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 
Crystal Palace giving another “On the Beach” performance.
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Blackwood belts Jimmy joyfully back down the ground for four! 62 to win. Is there one more sting in the tail or have England missed too many opportunities?
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Chris Rea giving another “On The Beach” performance….
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Jimmy almost gets Dowrich, but the ball was too good for the number 7 to nick. Two slips and a gully, plus a short leg and short mid on, but squirts past the slips for three runs. That’s tea with 57 needed!
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108/1 in that session by the Windies doesn’t tell the full story. Could’ve been 80/3 and a different complexion to the match entirely. But it wasn’t. After a torrid start, they’ve rebuilt, ridden their luck and have themselves in a winning position now. England had a great morning session, then blew it. Too many runs and didn’t take the chances that came their way. Two hours and a totally different match. Do England have one last ace up the sleeve? Need to play it quickly.
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Archer and Wood open after tea. Archer excellent, Wood fiery and more than a tad unlucky not to get Dowrich with an inside edge that narrowly misses leg stump. 53 needed.
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Honestly can’t understand a solitary slip for Archer: England can’t defend for the draw, so should go for the kill. Arxher down on pace, but still causing problems.
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England review! LBW appeal given not out. Not a convincing review and we know why – high and wide! A bit desperate, understandably.
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If England do get a wicket now, do they send in Jason Holder, a very capable lower middle order batsman, but number eight nonetheless and risk the tail getting run through, or bring back the opener Campbell who retired hurt? Blackwood crunches another boundary and the target dips below 50 as the partnership surpasses the same landmark.
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They being WI obviously.
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Great contest between Wood and Blackwood, with a delicious boundary followed by one almost chopped on and then four more perilously close to mid-offs outstretched hand! End result? Windies need 38, Blackwood has moved to 80. A ton here would be a helluva achievement.
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Blackwood trying to get cute with a ramp shot that doesn’t work. Could’ve gone anywhere. Archer responds by putting Dowrich on his backside. Now they review a not out for a caught behind down the leg! No dice. Hit the shirt.
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England now down to one review. Both lost ones were lousy, but understandable. Stokes into the attack. Result no longer in doubt, just whether Blackwood will get his ton. Needs 16 of the last 33.
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Stokes strikes! He’s stoked! But overstepped! Oh Ben! Dowrich survives the caught at 1st slip! For one ball! This time Buttler snaffles it. Holder in. Oh my word! On another day that was a hattrick! Holder almost repeated the edge to Buttler! What an over!
A bit of pep in England’s step, but surely too late?
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Holder almost runs Blackwood out getting off the mark! Would’ve been tragic! And almost again! C’mon Jermaine! Keep calm and get over the line. Windies need 27, Blackwood 13.
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C’mon Deebs. the tension’s unbearable here!
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England could’ve won this on runouts with a bit of accuracy. Four or five in the last four overs alone. Meanwhile, skipper Holder is gonna deny Blackwood his ton too at this rate.
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BB, Blackwood finally gets the ramp shot right and moves to 95 with the boundary! He needs 5 of the last 11 !
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Ah, bugger! Blackwood holes out to mid-off trying to go through the covers. Didn’t need to do that but his 95 has ensured a Windies win.
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Sorry BB! Uber Eats arrived at the critical moment. Windies won, Jason Holder bookended a great match by destroying England in their first innings and then being there at the end to see them bome. Does Campbell get to claim carrying his bat given that he was not out?
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Well done West Indies!
And well done Deebee!
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Former All Blacks coach Steve Hansen has urged his former employers to be strong in their negotiations over the future of Super Rugby and that New Zealand Rugby (NZR) owed trans-Tasman neighbours Australia no favours. Tensions between the organisations ratcheted up last week, with Rugby Australia (RA) chair Hamish McLennan saying he felt the relationship had deteriorated to one of a “master-servant”.
“Without being controversial, we have been looking after the Aussies for years,” Hansen told Stuff Media on Sunday. “And every time we have required something from them, particularly at a high level, sometimes they have gone missing.
“Do we owe them something? No. But because we are the nation we are, and we care about the game more than just ourselves, we bend and buckle a bit. I think NZ Rugby are in the mood for having strong discussions because they only get one shot at it.”
Apparently the Kiwis want a Trans-Tasman only comp (so excluding SA and Argentina), but only see room for two Aussie sides, three at a push.
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Thanks BB, I’m exhausted after that.
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The Economist has this article https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/09/28/why-are-some-languages-spoken-faster-than-others on how some languages have a higher information density – so they are spoken slower….
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‘Thanks BB, I’m exhausted after that.’
Your diligence is a lesson to us all Deebee
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Slade will be (mainly) pleased…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/53380649
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@Trisk – “Those packed with information are spoken slower, while simpler ones are spoken faster. As a result, most languages are equally efficient at conveying information.”
A lot of the time they were definitely ‘conveying more information’ with the Welsh.
