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 
I don’t understand why a Liverpool supporter would want Man City not to win. Liverpool will inevitably win the title and it’s better to do it by winning a game than by someone else not. Man City and Chelsea are equally despicable, but City have already failed this season so it would obviously be better for Chelsea to fail as well. City win best for Leicester and Wullufs and that has to be what counts.
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Norwich-Everton last night was garish in the extreme. Everton’s fault though we’re always a bit on the bright side of course. It was also shit.
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CMW, under normal circumstances I’d like City to have won, just for Leicester, but fuck it, such a long wait, such uncertainty, all I wanted was to not be denied by Covid. And now we can celebrate 🍾
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@Deebee – I guess it’s easy to say not being a Liverpool fan, but it feels to me that they won it months (that feel like years) ago. I’m afraid that as a product of the times I grew up in my main feeling about them finally wining it again is ‘how did it take them so long?’
Hopefully the rest of the season can now be called off to put Norwich out of their misery.
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It needed to be without a doubt, no asterisks, ifs or buts attached. Champions because regardless of anything that happens now, we are officially Champions. I have a small hangover.
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Morning, Deebs: looking forward to Kin Pt II!
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Trisk, I watched a few of the GAA v AFL games a good few years ago, I remember a lot of fighting going on.
I’m not sure if the Shinty v Hurling still goes on, the Irish lads were picking second string teams to make it more even iirc, outside of the universities shinty is only really played in the Gaelic community. However, Ronald Ross of Kingussie Camanachd won the awesome nickname Ronaldo of the Glens due to his scoring prowess. This is still one of my favourite sporting clips, a goalie saving a penalty with his heid – it would be difficult to describe shinty goalies and not set off the Beadle klaxon https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gcRwbuSoGyc
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I have to say I don’t really see the point of the Kangaroos v All Blacks, except as a money spinner of course. It could never be played under full union rules – one infringement at a ruck (there would be tons) and the ABs will score 7 points from kicking up the touchline and mauling until either they’ve scored or won another penalty from a maul infringement. There could never be a competitive scrum – far too dangerous, so basically were asking the ABs to play league and a game where the differences between Union and League are nullified. If I was selecting the team I’d pick four backrow players in the tight five, plus Dane Coles, or a Dane Coles alike, you aren’t going to need lighthouses to win lineout ball and the scrums are going to be toy ones. The League lads are conditioned differently, the ball in play time appears to me to be far greater, so having a pack stuffed with Ardie Saveas is going to serve you better than Whitelocks and Tu’ungafasis
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Having said that, Rentaghost would still be in my team
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Ticht – the shinty/hurling series is still going (well, up to 2018 it was), Scotland have won the last few. Didn’t know it had been going as a series since the 1890s, with many gaps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinty-Hurling_International_Series
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Cool, thanks for the update BB.
This week’s big news is that The Dixie Chicks are no more. Instead there is a new band of the same three women now called The Chicks.
This follows Lady Antebellum becoming Lady A in response to the BLM movement.
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@ticht, @BB
As BB says the Shinty/Hurling games till go on.
Yes, we “tend” to omit guys from the hurling superpowers (Tipperary, Cork, Kilkenny) – so it tends to be a “day out” for the lads from 2nd (and even 3rd tier) counties. Although looking at the match reports there – I can see a few big names.
I’m always impressed the amount of “loft” the shinty lads get from the ground – hurling is now a much more aerial game – hit the ball through the air, catch it, and propel it on or over the bar for a point. “Ground” hurling – which is akin to shinty – tends to be played as a training exercise
I’ve seen that footage of the lad who stops a peno with his head – it’s helmets all round now in hurling. It used to just juveniles but now all players wear one. Now a top level goalkeeper lost a testicle a few years back when hit by a sliotar from close range – I’ve not seen any suggestion of wearing a cricket-type box which is what would occur to me
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Trisk, I’ve never played but the shinty caman has some “loft” on it, like a golf iron, the hurleys have flat faces, don’t they?
I saw a guy hit a ball with a hurley for his dog to chase – far more cool than using one of those stick with the little sort of “hand” at the end of it.
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Ticht
Yeah, a hurley has a flat “bás”, so lifting the ball from the ground is quite difficult. It’s a much admired skill to score from a “sideline” ball. In hurling after opposition put ball out of play – you get a free hit but you can’t lift it first. (You can “lift” a free, first scoop the ball into the air before striking it).
However, it is ideal for running with the sliotar balanced on it….quite thrilling to see someone run 20-30 metres with the ball on the bás while people try to stop them by fair means and foul. It’s also a fair old skill – as a defender – to knock the ball away – when you’re not allowed to actually hit the hurley itself to dislodge the sliotar.
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Ticht, when I played golf years ago I was in a 4-ball with a scratch golfer. One of my mates was having a horror round and kept asking for advice. ‘Loft’ was the deadpan response every time. It was short for lack of fucking talent.
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@ticht
You are dead right that a league-union hybrid game would be biased towards the league side. I think the Kangaroos would try and turn it into a game of 14 a side 7s by avoiding the breakdown altogether….
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Trisk, as a fan of Cork GAA I’m pleased you included the Boys in the list of hurling superpowers. Hopefully, it’ll be like Liverpool FC and they’ll rise again to the glory of All-Ireland winners soon.
One thing I never quite get about GAA is why Kilkenny and Tipperary are quite so good at hurling but so poor at football. Or, conversely, the Ulster counties – good(ish) at football, rubbish at hurling.
Cork’s got a relatively large population but they seem one of the few (maybe only?) county that’s had success in the two sports. If it was simply a case of that the Dubs would be a much stronger hurling county.
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@TomP
Yeah, Cork are a bit of conundrum – their footballers have been in the doldrums recently but seem to be on the way back.
