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 
Martin Rowson from the Graun
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Dammit
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Fixed that for ya….
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oh dear, oh dear, oh dear………………………………………………………….
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Mercy buckets, Thaum
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Jebus. Wot a shower of ghastly knobs
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@chimpie
Remember your mate got fined for doing nonessential shopping? Recent events seem to support my view that it wasn’t legally enforceable.
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Well it’s all fine if you follow your instincts, or act with integrity or something.
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It’s not exactly news that they’re wankers. Nor that they’re shameless.
But, as that guy from Grimsby said, “Boris seems like a normal working class guy, he’ll get my vote”.
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We went for a lovely walk with old friends today. Ice lollies and beers in the beer garden by the river.
For beer fans, here in Prague pubs are opening their interiors from today. Pilsner Urquell pubs are giving the first beer on the house to patrons.
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But, as that guy from Grimsby said, “Boris seems like a normal working class guy, he’ll get my vote”.
I still find that astounding, the speaker might have used “working class” when he meant something else, no one can be that wrong.
If ever there was a triumph of naked ambition over lack of talent and work ethic, it is our PM, Fucko the Clown.
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Good stuff, TomP. I hope it’s safe for them to open and it has no secondary spike consequences.
I’m reduced to opening a bottle of Taylor’s Port that I’ve had for dog knows how long. I didn’t even know I had it until I went through the wine to see what was there – my eldest’s boyfriend works in a bar in an exclusive hotel and is training to be a sommelier, so he has gifted me all sorts of good stuff that I can’t open just for the exercise of getting pissed during lockdown
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This would normally be the time when the dregs of the bottles of pastis, vodka and rum that Mrs CMW brought down with her from Glasgow thirteen years ago would be giving me the eye, but fortunately I finally got an excuse to go to the supermarket so there is Laphroaig.
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They have the contact testing in place and will be able to impose restrictions in affected areas, ticht.
There’ve been under 100 new cases a day for the last two weeks or so. There are localised outbreaks, last weekend it was in a coal mine in the east of the country near the Slovak and Polish borders so some restrictions are being maintained there. Prague’s been the worst hit and I think they’re worried about that but overall the number of cases stands at under 9,000 and with 314 deaths. Masks are off for walking around but you need to wear them on public transport and in shops etc.
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Watched the Blues Brothers for the first time in dog knows how many years. It’s actually a pretty naff film when you think about it, albeit loads of fun. The 20 minute chase at the end isn’t quite as good as I remember it.
But the music? Well that’s a whole other kettle of beavers……
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From today’s Telegraph:
This doesn’t include wives or children.
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Hmmm, they seem to be confusing ‘sensitive’ with ‘insecure’.
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The Blues Brothers is a great post-pub film… late night you don’t realise how tedious that long chase is… The music though… brilliant
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Quizzes:
Prisons – know 1, 3, 5, 6, and 9. Am confident about #8, and would have a reasonable guess for #7 and #10. de Sade and poet escape me.
Plays – have 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9 – old crossword solving skills coming in handy – bit stuck on 5, 8, 10
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Scarlets are getting TMHMIR™ from the Drags as a centre replacement though. I hope they find a way with him to manage his health and fitness better, and he gets a second lease of life and gets back in the Welsh squad if rugby is ever played again.
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George Kruis has signed up for the same mob in Japan.
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Don’t know much about Cummings apart from Brexit, so did a bit of googling and then went down this peculiar and troubling rabbit-hole.
https://nfind.uk/bristol_news/index.php?group=
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Iksy……………………
………………………………………blimey
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Wow…! I’d missed that until now…certainly very forthright
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Iksy, interesting to see Mogilevich’s name in there. He used Prague as a base in the 1990s. I used to go past a restaurant he once owned and that was the scene of a very murky raid by the police in 1996. He also committed some massive frauds along with the usual drug pushing, pimping and serious violence.
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Cummings vs The Press at 4pm may well be the best sport on telly this summer.
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That’s a bit shite OT, a poor rip-off of this (unless I missed something on the way)
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I enjoyed Meggie’s Meghan one, but that one was a bit shit. The sync was off. Sarah Cooper is great though.
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I’m worried. I can’t drive. I think I’m blind.
