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 
……………….and happy belated birthday BB, plus any others I have missed – age, you know
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I was interested to see what sort of damage a Matt Scott and Manu Tuilagi midfield would do, hey ho.
In other news, Wee Greeg, or Mr Greig, to Shining Arcs in Japan – nice way to see out your career
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Congratulations UF!
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I had to scroll back to see the news, many congratulations, to the UFs
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Virus update USA. Pool at the local Y is open today on a prebook basis for lap swimming, temp testing on the way in. Worries about pools being incubators for germs outweighed by desperation for swim.
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Not sure if anyone has posted this before. 25 mins dissecting the scrum in the world cup final. Ticht will love it
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I’ve watched Squidge and Wibble on the final already – not sure I can take another half-hour of analysis (good though both were)
Having said that…. well, why not.
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Trisk – I just look on in wide eyed horror tbh.
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Sbt – no chlorine? Just need lovely chlorine.
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Congratulations UF.
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“Art rock”, it says. For BB. Love tracks 2 & 3.
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Jerry Hall is really not very healthy-looking there. No muscle tone. Wouldn’t survive a breakdown.
Then again, the woman married Murdoch. What do you expect?
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Think we established that the Boks only won because they didn’t play Scotland in the Final. Analysis is redundant.
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Good video, that.
Something I noticed during the film there, especially in the earlier scrums, was that Itoje was all over the place, he wasn’t supporting Cole much at all, it could have been that Cole was getting such a hiding that he swung his hips out under pressure, so Itoje had a huge chasm where there should have been a tight front row in front of him, or it could have been that they just got all the body heights and angles wrong, which would be very unusual for an England scrum.
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Only watched the first 10 minutes, but Cole seems to bear much of the blame – although the analyst also reckoned one of the scrums should have been reset rather than a penalty awarded (3rd one I think). I felt the second penalty was as much about Billy V offering very little and trying to get the ball out ASAP as anything else. Was it a planned move or a panic from the first scrum?
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I found it fascinating – would have benefited from being edited down to 15-18 mins. Feel a bit for Dan Cole – he’s definitely the “guilty” party in the first 2 scrums and that probably sets the ref’s mind thereafter.
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Deebee, I thought that scrum was quite an easy one to give because Marler changed his bind very obviously and right in front of the ref.
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Trisk, agreed it seemed to meander a bit and could’ve been tighter.
@Ticht – my knowledge of scrums is shouting at a bunch of fatties to push harder and make sure their prized asset has an easy run of it when the ball emerges. Born leader, I was.
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“Trisk, agreed it seemed to meander a bit and could’ve been tighter.”
A bit like England’s scrum, them.
Thanks, I’m here all week, try the Biltong.
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What a difference a year makes: this time last year I was celebrating my birthday in Sicily.
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Happy Birthday, thaum.
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Public holiday here yesterday so we had a weekend away in the Bohemian Forest, hard on the border with Germany. We popped into Germany for a couple of hours. Very pleasant little walk. The next day we went on a much longer walk that took in Cerny Jezerno and Certovo Jezero., Black Lake and Devil’s Lake.
There’s a story and a half about Black Lake: https://www.wired.com/story/uncovering-operation-neptun-the-cold-wars-most-daring-disinformation-campaign/
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Happy Birthday Thaum!!
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Thanks, guys!
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Happy b’day Thaum!! 🎂
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Happy Birthday, Thaum.
My friend told me he was going to a fancy dress party as an Italian island.
I said, “Don’t be Sicily”
(Thank you Tim Vine)
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I told him to go as some islands off the coast of Britain.
He said, “Now that would be really Scilly”
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It wasn’t that silly. You can pick up a costume in any Tresco.
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Deebee,
Have you seen this about Transvaal cricket?
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Happy happy Thaum.
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Happy birthday, Thauma Old Girl!
*
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That album by Roxy hasn’t aged as well as Cat’s albums from the same era.
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Maybe Jerry looking all washed up there was prophetic, like the bony timbers of a sunken Ferry.
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This steal has been brought to you courtesy of travel restrictions scuppering the Wrath of Thauma™️
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OLD?!!
You might have a point.
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Happy Birthday Thauma! I could docwith a bit of Italian travel right now. Hope you have a great day!
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TomP – will try and watch that later.
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Happy birthday Thaum!
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What’s the weather like in Southampton today? Can’t remember when I was last so excited about the start of a Test series!
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British summer weather:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/forecast/gcp185f25#?date=2020-07-08
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Thanks TomP – looks like we’re fair set for most of the five days. We, on the other hand, are set for a bitterly cold, and possibly wet, weekend.
https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/brrrace-yourselves-mammoth-cold-front-to-bring-heavy-rain-widespread-snow-to-sa-20200707
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17 in Pretoria! Positively Baltic.
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Love that, OT!
TomP – I was in Pretoria yesterday for my first face to face meeting in 106 days. It was 24 degrees and charming. Pretoria’s winter weather is lovely, if we could just get the locals to migrate somewhere else for hte duration, I might spend a bit more time there.
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@deebee
I’ve told my bosses not to expect me in the office again this year, fingers crossed. Am enjoying this working from home malarkey and so far it seems to be going well. I don’t set an alarm in the morning and I don’t have to sit on a tube train just to sit in front of the same laptop I use at home. Just need to get the kids back to school and everything will be rosey……
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Too chilly in the morning, Deebee, but warms up lovely by 10 in the morning.
Which part of the city were you in?
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OT, Viv was right. I reckon that story’s had some polishing from Cowdrey, mind.
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@tomp
It does smack of an after-dinner-speech-circuit story. Although I doubt he gets many bookings. Viv probably did laugh at how amateurish the England cricket set up was in those days, mind. Most people did.
To think he spent the previous summer playing for Rishton in the Lancashire League and spent his time travelling to grounds like Haslingden and Accrington.
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Ha! Don’t hear that expression much outside of Ireland….
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OT – in some ways I’m dreading not being able to wake up just before work. In other ways it would be nice to have some head space from things like bollocking my 4 year old for having 3 magnums for breakfast*.
* because I’m jealous.
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