One quiz at a time

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 18:43 Sat 05 Sep 2015

Don't go. We need you Alex. I could post a picture of a dachshund dressed as a minion if this will help leaven the bread of these stodgy posts.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 19:03 Sat 05 Sep 2015

Tweet of the Day is indeed an excellent programme. I've stayed with Chris Watson at Aldeburgh. He was recording everything. However I prefer his work with Cabaret Voltaire.

I would suggest we begin with The History of Sexuality vol. 1.

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 19:13 Sat 05 Sep 2015

LGTrotter wrote:Don't go. We need you Alex. I could post a picture of a dachshund dressed as a minion if this will help leaven the bread of these stodgy posts.

Yes!! That's what we need. Let's have pictures of dogs dressed as minions, preferably dogs named after famous philosophers just to keep the tone up.

Post by **DRT** » 19:52 Sat 05 Sep 2015

Meet Socrates...

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LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 20:39 Sat 05 Sep 2015

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Philosophy.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 20:47 Sat 05 Sep 2015

And Socrates looks very thoughtful and lovely. I had a jack russell called Hegel once. I will try to look out a picture of him.

Post by **PhilW** » 21:39 Sat 05 Sep 2015

Socrates looks fairly unimpressed. The dachshunds seems to be taking it well in their stride.

You never hear about Schrodinger's dog. Perhaps his earlier experiments had a lower survival rate; at least the cat had a 50/50 chance - to begin with, at least.

Post by **DRT** » 22:54 Sat 05 Sep 2015

PhilW wrote:Socrates looks fairly unimpressed. The dachshunds seems to be taking it well in their stride.

You never hear about Schrodinger's dog. Perhaps his earlier experiments had a lower survival rate; at least the cat had a 50/50 chance - to begin with, at least.

How do you know that the dog wasn't in the box with the cat?

Post by **jdaw1** » 23:13 Sat 05 Sep 2015

Leave the cat alone — he is already half dead.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 23:31 Sat 05 Sep 2015

jdaw1 wrote:Leave the cat alone — he is already half dead.

Or, not.

Post by **DRT** » 23:39 Sat 05 Sep 2015

Is Schrodinger's cat the new question?

I suppose we would never know.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 23:39 Sat 05 Sep 2015

That might be the definitive end of the thread.

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 19:06 Mon 07 Sep 2015

djewesbury wrote:That might be the definitive end of the thread.

Or perhaps not. Perhaps there is another thread starting on some other forum as we read this one.

Post by **DRT** » 21:30 Mon 07 Sep 2015

AHB wrote:
djewesbury wrote:That might be the definitive end of the thread.
Or perhaps not. Perhaps there is another thread starting on some other forum as we read this one.

But we wouldn't know whether or not that was true unless we opened the thread we didn't know about.

The thread is dead. Long live the thread!

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 13:20 Mon 14 Sep 2015

Could the admins please close this thread to further posts, so that we can now admire it in its fullness? (That wasn't a quiz question.)

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 20:56 Tue 15 Sep 2015

djewesbury wrote:Could the admins please close this thread to further posts, so that we can now admire it in its fullness? (That wasn't a quiz question.)

That would require an admin to look at the thread, which could cause sufficient uncertainty so as to cause the thread to reopen. Is that what you wanted?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 23:20 Tue 15 Sep 2015

AHB wrote:
djewesbury wrote:Could the admins please close this thread to further posts, so that we can now admire it in its fullness? (That wasn't a quiz question.)
That would require an admin to look at the thread, which could cause sufficient uncertainty so as to cause the thread to reopen. Is that what you wanted?

Sorry, not my turn.

Post by **flash_uk** » 21:42 Mon 11 Jan 2016

Would anyone be interested to have one quiz at a time resurrected?

Post by **DRT** » 21:44 Mon 11 Jan 2016

Hmmm? There are really only two possible answers and if I choose the right one it means it's my turn

Being a brave soldier I will say "Yes"

Post by **flash_uk** » 21:46 Mon 11 Jan 2016

DRT wrote:"Yes"

Correct

Your turn.

Post by **DRT** » 21:49 Mon 11 Jan 2016

On Christmas Day I received five bottles of malt whisky as gifts.

Name three of them.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:33 Mon 11 Jan 2016

This is a wild guess... 2 x Lagavulin 16, a Talisker 10 and an Aberlour 12 ?

It's just a guess to get us started.

Doggett · Post by **Doggett** » 22:39 Mon 11 Jan 2016

DRT wrote:

On Christmas Day I received five bottles of malt whisky as gifts.

Name three of them.

From the unhappy face, I am guessing it wasn't...

Laphroaig
Talisker
Port Askaig

And so may have been...

Glen Moray
Glen Grant
Morrisons Signature Distiller's choice

Post by **DRT** » 22:56 Mon 11 Jan 2016

djewesbury wrote:This is a wild guess... 2 x Lagavulin 16, a Talisker 10 and an Aberlour 12 ?

