Well, an ingenious effort by Bob, below.
They certainly don’t lose anything in the imagination department when
they move to Tasmania.
As Anthony got rather peremptorily, hardly stalling the operation of the
national Parliament for a millisecond, and Benj more or less, the keyword or
common element was ‘PIGEON’.
The clues were as follows:
1, shows
Michael Leahy, the explorer and gold prospector, and Michael Somare, early in
his political career, both these being accomplished Melanesian PIDGIN speakers,
as Bob reasoned.
2.
is a gentleman who is clearly PIGEON-toed
- is
a recipe – or a part of one – for PIGEON Pie, from the ‘Game’
volume of the Time/Life Good Cook series.
- is
an oldish picture of a pair of Goura or Crowned PIGEONS, the world’s
largest pigeon.
- is
a clay PIGEON
- although
perhaps a little tricky, is a ‘stool PIGEON’, in the sense of
an informer, usually to the police. This interesting US slang
_expression_ derives from an earlier now obsolete sense in which it referred
to ‘a person as a decoy’ coming from the practice of tying a
pigeon to a stool as a decoy for other pigeons. As an early recorded
use of the phrase in that sense dates from 1830, it seems likely that the
original ‘stool pigeons’ were Passenger Pigeons, then being
slaughtered in enormous numbers in commercial operations, and now sadly
extinct as a result.
From: Ruskies [
Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2006
9:10 AM
To:
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Not
so much a quiz
I'm probably miles off but here goes
#1 connection is New Guinea
= Pi/geon English
#3 = Pi/geon Pi/e receipe (x2)
#6 = P.I. (Private Investigator)
So accordingly the answer should be 3.14159+ = Pi
P.s. Is this theory all pie in the sky
P.s.s Or is this just me being pie eyed (again)