In hurling, right now they’ve got the players to be winning national titles – but there seems to be a mental problem. Frittering away big leads (now this is hurling and it’s amazing how quickly a “big lead” can disappear – look up the “Five minute Final”) but they’re making a habit of it. They probably need to win a tight one to make it go away.
In Cork, hurling was always the ‘city game’ – football was for the rural areas mainly. Galway are a dual county too – it’s an east-west split there (east bordering on Clare, Offaly, Tipp is hurling country)
I think there’s always an interesting difference between the power of a county and it’s clubs. Tipp for example have a number of strong football clubs – enough talent for a good XV in a one-off but not enough to sustain a panel through a competition. KK – well, hurling is their religion (thou shalt not play other ball games)
Dublin are on the up in hurling – a lot of money has been in vested in both codes – in fact it’s a sore point that so much money has been put into Dublin – way more than other counties per capita. They want Dublin as a “selling tool” for the GAA, rather than as a source of amusement for the other 31 counties – which they have been at times as a county with 1/3 of the population got stuffed (see “startled earwigs”) .
Dublin was always really a soccer city – and even now it probably is – big numbers would head to Liverpool/Manchester for soccer each weekend. The GAA team – like rugby clubs – are mainly middle class lads from the suburbs (and this is increasingly true of all inter-county teams – clubs would be different).
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Cheers. Great explanation.
I was just looking at GAA handball because a friend of mine from Clones always reckoned they played it best there and learned about Ducksy Walsh from Kilkenny. What an amazing record he had.
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Ah, Walsh is from Kilkenny and played doubles with the great DJ Carey. Wow.
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For those Sam Burgess fans, a chance to vote him another accolade, if not, vote for someone else.
Sam currently well in the lead with 42% of the vote.
https://www.nrl.com/news/2020/06/26/whos-best-british-import-of-past-30-years/?utm_source=NRLEmail_Top5&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2020Premiership&utm_content=Article_1078056
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@sbt
Only 2 backs in that list of 10, and one of them (Offiah) is a union convert and the other (Widdop) moved to Oz at the age of 16 with his family. Sums up British/English RL.
No Jiffy though – Utna will be incandescent.
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Slight mystery to me – how of all the GAA sports handball isn’t more popular… I mean it’s squash/racquets without the hassle / expense of buying any equipment (same thought goes for the various incarnations of Fives )
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@OT – don’t think Jiffy played many games over there at all. Though a few of the tries are some of the best entries on his highlights reel.
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@cmw
He played 23 matches, one more than John Bateman who is on the list. Bateman has done a great job, but he’s no Jiffy.
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OT,
How long did the great Allan Bateman play there for? The Aussies even gave him a nickname, must be worth something.
I know nothing about most of the post-2000 players. Ellery Hanley. though, was a magic player.
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Bateman was just the 2 seasons in the mid-90s. He seems to be one of those players that everyone loves wherever he goes.
I say Hanley was a forward, and loose forward was his best position. But he honestly could play any position on the pitch.
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Don’t think Hanley played much there either.
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“What’s Bournemouth like?” people sometimes me. Mr Waugh from the bike shop has the answer:
,blockquote>“I understand why people wanted to come,” he said, as the cleanup continued around him. “It’s the best beach around and when the weather’s good it’s like being in Benidorm.”
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Wales centre Nick Tompkins will play for Pro14 side ………………………….. Dragons in the 2020-21 seaason.
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Enjoy
https://www.youtube.com/user/ScottishRugbyonline
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Great Britain Vs Australia in the 2004 RL Tri nations is on Sky right now. GB pack is Morley, Newton, Fielden, Farrell, Peacock, and Sculthorpe. Not bad at all.
Brian Carney played as well, although he didn’t sing the anthem.
GB won this one but got tanked 44-4 by Oz in the final.
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Ticht – might catch up with those over the weekend. If only we could combine the first half against England in 2018 with the second half against them in 2019 on a regular basis…..
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I think we are capable of it in terms of skillz, BB, it’s the mindset that is off – countless Kiwis have come into the Scottish game and said how shocked they are at the lack of preparation we have on the mental side of the game. We are still decades behind according to guys who have worked as players and coaches coming in from New Zealand.
Our teams could be contenders, but we don’t take it serious enough to hire the best prep on the mental side of things.
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Check out the pissed post!
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Anyway, why I’m pissed is because of that next door neighbour of mine. He gave me a handful of bottles of homebrew the other day and suggested I try it. “Stick it in the fridge and let me know what you think” says he.
That’s easy for him to say, he didn’t tell me it was really tasty but has a kick like a mule on Special Brew!
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No true Scotsman would confess to being intoxicated by a Sassenach home-brew.
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Avs’ blues spanking everyone. Whoulda thunk?
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Thaum, the neighbour may be a Sassenach but the homebrew is French apparently and it was a contributing factor, along with the bottle of Prosecco and barrow loads of Budvar
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Ah, French, well! The Scots and the French are auld allies. :-)
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An interesting listen
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Has something changed that youtube vids don’t embed anymore?
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Don’t think so?
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I usually just copy and paste the URL (and make sure it is on a separate line – don’t know if that really works, but it seems to for me).
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Yeah, it needs to be on a second line. FIFY TIcht.
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Crusaders sneak the win. Cracker next week when the Saders host the Blues
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Thaum is banned from my home brew then.
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Ticht – was it a saison?
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It was ineed, craigs
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Went to the cricket here yesterday. Had a lovely day of it. Even saw the nerve centre of the broadcasting operation.
Meanwhile in cricket elsewhere in Europe the Cypriot 20-over league is up and running. A lad called Atta Ullah has just scored 251* in his side’s innings. Not bad. The opposition won the toss, apparently, and decided to field.
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