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The postman had delivered a letter to you that belonged to your neighbour?

DRT wrote:The postman had delivered a letter to you that belonged to your neighbour?

What a rubbish guess. No.

A rat got into your cellar and ate away some of the wine racking supports?

One of your bottles was leaking?

PhilW wrote:A rat got into your cellar and ate away some of the wine racking supports?

No

DRT wrote:One of your bottles was leaking?

No. This was entirely unrelated to my cellar. When I said Owen was getting closer I meant it literally, not that he was 'warmer' in terms of what he guessed: I did not leave Belfast during a time of plague or fire so had no need to bury my Parmesan.

Your garden fence had been blown down?

DRT wrote:Your garden fence had been blown down?

You are nearly there. This was a bit more dramatic though. A 50' cypress blew down. It very luckily missed both house and garage, and is now lying across my garden and my neighbour's as well. The only damage was to the mature plum tree that it fell across (see split branches in picture below). Once this has all been sawed and chopped and seasoned for a year, I will have plenty to feed my new wood-burning stove.
Rachel had wondered over Christmas whether this tree might be toppled in the storms. The strange omniscience of women, eh Derek?

Your go.

I am lacking inspiration so will go for the tried and tested!

What am I drinking?

DRT wrote:I am lacking inspiration so will go for the tried and tested!

What am I drinking?

A very humble draught I'm sure.. Taylor 2008 LBV..?

Graham crusted bottled 1998.

(I have two questions ready, neither if which are what they seem.)

djewesbury wrote:A very humble draught I'm sure.. Taylor 2008 LBV..?

Wrong type of drink, but I am having pie for dinner.

jdaw1 wrote:Graham crusted bottled 1998.

No, for the same reason as above.

Evian?

Lager?

(My question now prepared.)

Ribena

Claret?

Calvados?

Rioja?

LGTrotter wrote:Evian?

No.

jdaw1 wrote:Lager?

No, but close.

djewesbury wrote:Ribena

No.

jdaw1 wrote:Claret?

No.

djewesbury wrote:Calvados?

No.

jdaw1 wrote:Rioja?

No.

Tears?

Alcohol-free beer (if Lager is close)

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Beer?

jdaw1 wrote:Beer?

London Pride from bottle to be precise. It went very well with steak pie, mash and peas.

JDAW's up.

This is a question that might test your visual memory. It asks ‟what do these have in common?”

The plan is that, in response to wrong but competent guesses, further examples will be posted.

and

Competent guesses give more examples. You want to be guessing.

Airline logos?

jdaw1 wrote:This is a question that might test your visual memory. It asks ‟what do these have in common?”

The plan is that, in response to wrong but competent guesses, further examples will be posted.

and

Competent guesses give more examples. You want to be guessing.

DRT wrote:Airline logos?

Competent, but wrong.

Corporations with an interest in or ties to aluminum?

Glenn E. wrote:Corporations with an interest in or ties to aluminum?

Competent, but wrong.

That might be enough for you to get it, but the next four clues, especially the third and fourth of them (so numbers seven and eight overall) should clinch it.

They are all Saul Bass Logos?

jdaw1 wrote:That might be enough for you to get it

DRT wrote:They are all Saul Bass Logos?

It was enough. Well done.

and and and and and and and and and and and and and

(I liked the question, but wanted it to be a bit slower.)

All logos are of asian origin?

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Edit: I was not only wrong, but also too late.

Google Search by Image is a splendid gizmo

That was a very short game. I elect to pass back to JDAW to allow him to pose his second question.

Sorry Derek's correct guess doesn't show up on my screen. What was the answer?

All of the logos were designed by Saul Bass http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: ... _logos.png

A sequence of eight two-digit numbers.
 00
48
05
20
12
01
17
What is the last two-digit number, and why? (I think that the team will like the answer.)

Glenn: you have no chance. Sorry. Don’t even bother trying.

Others might regard the direction to Glenn as a clue.

Is it something to do with runs/fall of wickets in cricket?

Australian wicket partnerships in one or other Test?

Not cricket.

But you have correctly deduced that this is not a mathematical question.

Is it something to do with Port declarations?

DRT wrote:Is it something to do with Port declarations?

I think that if this is a question that Glenn has no hope of getting it is unlikely to be about Port declarations. But are we perhaps correct in thinking that these numbers are years? If so the sequence spans several centuries.

djewesbury wrote:

DRT wrote:Is it something to do with Port declarations?

I think that if this is a question that Glenn has no hope of getting it is unlikely to be about Port declarations.

But Glenn drinks brown sticky stuff, which isn't declared.

Is it something intrinsically British?

DRT wrote:Is it something intrinsically British?

Very much so. To some of these islands, hypnotically trance inducing. To others, life-and-death practical.

djewesbury wrote:But are we perhaps correct in thinking that these numbers are years?

Years is wrong, but not very.

Is it the timescale of an astronomical event?

jdaw1 wrote:(I have two questions ready, neither if which are what they seem.)

A reminder of a very early clue.

Do the numbers represent numbers of days?

No number is higher than 48. Are these minutes?