Couple of quizzes to keep you entertained. There are no real rules; I will post the answers after a suitable period of time. Discussion is permitted.
Cwiz 1: Prisons
1. In which novel did Edmond Nantes escape from the Chateau d’If?
2. In which prison was the Marquis de Sade incarcerated?
3. Which South African prison was named after the Afrikaans word for seal?
4. Which Cavalier poet wrote, “Stone walls do not a prison make”?
5. Which US prison took its name from pelicans?
6. Who wrote
I never saw a man who looked,
With such a wistful eye,
Upon that little tent of blue,
Which prisoners call the sky.
7. Tartarus was a dungeon in Greek myth; for whom was it built?
8. Frank Darabont directed which prison movie?
9. Which isolated UK prison opened in 1809 to house Napoleonic War prisoners?
10. In 1952, the Kray twins were held in which historic prison?
This cwiz is courtesy of ProfessorPineapple
Cwiz 2: Scrambled Plays
1. Forgoing toadwit
2. Meth cab
3. Née in lewd farmyards
4. Limp agony
5. Anal seas fathomed
6. Sex up or die
7. A Leo knocking bar
8. See earthling games
9. I scorn hero
10. Sole had soul
Ovally Balls 
Deebee, did you have hair in 1996?
Did I have hair in 1996? Did I? Did I fucking ever!
Um, not much. No.
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Grand
Two grand and be grateful for the cheap price.
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Poor Ol’Musky. Even landing a bit of rocket on a floating island in the sea isn’t good enough for some.
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Donald Trump has claimed to have spent only a “tiny” amount of time in a reinforced security bunker under the White House as protesters clashed with Secret Service agents outside and has insisted his time there was for an “inspection”, not his own safety.
Bwahahaha
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Evening.
Sam and Mike and George and Stuart.
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TomP and SBT – email sent.
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If anyone is into their hip-hop, Run The Jewels have released RTJ4 early, for free, with the option to donate to BLM charities.
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Refit – I saw your avatar, or something very close to it, on the back of an ancient (b&w number plate) VW minibus the other day.
I’m pretty sure it wasn’t you driving.
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DCI – ‘everyone were selfish and I just were a little pawn in a bad man’s game. So, after upsetting the balance of the England team, i fooked off back to league rather than try to find another club to pursue my union career. Daft that some selfish people think I were ungrateful’.
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@Thaum – they must have been Invader Zim fans. This is the Irken logo from the cartoon/comic.
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@Craigs,
I was watching the Hask while SB was talking — he didn’t appear wholly convinced at times.
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@craigs
He didn’t “fook*” off back to League, he was made an offer which he accepted.
*I’ve never actually heard anyone pronounce this word this way.
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Refit – do you know how to donate if you are outside the USA? It’s difficult when you can’t convince your bank you live in Kentucky.
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OT – OK, my mistake. He’s just a simple lad who had no agency in the situation.
And no desire to stick it out in union either. Because, bad men.
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Dci – no. Neither did the other guy.
Incidentally whilst I was watching my daughter said that I looked like an older version of the Hask but I’d let myself go.
I’m pretty sure I look nothing like the Hask so the second observation must be wrong too.
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@craigs
Apart from staying at Bath with a coach he had fallen out with, what offers did he have to stay in union?
Genuine question, I don’t know the answer.
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OT – maybe I’m wrong and still bitter but it did seem to me that he ran back to OZ as soon as he could.
Why not go to another prem club? I’m sure his agent could have sort it.
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@craigs
He’s just admitted he wasn’t happy at Bath, because of Ford. If you’re not happy with life you make changes rather than moan about it. So he did, that’s his business. It wasn’t his fault RWC 2015 was appalling for England but he is still copping the flak for it. Ford and Ford slagged him off publicly then, and he’s responded. Well known shite tackler Mike Ford Sr doubted his courage, which is laughable.
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@Craigs – I just selected an amount to donate, when I ordered the album. The transaction was in £, so I don’t think it’ll be an issue.
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OT – he could have gone to Quins or Exeter though. It’s the lack of commitment to the code that I can’t stand tbh. He was given an easy ride and selected over Luther Burrell who had worked his arse off to get in the team. It felt like he didn’t give a toss once the rwc was over. At least sbw commits to the ABs for decent stints before going back to league or whatever.
I don’t really care if the Ford’s were arseholes to him, everyone gas a shit boss occasionally. Once the RWC was gone he didn’t give a shit about Union.
‘selfish’ FFS
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Refit – cheers. I’ve managed it now.
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🎵Hey there, Georgy Ford
There’s another Georgy deep inside
Bring out all the sulks you hide and, oh, what a change there’d be
The world would see – a Dan Biggar wannabee!🎵
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I see the squirrel’s squirrel Madeleine McCann is back on the front pages. Covid who?
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For me the main thing with the great 1996 debate is Craigs’ spectacular use of the word “cria”. Was certainly a new one on me, can only assume he used to go on family holidays to shoot the poor wee buggers.
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Nicely done, MrIks — I like that!
You have inspired a morning quizlet:
1) Which popular beat combo had the first hit with this song? (For the avoidance of doubt, it’s “Georgy Girl” from 1966)
2) Which well known comic actor wrote the lyrics?
3) What is the connection between the composer of the tune, a well known TV animation series of humorous intent, and a women who sang that she just didn’t know what to do with herself and who was responsible for Led Zeppelin signing with Atlantic Records?