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Don’t stop posting ’em, though, OT!
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TomP – then obviously you should take a 30-mile trip on country roads to ‘see’ if you can drive.
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I don’t have a driving licence. But my boy loves cars so I’ll do what any father would do in that situation.
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Indeed, you should trust your instinct on this.
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My grandfather insisted on driving on a day trip out into the hills in Mid Wales and admitted he knew he shouldn’t have been driving when he very nearly went off the road and down the mountainside. I understand my mother wasn’t impressed. I was only one so I don’t remember the incident though I was in the car. His instincts were partly right, he shouldn’t have been driving as he had his final brain haemorrhage that night (he’d had two major ones years before) and was found dead in the morning.
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My mother is a tremendous driver. Very fast but good. My father, on the other hand, isn’t quite and will always choose the route that offers most opportunities for crashes and near-misses.
Last summer he drove us to the beach. As we were getting near i asked where the turning was. He said, ‘Tom, I’ve lived here for other 35 years so I think I know the right place to turn.’ About 20 seconds later he said, ‘Shit. Look what you’ve made me do. I’ve missed the turning now.’
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My grandfather was an ok driver. I asked him once how it had worked when he was a teenager with the driving lessons and all that and he told me that he hadn’t had to worry about that because there weren’t any driving tests when he got his licence*. You just applied for one and they gave you one if you could pony up for it. My grandmother was a little upset by the conversation as she was 5 years younger than him and had to take a test.
My grandparents on the other side of the family didn’t drive, though my grandfather had learnt to do so in the Army.
The figures for road deaths in the UK from the early days of driving are eye-watering.
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Dad was a great driver – on empty country roads. Its when he got to busier bits like dual carriageways and towns (not many motorways in the Borders or southern Scotland in those days) that things got ‘interesting’. Thankfully the places where most relatives lived were in small enough towns and/or remote enough that we could get there and back without too much hassle.
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It can be a traumatic decision to give up your licence because old age is making you unsafe — it must feel like an awful concession to mortality, and they have my complete sympathy. On the other hand, continuing to drive can be fatal to other people so it’s got to be done — I can remember having a discussion with elderly drivers who’d had an accident where their worsening reactions had been to blame, gently suggesting it was time to give the licence up (much better voluntarily than otherwise, of course). Most people understood the need to do it, however unpleasant it must have been for them.
Also, far too many people can’t (or couldn’t when I was doing the occasional test) meet the eyesight test, which at that time was to walk them down the street till a parked car was 25 yards away and ask what the number plate was. The best answer I got was “What car?”[1]
[1] At least I think it was. At my age I fail the memory test more often than the eyesight one…
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Guy in his 80s who lives just down the road crashed into the lamp post outside our back garden a few weeks back. half knocked it over and trashed his car. Thankfully he was fine & no one else was around, just a bit shaken up. Much local excitement with the coppers, ambulance and fire service turning up. Think that’s the last time he’ll be driving.
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Neighbour out the back who’s in her 90s had her car keys taken away by her kidz last year. She had a good run.
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Dad is threatening to give up his car at some point. Fine, but he’s spent his entire life refusing to be driven by anyone and has to be the Worst Passenger in the World. You can see him tense up & twitch his driving control limbs in a most disconcerting fashion as if he has an absolute need to be in control.
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Tomp,
Good point about the old RTC fatality figures — and it got worse in the war because of the blackout. 1941 was the worst for GB – over 9,000, compared to current figures (~1700 in 2016). Some of the newspaper accounts from those way about the accidents go into a lot of detail from the inquest and they’re gruesomely fascinating for attitudes about driving. The links below are one article from November 1939, chosen at random…
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To be fair might be a result of being driven by my brother who has the most bizarre driving technique, based on seemingly self-invented rules and a unique interpretation of car mechanics.
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This is quite a read.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/may/26/last-iron-lung-paul-alexander-polio-coronavirus
Nasty disease, Polio.
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Thanks for that, DCI.
The number of the cars on the road in the 1920s and 1930s was tiny compared to now. 1950s and 1960s was carnage as well. A combination of “nanny state” regulations, Barbara Castle introduced some I think, and safer cars have done a good job.
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