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 
It was a good win for Might Wolves, Iks. Keeps the pressure on Man Utd just above them, who also won.
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I never knew this happened
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@OT – I think I’d heard (vaguely) of that before ….or maybe of similar (but less violent) incidents where locals were shocked at segregation….
Didn’t realise (if you follow link from Twitter to the BBC site) that it was a full scale “mutiny”
(can’t think of another word so mutiny in inverted commas, as I’m not sure given the basics of segregation and discrimination I’d view it as anything but predictable and mostly justified)
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And on a different note
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/jun/25/all-blacks-confirm-plans-for-cross-code-match-against-kangaroos
Thoughts?
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OT – that’s awesome. Must’ve been eye opening for both the black soldiers and the whites who were used to segregation.
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OT, do you remember that Burgess Meredith-fronted guide for GIs stationed in the UK i linked to a few months back?
There’s a bit later on in the film where Burgess is talking to a black GI and an elderly British lady invites the black soldier to have tea – and Burgess as an afterthought. Burgess turns to camera and says:
Then a general or other bigwig comes on and discusses it further.
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@trisk
That cross code match sounds really interesting, but I expect it will go the way of all previous cross code efforts. If they play union rules the RU team just dominates in the set piece* and if they play league rules the RL team dominates through better cardio-type fitness and ball handling. So they just end up being one-sided affairs that ultimately disappoint.
*In the Bath-Wigan RU game they had to depower the scrum for safety reasons. Additionally at half time (with Bath leading 25-0) WIgan decided to pass the ball out of the tackle at every opportunity to nullify their inability to ruck properly, and to some extent it worked as they drew the second half 19-19.
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@tomp
I didn’t see that. I think I should watch it at some point.
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3 minutes in for the pub. 25 minutes in for the black GI and the elderly lady. There’s a Bob Hope scene as well – I’m a fan but you might want to skip that.
Burgess Meredith is brilliant.
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Tomp – that’s brilliant. I loved the look between the presenter and the girl on the bike.
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The bit at 25mins was really jarring.
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@OT
Going back , I didn’t see anything but highlights – long after the event – of the RL part of the Bath/Wigan game.
But did see most of the RU version – as you say Wigan kept the ball moving (at all costs) and it worked. It was fairly obvious that Bath were taking it easy in the scrums (after the early stages). Bit like we’d go uncontested in the scrum at U14 if it was getting out of hand.
AB vs Kangaroos would be interesting to extent – but you’d know that in the union version scrums, mauls (rucks maybe) would be de-powered for safety – so effectively you get a full league game plus a union-lite match.
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@trisk
The RL match was largely the Bath team looking bewildered as Wigan ran through them after a play the ball as they were just not able to retreat and reset the defensive line properly. In the RU match Wigan belatedly decided to turn it into a 7s match and did ok.
My money would be on the Kangaroos winning by keeping the ball in hand, out of the ABs hands, on the pitch, and out of the rucks. Keep set piece to a minimum.
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@OT
Talking of cross code matches….
GAA and AFL have run for a good few years an “International Rules” series – since the games are similar (superficially anyway).
Biggest difference for AFL players is the round ball and need for a goalie.
Biggest difference for GAA players is the ‘tackle’ – in the past, a fair few couldn’t handle it at all – now GAA tend to pick players based on who’ll mind it least. (Also probably the need for kicked scores – football allows scores where the ball is struck volleyball-style).
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I was at the RLeague version of the two match-ups; easy for Wigan on the day but John Callard played really well and never stopped trying.
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Meredith has his Penguin cigarette holder. Marvellous.
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BTW who was it recommended Deadwind on NetFlix?
We enjoyed it – quite a lot of similarities in structure / characters with the various The Bridge series (and The Killing) but interesting for all that. New one available in July!
(I did marvel at the apparent lack of traffic in Helsinki – I recall it wasn’t like that in 2005)
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Hey Trisk, that was me. If you liked that, I recommend giving Bordertown a go too, brilliant but odd detective Kari Sorinnen moves to small country town on the border with Russia to get away from horrors of Helsinki for a quiet family life, and finds numerous naughty Ruskies and corrupt town officials running riot with guns, drugs and hookers.
