Queen Victoria stated, that to honor her husband, she did want any king to be Albert. I believe George VI was her grandson and he remembered that request.
Subject: Think you know a lot.....
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tinman
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Rooster: you have far too much time on your hands. I want your job.
Cave Diver: trivia of use for you...Your State produces 80% of the world's supply of Helium. Natural Gas in your locale is so naturally rich with Helium that it has to be filter out so the Natural Gas is usable! (according to a documentary I saw last night) Current estimated consumption suggests a 10 year supply remaining (where have we heard this story before?!).
Trimix divers - get it while it's hot or get real friendly with your land owning Texas dive buddy...own any land Cave Diver...
Cave Diver: trivia of use for you...Your State produces 80% of the world's supply of Helium. Natural Gas in your locale is so naturally rich with Helium that it has to be filter out so the Natural Gas is usable! (according to a documentary I saw last night) Current estimated consumption suggests a 10 year supply remaining (where have we heard this story before?!).
Trimix divers - get it while it's hot or get real friendly with your land owning Texas dive buddy...own any land Cave Diver...
Ian Wigg
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The one most commonly cited is screeched (nine letters). However, one ought to mention also scratched, scrounged, scrunched, stretched, and the plural nouns straights and strengths (all with nine letters).
The complete Oxford English Dictionary also indicates the existence of scraughed, scrinched, scritched, scrooched, sprainged, spreathed, throughed, and thrutched.
The OED also cites a single instance of the ten-letter word scraunched, from the 1620 English translation of Don Quixote.
Ian
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