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 
Craigs, surely Men of Kent round you, not Kentish Men ?
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Not counting the Scots. Typical Welsh bias, etc, etc.
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Jeez, OT, thats a shame. Can’t you do the conference on the phone and watch the league on the computer ?
Hopefully be watching that one full replay tonite meself.
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2 many Scots………………
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That’s … Gatland’s Law.
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One of whom plays for your club.
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Being an English-Welshman I like the sound of these Engllish.
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lionz teamz? It’s only a year to go I suppose
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Too many scots
and Irish and welsh. not enough English.
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not sure how these Englllish qualify.
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47/2. England batting. My apologies for not giving a ball by ball account of the match thus far.
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@deebee
Wrong. It’s 58-2
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Sbt – East of the Medway so you’re right.
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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.”
It’s probably not too far off going by what we saw in the 6N.
I’m yet to be convinced by Sinckler, Furlong may have been off his very best, but I’d probably still go with him.
We’re still a year away and obviously a lot can happen in that time. There are two players with terrible injury histories in that side, it will be fortuitous if both Tuilagi and Vunipola are both fit and firing, I think Billy is the one less likely to be in the side of the two.
What’s that? A Scottish bolter?
I’ve got my money on Duhan McMerwe for the test side, McInally and Ritchie to make the squad.
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81/2 – Sibley and Root restoring some order.
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Wrong. It’s 58-2
Wrong, it’s 81/3. Root’s willow catches the edge and he’s gone!
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Hmmm. School pupils to return in August without social distancing between them (they don’t do that anyway). But staff have to socially distance themselves from each other and the pupils (still 2 metres at the moment).
Wonder if I can convince the kids that the library less than two metres long, therefore none of them can come in?
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Can’t believe all these people keep getting the score wrong in the cricket. It’s 85/3.
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And none of the decent bowlers have got a wicket.
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Too right! 90/3 and I haven’t even had a bowl!
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Would be tempted to put Tuilagi at 12 as he seems perfectly good there and seems to be more options at OC. than IC.
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Depends how good you think Henshaw is.
I like Tuilagi and he brings his own brand of muscularity to the game but I’d rather have Ringrose or Foxy at 13.
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Please feel free to complete my daughter’s survey
Are you over 18? Do you want to help improve OCD diagnosis and be in with a chance of winning £25?
I am a psychology masters student at the University of Sussex. For my dissertation I have devised a new OCD questionnaire and it would be really helpful if you wouldn’t mind completing it! You’re welcome to take part whether or not you have ever had a mental health issue (you are not asked to provide this information) and it should take less than half an hour of your time. (Link below). Thank you in advance for you time 🙂
https://universityofsussex.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bKM25zZ405v2byZ
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@ticht
Done. Hope we contribute to a statistically significant sample size.
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I wonder how a load of rugby fans might skew the sample?!
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@OT, Ta, she has over a hundred so far
@Thaum, the respondents were mostly women aged between 20 and 30 up to now, my daughter wanted to broaden it a bit.
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Done Ticht.
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Well, I’ve ‘broad’ened it age-wise, at least! :-)
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@ticht
Done!
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Done.
Got a bit bogged down on the last page as it forces you to answer some questions that seem to be rendered not applicable by previous answers, but hey ho.
Good luck to her.
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@Ticht – Done the survey. Hope it helps.
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Done Ticht, dog knows how badly the rantings of a booze and smoke denied Saffer are going to affect the results!
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Done – hope it helps
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I can hardly believe that the NZers would demand that.
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Looks almost certain that SA and Argentina are getting ditched. Will be interesting to see how much SuperSport is prepared to pay to show the Crusaders winning every match and whatever Aussie sides there are losing every match (even against each other). I’d imagine the bulk of their cash will go to securing rights to whichever tournament our sides play in.
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They used to show Saracens and Exeter winning every match in the English Premiership. There’re a lot of hours to fill on a dedicated rugby channel.
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pro16?
Shame the pro12 winning force cant join in.
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Isn’t this just forcing what was mooted (for SA) anyway – ever since Kings and Cheetahs came north it’s been rumbling away ….
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I think they were paid to show Saracens and Exeter.
Trisk – there’s been rumours for years, but nothing’s ever happened. However, with the current format a shambles and fans really not keen on it anymore, I suppose it’s a bit inevitable. It’ll be interesting to see how it all pans out: Australian rugby is in a death spiral (as FD helpfully pointed out for years) and can’t afford much at all, let alone Izzy’s payout, whilst both NZR and the ARU have had bailouts in recent years. SARU is hardly in great financial shape either, but given that SA accounted for around 50% of Sanzaar income, but got only around 38% of the revenue (from pre-Argentina figures – probably even less now), we were bailing the others out, especially Australia.
I’d love to see a revitalised Currie Cup, with the savings from travel and the extra income from TV rights going to some of the smaller unions to give us 10 strong sides. Probably won’t happen and if we survive Covid, we probably won’t have any money anyway.
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Thanks to all who took part in the survey.
A story for CMW, due to it being in the Oban Times. We’ve been watching the Ospreys at Loch Arkaig over the past couple of months, and now they have names
https://www.obantimes.co.uk/2020/07/13/loch-arkaig-osprey-chicks-named/
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Reds and Force tied up at 14-14 after 22 minutes. Force were 14-0 up until five minutes ago.
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21-21! JO’C pulling the strings for the Reds to send them 21-14 up, before throwing an intercept and allowing the Force FB to stroll 95m down the pitch and under the sticks. No! 21-19 – conversion charged down from in front!
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And that’s oranges. Or sour grapes if you’re South African watching the rest of the world playing sport again.
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Currently teaching someone and finishing until the hour so updates are appreciated.
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Not sure if you have seen this but it seems like PHE have been supplying bollox stats on deaths from Covid-19 since the beginning. Anyone who gets a positive covid-19 test at any time and then dies at any time of any cause (say, hit by a bus) is recorded as a covid death. So you can never ever recover from Covid. It probable explains why they haven’t been publishing recovery rates, because nobody ever recovers according to them.
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Not sure that’s the update TomP was looking for, OT. Still HT in the rugby, cricket yet to start.
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@deebee
Melbourne Storm 42 Gold Coast Titans
Wests Tigers vs Brisbane Broncos about to start. Ben Te’o starting for Brisbane
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Gold coast titans 6…..
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Daugunu in under the sticks for his 3rd in three matches. Reds 28-19 up after 45 minutes. Maiden over first up by Shannon Gabriel.
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Jooste and Brache off for the Force; even fewer Saffers playing sport now.
Thanks OT, is that Gridiron?
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