yum yum yummy

In 1869 new rations of tinned mutton were introduced for British seamen. They were unimpressed by it, and decided it must be the butchered remains of X. The way her body had been strewn over a wide area presumably encouraged speculation that parts of her had been found at the Royal Navy victualling yard in Deptford, which was a large facility which included stores, a bakery and an abattoir.
"X" became slang for mutton or stew and then for anything worthless — from which comes the current use of "_____ X"  to mean "nothing at all". It can be seen as a euphemism for "fuck all" – which means the same.
This is not the only example of Royal Navy slang relating to unpopular rations: even today, tins of steak and kidney pudding are known as "baby's head". The large tins the mutton was delivered in were reused as mess tins. Mess tins or cooking pots are still known as X.

Id the phrase.

Put funda/ connect

• More Beasts
• X's Abandoned School
• Y Hunting
• The Sex Scene
• Burning Bulldozers
• Z Death Scene

(no need  to find the unknowns)

The revival

connect the two.

Id X, Y and Z

The name Y, is based on the fact that, when the X was made, getting involved in ______ was a taboo, so Z advised his artists to tell others, that they were working in the _________ of one 'X'.
(X is blanked out in the pic)

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X alias Y was born circa 1725 in the village of Panaiyur, in Rammnad 'country' in a Hindu farming family of the Pillai Vellala caste. Being too restless in his youth, he left his native village, and converted to Islam. During his days at Tanjore, an English Captain named Brunton educated Y, making him a learned man well-versed in several languages.

From Tanjore he moved to Nellore (in present day Andhra Pradesh), to try his hand as a native physician under Mohammed Kamal, in addition to his career in the army. He moved up the ranks as Thandalgar (tax collector), Havildar and finally as a Subedar and that is how he is referred to in the English records ('Nellore Subedar' or just 'Nellore'). While staying in Arcot he fell in love with a 'Portuguese' Christian (a loose term for a person of mixed Indo-European descent) girl named Maasa, and married her.

He aided Chanda sahib in his siege at Rockfort-Tiruchirapalli against Muhammed Ali Khan Wallajah and the British forces, for the throne of Arcot.Robert Clive( a British commander) , impressed by the charges Y led against the battlements of Arcot, recruited him — and Y put his Nellore sepoys and cavalry at the disposal of the English. Under Major Stringer Lawrence, Y was trained in the European method of warfare and his natural talent in military tactics and strategy blossomed to its full potential.

Over the next decade, as the Company fought the French in the Wars of the Carnatic, it was Y guerrilla tactics, repeatedly cutting the French lines of supply, that did the French in, particularly during Lally's siege of Madras in 1758. Lally was to later describe the role of the Nellore Subedar's sepoys in these words: "They were like flies, no sooner beat off from one part, they came from another."

By 1760 Y had reached the zenith of his career as the 'all-conquering' military commandant. (A few years earlier he had been given the rank of 'Commandant of Company's sepoys'). His greatest supporter during this period was George Pigot, the English governor in Madras. Y was held in very high esteem even after his death by the English and in their opinion he was one of the two great military geniuses India had ever produced; the other being Hyder Ali of Mysore. Y was regarded for his strategy and Hyder Ali for his speed. Major General Sir. John Malcolm said of him almost a fifty years later,"Y was by far the bravest and ablest of all the native soldiers ever to serve the English in India".

Who is X/Y ?

jujubi

 The architect of the X is Kalyanam Iyengar and was the brain behind the idea of making the name synonymous with ________. He was the uncrowned monarch who had several hundreds of men working in his 'kingdom'. An embodiment of virtues and humility, he was named Kalyanam Iyengar by the great politician wizard Rajaji because he donated the Thali – the wedding chain and wedding clothes to the needy. A philanthropist, he championed the cause of the poor and downtrodden. A connoisseur and patron of fine arts, he introduced music and dance festivals in ________ which is being followed till date. He passed on the mantle to his son, brother and brother-in-law. His centenary, which fell on March 2009, was celebrated in a grand manner.

