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 
Yenda Pale Ale as the Tahs kick downfield. Reds win it back and flood downfield. Tahs ruck under pressure and a mess. Have the Reds snaffle a try? Looks like it! Ball was on the line, but the player didn’t join from behind. Yenda beers are a celebration of rural NSW roots apparently. Another scuffle but less smiling. Dan Murphy’s delivers Yenda.
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Tahs deep on attack with advantage. Penalty right on the Yenda sign! Be gentle son. Will Harrison with a shot and he nails it from in front. 19-13 at beers! Oranges!
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“rural NSW roots”
You’d have to ask Fd about those. I believe it’s what he had to forage to survive his annual childhood holiday which involved his parents driving him 1600km into the bush and leaving him to walk back. That’s what he told me anyway.
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Dan Murphy’s gives Yenda Pale Ale a 3.7 rating the highest of any retailer. 1st Choice Liquor is out of stock. Untappd.com (their spelling not mine) gives it 3.3 with 5,469 reviews. So it sounds like every other Aussie beer: shit.
Boozebud says it “has a tropical fruit and floral aroma from the hops, a full bodied biscuity malt flavour and a medium bitterness.” Imagine my own bitterness on discovery, courtesy of beerisyourfriend.org that “Yenda is the beer arm of Coca-Cola.”
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Finished my small packet of mini Tennis biscuits in that half. Will soldier on regardless.
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Few more weeks back in lockdown and you’ll be ready to commit murder for a nice cold Yenda.
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Tahs back to 15 and well on attack early on. Some strong, direct running, both close in and wide nets them a penalty outside the 22, left of the Yenda ad. 19-16 and the Tahs are reeling the Reds in.
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Late taxkle by the Reds TH on the clearing kicker results in a Tahs penalty which kick into the 22, win the lineout, knock on and the Reds turn on the burners all the way downfield. Eventually a Tahs 22, which is run back. Penalty Reds. Seems like almost every passage ends with one in this match.
Reds coxk up the pass in midfield and the Tahs take it into the 22 before running out of options and space. Reds clear from the lineout but not very far. Jack Maddocks takes an inside ball and carves through to score under the sticks. 19-23 as the Tahs hit the front!
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I completely forgot about this game. Watching now. Fraser McReight doesn’t do much wrong. Good player.
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Tahs try to run it out from the restart, turn it over in midfield, but the Reds knock on in a promising position. Tahs clear from the scrum, but after a couple of phases the Reds kick to the corner – lovely weight on it – and getvthe throw through a new law? Reds 9, McDermott has been prominent so far. Reds with good pressure, but a dropped pass allows the Tahs to clear. Reset. Repeat. Greg Clarke picks up a ‘flat pass’, which Kearns would call ‘miles forward’ if a Kiwi or Saffer threw it.
End result is a Reds penalty on the Tahs 10m line in midfield. Hegarty lines it up. Wide. Tahs return it with interest .
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Just had to explain what a lager top is to the Eldest. Could have said it might be like a Yenda only worse if only I’d known. Also found myself explaining that men like looking at women in bikinis.
This morning’s guided reading exercise for the home-schoolers was of course George Ezra’s Shotgun. Obviously we only felt the need to watch it the once on Youtube and nobody sang it at all afterwards.
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Tahs steal the lineout. Garryowen which nobody claims. Tahs come again but a loose pass into touch and the Reds can have a go. Tahs get it back and attaxk, but pinged for holding on. Reds lineout and they move it up to the 22 and draw the penalty. Hegarty opts for touch. He doesn’t seem to have much of a boot on him at all.
Lineout on the 5m line. Maul struggles but finally gets going. Under advantage they go wide, but nothing doing. Cut back into the traffic and Harry Wilson, the 8 crashes over. 26-23 with 15 to play!
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On first glimpse it looks as if the sparse crowd in the stadium is because of social distancing rules. It’s not. It’s just not many Queenslanders like rugby union.
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Restart is a mess, Reds get the scrum and then a free kick for early engagement by the Tahs. Quick tap and a hoof downfield. Taniela Topou the TH gets binned for his 2nd late hit. Tahs with the penalty where the ball landed on the Reds 10m. Harrison knocks it over and it’s all square! 26-all.
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“Taniela Topou the TH ”
The Tongan Thor to give him his full name.
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Restart a mess, Reds scrum. Match has taken its toll on Bell who’s subbed. Tahs concede their 15th penalty and Hegarty has a shot. Out wide again. He’s got a crapper kick than Yenda Pale Ale.
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Reds get the lineout deep in Tahs half because they kicked to touch inside the oppo half from inside their 22. Bit of aerial ping pong and the Reds get a penalty that even Hegarty can’t miss. Ah. JOC is taking over the kicking duties. Does some yoga moves in his build up. Says Yenda, not Yoda, you fool. Kick is good, 29-26 Reds.
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Fraser McReight is better than Michael Hooper.