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Latterly, there’s been some “revisionism” here that given the standard of the players – we should have played a better brand of football but the first thing was to play as a team, and to a consistent standard*. Greece won Euro 2004 playing a “limited” brand of football, so it’s doesn’t have to Brazil 70 to win things.
* there’s a parallel here with Schmidt’s team – work hard, keep mistakes to a minimum, etc, etc
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Discovered that beetroot combines well with prosciutto onna pizza at the weekend. You’ll thank me if you try it.
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That Brazil 1970 team is always held in the highest regard but imagine how much better they’d’ve been with Big Niall Quinn up front.
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I’m not that convinced that Jack Charlton would have played that different a brand of football however good the players were. I don’t think that’s a terrible thing either as at least there was still more in the way of obvious contrast between how different national teams played at that time even if it was beginning to disappear. Other than them being heroic underdogs and winning (by drawing though) there wasn’t much to recommend the 1990 games. The England one stands out in the memory as dire, but I have a feeling the others weren’t really any ‘better’. The underdog thing counts for a lot though so it was great fun.
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Beetroot?
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I saw what i suppose was the official film of WC 70 some weeks back – and while with Pele, Jairzinho, Tostao, Gerson, Rivelino – Brazil were an attacking marvel… when you see the goals they conceded – they’d certainly have been not any worse with the likes of Paul McGrath, David O’Leary, or Mark Lawrenson at the back
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@trisk
They’d probably have conceded fewer goals with McCarthy and Moran at the back as well.
I remember Jack not liking O’Leary very much and often preferring McGrath and Lawrenson in midfield.
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1990 – terrible World cup in a soccer sense…..Cameroon kicking lumps out of Argentina, Eng/Ire/Egypt/Netherlands group – dire all round, Rijkaard gobbing at Voller. England won the games they probably should have lost (Bel, Cameroon) and lost the game they probably ought to have won (WG)
Hardly a memorable game across the entire tournament all you remember are “incidents”- Rijkaard (as above), Bonner save/O’Leary pen, Gazza blubbing, Higuita showing off and getting done by Milla…
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I think McCarthy and Moran were more of how Jack saw himself as a centre-back… also it did allow him to use Lawrenson and later McGrath as midfielders – whereas the reverse wasn’t possible
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Tomp – beetroot. Boil a fresh one for 30 mins. Slice it up. Bung it on the pizza with prosciutto, tomato based sauce and mozzarella. Bung it in the oven. Bung it in your gob. Bung a thanks to me later.
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Hmm.
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Haggis & roast tattie pizza is a treat.
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Chimpie – ‘threat’
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Says the one inflicting beetroot on an otherwise harmless pizza.
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OT will be along soon to tell us off for food signalling or something,
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Chimpie – I was skeptical too. Like I said, thank me later.
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“skeptical”. Hmm, North American spelling. Perhaps beetroot is the new pineapple
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As a last resort I’d eat a beetroot rather than a pineapple.
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@Trisk – 1990 was the first World Cup we could watch here because of apartheid boycotts of previous editions, so for me it remains one of the best ever. The excitement around the Cameroon team was palpable here, and at a push I could probably still name most of them. The pub that I watched most of the matches at had put up a huge screen linked to the sound system for the bands that played in the evenings, so you got a full sensory blast. It was also located close to the German School and Joburg has relatively large Italian, Portuguese and Greek communities as well (as well as Belgians who had fled the Congo for a like-minded regime in the apartheid one) and of course loads of Brits, so there was always a good friendly rivalry in the pub between all the expat viewers. The semi between England and Germany was sold out (they had to have a ticketed affair because of the numbers) before it was confirmed they would meet each other. Brilliant stuff!
2002 opening match in Korea/Japan was also brilliant – Senegal kicking the shit out of France as defending champions and winning 1-0. I remember the pub I was in that day had a lot of the conservative (largely Afrikaans-speaking and thus not familiar with football) white office workers in it for lunch. Even they were screaming for Senegal once it became apparent it wasn’t going to be a stroll in the park for France.
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CMW – just for you, a lovely recipe for beetroot and pineapple salad with mint:
https://nutritionstripped.com/beetroot-pineapple-salad-mint/
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This is the publisher of the abomination:
Hi, I’m McKel! As a Dietitian, Coach, and leading voice in nutrition and mindful health, awarded “Top 20 Role Models” named by Arianna Huffington my purpose is simple — to guide you on how to use nutrition as the catalyst to become more in tune, connected, and aware of your wellbeing by practicing small daily intentional actions that nourish your body (mostly with plants!). In my work, you’ll learn the science of nutrition, the art of healthy living, and honor the fundamental pillars of our health (i.e. mental, emotional, spiritual), so you design a mindful way of eating and living that’s sustainable, aligned, and joyful.
Go wild.
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@chimpie
No, no, no. Merely pointing out that much food talk is about displaying to the world the kind of persona you want people to associate yourself with, which may or may not be an accurate presentation of your true character.
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People I don’t want to be on today’s food-based evidence:
Deebee
OT
Chimpie
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