Foar Adam - NON FOOTBALL quiz questions.....

[Rod Paradise]

Where does the expression Halcyon Days come from?

[TightEnd]

Who is the current "father" of the house of commons?

[tikay]

Halcyon days - a period of unseasionally fine weather?

[Ironside]

Who is the current "father" of the house of commons?

tikay (or he is old enough to have fathered all the sitting MPs)

[Rod Paradise]

Halcyon days - a period of unseasionally fine weather?

It is - I was more looking for how that came about....

[tikay]

Ah, I seem to recall it was some piece of Greek Mythology. Best ask someone who's educated.

[Ironside]

Ah, I seem to recall it was some piece of Greek Mythology. Best ask someone who's educated.

that rules out all the blondites then

[tikay]

And all the Greeks.

[Rod Paradise]

Ah, I seem to recall it was some piece of Greek Mythology. Best ask someone who's educated.

Not quite - the Halcyon is the old latin/greek name for kingfisher & it was beleived that they laid their egs onfloating nests in the sea & could only nest when the sea was calm. Hence halcyon days now meaning calm tranquil days.

[redsimon]

Who is the current "father" of the house of commons?

Gwyneth Dunwoody (hence the inverted commas)?

[Scottish Dave]

where you very bored today mate