Id X.

yay?.... ethuku? .....eppadi?

Connect both of them.(kind of indirect)

Soil

X’s(the guy with the sword) image was used in several pamphlets circulated by various Agorakshanasabh  (“cow protection leagues”) and “wandering ascetics” as a protest against the Muslim practice of beef-eating during the British raj. These pamphlets were produced in a time when Hindu-Muslim riots over cow slaughter occurred in several areas of India. They portrayed X raising a sword above the head of a sacred cow, whose body was illustrated to be a microcosmic paradise in which all the Hindu gods resided.

Id X.

Put funda

12 Faith
51 Reliablity
57 Generosity
76 Knowledge
78 Asceticism
41 Disobedience
44 Arrogance
49 Vulgarity
52 Theft
58 Lying
62 Drunkenness
69 Debt
84 Anger
92 Greed
95 Pride
73 Murder
99 Lust

common man

The next few questions are from India quiz-Festember X.

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__________ de Albuquerque(the guy in the pic)(1453 – December 16, 1515) was a Portuguese nobleman, a naval general officer whose military and administrative activities as second governor of Portuguese India conquered and established the Portuguese colonial empire in the Indian ocean. He is generally considered a world conquest military genius. He was responsible for building numerous fortresses to defend key points that he was taking and established a net of diplomatic relations. Shortly before his death he was awarded viceroy and "Duke of Goa" by king Manuel I of Portugal, being the first Portuguese duke not from the royal family, and the first Portuguese title landed overseas.

Despite his fame, the city of Albuquerque in New Mexico is not named after him. It was named after a Spanish Viceroy of Mexico named Don Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, who also held the title Duke of Alburquerque. There is, however, a town near the Spanish-Portuguese border named Alburquerque which may be the root of both names.

However he is immortalized in the form of something else which he used to bring on his journeys to Goa......what?
or
Id the blank.

Thala!

X  aka Y gave a faked press conference at the White House gates on 29 September 2006, just one day before an official visit of Z's president. The Z government hired two Western public relations firms to counter Y's claims, running a four-page advertisement in The New York Times implicitly rebutting many of the claims made by Y.
Z has since changed their strategy by playing along, going so far as inviting Y to visit Z.

Johnny Depp, George Clooney and Steve Martin, all of whom are huge fans of X, contacted him about having a cameo in the movie. But X refused because it would have ruined some of the gags if they knew what was going on.

put funda

yet another ety-mo

In printing, a X was a printing plate cast from movable type. When letters were set one at a time, it made sense to cast a phrase used repeatedly as a single slug of metal. X came to mean such a ready-made phrase. The French word X comes from the sound made when the matrix is dropped into molten metal to make a printing plate.

What is X?

Connect

Connect / put funda.

NASAma pochu

Woman in the Moon (or in original German, Frau im Mond) is a science fiction silent film that premiered October 15, 1929. It is often considered to be one of the first "serious" science fiction films.
The basics of rocket travel are presented to a mass audience for the first time by this film, including the use of a multi-stage rocket. The idea that the moon rocket Friede  would be submerged in water before launch was a bad guess, although large rockets are launched over water to prevent damage to the spacecraft from the sound generated by liftoff. NASA did, however, have proposals for water-launched rockets (the Sea Dragon and Nova). Also, the first thing the space travelers do upon reaching the moon is use a dowsing rod  to search for water.

However what is the movie's biggest contribution to the world of rocket science?

Where is the party?

The party plan is largely regarded as primarily the invention of Brownie Wise, who developed it for the X company in the early 1950s. The success of X was widely emulated. In this system, full-time commissioned representatives of the sales organization, almost invariably women, approach other women about hosting a social event in their homes during which a product will be demonstrated. In consideration, they will be given hostess gifts and a portion of the proceeds from the amount of goods sold. Frequently all in attendance will be given a token item of nominal value as an incentive to attend, although the primary reason to attend is for the fun of the social environment. The value of fun as a commodity coupled with personal customer service is what makes this business model so successful.