It's just a guess to get us started.

I knew you would fall into the trap, you being the only person I told on the day or since.

Your turn.

(I received a second Aberlour 12 after telling Danny Bhoy what I had)

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:59 Mon 11 Jan 2016

See Travel. Name the hotel.
(Show your working.)

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 23:14 Mon 11 Jan 2016

Surely they can put you up somewhere better than the Brussels cemetery?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 23:15 Mon 11 Jan 2016

Nice try. And effortlessly, charmingly humorous as always. But wrong.

Post by **DRT** » 00:10 Tue 12 Jan 2016

The Metropole?

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djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 07:31 Tue 12 Jan 2016

Post by **DRT** » 09:01 Tue 12 Jan 2016

Not even half a mark for my working out?

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 16:17 Tue 12 Jan 2016

Am I allowed to answer?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 16:59 Tue 12 Jan 2016

DRT wrote:Not even half a mark for my working out?

No

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 16:59 Tue 12 Jan 2016

AHB wrote:Am I allowed to answer?

Yes

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 18:20 Tue 12 Jan 2016

djewesbury wrote:
AHB wrote:Am I allowed to answer?
Yes

Ole Granddady's house was a Dominican Abbey which got messed about a bit until he moved into it in the early 1800s when he was exiled from France by the Bourbon Kings. Although strictly speaking he was offered a full pardon by Louis XVIII but chose to go into exile in Brussels instead of staying in Paris. Now his house is the Carlton Hotel, the Brussels Dominican or something; very swanky. If you get the chance to take a look inside the Jacques-Louis David suite it's well worth a peep.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 20:40 Tue 12 Jan 2016

According to the history he 'exiled himself'. Or 'ran away' as we say in these parts. He was then invited back to be a court painter, but turned it down on account of finding the suite with sunken bath and hot and cold running courtesans more appealing. This must be the first example of 'sexing up a dossier' 200 years after the event. Rather like Chilcot.

With apologies to Alex's antecedents, only messin.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 21:15 Tue 12 Jan 2016

Yes. Alex's turn. Rather nice here in The Dominican. But not looking forward to the day-long meeting tomorrow in which 6 people try to finish filling in a European Commission funding application for €5m.

Note to self: don't get taxis from the airport in future.

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 21:52 Tue 12 Jan 2016

LGTrotter wrote:According to the history he 'exiled himself'. Or 'ran away' as we say in these parts. He was then invited back to be a court painter, but turned it down on account of finding the suite with sunken bath and hot and cold running courtesans more appealing. This must be the first example of 'sexing up a dossier' 200 years after the event. Rather like Chilcot.

With apologies to Alex's antecedents, only messin.

I would run away too if I'd signed the King's death warrant only to see another King come back a few years later. There is a time to recognise that pushing water uphill is a pointless exercise.

And are you suggesting that I'm illegitimate? Born from a liaison with a hot or cold running courtesan? The amusing thing is (if I remember correctly) when he was in Brussels he was back with his ex-wife from his days in Paris.

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 21:53 Tue 12 Jan 2016

My quiz question: which port will I drink next? I won't know the answer until tomorrow, so guess away...

Post by **DRT** » 23:47 Tue 12 Jan 2016

The same one as me?

Post by **DRT** » 00:48 Thu 14 Jan 2016

OK. It's time for a serious guess.

Was it a bottle of Fonseca 1977 that was much better than the second one we ordered, which was also lovely but didn't knock our socks off, or was it the youngest-tasting but lovely Taylor 1985 that any of the three of us had encountered?

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 02:08 Thu 14 Jan 2016

Cockburn '85. Not well regarded but you have a few to spare. Drink up!

TLW · Post by **TLW** » 05:54 Thu 14 Jan 2016

Vesuvio 1991. Now coming into its 25th year

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 20:49 Thu 14 Jan 2016

Unfortunately DRT won, with uncanny prophetic powers. It was, indeed, the same as he drank and it was a bottle of Fonseca 1977.

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 19:11 Fri 08 Jul 2016

Things are too quiet so I'm asking a question. My question is "What Port am I about to open?"

Post by **jdaw1** » 19:17 Fri 08 Jul 2016

Warre 1977. Obviously.

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 19:42 Fri 08 Jul 2016

jdaw1 wrote:Warre 1977. Obviously.

Neither Warre nor 1977.

It's now in a decanter and looking rather good.

Post by **jdaw1** » 20:19 Fri 08 Jul 2016

AHB wrote:Neither Warre nor 1977.

You sure? Third umpire please.

Post by **PhilW** » 20:24 Fri 08 Jul 2016

Gould Campbell 1960?

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:17 Fri 08 Jul 2016

PhilW wrote:Gould Campbell 1960?

Nonsense. Cockburn 1967. What else could it be?

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 22:26 Fri 08 Jul 2016

Not Gould Campbell, not Cockburn; not 1960, not 1967. It is a mainstream shipper and a recognised vintage.