One quiz at a time

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 21:50 Mon 30 Sep 2013

DRT wrote:
djewesbury wrote:
jdaw1 wrote:Today I have sent two completed forms to a part of the British government with which I have never previously corresponded. This part of the British gov’t has existed since the reign of Queen Victoria. Which part is it?
FCO. (My last guess as I am getting ready for work tomorrow...)

djewesbury wrote:
djewesbury wrote:
DRT wrote:I just remembered that you are an artist: benzoylmethylecgonine
sorry missed this. No. Whatever it is...
oh! No.

I am now, DRT, a full-time, permanent member of academic staff!

Post by **DRT** » 21:51 Mon 30 Sep 2013

jdaw1 wrote:
DRT wrote:Department for Education?
Do I look like the sort of person who has ever had anything to do with being educated? Really?

So stop being silly.

Your parents would have corresponded with them for you, and you for your children, all of whom are fairly new.

Post by **jdaw1** » 21:52 Mon 30 Sep 2013

DRT wrote:and you for your children, all of whom are fairly new.

jdaw1 wrote:with which I have never previously corresponded.

Pay attention.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 21:53 Mon 30 Sep 2013

Good night gentlemen. When I check this thread again in an hour, or in the morning, I'm sure I will be further enlightened in ways I never knew I could be (what the philosopher Donald Rumsfeld classified as an 'unknown unknown', a phrase for which, I think, he was unfairly derided).

Post by **DRT** » 21:53 Mon 30 Sep 2013

HM Land Registry?

Post by **jdaw1** » 21:55 Mon 30 Sep 2013

Daniel’s FCO guess was before your DoE attempt, so you can’t yet guess.

Post by **DRT** » 21:55 Mon 30 Sep 2013

jdaw1 wrote:Daniel’s FCO guess was before your DoE attempt, so you can’t yet guess.

Post by **jdaw1** » 21:57 Mon 30 Sep 2013

My inbox:

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 21:58 Mon 30 Sep 2013

djewesbury wrote:
jdaw1 wrote:Today I have sent two completed forms to a part of the British government with which I have never previously corresponded. This part of the British gov’t has existed since the reign of Queen Victoria. Which part is it?
FCO. (My last guess as I am getting ready for work tomorrow...)

I know what you are trying to do Dave (Daniel) and I cannot allow you to do this. (In the voice of HAL from 'the most boring film ever')

DWP

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:00 Mon 30 Sep 2013

(Sshh.. I'm still here...)
HM Land Registry

Post by **DRT** » 22:00 Mon 30 Sep 2013

HM Land Registry?

Post by **DRT** » 22:01 Mon 30 Sep 2013

B*****d!

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:01 Mon 30 Sep 2013

DRT wrote:HM Land Registry?

But I just guessed that...

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:02 Mon 30 Sep 2013

DRT wrote:B*****d!

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 22:02 Mon 30 Sep 2013

DOH

I was trying to subtly point out that 2001 is not the most boring film ever, clearly you have never sat through 'Heimat'

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:04 Mon 30 Sep 2013

LGTrotter wrote:DWP

djewesbury wrote:HM Land Registry

No. No.

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:05 Mon 30 Sep 2013

LGTrotter wrote:DOH

No.

Perhaps I should say that the matter in hand is commercial in nature.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:05 Mon 30 Sep 2013

LGTrotter wrote:DOH

I was trying to subtly point out that 2001 is not the most boring film ever, clearly you have never sat through 'Heimat'

heimat is beautiful. And so is the second one!!

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 22:08 Mon 30 Sep 2013

djewesbury wrote:
LGTrotter wrote:DOH

I was trying to subtly point out that 2001 is not the most boring film ever, clearly you have never sat through 'Heimat'
heimat is beautiful. And so is the second one!!

I got one!

CUlture media and sport?

ANyway boring in 2001 context is space for the visual to inhabit, unimpeded by plot or characterisation.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:11 Mon 30 Sep 2013

LGTrotter wrote:
djewesbury wrote:
LGTrotter wrote:DOH

I was trying to subtly point out that 2001 is not the most boring film ever, clearly you have never sat through 'Heimat'
heimat is beautiful. And so is the second one!!
I got one!

CUlture media and sport?

ANyway boring in 2001 context is space for the visual to inhabit, unimpeded by plot or characterisation.

Yes I know. I agree really. I just find Kubrick a bit pompous sometimes. And the caveman bit I find a little silly. Like I think I said earlier, I like Solaris and that's hardly fast-paced.

Post by **DRT** » 22:12 Mon 30 Sep 2013

British Patent Office?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:12 Mon 30 Sep 2013

DTI. And now, good night.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:12 Mon 30 Sep 2013

DRT wrote:British Patent Office?

oh that's what I just thought of.. Yes. This is right.

