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 
Neither an ug nor a mug.
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Buttered stork. Yum yum.
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West Indies’ stork well and truly buttered. I’ve got to be happy with my performance there.
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Roach a bit unfortunate to be ugged at the end by Pope Bess. The red kites were circling though.
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If lunchtime doesn’t exist how does a Deebee spend his time. And his clients’ expense account?
In the bar.
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Shit loads of pork scratchings
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Lord Harold Kane:
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@tomp
Good old Harry Kane turning his children (both born and unborn) into unpaid brand ambassadors.
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I must have told this story before, but just in case here is the abridged version, from our class in mechanics at school
Teacher, “you there, tell us what torque is”
Student, “mumble mumble mumble”
Teacher, “Stop muttering”
Smart arse from back of class, “You can’t tell the torque from the mutter”
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Kirk Douglas RIP
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Sad to hear that Kirk Douglas is still dead. But I like the joke.
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I watched the Life of Brian before I saw Spartacus so it felt like the Kirk Douglas scene was a tribute to Monty Python.
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He certainly reached a decent age
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He was one of those people I always surprised to find hadn’t died. I think it was because Burt Lancaster had died 20-odd years earlier.
Sadly, the lovely Linda Cristal off of The High Chapperal died the other day.
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OT, do you know the “No, I’m Kirk Douglas’s son!’?
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@SBT – thought you might like this photo exhibit in the Guardian of lonely or deserted places in small town America. Some bleak, yet stunning photos.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/jul/21/loneliest-road-trip-travels-through-an-empty-america-in-pictures
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@tomp
Yes!! I’d forgotten that story. To those less familiar with it it relates to Michael’s younger brother Eric Douglas who tried a career as a stand-up comedian in the 1990s:
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Ha ha. Love it.
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I remember reading the story in the late 90s but I heard that story for the first time around 2000 in the Dublin Castle from someone who said they were a stand-up comedian. And then again from an actor from a *very famous office-based sitcom* around 2002/03. It was as if it was showbiz legend that regular punters would never know.
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Rather good piece on behavioural science bollox being used by the government with respect to the lockdown.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000l207
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Katy Perry knows how to design a shoe to appeal to Irish physical-force nationalists:
https://www.katyperrycollections.com/collections/styles/products/the-ira-34kp1396-81396
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0078/0497/7216/products/THE_IRA_34KP1396_Neon_Pink_l_720x.jpg?v=1594671399
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Always jarring to see US financial website refer to IRAs – individual retirement accounts (IIRC)
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Kirk was in some fine films. I remember being quite distraught as a nipper after watching ‘Lonely are the Brave’, when my happy-ever-after expectations were turned upside down before I was ready to deal with it.
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And I loved the High Chaparral. So much so that I can risk a TomP facting by stating it played on Monday nights on BBC2 either at8 or 9pm.
I identify it with having our first colour tv, the great theme music with the still of the Apache on his horse throwing a lance (from the pilot episode), and the frustration that there were never enough Indians and too much soap opera / comic relief around the Buck/Manuelo/Blue characters.
Linda Christal was as gorgeous as Lief Erickson was wooden.
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Goodness me TomP, I’m all bleary eyed after watching that Linda tribute!
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I think the Apache throwing the spear is this from Season 1 Episode 2:
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When I read her obituary I went to look up some old episodes and a channel’s started posting 2 or 3 day. I watched the first couple. I still like it but agree with you, Iksy. I wanted to see some fighting and stuff in the desert or learning to live with the Apache. Any episode when they to Tucson was a dead loss as far as I saw it.
There’re a couple of episodes I remember very well – one when they end up at a fort the Apache have taken over and they get it back. And another one when Blue and Big John (I think) are in the desert and have to cut open cactuses because they’re water’s run out.
I’m sure there’s another in which the banditos or Apaches are being signalled by mirror from the High Chaparral and launch an attack but I haven’t found it yet.
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Have no idea when it first aired in the UK but remember from the late 70s/early 80s on the BBC. They also showed Bonanza, which was terribly terribly boring.
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……………….why weren’t you lot doing your homework or helping old people?
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But you’re right, Iks. It was the first episode as on American TV was a 2-hour TV movie.
In Britain it was split in half. First ever showing was here: https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbctwo/england/1967-12-07
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The programme before that’s an interesting one.
Just looked up Olivier Todd. The wikipedia’s only in French but a fascinating early life. His son’s a guy called Emmanuel Todd who is a scrappy so-and-so.
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Worst episode of ‘Allo ‘Allo ever.
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Good work TomP. That is indeed the Apache spear chucker who was frozen in time in the opening credits. I also remember the cactus affair.
Bonanza was indeed really boring, apart from the intro and blazing map. I hardly remember the cast going outside the soundstage after Adam was written out.
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Aww shit, one of the rays of light in dark days for England rugby.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/international/122208335/former-england-wing-mike-slemen–who-starred-against-the-all-blacks–dies-at-69
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ooh.. Mike Slemen – I always recall he was so neat and tidy – sleeve rolled down, shirt button done up… neat and tidy player too – Carleton was the flashy wing…. Slemen was the guy who did his job w/o fuss (probably mentally making a note of stuff he had to pick up at the supermarket on the way home)
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@iks
I think it’s in Tin Men (or another of the Barry Levinson / Baltimore films maybe Diner??) that one minor character does a long spiel about Bonanza and how the paterfamilias is almost as old as his sons and how have they got three different mothers…..
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Slemen finished off one of the best Lionz tries ever against a South African Invitational XV in Potchefstroom in 1980. I’ll try and find a video of it.
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It’s in here from 2:13
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There’s not even a knock-on or a forward pass in it!
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CMW – that’s a great video. Especially the mayhem leading up to our man’s try.
The red vs red in the first clip hurts my eyes though.
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That’s it. Cheers, CMW. They were 19-16 down with less than 10 minutes to go. The SA team were no mugs – Divan Serfontein was scrum half, David Smith, who played for the Boks in the Tests, at centre, the great Timothy Nkonki on the wing, Springbok Robbie Blair at outside half. Among the forwards Theuns Stofberg and Moaner van Hearden, Wynand Claasens and Willie Kahts.
John Hopkins’ book of the tour takes over 2 pages + 2 pages of graphics to describe it. He ends it with Carleton telling Slemen that he should have gone nearer the posts to make the kick easier.
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Whether the Lionz should have been there in the first place is another matter.
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“Moaner van Hearden”
Ahead of his time.
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“Van Heerden will unfortunately be remembered for being right-hooked by the legendary JPR Williams who had sprinted 60 metres to hit him after a ’99’ call at the now infamous ‘Battle of Boet Erasmus Stadium’, in Port Elizabeth.
Ironically the pair met in 2005 and JPR spoke fondly of their more ‘friendly’ encounter. He told the Guardian: “Funnily enough, I bumped into him on a train from London to Cardiff last year and he asked ‘do you remember me?’ I had to admit that I didn’t and he just said that he had played against me in South Africa in 1974.
“We had a lovely chat. When I got home I looked in the match programme and saw that it was the guy I had punched – and he never mentioned it during the whole time we were talking on the train. What a gentleman.””
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Though JPR also seems to tell this story differently elsewhere so perhaps he might not be the most reliable witness.
‘Perhaps’
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That was a helluva try! Great hands and continuity.
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Jezzas statement today:
The only thing I’ll say is that I admire his Sag like grudge bearing.
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Oh dear dog not corby again. This never ends well.
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Leicester have signed a load of furriners to try and stop being poop.
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And I now spend a significant portion of my time clearing up chicken shit. Literally.
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