But recently this kind of marketing reappeared in the news when Y used it promote its newly lauched product Z in 2009.

Id X, Y and Z.

gotta connect them all...

Put funda on the two pics and connect it with mani.

Poda....?

The term originated from a group of teenagers at San Rafael High School in San Rafael, California, United States in 1971.The teens would meet after school at a certain time to smoke marijuana at the Louis Pasteur statue.

According to an April 2009 article on the The Huffington Post, the group called itself the Waldos because its members hung out by a wall after school. Writer Ryan Grim, citing interviews with anonymous Waldos, claims that the group met by the statue at X to begin a search for a crop of unguarded cannabis growing near Point Reyes that they had heard about. They never found the stash, Grim writes, but smoked plenty of marijuana while looking for it.

X, however is known by a totally different context/reason in India.


X?

Gaptain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whFVOhigQeU

That was the intro scene of captain jack sparrow from the curse of the black pearl. If you remember our gaptain salutes looking at the 3 skeletons hanging near the port.

This is a tribute to one of the greatest pirates ever, X with whom our gaptain shares a lot.
More over, what is the greatest contribution of this guy X, to world of piracy.

Bee Gees

Put Fundae...

In 1978, the Billboard charts looked something like this...

February 4 "Stayin' Alive" Bee Gees

February 11 "Stayin' Alive" Bee Gees

February 18 "Stayin' Alive" Bee Gees

February 25 "Stayin' Alive" Bee Gees

March 4 "(Love Is) Thicker Than Water" Andy Gibb

March 11 "(Love Is) Thicker Than Water" Andy Gibb

March 18 "Night Fever" Bee Gees

March 25 "Night Fever" Bee Gees

April 1 "Night Fever" Bee Gees

April 8 "Night Fever" Bee Gees

April 15 "Night Fever" Bee Gees

April 22 "Night Fever" Bee Gees

April 29 "Night Fever" Bee Gees

May 6 "Night Fever" Bee Gees

May 13 "If I Can't Have You" Yvonne Elliman





What was so unique about this occurence that has never happened again?

Football, or is it?

Connect the following football clubs..
CR Flamengo(Brazil)
SR Corinthians(Brazil)
AC Milan
AS Roma
Athletico Madrid
Borussia Dortmund
FC Basel
FC Midtyjlland
FC Porto
Galatasaray
Bordeaux
Liverpool
Olympiakos
Olympique Lyonnais
PSV Eindhoven
Rangers FC
RSC Anderlecht
Sevilla
Sporting CP
Tottenham hotspur
Al Ain (UAE)
Beijing guoang FC (china)

Internet meme

"X"ing is an Internet meme typically involving the music video for the 1987 song "Never Gonna Give You Up". The meme is a bait and switch: a person provides a web link that they claim is relevant to the topic at hand, but the link actually takes the user to the video. The URL can be masked or obfuscated in some manner so that the user cannot determine the true destination of the link without clicking. When a person clicks on the link and is led to the web page, he or she is said to have been "X"-ed. The song may have been favored for this use by those regarding it as the worst popular song of all time. "X"ing has extended beyond Web links to playing the video or song disruptively in other situations, including public places; this culminated when the song made a surprise appearance in the 2008 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, a televised event with tens of millions of viewers.

x = What term?

Movie mania

After a 45 day schedule in the United States, X, the director and the team returned to India to film a couple of scenes in the climax.The team then visited several other countries to shoot a song in the film.During the shooting in Paris the death of Princess Diana had taken place and shooting was delayed in the France, due to her death. For the most part, the film Y was surrounded by world events of all sorts and for X, the cast and crew of the film described the experiences as "tremendously vivid and memorable". Three week prior to the release of the film, on 1 April 1998 a screening was held labeled the Making of Y with prominent personalities invited, however the short film showed the real manufacture of Y. The prank was claimed by X and his crew who utilized an April Fools joke

X = who?
Y = which film?

