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 
Anyone found a good stream for the NRL? vip seems to be all sign up for something else watch in HD now, and cricfree not showing ?
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Dublin = Blackpool, more or less.
I still love that Barrytown Trilogy. The Snapper is a terrific little film as well.
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Mary Wakefield’s dad is a card – or something else that starts with a “c”:
https://www.fieldsportschannel.tv/sir-humphry-misses-pheasant-season-to-go-riding/
Every sentence in that short piece is brilliant.
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….from that website:
“People who shoot and hunt have one clear objective: a healthy ecosystem inhabited by sustainable wildlife populations. For this reason, they are sensitive and acute observers. They are at the environmental front lines and can recognise even subtle ecological changes quickly. They even function as an early warning system, providing key impetus for research.”
hmmm……………….stocked grouse and pheasant shoots; deer overpopulation in Scotland; public keep out, these are private moors etc etc.
ps – suspect that Sir Humphry* is insufferable.
pps: He is a Life Member of Harlequins Rugby Football Club.
ppps: He believes that ” ‘in general, to be elitist, I think the quality climbs up the tree of life. In general, high things in the tree of life have quality, have skills, and they get wonderful degrees at university. And they marry each other and that gets them better again. Intelligence and talent is lovely. But I want parents and grandparents who’ve had hands on success, running their battles well, and proving they’re wonderful. Because one is the subject of one’s genes, and I like the idea of them being successful genes, and winning through to successful puppies.’
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……and another thing:
Dominic Cummings second forename is Mckenzie – my case rests.
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Slade, I said the other day his uncle was a famed rugby player – Harlequins, of course.
https://www.world.rugby/halloffame/inductees/2115
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Deebee,
Something to get you through the long nights:
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Naasie mentions that he’s a proud Tuks man.
Proud to say I played cricket for Tuks 7th team. We’re like brothers.
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TomP –
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You can understand why he was happy to have Cummings as a son-in-law:
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/oct/11/genetics-teaching-gove-adviser
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Anyone ever seen utna and Bakkies Botha in the same dive bar in SE Asia?
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@ticht
Those people were far too polite to that numpty. I’d have proven my lower class stupidity by emptying every red wine-containing vessel over him. ” Sorry” I’d say “I can’t help it – being stupid is in my genes”
My Grandad would have just calmly decked him.
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2 points:
The Tory elite currently in power utterly debunks Cummings theory about genetics and intelligence.
Bakkies was once goaded by a Lions lock when being subbed after 50 minutes. “Can’t take the pace, Bakkies?” His response? “Nah, coach says I can take it easy against the lousy teams.” *
* words to that effect.
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Also love the way a Welshman talks about other people having “thick accents!” Bakkies has a perfectly normal accent for where he’s from.
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Actually think he (Bakkies) said the smaller teams, which would’ve pissed off the chirper more. Come to think of it, he was an arrogant bastard. Said someone more fleet of foot than me.
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“I’ve discovered that an irisk folk punk band I’ve been listening to is actually five German’s pretending.”
I want to be in a band with Iks called Five Germans Pretending.
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@Deebee – you just want him to talk to you about your sexy eyes.
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Less than 60 hours to go before I can buy whisky. And beer. And wine. And brandy. And anything else that’s available. We can also take our dogs to the park and let them run like hell without leashes. Taking off Monday afternoon just to seem them in their element! Still no smoking, but we’re making a plan with a client from Zim. Yes, TomP, white middle class SA is now part of the criminal smuggling underworld.
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“Taking off Monday afternoon just to seem them in their element! ”
Flying dogs?
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@CMW – my wife’s best mate’s kids went to Loftus Versfeld a few years back when the Bulls were in their pomp. It was mid-morning, mid-week and out of season, but they were from small town SA and wanted to see the place. As their mum was taking pics of them outside the main entrance, Bakkies and Matfield walked in and posed for pics, took a few of them and their mum and chatted to the boys for about 20 minutes. Apparently both absolute gents when the warpaint was off.
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Not sure they’ll be flying with the weight they’ve put on in the last couple of months. Cough. I’ll be quickest going downhill. Cough.
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I’ve got whisky, but I’m drinking beer.
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I’m never sure of anyone who talks about themselves in the third person, for that reason I never really liked Bakkies Botha.
Matfield was dreamy and one of the best locks of a very strong generation
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It’s hardly the first time the SA white middle-class have benefited from a criminal enterprise, Deebee.
You must now some diplomats. Get yourself an invite to the duty free shop on Park Street in Pretoria. Very good deals on whisky.
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know not now.
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If the music doesn’t work out with Iks then my next move is a band with TomP called Know Not Now.
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Back in your box, Martin Johnson:
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I listened to Frankie Howerd At The Establishment yesterday. Magnificent piece of comedy history. Peter Cook, Kenneth Williams, Joyce Grenfell all in it. Still very very very funny.
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“I’m never sure of anyone who talks about themselves in the third person”
I’m sure about Michael Vaughan.
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That’s unfair on Dublin. I lived there for 4 and a half years and enjoyed it …spent about 5 hours in Blackpool… highlight was seeing Russ Abbott in Harry Ramsden’s
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@Trisk – so Blackpool > Dublin?
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If you’d lived in Blackpool for four and a half years then at the known rate you could have had 7884 sightings of Russ Abbott and the same number of fish suppers. Obviously at least one of these may have precluded living for as long as four and a half years, but you have to make the most of any situation and take your chances just like anyone else.
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Naasie mentions that he’s a proud Tuks man.
Pretty sure he played for Pretoria Police for a while. Not that he’d want to highlight that.
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@trisk
He drops that in in part 2, Deebs. He was police sportsman of the year one time but didn’t get the award for some reason.
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Wales is the only country in Europe currently banning the playing of tennis.
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@Tomp – Paul Williams is most miffed about it
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Looks like those who don’t like Wales could go to Andorra to not play tennis.
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That’s so sad. Another generation of Welsh tennis greats held back.
Naas and the police rugby thing reminds me of your query the other day about the degrees of leftness at Wits in the 80s and 90s. The Wits rugby club were on the we’ll play anyone in our league side of the debate and notoriously unsympathetic to student protest. Each fixture against the police side saw demonstrators sitting on the field peacefully, before getting trampled and shoved by the players as they ran onto the field.
There were plenty of students and staff who supported apartheid in one form or another, some through qualified or franchised votes where your vote was weighed against your income or level of education. This was promoted on campus by groups like the Student Moderate Alliance (SMA) which drew significant support from white Zimbabweans who had moved to SA as well as conservative English-speaking South Africans, many of whom had done their two years in the SADF prior to going to uni. The SMA were known as The National Party on Campus and derided by many students, but not all.
Then you had the likes of Craig Williamson, a police spy on campus who infiltrated the leftist movements and sold them out. Wits was a contested space in those days and far from a homologous political space.
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I think JPR is probably still the most famous Welsh tennis player.
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Great achievement to famously win Junior Wimbledon when you didn’t.
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He played in the first pro tennis tournament in the UK. At West Hants in Bournemouth in 1968 (?).
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It was 1968.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2008/jun/15/tennis.rugbyunion
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Discuss:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/30/things-fall-apart-the-apocalyptic-appeal-of-wb-yeats-the-second-coming
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Great atmosphere at the NRL today
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Pop music writer who fancies himself as telling big stories about the world. We’ve seen it before. It doesn’t end well.
The Centre hasn’t been holding in Britain for a decade now and when it was holding it wasn’t as good as people like Lynskey thought.
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The League TMO reviews are much better than ours
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Skillz:
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