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Reds back to 15, have their 16th penalty, lineout inside the Tahs 10m. Running down the clock now. A minute to go. Got the advantage too. 10 phases and a penalty. Not rolling away. JOC to the kicking block. Time up. Smiling fans. Obviously haven’t had the Yenda. 32-26 final score! Reds win after almost giving it away in the 3rd quarter.
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Reds 1st win over the Tahs since 2013.
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Supersport now have a doccie called ‘Being Kevin Pieterson’. Time to get back to work.
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Hope it’s similar to Being John Malkovich
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I’ve never seen Being John Malkovich. Does it involve someone continually wondering why nobody likes them without having been given the necessary self-awareness to be able to even come up with any ideas as to why it might be?
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Few more weeks back in lockdown and you’ll be ready to commit murder for a nice cold Yenda.
Few more minutes in the office on a Friday will do the trick. I’m outta here in 45 minutes.
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1400 (BST) is Yenda Time!
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The Tongan Thor to give him his full name
Yes, and to be fair to him on the late charges, he was getting there as quick as he could. Apologies to Max Boyce, I think.
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Think it might have to be a Hobgoblin Gold though as that’s all that seems to be left. Pick of the bunch from what the local One Stop Shop sell, at least since they stopped doing something called Peaky Blinder that I was quite fond of. Not a great selection there by today’s standards, would have been untold riches when I first lived in York.
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Just spotted the Formerly Of This (And The Previous) Parish, Race of Stalwarts on the Graun. One of the Embra Missing, along with HBH and Someone Else Who’s Name I Can’t Remember (age is catching up).
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Too Many Capital Letters In That Previous Post.
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Now Alphandale Loch is a beautiful place
But the price of the Yenda is grim
How nice it would be if the Yenda was free
And the Loch was filled up to the brim
Alphandale Loch, I wish you were Yenda
Alphandale Loch, och-aye
Alphandale Loch, I wish you were Yenda
I would drink you dry
I’d buy a yacht with the money I’ve got
And I’d anchor it out in the bay
If I wanted a sip, I’d go in for a dip
I’d be swimmin’ by night and by day
Alphandale Loch, I wish you were Yenda
Alphandale Loch, och-aye
Alphandale Loch, I wish you were Yenda
I would drink you dry
But what’s this I see, ochone for me
It’s a vision to make your blood freeze
It’s the police afloat in a dirty big boat
And they’re shouting, “Obviously you’ve just been given access to a Loch full of Yenda and we have no powers to do anything about it, but we’d like to refer you to the Prime Minister’s advice to not go too mad right away.”
Oh! Alphandale Loch, I wish you were Yenda
Alphandale Loch, och-aye
Oh!
For fuck’s sake just give me a whisky.
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Excellent CMW! I now have beer. An Anvil Brewery Mjolnir IPA. It’s delicious. And moreish. More you say? Oh, alright then!
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Are they the same people who have that pub in Dullstroom, Deebee?
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Same ones. One of the owners is a mate of my sister’s and was the lead singer in an 80s Goth band called No Friends of Harry. He looks a little different today!
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One of the other owners played drums for a band called The Hip Replacements. Was a bunch of guys on the wrong side of 45 .
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Dullstroom’s a pleasant little town. They have a whisky shop that made friends of mine very excited.
I quite liked that you had to turn off the highway at Belfast to get there.
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It’s a lovely place. Like most other small tourism dependent towns (Clarens included) it’s taking a pounding at the moment. Hope they all survive the next couple of months.
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Mpumalanga’s a good place to drive around and find good sights, interesting people and fascinating history.
Plus, they named a town after the world’s greatest ever ref and another town after the (good, B+I) Lions’ second greatest ever captain.
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Must remember to visit Clivenorlingstad if I ever get down that way.
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Race of Stalwarts was CJ’s earlier user name as I recall? But was that your point anyway? Genuinely not sure if you know they are one and the same.
Utility Forward might be the other Embra-un
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Lovely work there, CMW.
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I know that ‘That Rotter RoS” was CJ’s earlier name – it was mentioned often on AoD (usually by Cat or Sag I think). It was more the fact that he’s posting on the Graun but hasn’t transferred ‘across’ to OB.
(Still Too Many Capital Letters).
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You’re right, UTF was the other Embra one. Wonder why none of them rejoined us?
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Speak of the devil
I still pop in from time to time
I think all of us simultaneously found ourselves busy at work. We keep in touch and occasionally see each other in real life, coronavirus permitting.
We’re all well, and I have baby #1 due Christmas Eve which me and Mrs forward are very excited about
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That last one was just by way of poking Deebee in the ribs. Obviously I know that for his historical role in creating historic history it can only be Bevansburg.
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“I think all of us simultaneously found ourselves busy at work.”
Boris Johnson’s got a solution for this one.
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Can’t be doing with these people who are always on about how Forward their children are. And starting before they’re even born really is taking it too far.
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Congratulations UF.
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Glad to hear you’re well, UTF! And congrats on the baby and hope Mrs Forward is keeping well too.
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Congrats, UF!
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I just hope that given it was in relation to Ceej and HBH, UF feels he was not being remembered for all the right reasons.
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