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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‘People talking about food on here are just signalling to others exactly how they want to appear’
Could say that about pretty much anything people post.
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You need some salt on them thar chips, OT. Obviously, I, personally, would apply a light sprinkling of freshly ground ( using an Italian marble mortar and pestle, not one of them common grinder things ) air dried sea salt, from 2000 year old salt pans worked by indigenous peoples working on a cooperative basis to ensure fair trade wages.
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Sbt – maldon salt is all you need.
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Thats what I said, Craigs. Used to live just outside Maldon. Certainly produced by indigenous Essex peoples. Used to drink with one in the Carpenters Arms. Couldn’t get more indigenous than Colin. Can feel a hangover coming on just thinking about it .
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Pfft. Isn’t it Himalayan mined salt that’s all the rage these days? Pulled out of the ground and transported half the planet to adorn a marble counter next to an aga. Can get perfectly good UK mined salt from North Yorkshire or Cheshire.
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Maldon has the claggiest low tide I’ve ever seen
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“Can get perfectly good UK mined salt from North Yorkshire”
At least there’s no reason for me to out of work for long…
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@sbt
Indigenous Essex Man is certainly a force to be reckoned with, although in my experience he tends to spend a bit too long doing his hair.
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Indigenous Essex Man
Essekimo?
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@craigs
They are usually called “Tel” or, increasingly, “Jordan”.
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OT, I believe you reside an an area known as “Occupied Essex” by the former inhabitants. The indigenous tribes had been driven well beyond Romford to the environs of Chelmsford by the time I lived there, and I believe that many more have been driven from their ancestral lands and into the Suffolk borders in the past two decades.
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@sbt
There was a heated debate on a local Facebook page about the authenticity of local boy Ian Dury’s cockney accent. The consensus was that growing up in Upminster when he did would make such an accent unlikely and that it was most probably affected.
Whereas these days there is even a local Pearly King and Queen.
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All right, all right, I confess I have a marble mortar and pestle. But I bought it in Sainsbury’s. Not sure if it’s Italian or some cheap knock-off. I have even used it recently.
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And to respond to Iks from yesterday or the day before, the dug I’m looking for is indeed a new one. The old one departed to the great farm in the sky about 4 years ago. Or should that be ‘sadly-died’.
The new hound is intended to be as close to a clone as the old one as I can find, although a somewhat smaller breed. I lurves hounds. (And by ‘hounds’, I mean ‘hounds’, not some generic term for dugs.)
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This came up in my YouTube recommendations – not heard it in ages. I’ve not seen the film in years either, but I do remember it being really pretty harrowing (the subject matter isn’t exactly comedic anyway).
It’s also quite different from what he usually did.
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Not so much ‘Killing Fields’ as ‘Killing Blog’.
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Anyway – schools can go back in August with no social distancing! Perhaps. Maybe. Interesting that this was announced yesterday and our schools close for the holidays today. I’d be quite happy with hardly any (or no) kids coming into the library. But maybe that’s just me….
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BB – bah humbug sir.
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I’ve been following the list of demands for changes to university courses and whilst things like ‘decolonise the curriculum’ is understandable (and something I agree with) I don’t know what ‘other ways of knowing’ means.
Surely, everything we ‘know’ is taught in some sense. If we know it there’s a course. And I’d extend that to credible theories as well.
Other ways of knowing seems like accepting myths and legends as fact. Unless I am mistaken?
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The Marmite mission continued. I went to one of the largest Tescos where I’d found some 125 gm jars a few weeks back. Nothing. Then to another Tesco. Nic. In desperation, I thought I’d bite the peanut butter marmite bullet. I knew an Iceland that had it so headed there. As I walked down the first aisle my eyes came upon a few jars of Bovril. Not a great fan but I could always go for that. To what was the Marmite shelf. And there were five 250 gm jars. I let out an audible whimper. And, bad man that I am, I bought three. Panic-buying. I am a panic buyer.
But a happy panic buyer.
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Saw an ad for peanut butter with marmite on the TV last night. Has the world finally gone mad?
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‘Other ways of knowing seems like accepting myths and legends as fact. Unless I am mistaken?’
Sounds suspiciously like woo promotion
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Iceland? Peanut butter and marmite? Bovril? 3 jars? An audible whimper?
THE HORROR!!!!
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Has the world finally gone mad?
Ignoring all the pandemics, police brutality, looting, foot washing, statue toppling, Iceland visiting; yes, the world has indeed gone mad Chimpie.
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Chimpie – sometimes I look at this stuff and think that it is woo promotion. But then I see that it’s supposedly well educated people promoting it and I have to revisit my assumptions.
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Morning all………..
The stonemason working here this week is French, but his forename is Jordan……………………I’ll check whether he is an escapee………….
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Another great steal by Baxter for Exeter.
https://www.exeterchiefs.co.uk/news/young-gun-christ-tshiunza
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‘I have to revisit my assumptions.’
Sounds like hard work. Easier to let sleeping assumptions lie .
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‘it’s supposedly well educated people promoting it’
Supposedly well educated people have promoted all sorts of shit. Eugenics. Homeopathy. Peanut butter with marmite.
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Education and sensible thinking are not necessarily linked. Lunatic policies on both left and right are often proposed by highly educated people.
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Chimpie beats me to it. Correct on all counts.
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Deebs – how’s the dog?
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Slade, he’s rated. And big.
Same school as Sam Warburtpn, Gareth Bale and the Lane Train.
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Revisiting assumptions is always a good thing to do.
Makes you acknowledge that you have assumptions in the first place.
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Eugenics. Homeopathy. Peanut butter with marmite.
Can’t really decide which of these is the worst tbh.
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Craigs, Iceland serves it purpose for me. That purpose is allowing me to buy Jacobs Cheddars and Marmite.
They have something like 10 stores here and are surprisingly popular among the supposedly well-educated in the Czechlands. i don’t think anyone I know does the weekly shop there but they do pick up exotic authentically British products like Penguins and Strongbow.
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Tomp – I’m joshing of course.
When we were in France they had an English food Isle in the supermarket full of Sharwood curry sauces. I like to pretend that this was for curious French people rather than the numerous brits who visit the Dordogne every year….
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It’s ‘Jourdan’ not ‘Jordan’ – thankfully
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Slade – phew. If it had been Jordan it would have ruined my week.
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…mine too – even more so as I have to pay him
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Slade – Jake is fine thanks! Fully recovered and as adorable as ever.
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Good news kills the blog.
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Still raging about Jordan.
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Joe?
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Margarita Pracatan RIP.
Devastating news.
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Four fitba games to keep track of. I’d watch Norwich in support of CMW, but Jonathan Pearce and Martin Keown are commentating so not that one. Mrs Iks’ Brave Wolves are playing Bournemouth, which doesn’t sound exciting (more because Wolves are a far better team and will likely win easily). Newcastle against Aston Villa sounds like a 0-0 (and they have Robbie Savage). So might be Man Utd vs Sheffield Utd.
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Looks like I picked the right game – its the only one with goals.
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Pains me to say but the glad the dugs are doing well, hopefully that Toby too.
We had our first dead bird for approx. 12 years lying on the floor behind my sofa yesterday morning, a young blue tit. As Cat Iks and Cat Minx have lazily cohabited with this species without fuss for years now I can only assume it flew into the window and was reluctantly dragged in as gift for us by one of them.
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The mighty Wolves struggle when they play at home against a ‘lesser’ team and have to set the pace as favourites. They are far more successful when playing possession / counter attack footie away from home or against Man City.
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