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 
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@tomp
The article doesn’t seem to mention that this was actually naming one of the streets built over the old ground “Givvons Fold”.
I resemble that remark.
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The role of Givvons as kitman is quite legendary. In Phil Larder’s biography there’s a quote from Mike Ford (bear in mind Watersheddings was a weird ground that didn’t have changing rooms, they had to get changed in the cricket pavillion across the road):
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Now, there’s a name from my “watching RL on the BBC” days… it was literally just a matter of time before “the row” started.
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@trisk
Jim Mills is still going strong. He developed hay fever on Monday for the first time ever, according to his twitter account. It’s a grass pollen allergy, I am 100% sure.
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OT, does that mean that they put their shirts on in one place and shorts and socks in another place? Seems as strange as your lot’s accents.
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@OT
“He developed hay fever on Monday for the first time ever” – if hay fever knows what’s good for it…it won’t happen again…
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Bath sign prop Schoeman!!!
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Just been looking at the Risk Assessment for going back into one of my schools next week. Its a bit scary. I think it just shows that for the last 10 weeks or so I’ve just been in my own wee bubble at home, only going out for daily walks or very occasionally going to the chemist for a prescription. But this will be me going back into a place I’ve been going into for 18 years, and yet it will feel completely different.
I suppose I will get more used to it as time goes on, and the guidance will change (hopefully for the better), but it is a bit of a thought.
And I haven’t even heard from my other school yet, so don’t know if the restrictions there will be exactly the same or slightly different.
This would be a good time to just stop. Unfortunately I can’t yet.
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Bledisloe 14! (Missed 13 because of Zoom meeting) and Wobblies are up 22-15 and James Slipper – yes JAMES SLIPPER – has just crunched the Kiwi front row and won a penalty! 25-15 with 22 left! Can they do it this time!
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Craig Joubert reffing – from 2012 to 2014, that’s a long stint!
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Tuipolotu binned for takikng out the man in the air. Aussie commentators love Craig Joubert.
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Supersport is reduced to showing games the All Blacks almost lost.
Am surprised they can’t squeeze out another 2,000 hours of coverage of the RWC-Winning Amabokoboko.
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Oops. That post needs a spoiler on it.
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Smith (Airport) takes a quick tap and scores! Wobblies look out on their feet with just less than 10 to go. 25-22 to the Wobblies!
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What happened to Fekitoa? Pretty handy centre.
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Wasps.
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Hence my question…
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Fekitoa with the try on the hooter! Well, on the ground, but with time up as he grounded it. Colin Slade converts for a 1 point win for the Kiwis. On hte cricket channel, we’ve got Aus-Windies 1996/7 series. Looks like Aussie sports did a fire sale to Supersport.
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Bledisloe 15 now. But this is in New Zealand, so no need for spoilers. Maybe just blinkers. Craig Joubert rested for this match (who knows where he’ll pop up in 2015?) with Nigel Owens strutting his stuff. Aus up by 3 after a handful of minutes.
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Close-ups of Dan Carter. He’s so handsome he must be part Welsh.
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We discussed Sam Burgess on that tweet earlier this week – here’s the full interview. Very interesting actually, particularly what Hask has to say about the coaching set up at RWC2015.
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Crikey, Dane Coles had a turn of pace for a hooker.
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Dane Coles kills bog. Not surprising.
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Carter misses another drop goal attempt on the hooter. He wasn’t much cop, was he?
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Do Covid steals count?
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That guy who coined the term “dark matter” to apply to Germany’s apparent resistance to Covid-19 has been interviewed. He seems unhappy about the media jumping on that phrase to be fair to him:
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OT – I’ve only skimmed through that but will watch it properly later. Nice to see the Hask being exonerated at around the 80 minute mark as not being the ‘ego’ in the team.
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The House of Rugby one. I assume that the Hask is not in the second video.
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The Hask’s views on epidemology are most welcome, however.
I too am pleased he wasn’t the ego.
One thing I didn’t realise was Sam decided to leave the Rabittohs in 2013 as he couldn’t stand the hype/blame culture. FD would often take the mickey out of the amount of hype in the NRL.
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So Sam decided to head for the genteel environment of English rugby in a World Cup? Makes sense!
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@deebee
he may have been badly advised…
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he may have been badly advised…
By FD? Doesn’t surprise me tbh.
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There are two really big football codes in Australia. It makes sense to badmouth your main competition. When the AFL signed up Fd to shill for hem, they got their money’s worth.
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shill for them. Not for the rather lovely band Hem.
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Spotted today – a commercial cleaners’ van with the moniker “Spruce Springclean” written on the side.
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Bledisloe 16. It appears TomP is right. Only showing the games where the Aussies ran them close. Just 10 points in this one after the first quarter.
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Ticht, I’m sure they drive all night to give you the human touch.
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10-7 with Aus dominant in most stats except the scoreboard. Been the same in almost every match they’ve shown today. Sneaky Kiwis use skill to kill.
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15-7 to the AB’s. 3 tries, none converted. TJ Perenara scores off a chargedown. Aussie kicker wasn’t looking at the play. 15-7 is oddly a better reflection than 21-7 if the Kiwis had converted their tries.
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” he’s shone a hitherto unsuspected occasional independence of mind.”
True enough. Doesn’t do all that well on the ‘let’s look at how they make their money to see if they’re a piece of shit’ test though.
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“15-7 to the AB’s. 3 tries, none converted. ”
Beaudie off the tee.
“TJ Perenara scores off a chargedown.”
I remember that try. Phipps with a balloon pass to the kicker.
There’s an incident in the second half of this game that sent Fd apoplectic.
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@tomp
That’s every match of Australia vs England since 2016.
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England Rugby are presenting the 2013 England v Australia foot-on-the-line, not-enough-obstruction test on youtube tomorrow. That one annoyed the hell out of him*.
* And me as well a bit but it was probably worth it for the look at how terrible Clancy is material.
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It’s a shame the AoD archives are no longer available. The 2016 England tour of Australia that finished 3-0 had FD actually wailing and gnashing his teeth.
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TomP are you talking about the disallowed Aus try? It would have put them level or a couple ahead with the conversion, but the ABs scored 25 points unanswered after that. The Aussies didn’t really look like scoring much more than they did. FD would differ, I’m sure.
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@OT – can’t really blame him for that.
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I think his exact words at the time were “the momentum was with us at that point”.
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It was. Having watched about 10 Bledisloe matches in the last 24 hours, the momentum was generally with Australia early on – even into the 3rd quarter. They just never managed to make it count.
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Not that the Boks did any better.
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