyond recognition.. :) Mats' explanation is pretty much spot on. AFAIK, the for...
by torbanite
02 Mar 2012, 02:58
Forum: Speak Easy
Topic: For the Gearheads-what am I
Replies: 47
Views: 10001

Re: For the Gearheads-what am I

Ooh.. a "go faster toys" thread :-) https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9VovHssLSuI/TziK9bftXNI/AAAAAAAABJw/kUfPSyUU8Cc/s640/IMG_0016.JPG Here's mine. At this altitude (7K+ feet), she's a few horses short of the full hooligan. But then, at my age, so am I. :- If I won the lottery (and there...
by torbanite
25 Feb 2012, 18:25
Forum: Speak Easy
Topic: English is a crazy language
Replies: 31
Views: 7793

Re: English is a crazy language

My favourite word about to be consigned to the dustbin? Rewind. Hmm.. not sure about that... My bet is that "rewind", "dial" etc will be around for a long time yet. We still talk about a gun barrel, despite the fact that barrel making techniques haven't been used to make gun bar...
by torbanite
20 Feb 2012, 07:12
Forum: Speak Easy
Topic: English is a crazy language
Replies: 31
Views: 7793

Re: English is a crazy language

One house, 2 hice ? Well Her Majesty QE2 (bless her) pronounces it one hice, two hices. ;-) with German I just use Dutch with umlauts stacked on :D works like a charm. "Germanifize" my own speako is ezypezy. ;) I don't know enough Dutch to know if/how much you're joking, but I speak passa...
by torbanite
13 Jun 2011, 14:50
Forum: Speak Easy
Topic: what am I?
Replies: 2776
Views: 209925

Re: what am I?

Marc van Arc wrote:
Correct! :-BD
by torbanite
12 Jun 2011, 18:49
Forum: Speak Easy
Topic: what am I?
Replies: 2776
Views: 209925

Re: what am I?

Hypoptopoma cf_guentheri ? I can see where you are coming from, but no.. iv) If you get (one of) the names of Keanu Reeves' character in "The Matrix", you are a good ways to naming the fish.. New Bike I looked at that one too. Could tell what it was in the pic by the trumpet style exhaust...
by torbanite
11 Jun 2011, 02:31
Forum: Speak Easy
Topic: what am I?
Replies: 2776
Views: 209925

Re: what am I?

New clue iii) I have an LDA number.. Hmm.. had to go and look up "Moto3" (shows you how much I know :lol: ) I think if there is any connection it is mostly clever marketing rather than technical. This thing might have some "go faster" plastic bits on front & a racy model nam...
by torbanite
10 Jun 2011, 14:56
Forum: Speak Easy
Topic: what am I?
Replies: 2776
Views: 209925

Re: what am I?

I have no idea what the fish is, but the bike looks to be a CBR125. Mats Close-ish.. it's the 250. I'm not sure if Honda sell the 125 here. I've never seen one anyway. There are no power/capacity limits for new riders, helmet laws or anything like that in this state. (Land of the free etc.) Anyway,...
by torbanite
10 Jun 2011, 05:42
Forum: Speak Easy
Topic: what am I?
Replies: 2776
Views: 209925

Re: what am I?

Honda? :YMAPPLAUSE: Which one??? :-BD Two wheels or four? Two wheels.. A puzzle within a puzzle.. what am I? biketail.jpg Not going to break any speed records, but it's the biz' for summer commuting and 65mpg beats the heck out of the 16 my SUV thing sometimes manages (on a good day). Anyway.. New ...
by torbanite
09 Jun 2011, 04:34
Forum: Speak Easy
Topic: what am I?
Replies: 2776
Views: 209925

Re: what am I?

Marc van Arc wrote:Anagram......

A baa hitching in solo storm
I like anagrams.. :D



P.S.
I thoroughly approve of your new wheels/avatar Mrs. Banana :-BD I came really close to getting one of those myself recently. But when I went out shopping I somehow came home with/on a Honda. :-??
by torbanite
02 Jan 2011, 00:03
Forum: Speak Easy
Topic: Garden visitors..
Replies: 56
Views: 9388

Re: Garden visitors..

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Not sure what this is..?
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We've had a wee bit of weather recently, (but nothing compared to elsewhere in the US).
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Bucks arguing in the back yard.
by torbanite
27 Dec 2010, 15:54
Forum: Speak Easy
Topic: what am I?
Replies: 2776
Views: 209925

Re: what am I?

MatsP wrote:?
Winner! :-BD
by torbanite
27 Dec 2010, 04:11
Forum: Speak Easy
Topic: what am I?
Replies: 2776
Views: 209925

Re: what am I?

grokefish wrote: ?
Nice try but.. no.

iv) I'm not from the Americas.
v) My specific name suggests I'm fat.
vi) You'd find me in rivers rather than lakes
by torbanite
23 Dec 2010, 22:22
Forum: Speak Easy
Topic: what am I?
Replies: 2776
Views: 209925

Re: what am I?

