One quiz at a time

Post by **DRT** » 00:37 Mon 11 Nov 2013

Sorry, I meant after, not before the miners' strike.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 00:42 Mon 11 Nov 2013

It would appear that you were striking in support of a 12 percent pay rise for health workers.

DRT wrote:PS: On the first point, there were far fewer well-publicised disputes in the 1980s than there are whisky casks in the SMWS database.

True; it is not that I loved Caesar less but that I loved Rome more. (cue; 'What's Owen on about?')

The curry has me stumped.
Chicken you say? Chicken tandori? (not my turn)

Post by **DRT** » 01:01 Mon 11 Nov 2013

LGTrotter wrote:It would appear that you were striking in support of a 12 percent pay rise for health workers.

Not your turn.

LGTrotter wrote:Chicken tandori? (not my turn)

Agreed. Not your turn.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 01:11 Mon 11 Nov 2013

(Enter Skippy)

'What's that Skippy? Daniel is stuck down a mine and wants to enter the following guess? And the guess is that Derek was working at GCHQ at the time and had a simple Balti?'

So now Daniel has had a go I guess it's my turn?

Post by **DRT** » 01:18 Mon 11 Nov 2013

LGTrotter wrote:So now Daniel has had a go I guess it's my turn?

G'day Skip. No.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 01:35 Mon 11 Nov 2013

Yes, but if he was here he would want me to introduce a ficticious guess for him via Australia's premier anthropomorphic kangaroo vehicle.

Post by **DRT** » 01:37 Mon 11 Nov 2013

LGTrotter wrote:Yes, but if he was here he would want me to introduce a ficticious guess for him via Australia's premier anthropomorphic kangaroo vehicle.

Only if you were stuck down a well.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 01:51 Mon 11 Nov 2013

DRT wrote:
LGTrotter wrote:Yes, but if he was here he would want me to introduce a ficticious guess for him via Australia's premier anthropomorphic kangaroo vehicle.
Only if you were stuck down a well.

OK; I get the message. Shame really because I have been working on several scenarios where Daniel guesses via the medium of B-list tv shows. My current favourite is where he reprises Todd Carty's role in 'Tuckers Luck' the overlooked 'Grange Hill' spin off.

Post by **DRT** » 01:55 Mon 11 Nov 2013

LGTrotter wrote:Todd Carty's role in 'Tuckers Luck' the overlooked 'Grange Hill' spin off.

Oh dear.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 02:06 Mon 11 Nov 2013

Tucker's Luck.
Tucker's Luck.
Tucker's Luck.
Tucker's Luck.
Tucker's Luck.
Tucker's Luck.

Night.

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 06:24 Mon 11 Nov 2013

No clue regarding the strike, but perhaps butter chicken for lunch?

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Post by **DRT** » 08:48 Mon 11 Nov 2013

Glenn E. wrote:butter chicken

No.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 10:48 Mon 11 Nov 2013

Gentlemen.

Forgive me for being asleep last night while you two were trapped down a mine with a talking kangaroo.

May I recap?

You say this strike was in 82 / 82 but you say it was after the Miners' Strike? That was in 84 / 85. Clarification please.

I have consulted a former member of the FDA, who remembers this as a strike in which FDA members, unusually, took part. He does not remember what it was about particularly; pay, but conditions also, and the pay structure. Something to do with overtime perhaps?

It was obviously a Chicken Biryani.

Post by **PhilW** » 12:25 Mon 11 Nov 2013

Chicken Korma and an overtime ban.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 12:40 Mon 11 Nov 2013

Actually, an overtime ban wouldn't have affected FDA staff.. I wonder if it was a government failure to implement a pay agreement?

And a chicken tandoori (sorry Owen, stole your guess).

RAYC · Post by **RAYC** » 12:49 Mon 11 Nov 2013

Hmmm....a quick bit of googling does not seem to have been particularly illuminating. However, i did find a useful civil service trade union "family tree" that shows what exactly existed back in 82...perhaps more specific searches based on this will help.

