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« on: December 27, 2012, 08:25:58 PM »
From the book "The 100 Most Pointless Things in the World" by Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman.

We spent a good hour on this this afternoon - it's ridic hard even when you already know all the answers in advance.  Richard Osman wrote this one, which he describes as his 'fifty geeky wordplay clues to the fifty us states'.  'some are anagrams, some are crypic, but most are just weak puns'.

I managed 22.....

1. Heavy laundry
2. Something's missing from my shed
3. A feelm weeth James Caan
4. A Chiming Mess
5. specialist subject - 'Only Fools and Horses'
6. Honour among thieves
7. Horsehair
8. sick badger
9. sick badgers
10. Derby County
11. Heaven with a heavy cold
12. Cole and Solskjaer both did
13. Two things you might need for a PhD
14. Expliding Osmannite!
15. Tweed proprietor
16. Nothing greeting nothing
17. Tiny snake in German/French mountain
18. Get prisoners to their cells quickly
19. Motorway Man
20. .....and I'll fetch the gravel
21. Smilie's cruise ship
22. Vorderman's cruise ship
23. I can't understand why you can't be more merciful [claw edit - this one is pure genius!]
24. Breaks an' breaks
25. Mum lent me £20
26. I wonder if Mum will lend me another £20
27. Smash a frail icon
28. Switch off saw
29.  Boo! your mandible is rubbish!
30. Walsh date Ford
31. Nicolas Sarkozy's sunbed
32. Hbneswlug
33. Virgin theme park
34. Oxicemo
35. Noah's Christmas list
36. Revisit Wigan in disguise
37. Bring back Bergerac!
38. Carreras
39. What posh people don't like paying
40. Jack eats a pavlova
41. The bottom of a tin
42. Arrest our spending
43. T
     A
44. D
     A
45. Fine French Writer
46. Andover and over
47. Never heard a thing
48. More ruddy
49. Pines for Neil Pye
50. Aah! wii broken!
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« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2012, 08:29:34 PM »
clears diary :-)

sounds my sort of book that!
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« Reply #2 on: December 27, 2012, 08:30:33 PM »
Quote from: TightEnd on December 27, 2012, 08:29:34 PM
clears diary :-)

sounds my sort of book that!

Haha - I had you and Andrew in particular in mind when posting - it's a very good book.  I also now own the pointless board game Cheesy
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« Reply #3 on: December 27, 2012, 08:55:04 PM »
Just laughed out loud at 29!
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« Reply #4 on: December 27, 2012, 09:15:02 PM »
Damn you Claire, I can't get any.

Don't tell me, I'll have a dither.

PS - Merry New Year.

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« Reply #5 on: December 27, 2012, 09:45:51 PM »
Bear with me, got one......
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« Reply #6 on: December 27, 2012, 11:39:36 PM »
Quote from: tikay on December 27, 2012, 09:45:51 PM
Bear with me, got one......

One more than me Cheesy
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