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 
@cmw
Ha-ha – me neither. I gather there’s a special bond between those that audit and those that prepare for the auditor, kind of a shared trauma.
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@Ticht – it arrived with a seven foot tall cabinet to help alleviate the space problem in our garage. And a load of other old junk to fill the cabinet up with as a bonus.
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CMW
Best wishes with your new chapter in life……………..
If it is any consolation I have similar experience although I was in the textile industry.
I worried for a while and then realised how useful my skills and exoerience were to other people ie the stuff I had taken for granted. Didn’t look back after that.
re the Labour Party………………..if they can genuinely build a body of cohesion, probity, honesty, sensitivity and ambition then, maybe by the time of the next GE the electorate will find that sufficiently attractive.
If they fail in that project then, they have no chance.
I think Starmer is on the right track with a longish game…………….but I am not deeply attached to the LAbour party in any way, other than I wish they would get their act together
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OT
there’s a special bond between those that audit and those that prepare for the auditor, kind of a shared trauma
There’s also those that like to leave little easter eggs lying around to see if the auditors discover them. A special kind of bastard.
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..and another type who lead auditors up the garden path and hide all the good stuff
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Enjoy the time and stay on those rails, CMW.
Beaver Whisperer?
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Stork Talker.
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Thanks to all well-wishers.
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*wishes CMW well*
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Ugh. Auditing.
*shudders*
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I have an opening for a scooper of chicken poop. Accommodation (shared) provided. Perks include an egg a day and all the chicken feed you can eat.
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We got to a point where we only had two types of thing left on site: stuff that belonged in a skip and stuff that only looked like it belonged in a skip. The Rail Tester came home. The chicken poop scooper went in the skip. So it goes.
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‘So it goes’?!! Who died?
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Manufacturing Industry.
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What remains of it won’t last past 1st Jan.
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Apparently, it’s BritishvoltUK because there’s already a Britishvolt making batteries in America.
That is a very very specific Charlatans/Wham! joke.
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Pleased to hear you’re ready for the next steps, CMW.
I was reading a book the other day called The Shop on Main Street. It’s by Ladislav Grosman and was later made into a film and the film won Best Foreign Language Oscar in 1965.
Anyway, start of the book there’s a stork flying around and some kids sing “Stork is homing, babies are coming”. The story gets bleaker.
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Went swimming at a biotop swimming pool. Very pleasant, also able to do some diving in.
Me and the good lady were on the phone early on trying to find a place to eat tonight. The lad’s in the south of the country with his grandmother.
Finally at 2 the good lady phoned me to tell me that our lad had had a fall on a trampoline and broken his arm. He’s spending the night in hospital (grandmother in the same room) and we have to go down to collect him tomorrow.
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Sorry to hear about the lad TomP. Luckily kids tend to heal quickly and forget even quicker. Parents less so!
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That new franchise would be easily the most successful in SA SuperRugby history with 3 SuperRugby titles.
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I learned today that the dot over an i or j is called a Tittle.
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Tomp – sorry to hear that, hope he has a speedy recovery.
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Hope your boy heals up quickly TomP.
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Middle Tichtlet did exactly the same thing on a trampoline, TomP.
They recover really quickly.
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@Ticht – surely they bounce back quickly?
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jul/23/coronavirus-coronafeirws-dictionary-welsh-speakers-wales
Say after me: Y Cynllun Cymorth Incwm i’r Hunangyflogedig drwy gyfnod Coronafeirws
I’m happy with Coronafeirws, bit disappointed with Covid as I would have thought this would be Cofid.
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Though I suppose on reflection anything that keeps the Patagonian V miners in work has to be a good thing.
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@CMW – rendering in Irish is “COVID-19 (Coróinvíreas)”
Irish tends to flip-flop between doing the ‘German’ thing – get your own word for it or doing the ‘Spanish’ thing – take the non-Irish word and try to render it in Irish orthography so it sounds the same( I always think of “Zug” versus” “tren”)
So we end up with ‘ríomhphost’ for email but “telefón” (for telephone, obviously) . ríomh implies electronic or computer-related but the root means “calculation” – although I suppose that’s fair enough as the original “computers” were people who cranked out calculations….
There are probably hard-core who think the ‘v’ should be replaced by “bh” (
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Quickly dropping in while on a break from brexit land to wish TomP junior a speedy recovery and CMW good luck in whatever comes next for you.
Hope everyone else is well and thanks for providing a sanctuary for everything that’s going on out there
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Early impression of the Test is that West Indies have made the wrong decision at the toss and maybe picked the wrong team, but England are finding a way to get into trouble anyway and have probably also made a selection error.
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My lads howl with delight when Rahkeem Cornwall comes on to bowl.
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Hi Numbers. Hope your lad mends fast, TomP, CMW enjoy time off, good luck with perfect job hunt.
England selection mistakes-couple of batsman short.
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England do look to be one batsman short though it may be that Stokes can’t bowl (I still half expect to see him have a go). Anderson, Broad and Woakes is too much of the same sort of thing. West Indies a seamer short given they’ve chosen to bowl first and picked two spinners. Lot of eyes on the weather of course.
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Drags sent me fixtures for the BIG RESTART!
They were also flirting with bringing Jamie Roberts in, which frankly seems pointless to me.
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He’ll only get broken.
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I thought Doc to Drags was a done deal?
It does have a hint of the Gavs about it, about a decade too late for those players to make a difference, tbh.
We aspirant clubs have a tough time, it must be quite easy being a Dubs supporter – throwing back of hand to forehead when there is no major silverware one season, or maybe even two, oh the depravation!
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“We aspirant clubs”
Steady on. Respiration and aspiration are not the same thing.
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I don’t think it is a deal yet. Seems pointless to me as the Doc isn’t heading for a coaching career, so basically taking up space preventing the new Tyler Morgan from bursting on the scene.
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Comment on OBO:
England’s Anderson (the #11s’ ~11) just been referred to as “The Burnley Lara”…………………….very nice.
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…..weather update..
…………………….effing hot here and has been for a while – water restrictions now in place and no end in site. It’s ok so long as it doesn’t move from high 30s into the 40s.
…….update ends
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Aye Slade, we have the brown grass here too, and it’s supposed to get even hotter next week.
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MrIks
I couldn’t face it in a city – luckily we are in the countryside…………
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It’s sort of ok; we are on the fringe of the city centre (more town than city really), and I can walk to the riverside and open spaces. And we are at the top of the building so have a garden terrace and balcony. When all else fails we can lock up and switch the air con on.
I’m not a great fan of the countryside when it is fields or forests, especially in high summer heat. I probably associate it with hayfever and horseflies from my childhood!
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Peter Green RIP
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Gold Coast Titans vs Penrith Panthers live on the box.
Work tuning in just to see Jai Arrow’s hair cut. It really is a work of art – skinhead plus mullet.
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Attention guitar lovers and makers, this documentary might be up your street. Seems you can rent it for home viewing:
https://www.modernfilms.com/carmineguitars
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Ah bugger. Wanted Leicester to win that one.
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The new Vodacom Bulls app has just been launched and for the first few weeks fans who download and register on the app stand a chance to WIN weekly prize hampers consisting of team merchandise, data courtesy of Vodacom and other cool gear.
Just for you, TomP
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