Again connect

Sweden - Albin, Metallica, Superman, Veranda, Ikea and Elvis
Germany - Matti
New Zealand - Stallion, Yeah Detroit, Fish and Chips, Twisty Poi, Keenan Got Lucy, Sex Fruit, Satan and Adolf Hitler
Japan - Akuma, meaning "devil."
Denmark - Anus, Pluto and Monkey.
China - @

What??

Connect?

To become tiny as the atom or transform himself into an atom(Anima).
To become big in unshakable proportions (Mahima).
To become as light as vapor in levitation (Laghima).
To become as heavy as the mountain (Garima).
To enter into other bodies by transmigration (Prapti).
To be in all things or being omni-pervasive (Prakamya).
To be lord of all creation or being omnipotent (Isatvam).
To be everywhere or being omnipresent (Vasitvam).

What?

Etymo

During the colonial days, British steamers regularly plied between London and various far flung out posts of the Empire. Journeys on these steamers took anywhere from a week to 3 months. Due to prevailing tides and wind conditions on the high seas, passengers preferred a cabin on the port side of a ship, when heading out of Britain, and the starboard when heading home. Hence passengers who could afford it paid higher fares for these cabins. Hence the rich and moneyed were able to secure the best cabins on a voyage for themselves. This has given rise to a term which is usually associated with the rich and fashionable.What is it?

The blank?

________ is a method of carving, or an object such as an engraved gem, item of jewellery or vessel made in this manner. It nearly always features a raised (positive) relief image; contrast with intaglio, which has a negative image. Originally, and still in discussing historical work, _________ only referred to works where the relief image was of a contrasting colour to the background; this was achieved by carefully carving a piece of material with a flat plane where two contrasting colours met, removing all the first colour except for the image to leave a contrasting background.

However, today the word is used more frequently in a different way altogether.

Connect these definitions.

bloated, big bag of blotation - drunk

bound-and-hagged - staying home on friday or saturday night

cob nobbler - loser

dish - desirable guy

fuzz - heavy wool sweaters

harsh realm - bummer

kickers - heavy boots

lamestain - uncool person

plats - platform shoes

rock on - a happy goodbye

score - great

swingin' on the flippety-flop - hanging out

tom-tom club - uncool outsiders

wack slacks - old ripped jeans


There is a specific term that is used to describe all these definitions.

Clue - Seattle.

Id X and Y.

Band X was started by Y, an engineer at Polaroid with a BS and MS in Mech. Engg from MIT. Known for being an obsessive perfectionist, Y and X have released only 5 studio albums, but have sold over 50 million records globally. X held the record for the best selling debut till it was upstaged by GnR's Appetite for Destruction, 17 m copies. X remains to date a classic rock staple. X's eponymous debut was fully home produced by Y, despite pressure from the studio, only the vocals being added later by Brad Delp. However, the usual conflicts ensued, today, Y is the only member of the original lineup left. X had members from the same city where Y studied, frawn from both sides of the river.



The ongoing conflicts between the surviving band members spilled over to the 2008 Presidential campaign. A former band member appeared with Mike Huckabee and played with him at some rallies in New Hampshire. Huckabee used Z as a campaign theme song.



Y, a self-described "Obama supporter", sent an open letter to Huckabee in February 2008 stating that the band had never endorsed any candidate, and that he had never authorized the use of Z as Huckabee's theme song. Y made a point of saying that ONLY he actually played all the guitars on Z as well as most of X’s songs. Huckabee did stop using Z as a theme song.



Get the band X and the founder Y.

Id and connect.

300th Post!

