Mystery Object

[Wood Borer]

Thanks for the memories Alexs,

I haven't heard of that wine for years, good for after meals I understand. I doubt if Ozwinner would want to drink it though! Alana might go for it though.

- Wood Borer

[Tonz]

This is a fairly familiar picture to some. What is this formation known as?

[Wood Borer]

Orion's Belt?

- Wood Borer

[Tonz]

Orion's belt is in the region of the Orion nebula. This is a nebula but not that one...

[Wood Borer]

The Horsehead nebula?

[himzol]

Horse head nebula

[zymurgy]

Eagle Nebula

Gordon.

[Bunyip]

The three sisters (nebula) :D

[himzol]

Doh,, Too hasty,

Zymergy is correct.

Himzo

[Tonz]

Eagle Nebula

Gordon.
Correct...

[zymurgy]

Which house is this?

Gordon.

[Tonz]

The Winchester Mystery House in San Jose...

Somebody else have a go...

[Tonz]

Alright then, one for a certain midget fan... Who are these two gentlemen?

[silentC]

Rodney Marsh and Liz Ellis?

[himzol]

If that's Liz ellis then I'm staying away from the netball :eek: :eek:

[Tonz]

three days and no replies...

Well the answer to this one was in fact

Rodney Marsh (the cricketer) and Rodney Marsh (the footballer) .... (although Liz Ellis was pretty close :) )
anyone else wish to have a go?

[Grunt]

What the ...?

[ozwinner]

Is it one of those things to keep your pie crust from sinking? :confused:


Al :)

[Grunt]

Correct, a pie funnel

[journeyman Mick]

What's this? :confused:

[bitingmidge]

three days and no replies...

Sorry Tonz, was otherwise occupied! (But I would have gone for Liz and Rod...(the one with the moustache looks so much like a netballer!)

Now Mick:

Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?

Does it taste like heaven by any chance?

Cheers,
P

[journeyman Mick]

Vegetable, and no it's not a "smells like roadkill, tastes like heaven" fruit. I can't vouch for the taste of them, as I can't get past the week old roadkill smell :eek: .

Mick

[ozwinner]

Not one of yer nads? :D

I was up your way some years ago, and Im sure me nads looked like that with the crutch rot. :eek: :o
It sure itched like that thing looks. http://instagiber.net/smiliesdotcom/cwm/cwm/eek7.gifhttp://instagiber.net/smiliesdotcom/cwm/cwm/eek7.gif

Al

[journeyman Mick]

Al,
:eek: :D :eek: :D :eek: :D No!

Mick

[Bob Willson]

A hot chestnut. Pre hot.

[Grunt]

Durian,

[bitingmidge]

Nah, 'snot durian!

Is it one of those chocolate pudden fruit things? Chocolate custard apple?

P

[journeyman Mick]

Midge,
you're thinking of a chocolate pudding fruit/black sapote/black persimmon, I just had one for dessert. This is neither a durian or a black sapote. If it was a durian you could all smell it from where you are sitting and there's no way I would bring one into the house to take a photo of it. Apparently durian is the only fruit a tiger will eat-smells like dead meat. Keep guessing gentlemens, thisa one isa bloody beautiful.

Mick (the fruiter)

[Wood Borer]

Guanabana?

- Wood Borer

[Driver]

It's a horse chestnut - otherwise known as a conker. (Or, as Crabtree would say: It's a house chistnad - itherwose noun as a cinker!)

[journeyman Mick]

No and No
Clue: related to a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ apple.
First correct guess gets a ripe one :)
But you pay freight :(

Mick

[ozwinner]

GREEN?


Al

[ozwinner]

It's a horse chestnut - otherwise known as a conker. (Or, as Crabtree would say: It's a house chistnad - itherwose noun as a cinker!)Wouldnt it be a coonker?

Al

[RETIRED]

Lychee.

[bitingmidge]

Yeah well the cousin of a Custard Apple it may be, but I'm buggered if I can think of it!!!

Been tooo long since I lived where proper fruit grows!

P

[ozwinner]

Ranbutan, I dont even know if thats a fruit, the name just poped into me head.


Al

[Bob Willson]

Soursop (Annona muricata),

[journeyman Mick]

Bob,
anytime you want to drop by in the next month you can take your pick off the tree. :) Makes a very refreshing drink, slightly tart sherbetty sort of taste.

,
did you notice the ruler in the bottom of the photo? If I could grow lychees that weighed about 1.5Kg (even if they were green) I'd be a rich man.

