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 
@Slade – the audio for that clip is wrong I think? The vid is Summer Wine but the audio is ‘Bang Bang’.
Which gives me an excuse to post the version of the song by Gry Bagøien with FM Einheit. Got some great songs from Gry, she’s a really interesting performer.
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When even the Daily Star (typical headlines include “Sex with Greggs Pasty Boiled My Bellend”, and “Ten Years Ago The Lotto Made Me a Millionaire, Now I Suck Off Dogs For Quavers”) has decided that your stories are too far-fetched to credit, perhaps it’s time to reevaluate your PR strategy:
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@Brookter – think those examples might be headlines from the Daily or Sunday Sport, but the point still stands.
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Are they? Oops… Sorry about that. I knew I shouldn’t have let my subscription lapse.
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One of them’s in here. Beavers get a bad name for supposedly appearing in these sorts of publications, but it turns out that it’s the mustelidae you have to watch out for.
https://www.shortlist.com/news/best-sunday-sport-headlines
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@Iksy
good grief! Thanks for helping an old fool!
Anyway it’s a great song and your version is good as well as………….interesting!
Hopefuly Deebs got the Summer Wine connection!
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I thought your Bang Bang was a reference to my tragic love affair with my wine in these trying times, which was perfect. So is the Summer Wine from Iksy! Monday folks! The President says booze from Monday! No smokes though! However – the minister referenced above overruled him on unbanning smokes last time out, so let’s not get too excited about the booze ban being lifted either. 12 today is when the Virodene Queen slouches towards Bloemfontein to be born as the best lack all conviction and the worst revel in her passionate intensity.
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Live sport alert! Brisbane Broncos vs Paramatta Eels in the NRL at 10.50 am.
Played behind front doors the atmosphere will be electric.
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Ahem just realised I may have implied NRL is this morning. It isn’t. It’s tomorrow.
Sorry for any disappointment.
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How sad.
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Refit,
That’s very good. Sums it up nicely, apart from the bit about banana bread, which is ok.
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I haven’t really been too emotional about the Cummings adventures. It’s depressingly par for the course. I’m sure the real question is who Dominic Cummings wife is? Right? Don’t worry, Tatler has this one covered:
As Commissioning Editor of the Spectator, 45-year-old Wakefield is certainly already familiar with the British media – albeit not usually as one of its major subjects. In recent weeks she has even written of her life during the pandemic, penning articles such as ‘Are you a lockdown eel or a pygmy goat’ (she identifies herself as in the ‘eel’ camp), and ‘Getting coronavirus does not bring clarity’, about her own experience of the illness. Any reference to the family’s journey out of London was conspicuously absent from such articles……
Through her mother Mary is descended not only from Lord Howick, who acted as the Governor of Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising, but also Albert Grey, the 4th Earl Grey, who was a Governor General of Canada, and Charles Grey, the 2nd Earl Grey. The Earl was prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1830 to 1834 – thus Mary’s own political roots run far deeper than her marital status.
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Nothing will come of this. That’s my prediction.
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@craigs
Are we suggesting the colonial mess in Kenya is somehow Mary Wakefield’s fault?
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OT – absolutely. She was seen driving to and from Durham in a heavily modified DeLorean.
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No, it’s just unsurprising that they seem to do what they want, no fucks given, based on their background.
Maybe I’m being unfair.
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Mary Wakefield is a journalist and writes articles with the same level of honesty as those written in newspapers or presented on the telly by her peers. Piers Morgan got away with loads of stuff a while back and now parades himself as someone whose moral judgements are worth listening to.
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OT – Are we suggesting Piers Morgan is somehow Mary Wakefield’s fault?
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The Spectator is a blight on the land.
What’s his face, the forensic bloke, suggested an inquiry into the thing. That’s holding the government to account.
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Suspect craigs is right and it’s not going to come to anything. Which I find outrageous. The sheer arrogance and disdain of the twerp is most galling.
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Chimpie – I’m happy to be wrong though.
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I’m just wondering if there will be enough Tory MPs who might look at this as a way to get rid of the odious little dick* once and for all. Probably not, but there do seem to be quite a lot coming out of the woodwork saying that he should go. Anyway, Tory MPs love a bit of backstabbing.