This band is said to have derived its name from the legendary lost city of X, the city of the moon, built by an ancient Egyptian civilization, 2000 years ago in the Wilbur Smith novel, Sunbird.
Another possible source is the 'Beautiful' Feast of X (or X Festival), an Ancient Egyptian festival which was celebrated annually in Thebes, an ancient city in Egypt.

Id X

David Lee Roth Nose cut.

David Lee Roth and Eddie Van Halen have always had a tempestuous relationship. Roth was the original lead singer of Van Halen, until he was replaced by Sammy Hagar in 1985. Roth then went on to release a solo album "Eat up and Smile". However in the album, he made several uncharitable references to Van Halen and his replacement. Eddie Van Halen maintained a studious silence until he releases the Band's next offering OU812,which silenced Roth once and for all. What was so significant about this album?

Connect

Connect...!

What is it ?

Part of the original image has been obscured. Put fundae.

Simple qns

1. This name was supposedly taken from a poem by Lord Byron which goes:

'Here where the sword ______ ______ drew, Our countrymen were warring on that day, And this is much, and all, which will not pass away'

2. It was said of Augustus that he found Rome brick and left it marble: the same is true of X and ____________ ! – Gideon Haigh. Connect X with Ravi Shastri and Heinz..

ID movie, put fundae.

easy one

Put fundae ...

Easy juicy

The name has its origins in a Test match played between the West Indies and England at Old Trafford, Manchester, in the year 1933. According to folklore,  Elliss "Puss" Achong is said to have had Walter Robbins stumped off a surprise delivery that spun into the right hander from outside the off stump. As he walked back to the pavilion, Robbins said to his teammates "Fancy being done by a bloody ________", leading to the popularity of the term in England, and subsequently, in the rest of the world.
What?

Fight!

The ending of the ______ fight remains one of the most controversial in boxing history. Midway through the first round, Y fell to the canvas, in what many have argued was not a legitimate knockdown.The Referee appeared confused after X refused to retreat to a neutral corner. Instead, X stood over his fallen opponent, gesturing and yelling at him, "Get up and fight, sucker!"
The blow that ended the match became known as "the phantom punch," so named because most people at ringside did not see it. Even X was unsure as to whether or not the punch connected, Replays show X connecting with a quick, chopping right to Y's head as Y was moving toward him. However, whether the blow was a genuine knockout punch remains inconclusive.

What happened next?

. Long time no koschan

Abraham was ordered by God to leave his wife Hagar and his infant son Ishmael alone in the desert. While he was gone, the child became thirsty, and Hagar ran back and forth seven times between the hills of Minar and Sawahf searching for water for her son. The baby cried and hit the ground with his foot (some versions of the story say that an angel scraped his foot or the tip of his wing along the ground), and water miraculously sprang forth.

This gave rise to a custom that's observed even today.

What?

Id X

In 2002, X was ranked 92nd in Channel 4's list of 100 Greatest Sporting Moments in British television.
As the ball travels towards Y, the ____________ starts to drift to the right (due to the Magnus effect).  Z , on the reaction of  Y : "He looked as though someone had just nicked his lunch.", as Y was much-mocked for his rotundness.  And again Z added "If it had been a cheese roll, it would never have got past him."
In 2009 the Irish chamber pop group ___________ wrote a song called "Jiggery Pokery" about this incident.

what is the X we are talking about?
The blanks and the variables are all different and are there just make it a bit more tougher.

what?

This lead to a huge increase in the popularity of something....what?

This was possibly the first-ever India-specific marketing campaign. Put together in 1939 by Harvey Duncan of Lintas, the campaign ensured that the palm tree logo became familiar across the country.
The campaign also featured innovative packaging - a square 10-pound tin, a round 5-pound tin and a special 1/4 pound tin for sampling, all in a distinctive green-and-yellow combination. For which venerable Indian product was this campaign launched?

Fill in....

