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Sigh.  Good Friday.  Is there a more boring day on the calendar?

You're probably just hanging around, maybe feeling cross.  

It's time to resurrect your spirits with another brainteaser.  Can you nail it?  Who will get the chocolates?

I've made this one very simple as I have no wish to crucify you.  You don't need to be an egghead to crack this one.

Incidentally, I once tried breeding Easter bunnies and I have to say that the little eggs they lay don't taste anywhere near as chocolatey as they look.

What do the players in the following team of Melbourne luminaries have in common? 

Answers in a PM only, please!

 

B:        Steven Febey     Matthew Warnock     Brad Campbell

H/B:    Troy Longmuir     Nathan Carroll     Jack Grimes

C:        Ed Langdon     Angus Brayshaw     Cale Morton

H/F:    Shane Braddy     Ben Holland     Aaron Davey

F:        James McDonald     Allen Jakovich     Shannon Motlop

R:       Glenn McLean     Nathan Jones     Paul Goss

I/C:     Ray Holden     Anthony McDonald     John Reid     Stephen Wearne

 
 

What's so good about Good Friday? Let's see a quiz on that!

Now onto the real quiz, wish me luck.


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Will anybody else join the BBB (brotherhood of brainteaser boffins) aka the FFF (fraternity of foresightful fans) to earn themselves a virtual ovoid chocolate?

As mentioned above, this is probably the easiest teaser I've ever posted.  Have at it!

29 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

Will anybody else join the BBB (brotherhood of brainteaser boffins) aka the FFF (fraternity of foresightful fans) to earn themselves a virtual ovoid chocolate?

As mentioned above, this is probably the easiest teaser I've ever posted.  Have at it!

Oh brother give me strength,  I have just played my first game of pickle ball, hilarious when siblings try to outdo each other! So I sit down to this brainteaser, now my brain hurts like my aging muscles.

 

Just now, Demonstone said:

brother

I believe the word is bother. Nonetheless, on a random factoid - Dire Straits had an album, which if I recall correctly was the first commercially released CD to sell a million copies. 

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What does the phrase oh brother mean?
 
 
expression of frustration, disgust, disbelief
 
used as an expression of frustration, disgust, disbelief, or incredulity.

Oasis also fits. AC/DC. Jackson 5. INXS. The Rolling Stones, if you stretch it, would fit.

The Everly Brothers would fit. But the Righteous Brothers would not. Nor would the Walker Brothers.


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1 hour ago, Mazer Rackham said:

The Rolling Stones, if you stretch it, would fit.

Now that's a glimmer of a hint.

The Australian Test match side during the 90s would also fit, right?

6 hours ago, ManDee said:

Oh brother give me strength,  I have just played my first game of pickle ball, hilarious when siblings try to outdo each other! So I sit down to this brainteaser, now my brain hurts like my aging muscles.

What is pickle ball? It sounds like fun. 

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In case anybody was still wondering, the answer is that all the players in my team had or have a brother who played or is still playing at VFL/AFL level.

Congratulations to @WalkingCivilWar and @layzie for filling fifth and sixth place respectively.

Happy Easter everybody.  Forget Good Friday, I think Demon fans are in for a Very Good Sunday.

whatever you do, don’t give any of those small eggs to Jesus. 

they’ll keep falling through his hands


19 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

In case anybody was still wondering, the answer is that all the players in my team had or have a brother who played or is still playing at VFL/AFL level.

Congratulations to @WalkingCivilWar and @layzie for filling fifth and sixth place respectively.

Happy Easter everybody.  Forget Good Friday, I think Demon fans are in for a Very Good Sunday.

DS, would I be right in thinking that if you dropped out S Febey for someone like Ron Baggott or a D Cockatoo-Collins it would be a team that had a brother who played at the level for a club other than Melbourne?

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11 minutes ago, Tim said:

someone like Ron Baggott or a D Cockatoo-Collins

You could also include Damien Gaspar and Luke Ottens in that category.  I left them out of my team because I thought they would make the answer too obvious.

 
8 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

You could also include Damien Gaspar and Luke Ottens in that category.  I left them out of my team because I thought they would make the answer too obvious.

Norm Smith could go in as captain/coach!

Looking at Gaspar/Ottens reminds me that while we have had the better brother at times, we’ve probably been on the wrong side of the ledger over the decades in terms of having the better/best brother, unless we had both (eg, the Flowers). Brayden Maynard the current standard-bearer. An interesting category!


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