I've got a funny feeling you maybe read the clues on page 1 of this thread and are trying to guess that fish? We're on page one hundred and thirty some now ;) (But don't worry, you don't need to read the whole thread, unless you are a glutton for punishment! :) More clues ii) Theres some debate abou...
by torbanite
18 Dec 2010, 16:41
Forum: Speak Easy
Topic: what am I?
Replies: 2776
Views: 209925

Re: what am I?

New fish

i) My teeth are close together, but I still manage to be fat..
by torbanite
18 Dec 2010, 04:11
Forum: Speak Easy
Topic: what am I?
Replies: 2776
Views: 209925

Re: what am I?

MatsP wrote: It's a fish with color
?
by torbanite
09 Dec 2010, 02:37
Forum: Speak Easy
Topic: Garden visitors..
Replies: 56
Views: 9388

Re: Garden visitors..

Here I just get kangaroos, wallabies, echidna, snakes,blue tongues lizards, all sorts of birds, and bloody funnel web spiders in my work boots if I leave them outside "just" ;-) Kangaroos, Echidna etc. are fairly exotic in my book. Wallabies maybe not quite so.. - we got those in the UK -...
by torbanite
23 Nov 2010, 03:57
Forum: Speak Easy
Topic: Atlantic grey seals at Donna Nook
Replies: 4
Views: 1529

Re: Atlantic grey seals at Donna Nook

Nice photos! :-BD

It looks like you were quite close for some of the shots?
Did the mothers not get a bit twitchy about it?
I guess if they make their home on an RAF practice range they must be pretty laid back about life in general.. ;)
by torbanite
21 Nov 2010, 22:14
Forum: Speak Easy
Topic: what am I?
Replies: 2776
Views: 209925

Re: what am I?

Is the describer Armbruster?
by torbanite
21 Nov 2010, 22:05
Forum: Speak Easy
Topic: Garden visitors..
Replies: 56
Views: 9388

Re: Garden visitors..

The picture of the bear hanging by its front paws from the line is a belter :) I saw a programme on telly about two guys (Norwegians or Danes I think) who got attacked by a polar bear, one of them had a handgun and emptied it into the bear, but only succeeded in enraging it. (it killed him). The oth...
by torbanite
14 Oct 2010, 03:40
Forum: Speak Easy
Topic: Garden visitors..
Replies: 56
Views: 9388

Re: Garden visitors..

, . . . and our biggest danger is car accidents. I'm with you there.. the only time I've been truly frightened in this country was on the I-25. I think I might need some convincing to try swimming with Alligators though. :shock: (Oh, and welcome to PC!) Anyway, I opened the basement curtains this m...
by torbanite
05 Oct 2010, 03:50
Forum: Speak Easy
Topic: Garden visitors..
Replies: 56
Views: 9388

Re: Garden visitors..

Ha, it always looks a bit peeved does that cat. I bet your spooky wouldn't insult him to his face. He fancies himself as top predator in the garden. But the squirrels and rabbits see him coming a mile off. I don't think he's going to starve though. Mule Deer in the street this evening, shortly befor...
by torbanite
04 Oct 2010, 04:01
Forum: Speak Easy
Topic: Garden visitors..
Replies: 56
Views: 9388

Re: Garden visitors..

:shock: Didn't know you were in the city limits! I suggested the starter pistol because I'm a wee bit squeamish about guns but I suppose an airhorn would be a good deterrent or maybe a vuvuzela like at world cup. :lol: There's probably a law against vuvuzelas within city limits as well. (If not the...
by torbanite
30 Sep 2010, 06:38
Forum: Speak Easy
Topic: Garden visitors..
Replies: 56
Views: 9388

Re: Garden visitors..

I don't know if the D.O.W is a county, state or federal agency, but the policy around here seems to be that if a bear learns how to enter houses it is "toast". I believe they destroyed at least six bears in that one week. The hillsides & open spaces round here are covered in scrub oak ...
by torbanite
30 Sep 2010, 03:20
Forum: Speak Easy
Topic: Garden visitors..
Replies: 56
Views: 9388

Re: Garden visitors..

everything is bigger in the States, except the catfishes ;) The caterpillars are certainly bigger .. (than I've seen before) caterpillar.jpg I spotted this scuttling across the car park at work. The kind folks at bugguide.net identified it as a Papilio multicaudata (Two-tailed Swallowtail) caterpil...
by torbanite
30 Aug 2010, 01:46
Forum: Speak Easy
Topic: Garden visitors..
Replies: 56
Views: 9388

Re: Garden visitors..

The resident Magpies were doing more squawking than usual earlier... Guess they don't care for bears resting in the shade of their tree.
Mother bear with cub
Mother bear with cub
Mother bear with cub
Mother bear with cub
Mother bear
Mother bear
by torbanite
09 Aug 2010, 03:50
Forum: Speak Easy
Topic: Garden visitors..
Replies: 56
Views: 9388

Re: Garden visitors..

i thought this was beautiful http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1300886/If-woods--Spectators-watch-just-10-metres-away-20-Brown-Bears-gather-annual-salmon-feast.html OK, 20 grizzlies in one place.. now that is scary.. A couple of still pictures taken at the same time as the video abo...

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