Phoenix ... a little duck and a fat lady ....

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:28 pm

Have we not had this question before? Did it not land leave the stadium and land on a freight train?

Demmerz · Post by **Demmerz** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 4:57 pm

Yes, that is why it's a retro Phoenix

All yours!

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 4:58 pm

What is the most dangerous job in the UK?

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 5:01 pm

good one.
hmm, i'll guess fireman.

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 5:04 pm

Nope. Despite their protestations, there are several more occupations more dangerous than being a fireman.

Mattb · Post by **Mattb** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 5:14 pm

Working in the mines?

Matt

jimmymac · Post by **jimmymac** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 5:16 pm

trawler man aint it....did enjoy that series last week. Friend of mine works on a fishing trawler out of iceland, supposedly 50 times more likely to die than any other job or summat

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 5:20 pm

Tis indeed fishermen, which is the most dangerous job in the UK.

In America, it's actually tree-fellers who are most likely to snuff it.

... over to you JimmyMac...

jimmymac · Post by **jimmymac** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 5:48 pm

ta, fairly straight forward this one, please no googling to start with as the answer is pretty damn easy to find.

Being a geologist at uni we were always concerned with time over a geological period....you'll know many such as the Jurrasic, Triassic etc.

but can anyone tell me the current Era, Period and Epoch that we are in?

tka · Post by **tka** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 8:57 pm

There are loads of these questions on the itbox. I guess Permian.

jimmymac · Post by **jimmymac** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:03 pm

only 225 million years out sir

tka · Post by **tka** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:09 pm

Whoops.

I have now idea but another one I have heard of is pliecsene (probably spelt it wrong).

jimmymac · Post by **jimmymac** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:15 pm

there are two with very similar names, the pleistocene and the pliocene, both are wrong but very close, your actually talking about an epoch there and your previous guess was a period.

Basically it works out as there are only 4 era's, each era is broken down into a period and then the period is broken down into an epoch. we shall see how this question goes, i might just give it to whoever gets one of the three parameters. Epoch, period or era

tka · Post by **tka** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:40 pm

What the Hell, here's another random guess...
Permian

EDIT. just realised that was my first guess so

Devonian

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:50 pm

Right. I'll go for Benazoic or some other word I might have imagined that might be the right answer.