1. Bring me my Bow of burning gold;
Bring me my Arrows of desire:
Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold:
Bring me my ___ _____ _____!
I will not cease from Mental Fight,
Nor Shall my sword sleep in my hand:
Till we have built Jerusalem,
In England’s green & pleasant Land.”

2. How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
_______________________________!
Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d;

3.  In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men – yes, black men as well as white men – would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty and _____ _______ ____ _________. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked ‘insufficient funds.’”

4. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow’r,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave,
Awaits alike th’inevitable hour.
The _____ ____ _____ lead but to the grave.

Peter!

Max registered this website after seeing a trailer of a Sean Connery film in which he says "_______________________________" phrase.
This is now a popular online community centered on the creation of single image slide shows on hosted web pages.Most of X's are meant to expose or reflect the more inane facets of pop culture.

(Sort of a peter from another site, but thought id post it here and the question is framed differently.)

X? or site?

ConnecT!! simple!

Ozzy,Fergie, Josh Freese, Chris Chaney, Travis Barker, Matthew Charles Sanders and Jason Bonham

Half a League, Half a League...

"Tell Lord Lucan the cavalry is to attack immediately", Ragland shouted.

Lucan was puzzled by Raglan's imprecise order. When Lucan questioned the order an excited Nolan told him he was to attack immediately.

"Attack, sir! Attack what? What guns, sir?"
"There, my Lord, is your enemy!" Said Nolan contemptuously, vaguely waving his arm eastwards. "There are your guns!"

Later, when Commander Cardigan learnt of what was expected of the troop, he questioned the sanity of the order as conveyed to him by Lucan,
"… allow me to point out to you that there is a battery in front, battery on each flank, and the ground is covered with Russian riflemen."

"I know it." Said Lucan. "But Lord Raglan will have it. We have no choice but to obey."

Whatever followed was a symbol of warfare at both its most courageous and its most tragic. What is it?

Easy One: ID X and Y

X: Wow, it really snowed last night! Isn't it wonderful?

Y: Everything familiar has disappeared! The world looks brand-new!

X: A new year... A fresh, clean start!

Y: It's like having a big white sheet of paper to draw on!

X: A day full of possibilities!
It's a magical world, Y, ol' buddy...
...Let's go exploring!

Who are these people?

* Maila Irmeli Björklund, 15 years old at time of death. Stabbed and bludgeoned

* Anja Tuulikki Mäki, 15 years old at time of death. Stabbed and bludgeoned

* Seppo Antero Boisman, 18 years old at time of death. Stabbed and bludgeoned

* Nils Wilhelm Gustafsson, 18 years old at the time - the survivor - Concussion, fractures in the jaw and facial bones and bruises on the face.

Frequently asked...

Sri Lankan mothers frightened their children with the X bogeyman, and to this day a particularly cunning person is referred to as an X.
The word 'X', meaning 'streetsmart',entered the Tamil language and is widely used in the inner parts of tamilnadu.

On X??

clue pic:

The two english are familiar names in cricket. But the question is...Who is their indian counterpart?

Born Robert LeRoy Parker(right pic)(X), was a notorious American train robber, bank robber and leader of the Hole in the Wall Gang.

Harry Alonzo Longabaugh (1867 - November 6 1908?)(left pic,Y), sometimes spelled Longbaugh, born in Mont Clare, Pennsylvania,was an outlaw and member of X's Wild Bunch, in the American Old West.

fundae?

connect and complete

Lost
Interbellum
Greatest
Silent
Baby boom
X
Y
Z

what are these... and id X,Y and Z.

Connect!!

The Division Bell - Pink Floyd
A Rush of Blood to the Head - Coldplay
Parklife - Blur
Power Corruption and Lies - New Order
Let It Bleed - The Rolling Stones
London Calling - The Clash
Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield
IV - Led Zeppelin
Screamadelica - Primal Scream
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - David Bowie

Connect - order of no importance!!