Korma as the curry.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 12:59 Mon 11 Nov 2013

The main union to google out of that lot is the CPSA (Civil and Public Services Association), I think... They were certainly on strike around then...

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 13:04 Mon 11 Nov 2013

DRT wrote:
LGTrotter wrote:It would appear that you were striking in support of a 12 percent pay rise for health workers.
Not your turn.

LGTrotter wrote:Chicken tandori? (not my turn)
Agreed. Not your turn.

Now can this be reconsidered?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 13:43 Mon 11 Nov 2013

LGTrotter wrote:
DRT wrote:
LGTrotter wrote:It would appear that you were striking in support of a 12 percent pay rise for health workers.
Not your turn.

LGTrotter wrote:Chicken tandori? (not my turn)
Agreed. Not your turn.
Now can this be reconsidered?

Too late. I already stole the second half of that guess.

Post by **PhilW** » 16:06 Mon 11 Nov 2013

djewesbury wrote:Too late. I already stole the second half of that guess.

Not a problem; his total guess (including both halves) is still new and now, valid (and sometimes they're not even new!)

Chicken Dhansak; striking for more staff.

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 17:15 Mon 11 Nov 2013

Chicken Kashmiri; striking because you wouldn't cross a picket line

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 19:24 Mon 11 Nov 2013

PhilW wrote:Not a problem; his total guess (including both halves) is still new and now, valid (and sometimes they're not even new!)

Thanks for the support Phil (and anyone who can get stuck down a mine and be mistaken for Todd Carty in one night...)

Post by **DRT** » 00:10 Tue 12 Nov 2013

Lots of permutations to consider from the above guesses.

Chicken Korma was obviously the first-timer curry. I have never ordered it since that day but it opened a door.

The industrial dispute has been mentioned, but not in a way that Maggie would allow me to deem legally permissible.

Post by **PhilW** » 13:32 Tue 12 Nov 2013

Chicken Korma and a "work to rule" i.e. you'd done your contracted hours already (either stopping in support of colleagues or because overtime was banned).

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 20:29 Tue 12 Nov 2013

Derek is clearly trying to kill this thread. I suggest Owen should be allowed to ask a subsidiary question, in accordance with Rule 27.3 (iv)

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 20:31 Tue 12 Nov 2013

(And I don't know about you, but I still have Clause (iv) of Rule 27.3 printed on the back of my membership card.)

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 21:09 Tue 12 Nov 2013

Derek is trying to create a schism by introducing such a question whose essence still burns bright.

djewesbury wrote: I suggest Owen should be allowed to ask a subsidiary question, in accordance with Rule 27.3 (iv)

Surely this can only be invoked with the express authority of 2/3 of those with A shares and a simple majority of those with B shares? As set out in the accompanying notes.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 21:29 Tue 12 Nov 2013

LGTrotter wrote:Derek is trying to create a schism by introducing such a question whose essence still burns bright.
djewesbury wrote: I suggest Owen should be allowed to ask a subsidiary question, in accordance with Rule 27.3 (iv)
Surely this can only be invoked with the express authority of 2/3 of those with A shares and a simple majority of those with B shares? As set out in the accompanying notes.

All B shares and 40% of A shares are now owned by George Osborne. He votes yes.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 21:42 Tue 12 Nov 2013

LGTrotter wrote:It would appear that you were striking in support of a 12 percent pay rise for health workers.

DRT wrote:The industrial dispute has been mentioned, but not in a way that Maggie would allow me to deem legally permissible.

The capitalist running dog!

Post by **DRT** » 21:45 Tue 12 Nov 2013

Is that a guess?

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 21:54 Tue 12 Nov 2013

Kinda.

Post by **DRT** » 22:04 Tue 12 Nov 2013

Nurses' strike and Korma is the answer.

Owen's turn.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 22:18 Tue 12 Nov 2013

DRT wrote:Nurses' strike and Korma is the answer.

Owen's turn.

As I was warned by Mao; paper tigers.

I have a reasonable collection of old wine books. The first one was bought for me by my beloved sister and it is still a great fovourite of mine. What is it?

