Saturday 29 August 2009

Spiral Notebook: Lists # 4


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Actual butterfly names that could also be symptoms of the strange disease caught on an exotic tropical holiday
Black veined white
Orange tip
Green hairstreak
Clouded yellow
Speckled wood

Kojak episode titles (true or false)
1. Die Before They Wake
2. Dead On His Feet
3. Dying To Meet You
4. Hush Now, Don't You Die
5. Cross Your Heart And Hope To Die
6. Deadly Nightshade
7. Life, Liberation And The Pursuit Of Death
8. When You Hear The Beep, Drop Dead
9. Died In The Wool
10. I Could Kill My Wife's Lawyer
(T: 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10; F: 3, 6, 9)

Possible presenters for the new BBC programme, Perils In The Woodland
Jakki Brambles
Frank Thorn
John Nettles
Emma B
Sting
John Craven

Actual spider species that could double as terms of abuse in a particularly bitter divorce case
Starbellied orbweaver
Yellow bandied tarantula
Agrarian sac spider
Thin-legged wolf spider
Spined micrathena
Goliath bird-eater
Hammer-jawed jumper
Robber baron cave meshweaver
Mumbasa baboon tarantula

Inadvisable balloon animals
Hedgehog
Porcupine
Electric eels
Octopus

Answers to last week's Sudoku (in numerical order)
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Actual types of toasters that could also be code words in specialist adult contact magazines
Percher
Pincher
Slider
Drive thru
Flopper
Pop-up
Flat bed

Billy Joel songlist as drawn up by a prisoner pleading for legal representation to revisit his case
You Can Make Me Free
Got To Begin Again
Ain't No Crime
Get It Right First Time
Honesty
A Room Of My Own
An Innocent Man
We Didn't Start The Fire