To expect one of you to definitively know the following

[AbsolutelyNotHoneyDragon]

Where is Lord Lucan?
What is the jeffin' purpose of the smile emoticon?
What actually makes Magpies unlucky?
And
Is the pope really a catholic?

I need answers people!

Lord Lucan is under my bed. He is getting a bit whiffy.

a) in retirement (or a glue factory) with Shergar
b) to please ageing hippies
c) that moron who is trying to rename St James Park
d) don't know, as he's never been caught shitting in a wood

with Shergar
to be uber passive aggressive
no idea
Yes

hth :)

What actually makes Magpies unlucky?

Have you ever seen one win at Bingo?

I rest my case.

Dead
To indicate you have something stuck between your teeth
They regularly have black cats crossing their path
Erm...I aassume so

Kniddy, you could of mentioned it years ago. Saved a lot of speculating it would've

'You'd have to be a bit thick to not know the purpose of the smile emoticon ' is a good example of the PA way the lovely smiley face can be used.

South Africa, isn't he?

1. dead
2. passive/aggressive shit
3. nonsense but will touch a button/salute as necessary
4. I suspect this is a possibility

dead
to make people seem friendly
they pick on sparrows so people shoot them
well... the current one spends no time in the woods. that makes me wonder...

I do the sneaky salute thing at magpies.

The purpose of the is to be PA.

Gwenlock

Don't ask me, I asked you! All I know is he's missing.

Do you have to be a catholic to be the pope? Has any one checked?

I didn't now anybody was looking for him!

tsk

Its Earl Lucan.

Which one? 7th? declared dead in 1999, 8th denied permission to sit in the HoL

Well, you did ask

Lucan is in Africa

Nobody knows

What worra said

If he's not there's going to be some serious questions to answer

A question of my own - were these really the 4 most searching queries you could think of?

Catholic? Pope?

Shendoua III, Coptic Pope

:o

I have been distracted by Edith's answer;
What actually makes Magpies unlucky?
c) that moron who is trying to rename St James Park

:o

Ooo, do we have to do the magpie chant?

No! Is a smiley face really passive/aggressive?

Duh.

Madge

No. I'm saving those for a special occassion.

Magpies are unlucky because they eat carrion and have black-and-white features that look a little like bones. And possibly because they're confused with ravens, which were Odin's symbols and opens of death.

Magpie is a contraction of their real name, 'maggot-pie' (as in pied, sadly, not a disgusting ancestral recipe).

(I am guess, I've no fucking clue except the name bit. Like the song, though.)

*opens? Omens.

See? Unlucky!

LRD - you waffler

It's true, I am.

I'm not even pissed, just slow of thinking.

One magpie is unlucky because magpies breed in pairs for life, so one bird hanging around on it's own points to the death of the other bird.