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 was in the Lynnwood area – not too far from the CSIR, at the Innovation Hub.
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@craigs
At the moment I log on to another MS Teams call* dashing from a bit of home schooling and my stock first sentence is usually “what’s this meeting about, again?”
*Webex has had a poor pandemic, as has Skype (yes I know Skype is owned by Microsoft but they seem to have spent nothing on its development in 10 years). Zoom started well but has levelled off. Microsoft seems to have nicked the prize not just for Teams but also for stuff like Hololens in factories and stuff.
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“I reckon that story’s had some polishing from Cowdrey, mind.”
Yes. Viv probably told him it didn’t matter who they picked because they were playing with ten seeing as he was in the side.
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Handy for the motorway. There’s a really good butchers shop at the Lynnwood Bridge mall if you get up there again.
Are the Botanical Gardens and places like that open?
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“As well as Cowdrey replacing Emburey, the selectors also dropped Paul Downton, Martyn Moxon, Mike Gatting, David Capel, Phil Defreitas and John Childs in favour of Derek Pringle, Neil Foster, Bill Athey, and Jack Richards, with Tim Curtis and Robin Smith making their Test debuts.”
Well I guess Gatting should have been in the team as it wasn’t that long after his purple patch and Defreitas was probably the best of the bowlers from either the ins or the outs. Downton the better keeper, but they must have hoped Richards would get some runs (I don’t imagine he did). But really the only thing of note there is Robin Smith’s debut.
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In a world that is rapidly making less and less sense, it seems the most insightful and well articulated analysis of our recent social events is now the Sky Sports Cricket channel
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Positively Baltic
I think I’ve posted this before but when on holiday in Sweden Mrs Craig’s said something along these lines when swimming in the sea.
The amount of pleasure I took in agreeing with her that it was, indeed, the Baltic, says far more about me than her.
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TomP, unfortunately I don’t think they are open – not until we get to Level 2, which is taking about as long as the Pro Woo, Super Rugby and Top 14 to get to.
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That was the series during which Gatting lost the captaincy cos the tabloids accused him of shagging someone.
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English weather ruins yet another highly anticipated event. I’m going to start calling English Weather ‘Boris’ from now on. Although it has less bluster than Bojo, so maybe ‘Hancock’? Guaranteed to cock everything up, but in a pathetic, slightly apologetic manner.
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I just wish that deeply strange character Peter Roebuck had been called on to captain England that year.
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Matt Hancock:
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That’s a bit creepy!
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There’s better quality video. Unfortunately, you can more easily make out what’s happening in the trouser department but I thought I’d save you from that.
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This is the weird 1984/Dr Strangelove Hancock:
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“That was the series during which Gatting lost the captaincy cos the tabloids accused him of shagging someone.”
Yes though the team hadn’t been especially successful. He had also stopped scoring runs though nobody could really have known that at the point he lost the capataincy (all bar one of his hundreds were between 85 and 87 despite playing from 78 to 95 albeit with some gaps).
Gooch and Emburey got goes at captaining the side that series as well.
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To be fair to him the team weren’t especially successful because they weren’t very good.
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@cmw
And Derek Pringle!! Goochie had to leave the field injured so England’s-next-Ian-Botham stepped up to his rightful place for a bit.
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Gooch, Emburey (twice), Cowdrey and Gatting.
It’s a who’s who of English players who grabbed the dirty Apartheid Krugerrands.
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Fun Fact:
Derek Pringle is the only English test cricketer to appear in an Oscar-winning film and to invent a potato-based snack.
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You wouldn’t find Derek Pringle going on a rebel tour of South Africa.
Then again they probably didn’t ask him.
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Holy fuck, that Hancock video was disturbing.
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“England’s-next-Ian-Botham stepped up to his rightful place for a bit”
Derek Pringle was long established as not the next Botham by that point. Phil Defreitas had been 1987’s not the next Botham and that summer of ’88 it was David Capel. Seem to remember he put in a couple of good efforts despite fairly obviously not really being good enough.
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A few others got tried out after that though Chris Lewis nailed the spot down for a few years in the early nineties.
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Think Derek Pringle is from somewhere in Africa. Maybe Kenya or Tanzania?
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@cmw
Dominic Cork gave it a good go for a while.
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@OT – very much the next Chris Lewis.
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Was Mark Ealham the next Ian Austin or Ian Austin the next Mark Ealham?
I forget.
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I can’t remember either. Pretty sure Ronnie Irani was just the next Ronnie Irani.
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He probably really was the next Dermot Reeve, but that’s not a reasonable thing to call anyone.
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First time I heard of Dermot Reeve was when they held the Greatest All Rounder in the World competition in Hong Kong and he took part because he was born in Hong Kong. In previous years it was held in the UK and you’d have the likes of Hadlee, Botham, Imran Khan, Kapil Dev etc taking part, In the Hong Kong edition one of the contestants was Phil Edmonds.
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Clive Rice used to win it in England.
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Of course from about 1987 onwards the not-the-next-Botham situation was complicated by the shirt being filled by Botham himself, often with other more/less convincing not-Bothams in the side as well.
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By the late 80s Ian Botham was in the England team for reasons of nostalgia as much as anything. It was a bit like Wales picking Barry John in the next World Cup.
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More like England picking Ben Youngs in the last World Cup.
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Del Pringle’s dad played for East Africa in the 75 World Cup, no?
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Edmonds was born in Zambia. How did he get into the Hong Kong edition?
Plus, he’s now a very unacceptable unacceptable face of capitalism:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/may/11/companies-cricketer-phil-edmonds-report-global-witness
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Don Pringle, Del’s dad, did play for East Africa in the 75 World Cup to answer my own question. Died later the same year:
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Rice actually won the one with Reeve and Edmonds in it. Found a link, but can’t post it.
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Edmonds got in as a late replacement for Imran Khan!
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“That 1980s Sports Blog” has a good write up of all four of them. Rice somehow won the first one despite Botham hitting 70 off his four overs. Apparently he’d worked out the scoring system better than anyone else. He won three with Imran winning the other one.
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Those Michael Holding pieces for Sky are really good,
A few comments underneath the twitter suggest a quick read of CLR James might be worthwhile for some people.
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that1980ssportsblog.blogspot.com/2019/10/cricket-silk-cut-challenge-all-rounders.html
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I forgot Frances Edmonds presented the TV coverage of the HK one. I think Phil’s business interests organised that event.
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@tomp
Ian Botham >> Ben Youngs
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OT,
Liam Botham > Ben Youngs
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Refit – nope.
officials in the area of the mural became aware of the Internet fabrication and painted over the mural. In the short time the Road Runner tunnel painting was visible, no crashes occurred. The claim became newly viral in March 2016, several months after it appeared on Reddit, but the story was proved to be false in December 2015.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/road-runner-tunnel-crash-rumor/
Soz. Would love it to be true so I could blame FD. Sadly….
Nah, I can still pin this on FD.
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