There are many clues available, shall we begin with it being published in the fifties? Yes we shall.

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 22:27 Tue 12 Nov 2013

André Simon's "Wines of the World"

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 22:34 Tue 12 Nov 2013

AW77 wrote:André Simon's "Wines of the World"

No, but the author knew him and hung out with him at the Saintsbury club.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 22:36 Tue 12 Nov 2013

And I should add that this is where I found the quote about old wines denying us the fulll bottle.

Post by **DRT** » 23:06 Tue 12 Nov 2013

LGTrotter wrote:I have a reasonable collection of old wine books. The first one was bought for me by my beloved sister and it is still a great fovourite of mine. What is it?

Does this mean I cannot participate in this question?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 23:10 Tue 12 Nov 2013

DRT wrote:
LGTrotter wrote:I have a reasonable collection of old wine books. The first one was bought for me by my beloved sister and it is still a great fovourite of mine. What is it?
Does this mean I cannot participate in this question?

No. Go ahead. Fill your boots.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 23:11 Tue 12 Nov 2013

djewesbury wrote:
DRT wrote:
LGTrotter wrote:I have a reasonable collection of old wine books. The first one was bought for me by my beloved sister and it is still a great fovourite of mine. What is it?
Does this mean I cannot participate in this question?
No. Go ahead. Fill your boots.

In point of fact I chose this question in part because of this. I shall lure you back somehow.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 23:20 Tue 12 Nov 2013

G'wan, you so want it!

Post by **DRT** » 23:21 Tue 12 Nov 2013

LGTrotter wrote:I shall lure you back somehow.

My absence is not due to lack of enthusiasm. It is purely down to my employer's ridiculous expectation that I have to work for the money I spend on Port. Pah!

Reminiscences of a Vintner by Ian Maxwell Campbell (1950)?

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 23:25 Tue 12 Nov 2013

Love it! No. The really exciting thing is that I just typed the title into your search engine and it came back with... Nothing!
Sorry 'bout work an all.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 23:30 Tue 12 Nov 2013

And he claims to have foxed all his friends in the inter war years with a 1923 Rebello Valente! The crazy fool!

Post by **DRT** » 23:31 Tue 12 Nov 2013

LGTrotter wrote:The really exciting thing is that I just typed the title into your search engine and it came back with... Nothing!

That is extremely helpful.

My other half and the woman who delivers the mail have convinced themselves that there are no more books for me to buy. They are clearly deluding themselves.

I await the answer whilst hovering over my amazon bookmark.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 23:40 Tue 12 Nov 2013

He's a big name, you're gonna kick yourself and wonder how you coped without it...

Post by **DRT** » 23:47 Tue 12 Nov 2013

{hang-head-in-shame}

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 23:55 Tue 12 Nov 2013

DRT wrote:{hang-head-in-shame}

Pas de tout, that list of wine books contains so many which I have not come to, but I know of them due to your dilligence (been drinking again), Bravo!

Post by **DRT** » 00:04 Wed 13 Nov 2013

LGTrotter wrote:
DRT wrote:{hang-head-in-shame}
Pas de tout, that list of wine books contains so many which I have not come to, but I know of them due to your dilligence (been drinking again), Bravo!

But this question is a small example of the experience of portvintages.com. Start with what is commonly known; do lots of work to plug the gaps; publish; receive feedback "why didn't you include these fifteen that I have?".

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 00:13 Wed 13 Nov 2013

You catch me in philosophical mood (tea-towel variety only, I have been drinking);

I hope you do it because you love it. It is enough to have started a work, one can never hope to complete it. Because you are probably the best man for the job. It is better to have loved and to have lost than to have paid for it and not liked it. As Mr somebody, the author of 'All the information about port' will write in his introduction in 2046 'I should like to thank Mr Turnbull without whose tireless industry...'. If we have seen further it is only because we have stood on the shoulders of giants.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 00:50 Wed 13 Nov 2013

Cricket's on Derek. Aggers an' all.