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This popped up on Facebook today. Many of you probably already know these details, but some may not. Very sad, really.

I tried recording a couple of questions from an old episode on 7plus streaming, but only the audio recorded, not the vision, but I have done it before. No idea why it did not work. If you log on to 7plus streaming, click on the magnifying glass icon in the top right corner and type 1% Club, you will be able to select the UK or Aussie version and a series/episode to watch. You only need to watch a couple of questions to get a feel for the show. 7plus is free.

Where have you been? The 1% Club is a TV game show, with UK, Australian and US versions, and possibly other countries as well. An group of 100 contestants in the studio are each given an amount of $1000 in Aus, and £1000 in the UK. They face a series of quiz questions which have been checked against a test group of 1000 people, which identifies the difficulty of the question. If 90% of the 1000 get it right, it is called the 90% question, and is fairly simple. If a contestant gets it wrong, they are eliminated from the game, and their $1000 goes into a prize pot. If 80% of the 1000 get it right, it becomes the 80% question. The same goes for the 75%, 70%, 60% and so on till they reach a question only 1% of the 1000 test group can answer correctly. Contestants get 30 seconds to solve the question while the host rambles on with distracting chatter. Contestants are eliminated at each level and their stake is added to the prize pot. Anyone not eliminated when they reach the 1% question can take $10,000 or risk it to attempt the 1% question, where they could win (or share if more than 1 get that far) the total of the prize pot, which could have risen to $100,000. The hosts, or question masters, are Jim Jeffries in Australia, Lee Mack in the UK and Patton Oswalt in the US.

Just found out there is a US version of The 1% Club, but it is not showing in Australia. Not surprising that there's a US version. The host is Patton Oswalt.

The correct answer has 14 letters.

Correct. M (Em) is the 13th letter in the alphabet, B (Bea) is the second letter, so L (Elle) is the twelfth letter.

Amir’s birthday is the 24th of January. The date is the number of words at that point in the sentence, the twenty fourth word. In a road with exactly 26 houses, if Em lives at number 13 and Bea lives at number 2, logically what number house does Elle live at?

My wife and I moved into this house with our two young toddler sons just before Christmas 1978. The temps were very high that year, so we had a reverse cycle wall mounted unit installed in the lounge room. We rarely used the heater function, because the house had ducted gas heating. In hot weather my wife used to sleep in the lounge room. The unit is still working and was a boon for my daughter last week.

An American holidaying in Queensland has posted on Facebook he is thinking of moving here and has asked for tips on things like guns, weed, accents including pronunciation and Aussie slang etc. He was advised to be himself and pick it up as he goes along. Some replies clarified things like thongs vs flip-flops, and ass vs a**e. I was going to post a photo of each of the last pair, and did an image search for "ass". I was looking for a photo of a donkey. I couldn't get over it. Try it yourself.

Our little wheel around refrig unit created plenty of water for the pot plants on our recent 40¯ day.

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Unfortunately I was unable to save a link as I was posting the story above about the Melania movie, but there was another report that Trump now wants an Order of Australia award for all the good work he has done.