One quiz at a time

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:36 Mon 30 Sep 2013

djewesbury wrote:Business investment and skills.

Sleep-writing are we. And not terribly well.

DRT wrote:Department for Departmental Affairs?

Also no.

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:36 Mon 30 Sep 2013

djewesbury wrote:Export office. Or whatever it's called now.

A fine guess. Totally wrong.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:38 Mon 30 Sep 2013

I am dreaming of civil servants receiving letters from JDAW. "We've got one! At last! Janice, he wrote...!"

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:39 Mon 30 Sep 2013

Clues so far:

jdaw1 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?
Footnote: though it has existed since Q. Vicky, I’m not certain that it has done so under its current name.

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

jdaw1 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:Board of Trade?
Perhaps the nearest yet, even if wrong.

jdaw1 wrote:And I thought this one would be easy.

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:40 Mon 30 Sep 2013

djewesbury wrote:I am dreaming of civil servants receiving letters from JDAW. "We've got one! At last! Janice, he wrote...!"

A correspondence with HMT.

Post by **DRT** » 22:42 Mon 30 Sep 2013

We appear to have run out of steam.

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:43 Mon 30 Sep 2013

Though entirely commercial in function and purpose, the name is slightly domestic.

Post by **DRT** » 22:43 Mon 30 Sep 2013

DRT wrote:We appear to have run out of steam.

Very strange. Lots of posts just arrived at once.

Post by **DRT** » 22:43 Mon 30 Sep 2013

jdaw1 wrote:Though entirely commercial in function and purpose, the name is slightly domestic.

The Home Office?

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:44 Mon 30 Sep 2013

DRT wrote:
jdaw1 wrote:Though entirely commercial in function and purpose, the name is slightly domestic.
The Home Office?

Entirely commercial in function and purpose? Prisoners?

Post by **DRT** » 22:45 Mon 30 Sep 2013

"domestic" / "home" - we are struggling.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:45 Mon 30 Sep 2013

jdaw1 wrote:Though entirely commercial in function and purpose, the name is slightly domestic.

OFT

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:46 Mon 30 Sep 2013

djewesbury wrote:OFT

jdaw1 wrote:
DRT wrote:OFT?
No.

Queen Victoria?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:46 Mon 30 Sep 2013

jdaw1 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:OFT
jdaw1 wrote:
DRT wrote:OFT?
No.

Queen Victoria?

i do not claim to know the heredity of the OFT..

Post by **DRT** » 22:47 Mon 30 Sep 2013

I'm out of guesses.

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:48 Mon 30 Sep 2013

djewesbury wrote:i do not claim to know the heredity of the OFT..

Fine, But you might note that this guess has previously been marked as incorrect. It is unlikely to become more correct by mere repetition.

Post by **DRT** » 22:48 Mon 30 Sep 2013

Companies House?

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:49 Mon 30 Sep 2013

DRT wrote:I'm out of guesses.

Think forms, and commercial.

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:49 Mon 30 Sep 2013

DRT wrote:Companies House?

Yes!

Post by **DRT** » 22:49 Mon 30 Sep 2013

Woo-hoo!

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:50 Mon 30 Sep 2013

Ah. Yes. Ok. Good night, friends.

Post by **DRT** » 22:51 Mon 30 Sep 2013

Is it J. D. A. Wiseman & Sons Independent Traders of Streatham plc?

Post by **DRT** » 22:51 Mon 30 Sep 2013

My question tomorrow.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 09:24 Tue 01 Oct 2013

*taps fingers on desk at work...*

Post by **jdaw1** » 09:46 Tue 01 Oct 2013

djewesbury wrote:*taps fingers on desk at work...*

Nothing to do?

djewesbury wrote:a full-time, permanent member of academic staff!

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 09:48 Tue 01 Oct 2013

jdaw1 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:*taps fingers on desk at work...*
Nothing to do?
djewesbury wrote:a full-time, permanent member of academic staff!

It comes in fits and starts.. Suddenly there's hundreds of them, and just as suddenly, they all disappear..

