red750 Posted November 1 Author Share Posted November 1 Correct. Sorry it took so long, wasn't bold on my What's New so I thought I'd opened it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted November 1 Share Posted November 1 A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted November 1 Author Share Posted November 1 Correct Marty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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facthunter Posted November 2 Share Posted November 2 Change of name to SMARTY. By Order. Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted November 2 Author Share Posted November 2 He's right (S)Marty, so are you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted November 2 Share Posted November 2 18 spacesailor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted November 2 Author Share Posted November 2 Eighteen Seventeen 17 is the answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted November 2 Share Posted November 2 They are newspapers. Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted November 2 Author Share Posted November 2 Spot on, Nev. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted November 2 Share Posted November 2 (edited) I get 6. Edited November 2 by Marty_d Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted November 2 Author Share Posted November 2 6 it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmccarthy Posted November 2 Share Posted November 2 Southwest 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted November 2 Author Share Posted November 2 Correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted November 2 Share Posted November 2 Venus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted November 2 Share Posted November 2 Mars. the RED planet. Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted November 2 Author Share Posted November 2 Marty is right. Their initials spell out the colours of the rainbow - Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet. So the seventh childs name starts with V. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted November 3 Share Posted November 3 Apparently ROYGBIV is dead, and the experts have decided that Indigo doesn't actually exist. It seems that Isaac Newton settled on 7 colours for the spectrum, because he was a great believer in Pythagoreanism, and Pythagoras believed the number 7 was crucial to every scientific, mathematical and physics discovery. https://www.scientificminds.com/blog/whatever-happened-to-roy-g-biv-kathy-reeves-115.aspx#:~:text=Indigo is omitted because few,it as a separate color. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted November 3 Share Posted November 3 There was a long term weather forecaster named Indigo Jones when I was a wee chappie. Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted November 3 Author Share Posted November 3 It seems the going thing is fact checking, so sorry Nev, the guys name was Inigo Jones, no 'd'. He wa named after English architect Inigo Jones (1573 -1682). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted November 3 Share Posted November 3 Nev, his name was actually Inigo Jones. My father followed his long-range weather forecasts with something approaching obsessiveness. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted November 3 Share Posted November 3 (edited) To err is human to forgive divine. . Much of my 'stuff' is from memory and that will continue to be. . That is not an exam question, is it. "Inigo" is an unusual name . Nev Edited November 3 by facthunter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted November 3 Share Posted November 3 One of the interesting parts of Jone's forecasting was forecasting repeated cycles in the weather extremes. Droughts and heatwaves feature large in the weather cycles, and the 80 year cycle is the most pronounced. We endured the worst drought in living memory in W.A. in 1980, and it coincided with the Federation drought, with the worst drought year during the Federation drought, being in 1900, in W.A. There was another bad drought in 1944-1945, that struck both W.A. and the Eastern States, and the current drought in W.A. earlier this season, and in S.A. and Victoria this year, coincides with the 80 year cycle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted November 3 Share Posted November 3 (edited) Our neighbour's son is Inigo. They also have an Oscar and a Felix, and coincidentally, 2 other families in our street also have an Oscar and a Felix, in that age order. Edited November 3 by Marty_d 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted November 3 Share Posted November 3 Oh and 21 for the dice thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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