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 
Tomp – WW1?
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SBT – that Kiwi selection looks weak. Fragile front row, no depth in the engine room, show pony loose trio, decent, if ageing 9, 10 who doesn’t like pressure, midfield with retreaded wings, back three with a bit of talent.
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Is it just me, or is the Premiership rugby site the most useless uninformative unupdated crap website out there ?
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Well, anyway, here is a page of Glaws news, cos Beadle ain’t around.
https://www.gloucesterrugby.co.uk/news/
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walesonline beats any other website for crapness. They’ve just canned a load of staff as well so it ain’t gonna improve.
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Another Bulls player leaves to koin Deebee’s Lions . This one is hooker Jaco Visagie. Quite a result for the Bulls.
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koin?
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you know……………………..like in ‘kumped ship’
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@TomP – Jaco Visagie joins the exodus across the Jukskei to the promised land, fleeing King Jake and his statuesque rugby style.
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Ah, trumped by TomP. Trump being his favourite political leader too.
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My lawyers have been instructed to look at the “his” in that post.
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Doc heading for Iks’ bunch (no, not Mighty Wolves – the other lot). Maybe.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/53404787
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Iks’ bunch kill blog.
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Typical.
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Watching Iks’s ‘Other Bunch’ outplaying Burnley. So Burnley will probably grind out a win.
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Paula Tilbrook RIP. She apparently did panto at the Oldham Rep in the 60s. Played the Fairy Godmother.
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She could grow a heck of a tache.
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Wullufs done out of the win by a ridiculous penalty awarded to Burnley in injury time. Burnley missed a great chance just before that though at 90 minutes Wolves looked in total control.
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“My lawyers have been instructed to look at the “his” in that post.”
Yesterday was international non-binary day, “their” is more appropriate
On the French pronunciation topic, yeah I’m a day late, down sud the pronunciation holds very little resemblance to anything one would be taught at any level, and that is if the person you are speaking to uses French rather than their own local patois of Occitan, or Catalan if you are on the eastern end of the Pyrenees, Basque on the other.
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In which case “they could grow a heck of a tache”. Which is a statement nobody could argue with.
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ticht, that’s the langue d’oc v langue d’whatever it is difference, no? I was invited by some French people I knew to a dinner party in London one time. They were from the North and West of France and I had no problem chatting with them and getting them apart from one guy from Metz. Not a saucisson with him.
When I applied for teacher training i wanted to go to Newcastle or Bristol. Had an interview in Newcastle first. Went up by train and arrived in that fine city with some time to spare so had a walk around and got a little lost. I asked a couple of people for directions and couldn’t understand what they said to me in reply. Ended up going to Bristol.
The worst I’ve had was on a farm in West Cork. My co-worker was speaking English but I understood nothing. For the whole day.
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Tom, yeah, Langues d’oïl being the other one, oil and oc being the word for “yes” from north and south respectively.
If I remember correctly Langue d’Oc is a somewhat posher way to say Occitan – the separatist graffiti I saw used the latter
I had the same thing with a Munster lad, a good friend of mine had a mate over from Limerick and I was convinced they were speaking Irish, until I got my ear tuned and realised that my mate had just reverted to his normal accent and speed in English.
Some Aberdeenshire accents would be difficult for most to understand, including me.
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Furrybootsuryefae?
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BB, in a shoe shop, “fit fit fits fit fit?”
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fit, like?
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Lived in Aberdeen for 7 years. Could still barely understand a proper doric accent.
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Lived in Essex for 11.5 years and they still can’t understand me.