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:22 Tue 01 Oct 2013

Very quiet today. Maybe DRT is doing a task for me. If so, good.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:57 Tue 01 Oct 2013

jdaw1 wrote:Very quiet today. Maybe DRT is doing a task for me. If so, good.

Very quiet all round. Sometimes there's hundreds of them, and sometimes they just all disappear.

Post by **jdaw1** » 16:00 Wed 02 Oct 2013

Derek is being slow, so I will ask his question for him: what did the label on the bottle suggest this port was?

Your bonus clue:

[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=61437#p61437]Here[/url] DRT wrote:This is starting to look very interesting but, unfortunately, I am still confined to barracks so cannot join you in person.

However, in order to mitigate my disappointment I intend opening "a nice bottle of vintage port" and sipping my way through it* at the same time you are enjoying whatever turns up at The Bunghole.

I am happy to provide clues as the evening progresses so that my bottle can be included in the blind guessing, perhaps as a tiebreaker in the event that everyone scores the usual near-zero points.

* subject to life coach permission

Post by **jdaw1** » 16:01 Wed 02 Oct 2013

My guess first: Fonseca 1977?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 16:04 Wed 02 Oct 2013

I was going to say Fonseca. But it sounds older. 70?

Post by **jdaw1** » 16:17 Wed 02 Oct 2013

Martinez 1967?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 16:18 Wed 02 Oct 2013

Cockburn 83?

Post by **DRT** » 16:20 Wed 02 Oct 2013

No answers will be given until a quorum has formed and at least four guesses have been posted by different people from The Bunghole.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 16:23 Wed 02 Oct 2013

Huh. I suppose that's fair..

Post by **DRT** » 16:59 Wed 02 Oct 2013

TN updated.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 17:22 Wed 02 Oct 2013

Is there not a quorum there yet...? I want another guess..

Post by **DRT** » 17:32 Wed 02 Oct 2013

djewesbury wrote:Is there not a quorum there yet...? I want another guess..

There might be a quorum but the only person we know has seen this doesn't get there until 19:00.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 17:33 Wed 02 Oct 2013

DRT wrote:
djewesbury wrote:Is there not a quorum there yet...? I want another guess..
There might be a quorum but the only person we know has seen this doesn't get there until 19:00.

Post by **DRT** » 18:31 Wed 02 Oct 2013

TN updated again and a text sent to The Bunghole to request guesses.

Post by **DRT** » 19:37 Wed 02 Oct 2013

[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7472]Here[/url] AHB wrote:Graham 1970

Post by **DRT** » 19:41 Wed 02 Oct 2013

A request for guesses from The Bunghole was answered with...

JDAW wrote:Busy: Drinking.

The vintage has been guessed, but not the shipper.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 19:42 Wed 02 Oct 2013

Can I guess again?

Post by **DRT** » 19:47 Wed 02 Oct 2013

djewesbury wrote:Can I guess again?

Yes.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 19:47 Wed 02 Oct 2013

Dow 1970.

Post by **DRT** » 19:49 Wed 02 Oct 2013

Bingo!

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 19:51 Wed 02 Oct 2013

DRT wrote:Bingo!

I knew it. That decription, I mean it was almost like I could taste it myself. What else could it be?

This is hilarious. Everyone guessing at the Bung Hole will guess incorrectly, as usual. Meanwhile I've got a correct guess before 9pm.

Now, tell us more about the cork and the label..

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 20:03 Wed 02 Oct 2013

I was going to 1983 Cockburn, but then saw that it had already been guessed. So then I was going to guess 1977 Smith Woodhouse. I don't normally associate black cherries with Dow.

Post by **DRT** » 20:10 Wed 02 Oct 2013

Glenn E. wrote:I was going to 1983 Cockburn, but then saw that it had already been guessed. So then I was going to guess 1977 Smith Woodhouse. I don't normally associate black cherries with Dow.

Hence...

DRT wrote:The overall profile of this wine is as expected, but some of the flavours are not typical.

Post by **jdaw1** » 23:57 Wed 02 Oct 2013

D70? Though better than the BBR bottling I tasted earlier?