Titbits of information, useless or otherwise

SNAP! nanaej!

Gobi= desert therefore says Desert desert
Hoi = the Polloi= people therefore the Hoi polloi says the the people

oast house? guess might be house house but don't know that one!
Obviously done too many pub quizzes!!

Sahara means desert too.

Gobi means desert so Desert Desert. Hoi means the so the the people. Don't know about oasts and houses.

Tautologies?

(But I'm thinking that's not the right answer....)

Well, all the vowels are there!

Theseus says:

What connects Gobi desert ; the hoi polloi; oast house?

Told him you'd all know!

Thank you glad I am not one of the species mentioned,,LAH LAH with fingers in ears

nellie hardening of the arteries

Definitely several ships because it should be Vikingskipshuset.

The Skip in Skipton is a sheep as well, or several. But the skip in the Vikingskiphuset in Oslo is a ship, or several.

what is the artysclerotic lesion thingy Nellie thought she knew a thing or two,would look it up but am cooking a mountain of spag Bol for aforementioned on another thread teenagers

Had a Shufflebottom and a Higginbottom in my school!

Brownie points were bad things to collect.

In the Middle Ages, they thought leprosy was a venereal disease.

Myxamotosis was a venereal disease (for rabbits); that's why it killed so many.

The ship in "don't spoil the ship for a ha'aporth of tar" was a sheep, not a floaty thing on the sea.

Oh, what a wonderfully apt ice-breaker, though, nanaej!

Hmm! Had an elocution teacher called Miss Thistlethwaite. Took the first few lessons to say her name properly

Thwaite means a piece of land cleared from forest or reclaimed from wasteland....

Only looked up twistle. Any more requests?

You've been researching those Lancashire/Yorkshire names, haven't you, Bags?!

"twistle" in English placenames means a boundary stream. It's from an Old English word meaning a fork or junction.

And jess.

Butty has guessed right.

Just goes to show that if you only eat fruit and veg, you might still get heart disease!

The mind bogles , Im learning so much since I joined. Ta. Must take a break to let it sink in, brain getting rather full.

You mean you never knew that Bags?