*I do realise that odious little dick covers 99.9% of the government (BoJo’s an odious big dick).
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It doesn’t matter if it doesn’t come to anything. If amounting to something means Cummins resigns or is given the elbow.
It would be satisfying to see the little git get his comeuppance but he won’t care much.
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BB, They do love backstabbing but they have to be aware that his particularly awful way of doing politics is what got many of them their seats. Johnson’ll be gone quite soon I think.
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Tomp – to be clear, DC being fired is something in my view.
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Which would leave the door open for Patel or the Govester? Christ, the choices don’t get any better, do they? Also, Wee Mikey’s a pal of the obnoxious one so there would be no change there. And Patel’s too stupid to notice that’s she would be being manipulated (so no change there then, either).
When’s that independence vote again?
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BB – the next generation.
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Sunak, BB. Not that he’s any better than the rest of them. Or they could look at Hunt.
Just typing the names is depressing/amusing.
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Bring back Grayling! His time has come!
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Grayling is currently chairman of the intelligence and security committee at the moment.
Comedy country.
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In rugby news
‘Rugby Australia and Queensland Rugby Union have released Izack Rodda, Harry Hockings and Isaac Lucas after they refused Covid-19-related pay cuts.’
Seems an odd move by them. Unless they’ve got some lucrative contract elsewhere to go to.
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Were our politicians always this shit, or am I just getting older and more jaded? Is it a consequence of our modern media landscape that they appear so shit? I’m sure we used to have some vaguely useful ones.
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They’ve all got the same agent. And there were stories about Rodda having some beef with Brad Thorn.
But Australian rugby so who cares.
More exciting is the get rid of re-set scrums rule that might be coming in.
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Sunak’s barely out his nappies. Thought Raaaaaaaab was the Designated Survivor, although he’s not been seen for a while? Hancock’s the Designated Scapegoat, so he’s got nae chance.
It’s a cabinet of Absolutely Nae Talent, isn’t it?
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Chimpie – I think that we are going through an especially shit time. Partly due to a lack of effective opposition imo.
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@chimpie
John Profumo, Robert Maxwell, Tom Driberg, George Brown etc etc
Yes they were.
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What happens if a scrum isn’t reset? Does the ball get passed between the legs to the scrum half?
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Though I did find this on youtube the other day. Lovely footage and Gerald Davies at his best. Also, right at the end is the half-time analysis from Cliff Morgan, who’s in a splendid jumper and coat combo.
Plus, an early sighting of the “It’s all right for you but I have to live here” anecdote, which I’d only heard before from tourists to South Africa:
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Profumo at least resigned. Driberg was witty and, ahem, redistributed a lot of income to members of the working class.
Brown was an alcoholic, but, sadly, a sort of necessity in the Wilson era.
Maxwell = wanker.
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Exactly. Starmer should be 20 points ahead in the opinion polls by now.
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Not clear if they intend to have refs order ‘play on’ (if playable) and let the 9 get the ball away or if it’ll be a free kick.
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Anyway, the UK at least it’s not Brazil: https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2020/may/the-crime-bureau
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‘Were our politicians always this shit
John Profumo, Robert Maxwell, Tom Driberg, George Brown etc etc
Yes they were.’
There have undoubtedly been plenty of shit ones in the past. Just seems to be a very high shit:vaguely competent ratio currently. And an increase in the shitness magnitude coupled with a lack of shame or embarrassment.
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Trisk – my only quibble is if the opposition manage to almost push the team with the put in off the ball will they get the free kick?
You could see situations where the teams with the weaker scrums would game this to their advantage.
Australians for example.
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@chimpie
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At the moment there’s no other news about anything else so the shitness gets magnified.
With the Tories, they’re just Torying. Labour’s still divided and doesn’t have much support in the media. The Liberals are an embarrassment – have a read of their 2019 election report, it’s astonishing. The SNP are happy with what’s going on at the moment in England I reckon but doesn’t seem any great shakes. The Northern Irish parties are Northern Irish.
Too much flag in British politics, which is why it’s so awful.
This is a good read, by the way:
https://huw.substack.com/p/what-have-you-got-to-say-to-that
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OT, Gove yesterday (Not Safe for Work):
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Ferrari fucked it. He should have let Gove carry on. Terrible journalism,
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