Mick (the horticulturalist)

[Wood Borer]

Mick,

http://www.agric.nsw.gov.au/Hort/Fmrs/Asian_veg/soursop.htm

I found it on Google so I am not upset because I had no clue at all really - just like most times.

To make good, I will gratefully accept one of your exotic fruits next time I am in FNQ.

- Wood Borer

[Driver]

Wouldnt it be a coonker?

Al

Are you saggesting thut my proninciution is uncoorict? :eek:

[RETIRED]

Nah Mick, thought it might be one of them there fishermans rules :D

[Bob Willson]

Can anybody show me how to draw one continuous line, without lifting the pen from the suface of the paper, but that crosses every line once and once only.

The winner may have my soursop if they want to pick it up from Mick. :)

[Wood Borer]

Bob,

is there a solution?

- Wood Borer

[Tristan Croll]

Hey, no fair! :mad: Questions without solutions should be banned... I think you just want that soursop all to yourself! :rolleyes:

[Wood Borer]

Tristan,

Bob hasn't said there isn't a solution - I merely asked him?

- Wood Borer

[Tristan Croll]

There isn't a solution.

[bitingmidge]

There is a solution.

He didn't say the line had to be straight, and he didn't say you couldn't go outside the box.

Overlay a spiral and you may just be on a winner.

P

[Tristan Croll]

No, there isn't. Look closely at the picture and you'll see that three of the boxes have five lines surrounding them. Now, for this problem to work, for all but two of the boxes (the start and finish ones) your line has to leave as many times as it enters - i.e. there has to be an even number of sides. Since there are three boxes with an uneven number of sides, you're always going to find yourself "stuck" in one of them.

[Tristan Croll]

No picture, just a description:

The one who made it didn't want it.
The one who bought it didn't need it.
The one who used it never saw it.

[Wood Borer]

Sounds like a coffin

Al, I reckon mallee roots would come up well on your sander!!!!!


- Wood Borer

[Tristan Croll]

Wood Borer is correct (and hey, it was even a woodworking question!)

[Wood Borer]

Well yeah I knew Mallee roots would come up well on Al's sanding gizmo!

- Wood Borer

[Wood Borer]

What is this?

- Wood Borer

[ozwinner]

File?


Al

[AlexS]

Mick, in your little garden of Eden, do you grow granadillas? I haven't had one since we left Mt Mulligan 54 years ago, and can still remember that i loved them. No one down here has heard of them, and last time I was up your way none were ripe.

[bitingmidge]

There isn't a solution.

There's more than one way to skin a cat!! :D

There was no mention in the puzzle of what size the squares are or how thick the line could be.


Anyone for a pair of nice warm tabby-coloured slippers?

(That is my question!!)

Cheers,

P ;)

[journeyman Mick]

Alex,
no, no granadillas, my folks had a vine in their garden but I wasn't impressed. BTW to be fair, I didn't plant any of the wonderful stuff that's here, one of the previous owners used to work for the botanic gardens. :) Also if anyone wants a soursop they'd better hurry, the mongrel flying foxes are getting into them, found about six mangled soursops on the ground thiis morning. :mad:

Mick

[Bob Willson]

Biting, Oi takes orf me 'at to yers matey. I didn't think it could be done, but yers jus wen aread un doned it. :) :)

[Wood Borer]

Well what are we going to do now? It would be a bit tricky to keep two questions going.

- Wood Borer

[bitingmidge]

Your question is still current...the bangley thing!

P

[Wood Borer]

Ozwinner is closest so far

Clue: If you look at it long enough you can cut corners.

A little bit of cryptic in the clue.

- Wood Borer

[Bob Willson]

A rasp (http://www.fine-tools.com/feile1.htm)

[Wood Borer]

Good one Bob, your turn.

For those who didn't get the cryptic clue:

Look at it for long enough - Stare - Stair

Cut corners - round rasp


- Wood Borer

[Bob Willson]

What is the smallest advertising message ever written?


I know that this is not an object yet, but it will be when you get the answer. If I show you the object now then the answer will be self evident.

[Wood Borer]

A dot?

- Wood Borer

[Bob Willson]

For whom and how many?

[craigb]

For IBM
Not sure how many but one of their scientists once spelt out the company logo in individual atoms using an electron microscope.

I think it was perhaps 12 atoms?

[Bob Willson]

http://www-306.ibm.com/chips/periodic/images/xenon.jpgClose enough. :)

[craigb]

Can somebody else have a go. I don't have an object for show and tell at the moment :) ;)