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Is vi egg-related?

the planet neptune was discovered in the 18th century -- may mean this

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Or Roman god Neptune?

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thort it less likely the god had a start-date!

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only other possibility I can think of is something to do with Holst's The Planets - whatever the start time of the Neptune movement is in the suite.

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Well when did the Roman nick him off the Greeks?

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Perhaps this is about The Poseidon Adventure!

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I have done some googling about "Neptune" which supports my theory that it's about single letters of the alphabet...

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assuming benedict is a pope then would the florentine master be michelangelo/raphael? I know that two popes oversaw the sistine chapel and R had to take over from M when he died during painting...i think?

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you may be correct but i now plan to have eggs florentine for brex today as have a: spinnadge, b: eggZorZ, c; lemming juice

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Eggs benedict/florentine is the BEST THING.

I had lobster benedict in Miami! :D

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ok THAT was a lot of eggs and butter!

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but also NOT ENOUGH

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vii) not Jane Eyre as she never 'lodged' anywhere - maybe Jane Austen in Bath?

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She would never have paid for her own lodgings, though.

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Good point. I have run out of Janes now.

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jeff-worrell.livejournal.com

vii = "at the Y"? (as in YWCA?) Dunno which Jane it is though. Also two guineas sounds expensive for the period in which we still priced things in guineas, so maybe not the Y

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"aerial punctuation": do they mean apostrophes and speech marks?

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Maybe something to do with skywriting?

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braisedbywolves.livejournal.com

Possibly air quotes? In which case the only prerequisite is "fingers you should not have the use of"

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i) has got Missy Elliott's "Gossip Folks" and Far East Movement's "Like A G6" stuck in my head simultaneously so my brain is basically good for nothing else now.

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v. EVERYTHING in the known universe. Including runny raw eggs.

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viii) I have googled a thing that has a melting point of 3410C but I have no idea why it is symbolic :(

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anatol-merklich.livejournal.com

istr that gold has a melting point somewhere in the mid-3Ks -- "symbolic" can just mean we want Au for the answer (or similar if it is another substance)?

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anatol-merklich.livejournal.com

Oh whoops, checking this I was wayyy off here, its boiling point is 2856C, ie 3129K, which is prob what I remembered.

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I can melt gold in MY OWN KITCHEN; it's pretty low.

(I never do, though - it is too expensive.)

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The substance has a single letter.

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Iiiiiis it CARBON?

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x. A zoonosis is a disease transmitted from animals to humans, I think - so maybe zoonotic is the adjectival form of that word and they have phrased it a bit oddly.

i. Wasn't izzard just a letter? Like, the Hebrew equivalent of Z, something like that?

ix. might refer to a wisecracking talking sword?

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iii. "What gave way to 18 in 83?" - the age you were allowed to do something changed from something to 18 in 1983... Allowed to vote? Allowed to have gay sex? Either way, it was probably 21 before that, so the answer must be 21.

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Could the theme be something to do with letters?

viii is a single letter chemical symbol for an element, pretty sure i. is a letter, maybe the food substance that can adversely affect the embryo is a vitamin with a single letter name? I know that a LACK of vitamin D(?) is a factor in spina bifida.

Maybe the question about the zoonotic is a specific disease that is zoonotic - maybe one of the hepatitiseses?

Aaah, and the X certificate gave way to 18 in 1983, presumably.

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E.coli is a zoonotic, maybe that's letter-y enough to fit the theme?

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catsgomiaow.livejournal.com

Too much vitamin A - VERY bad for the embryo; pregnancy supplements are specifically formulated to not have too much and pregnant women are told to avoid eating liver bcs the levels are so high.

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think you might have it, yes

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Who is a sharp know-all? V from V for Vendetta?

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anatol-merklich.livejournal.com

Or one of those James Bond people? M, Q and what have you?

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Or Q from Star Trek? I mean, if you take sharp to mean "clever" or "abrasive" it could be any of these. But maybe sharp is supposed to be meant literally. I'm googling and it's not helping.

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