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If i remember my Latin (which I do ..a bit) , there’s no word/phrase for Yes in Latin – so you had “hoc ille” roughly ‘this is it’ and ‘hoc’ (as in ‘ad hoc’) – meaning “this”
‘Hoc ille’ transmuted into ‘oil’ then ‘oui’, and ‘hoc’ more obviously into ‘oc’
Irish and I presume Scots Gaelic are similar – you have “it is” or “it isn’t” – is ea or ní hea. Although, in conversation/radio speech you can hear ‘is ea’ elide into something sounding like “sha”
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Am a big fan of this Dundonian lady Mary Brooksbank. The recording’s a little unclear and that’s why it took me 5 or 6 listens to understand what she was saying:
http://tobarandualchais.co.uk/en/fullrecord/58760?fbclid=IwAR2x0nsd6HKobFljrNZZZTwLwT08pq20PpaJpdxk5bQBkbSWlxMUXFEPWrA
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*Grayling update*
‘Boris Johnson was humiliated on Wednesday after Chris Grayling, his pick to lead parliament’s powerful intelligence and security committee, was unexpectedly rejected in an ambush by MPs.’
‘One source said Grayling “didn’t see it coming”’
His observation skills need a bit of work in general given his track record.
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Grayling’s a costly but unimportant cancer.
It’s interesting that Julian Lewis, the guy who won, lost the Conservative whip after he won that vote.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-53422010
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Grayling accidentally did something sort of right recently:
https://davidhencke.com/2020/07/12/revealed-how-failing-grayling-derailed-transport-billionaires-richard-branson-and-brian-souter/
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Interesting
‘The reason why Grayling disqualified them is because all three did not want to take on a big share of the liability for paying out pensions to some 346,000 retired and active train drivers and staff while they were running the services. Instead they wanted to make as money as they could by dumping the pension cost onto the state – that’s you and me.’
I still struggle with the point / effectiveness of this whole franchising thing. Complete mess
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Grayling makes a right decision shock!
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The worst I’ve had was on a farm in West Cork. My co-worker was speaking English but I understood nothing. For the whole day.
Took an Irish company to Mozambique a few years ago to meet potential local partners. Everyone spoke English in the meetings, but I was frequently translating the Irish English for the Mozambicans and the Mozambican English for the Irish. Was a lot of fun actually and got a lot of laughs all round.
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Re accents – When they lived in Kent my in laws (hailing from the other side of world – Wiltshire) were mistaken for being Australian twice.
I’ve lived in Kent for 7 years and have been mistaken for Lebanese once (I think this was accent agnostic).
Funny folk these Kentish men.
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My uncles from Cowdenbeath used to visit occasionally when I was a kid. They were really warm and funny, and we used to have a great laugh despite the fact we couldn’t understand a word the other was saying.
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Back to Cork, my (sort of) great Aunt was Clonakilty born and raised but spoke with a cut-glass RP English accent. She married a really nice guy from Cork city who spoke in proper Corkish. Not a bother, boy, when it came to understanding but a marked difference.
Her brother sounded properly West Cork but married a woman from Kinsale who had only the lightest touch of Cork in her accent.
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The first time I had a really extended spell away from home was when I went to university. Much to my surprise, when I went back to visit my parents I found my dad had developed a really strong Rhondda accent while I’d been away.
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Slade, Interview with Phil Dollman here:
https://play.acast.com/s/thewelshrugbypodcast/vnid%3A%2F%2Fepisodes%2F38281319%3Fmedia_id%3D29562955
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Didi really do that?
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Same here …talking to my folks on the phone…..up to that point – I’d never noticed an accent at all
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That is not to say that my folks had a Rhondda accent…..
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I quite like these new remote working events. I just sat on a panel for a call conference and was able to present, answer questions, and discuss topical industry issues while watching Sydney Roosters vs Canberra Raiders on my phone.
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“Boris Johnson has suggested Parliament could move to York while the Palace of Westminster undergoes renovation.”
Lucky lucky CMW.
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There’s a big empty factory I can suggest they use.
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Will Greenwood’s picked his Lions XV if they were playing tomorrow
– 15 Stuart Hogg, 14 Johnny May, 13 Manu Tuilagi, 12 Robbie Henshaw, 11 Liam Williams, 10 Owen Farrell, 9 Tomos Williams, 8 Billy Vunipola, 7 Justin Tipuric, 6 Tom Curry, 5 James Ryan, 4 Maro Itoje, 3 Kyle Sinckler, 2 Jamie George, 1 Rory Sutherland.
8 Engllish, 3 Welsh, 2 Irish
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