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 
Really feel like a bonfire pisser right now.
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Spoilsport.
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BB – I hope Tomp felt like this every Friday afternoon circa 2015-2016.
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October 2014 – April 2017
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Happy Days indeed.
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It was either the ‘pro or the pussycat talking nonsense. A public service I’d call it.
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Kanye West’s manifesto is, erm, interesting.
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I wish CJ and FD were around to debate the BLM movement with each other.
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Holy shit, I just finished Bloodborne.
LIFE IS COMPLETE!!!!
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Only took 18 months.
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Don’t tell Cat, but I’m not sure how much I actually like the game. Great graphics, atmosphere, gameplay.
It’s fucking horrible though. Mentally draining.
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Don’t bother reading a book by that phoney Marukami. They’re over-written* shit.
* Maybe because of the translation.
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What was most pleasing is that it only took me 2 goes to defeat the Moon Presence. And that comes after your fight with Gehrman so you only have a few blood vials left.
Luckily I’d found and consumed all 3 thirds of umbilical chords beforehand so I was able to break the Nightmare and not just replace Gehrman as a puppet of the Great Ones.
So really it only took 1 real go.
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“I wish CJ and FD were around to debate the BLM movement with each other.”
I can precis it for you. CJ’d be wrong but keep on going at it and that would exasperate FD,. Then. ticht’d come in and say something quite sensible and CJ’d make a patronising comment aimed at ticht.
Then it would start again.
And we’d all pray for a long conversation about Bloodborne.
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Ticht has said a lot of sensible things and then been patronised for reasons I cannot fathom.
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I still remember the time I zinged FD and he admitted he had no comeback.
They were better days.
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Tomp – ah but would you pray at the Healing Church or to the Vilebloods?
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‘Kanye West’s manifesto is, erm, interesting.’
Musk for the minivans of space!
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He’s a massive troll / twat (1)
(1) take your pick
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No more bloodborne? Shame
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‘Musk for the minivans of space!’
whit? That was supposed to me ministry
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Be. Ffs
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I haven’t played video games for many years now, but I love the Bloodborne conversations.
The old text input games were a lot of fun: you have a golden ball, and you find a frog. You work out that these things interact, but how to phrase it so the game understands? Give ball to frog. Throw ball at frog. Hit frog with ball. Shove the fucking ball up frog’s arse.
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The response to the last attempt would be something like, You might consider playing Leisure Suit Larry instead of King’s Quest.
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Leisure Suit Larry
They don’t make them like they used to.
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“Holy shit, I just finished Bloodborne.”
Does putting together the umbilical cord sort Gazza’s life out?
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Anyway I wish the Cat was here to tell you why you haven’t finished Bloodborne.
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Hrrmmm, some people accused me of being patronising, so I guess it all comes out in the wash.
I’d prefer it if we still had all the of the contributors, err, contributing – though cricket was never my thing. Having said that, I always enjoy the Real Cricket stuff, just as I could read anything by Frank Keating, even on cricket
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“I’d prefer it if we still had all the of the contributors, err, contributing”
Amen to that.
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“I still remember the time I zinged FD and he admitted he had no comeback.”
I don’t know, think I’d always want the comeback. Still proud of the time I managed to provoke him into snottily asking me what exactly it was I thought a statistic was.
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“Hit frog with ball”
I don’t know, we go on and on about cricket and still can’t get our message across. Hit the ball with the frog for heaven’s sake, not the other way round.
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I’m pretty sure that even Boa and I would get on if and when we encounter each other on a Blog Meetup.
I have a friend and neighbour who is in a band, he told me today they are not really expecting to be able to play proper gigs for about 18 months – that is going to scupper a whole load of bands.
Plus, he reckons that US companies are buying up UK venues and only the big ones will survive, and they won’t be tolerating any anti-corporate sing songs that undermine their sponsors.
It’s going to go back to the 80s – hire a hall, get a bar in the back and play
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Humbly report, contributing and not patronising, tho not contributing much, could patronise if necessary.
Swimming pool update- no changing rooms or showers, temp taken on way in, 1 person a lane pre book, pool nice and cool as only lap swimming, so temp not raised to pamper to annoying children and aquasize classes.
Shame about 1st day of cricket, nevermind, possibly a bit of TMS or NRL for breakfast,( if vipleague isn’t giving me some crap about watching in HD and having to join, which seems to be about 75% of the time now.).
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“I’m pretty sure that even Boa and I would get on if and when we encounter each other on a Blog Meetup.”
It’s a classic romcom set up.
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Please tell me the weather today in Southampton is better than yesterday?
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Please tell me the weather today in Southampton is better than yesterday?
Don’t patronise me Deebs.
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https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/forecast/gcp185f25#?date=2020-07-09
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Does putting together the umbilical cord sort Gazza’s life out?
You never actually reconstruct a full umbilical chord, just consume as necessary. I’ve read up on it and they are all from different beings.
Cat would say I need to complete the tunnels under Yharnam which aren’t part of the main game. You get a collectable lithopedion at the end which stays in your inventory after you complete the game and start again.
Which really sums up Bloodborne. Endless nightmare, eating umbilical chords, collectable stone babies.
Great.
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Deebs, in South African English do you say “stag party” or “bachelor party”? And the woman’s equivalent would be a …?
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I’ve heard Buck Night. Not sure if it was from a saffer.
Interested to know where you go if live in Prague. Where else is there?
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One of my students this morning used bachelor party because she said she doesn’t like the name “hen party”. We then discussed “bachelor party” vs “bachelorette party”. She didn’t much like “bachelorette party” either so I said I’d try and find an alternative.
She’s Slovak but lives in Prague. They went to Brno for the do. Played Laserquest and she triumphed. She’s also 5 months pregnant so couldn’t move round much, which she thinks helped her strategically as she was able to find a spot and then pick off victims like a sniper.
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She should join the army while she’ll still be useful to them.
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Found myself chatting to one of the local characters yesterday, a retired German nurse who is always out walking her dogs. She was telling me how she went up to an army recruiting stand to discuss what they thought was meant by the motto printed above the stall that said “Fortune Favours the Brave”. What followed put me in mind of the Cat and Jerusalem.
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Just sent her the notes and corrections and extra input from today’s class and told her that you suggested joining the Army. She demurred.
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When we lived in South Africa, I got offered the chance to teach the Slovak ambassador’s husband. He’s a very jolly guy and a bit of a chatterbox. He’s in his 50s and worked in TV/theatre for a long time.
One day he was telling me about his 2-year military service, which he’d done just outside Prague. “Oh, right, so you were one of the lads that was going to invade Western Europe?” “Nah. On Monday mornings I would arrange which films we’d show in the base cinema for the week after and call up the right people and then I spent the next six and a half days sat around drinking.”
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In that case she shouldn’t join the army as the booze will do her and the baby no good at all.
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Tomp – I think sniping is considered poor form in some Lazerquest circles. You should also mention that.
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TomP, we tend to use bachelor party, but I’ve heard stag party used as well. Usually it’s hen party for women. Mrs Deebee and I did a joint one – hired a party bus and did a booze cruise of all the best bars that I (and later Mrs Deebee) frequented over the years. Was great fun, no animals were hurt in the process and neither of us had to suffer the indignity of being dressed up and humiliated. Never understood that part of it.
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@TomP
that sounds very familiar – I’ve a work colleague (now based in CH) but Slovak by origin – his army service stories (from 80s) were much the same….trying to stave off the boredom
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Deebs – But you do humiliate all your mates when you go to theirs right?
On mine the only humiliation was that I had to wear a plastic viking hat around Cardiff. But clearly that is an honour so I won really.
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