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Charlie has 6 shillings and four pence-ha'penny in his pocket. He goes to the pub and buys three pints of ale at a total cost of 3/6. On his way home he buys a fish supper that cost a bob. The next day he goes to work and the bus fare cost him a tanner. During lunch he bought a pack of Park Drive that cost 1/3 before he left work he got paid £4 19s 6p but on the way home he lost three half crowns at the bookies and the bus cost another tanner.

How much cash did Charlie have in his pocket when got home that evening?

Easy - enough to buy his mum a bunch of flowers.

Quote: Sonofjoe @ November 6 2009, 6:28 AM GMT

Charlie has 6 shillings and four pence-ha'penny in his pocket. He goes to the pub and buys three pints of ale at a total cost of 3/6. On his way home he buys a fish supper that cost a bob. The next day he goes to work and the bus fare cost him a tanner. During lunch he bought a pack of Park Drive that cost 1/3 before he left work he got paid £4 19s 6p but on the way home he lost three half crowns at the bookies and the bus cost another tanner.

How much cash did Charlie have in his pocket when got home that evening?

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Five euros.

Quote: Afinkawan @ November 6 2009, 10:02 AM GMT

Easy - enough to buy his mum a bunch of flowers.

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Unfortunately Charlie never made it home, as his bus got hit by a doodlebug. Bloody Adolf! Still, we never complained, they were happy days... *sings* "We'll meet again"...

A man has five daughters. The first is a midget jew, the second looks like Chewbacca, the third is also a midget jew, the fourth is older than the father and the fifth wears shoes made of her own filth.

So, the question is...who am I and how long will it take me to dig a hole?

The solution to the puzzle is that John is actually both his own father and his half-mother's step-daughter.

Quote: Tim Walker @ November 6 2009, 10:40 AM GMT

The solution to the puzzle is that John is actually both his own father and half-mother.

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Congratlations, Tim, you are semi-incorrect and win tonight's star prize, a smashed up Etch-a-Sketch what has been flobbed on by Christopher Ryan from off the Young Ones. Well done!

Yay! What does Christopher Ryan do thesedays? What did he really ever do? It's a mystery, as Toyah would say.

Quote: Tim Walker @ November 6 2009, 10:57 AM GMT

Yay! What does Christopher Ryan do thesedays? What did he really ever do? It's a mystery, as Toyah would say.

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He played a Sontaran in Doctor Who last year. The f**king short-arse.

Quote: john lucas 101 @ November 6 2009, 11:01 AM GMT

He played a Sontaran in Doctor Who last year. The f**king short-arse.

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Nice to see him back on TV though, after coining it in all those years off the back of that failed SAS Gulf War mission.

Quote: john lucas 101 @ November 6 2009, 11:01 AM GMT

He played a Sontaran in Doctor Who last year.

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Sontaran? Sounds like an anti-migraine medication.

Quote: john lucas 101 @ November 6 2009, 11:01 AM GMT

He played a Sontaran in Doctor Who last year. The f**king short-arse.

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Long before he became a Sontaran, Christopher Ryan played Lord Kiv, leader of the Mentor race of aliens in the Colin Baker era Who story Mindwarp (pronounced Trial of a Time Lord parts 5-8 and good for having Brian Blessed shouting a lot). I suspect that Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant might have had Christopher Ryan's Kiv in mind when Andy Millman was reduced to playing a slug-like alien in Doctor Who in Extras.

Two related words jumbled up again

A B C E H I K L L M N O O R T

I don't think it's right but you can get kitchen and ballroom out of that. When I do anangrams - which is everyday with the crossword at the pub - I write all the letters in a circle, you can see words better somehow.

Quote: Marc P @ November 13 2009, 11:19 AM GMT

I don't think it's right but you can get kitchen and ballroom out of that. When I do anangrams - which is everyday with the crossword at the pub - I write all the letters in a circle, you can see words better somehow.

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I do the same, or at least put the letters in a jumble.

That must be correct, we haven't had the answers back yet, but I think they are probably linked by Cluedo.