Post by **DRT** » 22:13 Mon 30 Sep 2013

djewesbury wrote:DTI. And now, good night.

Don't be fooled, he won't leave until this is over.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 22:15 Mon 30 Sep 2013

djewesbury wrote:
LGTrotter wrote:
djewesbury wrote:
LGTrotter wrote:DOH

I was trying to subtly point out that 2001 is not the most boring film ever, clearly you have never sat through 'Heimat'
heimat is beautiful. And so is the second one!!
I got one!

CUlture media and sport?

ANyway boring in 2001 context is space for the visual to inhabit, unimpeded by plot or characterisation.
Yes I know. I agree really. I just find Kubrick a bit pompous sometimes. And the caveman bit I find a little silly. Like I think I said earlier, I like Solaris and that's hardly fast-paced.

Mysogenist was more my beef, but the visuals with that music? meaningless but beautiful on a big screen.

Didn't you just love 'another 48 hours' though?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:15 Mon 30 Sep 2013

DRT wrote:
djewesbury wrote:DTI. And now, good night.
Don't be fooled, he won't leave until this is over.

sshhh...

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 22:16 Mon 30 Sep 2013

Good night sweet ladies, goodnight.

Post by **DRT** » 22:17 Mon 30 Sep 2013

LGTrotter wrote:Good night sweet ladies, goodnight.

They think it's all over...

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:17 Mon 30 Sep 2013

LGTrotter wrote:CUlture media and sport?

Even without the mis-capitalisation, no.

jdaw1 wrote:Perhaps I should say that the matter in hand is commercial in nature.

DRT wrote:British Patent Office?

No.

Post by **DRT** » 22:18 Mon 30 Sep 2013

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:19 Mon 30 Sep 2013

Come on. I said DTI.

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:19 Mon 30 Sep 2013

DRT wrote:OFT?

No.

Queen Victoria?

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:19 Mon 30 Sep 2013

djewesbury wrote:Come on. I said DTI.

Queen Victoria?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:20 Mon 30 Sep 2013

jdaw1 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:Come on. I said DTI.
Queen Victoria?

Board of Trade?

Post by **DRT** » 22:20 Mon 30 Sep 2013

Department for Culture and Sport?

Post by **DRT** » 22:20 Mon 30 Sep 2013

East India Trading Company?

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:21 Mon 30 Sep 2013

djewesbury wrote:
jdaw1 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:Come on. I said DTI.
Queen Victoria?
Board of Trade?

Perhaps the nearest yet, even if wrong.

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:21 Mon 30 Sep 2013

DRT wrote:Department for Culture and Sport?

jdaw1 wrote:
LGTrotter wrote:CUlture media and sport?
Even without the mis-capitalisation, no.
jdaw1 wrote:Perhaps I should say that the matter in hand is commercial in nature.

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:22 Mon 30 Sep 2013

DRT wrote:East India Trading Company?

Is this chit-chat, or an attempt at an actual guess?

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:23 Mon 30 Sep 2013

And I thought this one would be easy.

Post by **DRT** » 22:25 Mon 30 Sep 2013

Yes, I know, but: Treasury Solicitor's Department

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:26 Mon 30 Sep 2013

DRT wrote:Yes, I know, but: Treasury Solicitor's Department

Ooh, what does that do? But no.

Post by **DRT** » 22:26 Mon 30 Sep 2013

jdaw1 wrote:
DRT wrote:East India Trading Company?
Is this chit-chat, or an attempt at an actual guess?

Chit-chat.

Post by **DRT** » 22:26 Mon 30 Sep 2013

jdaw1 wrote:
DRT wrote:Yes, I know, but: Treasury Solicitor's Department
Ooh, what does that do? But no.

That was chit-chat too. can I guess again?

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:28 Mon 30 Sep 2013

DRT wrote:Yes, I know, but: Treasury Solicitor's Department

The [url=http://www.tsol.gov.uk/about_us/our_history.htm]TSol[/url] wrote: There is a long tradition of legal advisors to the Crown and the State going back as far as the reign of King Ine in the sixth century.

Which might be a bit before Victoria.

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:28 Mon 30 Sep 2013

DRT wrote:can I guess again?

After somebody else has done so.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:29 Mon 30 Sep 2013

Business investment and skills.

Post by **DRT** » 22:29 Mon 30 Sep 2013

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Post by **DRT** » 22:30 Mon 30 Sep 2013

Department for Departmental Affairs?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:31 Mon 30 Sep 2013

Export office. Or whatever it's called now.