4) What was the B side of the record in Europe?
5) Who played Georgy in the 1966 film?
6) How many of these questions would I have got right before I read the Wikipedia article having originally thought that it was sung by Alan Price and being surprised by some of the details?
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@craigs
I get what you’re saying here, it’s not the first time people have got annoyed by a lack of commitment to the code. That’s why Jiffy was banned from Cardiff Arms Park after signing for Widnes, and why Ray French was banned from coaching junior RU by the RFU.
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I know it’s old hat and I have said it before……. and it was only a warm-up game pre-WC, but Burgess and the young Slade looked electric against a French side in France – both seemed to get a kick out of the potential partnership.
I wonder what they think about that now?
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OT – I don’t mind people switching codes if it’s longish term. Commitment isn’t for life. A wc cycle would have been nice. Even if he left half way through in 2017 having had little success in union it would have been better. I agree with you that everyone has to do what’s best for them and I don’t begrudge him that. But it comes across as giving zero fucks and saying what he said about people being ‘selfish’ took the biscuit imo.
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That wasn’t meant to defend the Ford’s BTW. It just lacked self awareness.
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@Brookter
I knew #1 (I’m in that age group) and #5 and that one of the people mentioned in #3 was “Mary O’Brien” – so likely as not the other person is her brother “Dionysius” – who composed a good few “tunes” in the 60s..
Then decided to “wiki”the rest…
Returning……
Didn’t know #2 nor #4
As to #6 – as we’re “of a similar vintage” – I bet you knew 1, 3, and 5 too but that 2 and 4 were a surprise.
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damn – killed the ‘notablog’
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So…..
Number 2 in the Graun’s UK Number 1 list is….
The Specials! Ghost Town!
Can’t argue with that. Even as a pimply youth in my late teens living in rural Southern Scotland I could get the tension and the reasons behind the song. Things like this song and a soon-to-be brother-in-law* who declared that “Maggie didn’t go far enough” informed my fairly basic political leanings, as far as I have any.
*He was also the guy that blithely informed me that there was “No apartheid in South Africa”. Yup, major prat.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jun/04/the-100-greatest-uk-no-1s-no-2-the-specials-ghost-town
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@Trisk — you did better than I did! No 2 is the most surprising 1, to me. No 3, once I found out who the composer was, I went looking to see if the composer was related to the singer, and I would have guessed the others wrongly…. No 6 was very easy, of course….
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Your brother-in-law sounds like a sharp analyst, BB.
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He’s a banker – with a capital W.
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Actually, to be a bit fairer to him…..
After my sister died he could easily have washed his hands of her family (in particular Mum and Dad), which would have meant them missing out on two granddaughters growing up. But he didn’t and his general attitude towards them changed (he’d always been a bit dismissive of them before). So he has mellowed a fair bit.
Still wouldn’t talk to him about politics, though….
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BB – predictions for no1? Depending on how they measure these things nowadays I’d say Childish Gambino’s ‘This is America’ has a good chance.
Or Crazy Frog.
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Or not given that it didn’t reach no1.
Crazy Frog it is then.
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gotta be the macarena
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There seems to be a lot of chat BTL about West End Girls by Pet Shop Boys being number one. Dog knows why, its a dirge ‘sang’ by a poor Al Stewart sound-a-like.
If they are going for loads of clicks, then the number one will be some ‘novelty’ song – and the BTL will be carnage!
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Should also perhaps point out that not all bankers begin with a W.
My brother was a banker.
His wife was a banker (they’ve both retired)
Their daughter was a banker (she gave up the job when she had the twins)
Her husband is a banker.
Just the former brother-in-law giving that profession a bad name.
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Yes, today has been a bit of a slow day at ‘work’. I’m basically waiting to hear back from my schools as to when (and how long for) I can go back in for.
Must admit, I’m a bit apprehensive about doing something that I did without thought for 30+ years up until March 20th, 2020.
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@BB
11 August up here for pupils back innit? Imagine you’ll be back before that though.
We’ve been told that as they’re coming back a week earlier there’s going to be another half term type week later in the term which seems quite mad. Why not just wait another week before going back?
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Chimpie – I’m normally in over the summer holidays anyway (apart from a couple of weeks annual leave), so if the building is open this year, it won’t be too much of a difference, although some things I would noramlly do during that time, I can’t do this year.
The pupils are due to be back on August 11th, but normally the teachers have a couple of days in service before that (which they usually spend complaining about being back after 6 weeks off – they’ve learned not to say that around me…) but I don’t think provision has been made for that this year. I suspect there will be more staff in and around the place during those 6 weeks anyway, getting the place ready with all the new restrictions in place, which might be changed before August anyway.
One of my schools is being used as a ‘Hub’ for vulnerable kids as well a children of key workers (although I think the numbers have been really small), but they are using the library for that. I don’t know if that will continue over the summer – hope not. Summer’s usually the only time I get having any kids cluttering up the place.
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Gangnam Style
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………………………………………a masterpiece of the genre. Otherwise, Ting-tings
‘bye
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………actually,the Specials were always special
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Yes, but they are responsible (inna roundabout way) fro Bananarama, so that counts against them.
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everyone gas a shit boss occasionally
‘Swhy I’m extra nice to my more anarchic staff.
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Already signed and getting press when Terry Hall noticed them. The Go-Gos didn’t get as big in Britain, sadly.
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