Even less traffic than Helsinki too. Finland seems to have a worrying number of psycho nutters for a small country. Maybe its the mushrooms. Hope Killsy is OK there. Haven’t heard from him in a while, hope he hasn’t been kidnapped by a cross border sex trafficking ring smuggling simple country girls and surplus cold war chemical and biological weaponry under the guise of European funded plywood manufacture.
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Got a funny feeling of deja vu about that last post, maybe the mention of mushrooms caused a flashback.
Either way, quite excited by the prospect of Karppi returning to my life, thanks for that bit of good news Trisk.
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I just learnt a new word: Agalmatophilia. People who this describes must fucking distraught right now.
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Craigs:
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Hmmmm.
http://www.kravmagainstitute.com/events/holds-restraints/
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Not quite Thaum.
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Sbt – Andrew Yang had an idea about police officers having purple belts in bjj. I can’t say I disagree.
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@SBT
Well, belated thanks for the rec
It is strongly reminiscent of the Bridge – even down to the fact that they’ve given Karppi’s first name of ‘Sofia’ – same first name as actor who plays Saga Noren.
The grey skies and low winter light give all the Scandi-noir a familiar feel (not unlike Dublin when the weather’s from the east and off the Irish Sea)
I’ll look out for Bordertown….
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Excuse me: Agalmatophilia (from the Greek agalma ‘statue’, and -philia φιλία = love) is a paraphilia involving sexual attraction to a statue, doll, mannequin or other similar figurative object.
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Thaum – ah, sorry then. I thought it was just statues.
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Slightly worried about Thaum now.
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Craigs – not as worried as one of my teachers when he set an exercise wherein members of the class interviewed each other. Thought I was going to die of boredom during the other interviews (“What are your interests?” – “Like, cheerleading!”), so I responded to that question with ‘black magic and necrophilia’.
For some reason, my interview did not get broadcast on the school radio station, like the others did.
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Thaum – cheerleading is the worst.
My parents go to the South of France each year and occasionally they see a guy who pays for 2 sunbeds. One for him and one for his inflatable other half.
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The funny part is that a large proportion of the school thought I was serious.
Does the inflatable doll not melt in the heat?
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There’s a parasol.
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Well, I hope the companion is, erm, well-lubricated (with cooling drinks and sunscreen, of course).
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Inflatable doll knocks air out of blog. Was gonna say blows blog but I’m not a sniggering pervert. Oh.
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Liverpool apparently batting their eyelids at Adama Traore. Iks will be livid.
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Southampton keeper with the howler of the season to put Arsenal 1-0 up. Poor sod.
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She’s even had a song written about her…
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Thaum – I’m sure.. Err… She is. Tbh I’m quite impressed with the lack of fucks given there. There is a big difference between saying you don’t care about what people think and giving some attitude and taking your blow up missus to the beach.
Iirc my parents and their friends spent lunch at a restaurant on the beach sniggering as he sat with the doll on another table.
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Is this person a member of the aristocracy by any chance?
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Or was it Andy Summers?
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No and no. I think. Seems unlikely from the account.
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Was it JRM? On 2nd thoughts even blow up dolls have standards.
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Arsenal beat Southampton. Bugger. I’m sure we can all get behind Chelsea just now to get a point against City so that Leicester still have a chance of catching them?
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Or Man City beat Chelsea so that Leicester maintain the gap over Chelsea and stay third (and they have a better goal difference)?
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Pitiful Marxian sneering at Jacob Rees-Mogg. The great man would take his nanny, you heel.
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Ha, the JRM thing provoked a genuine LOL, and exactly why I asked about the aristocracy.
I’ve got some time off coming up next week and the following one. Who knows, I might manage to get a new post up, if that dug doesn’t find me….
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Thauma, I kinda started Kinshasa part two a couple of weeks ago. I’ll try and finish it in less time than Larry’s match reports. Speaking of, where is the scoundrel?
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And if I may say so, C’MON CHELSEA!
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Well jinxed there, Deebs.
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