Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:36 Mon 30 Sep 2013
Sleep-writing are we. And not terribly well.djewesbury wrote:Business investment and skills.
Also no.DRT wrote:Department for Departmental Affairs?
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Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:36 Mon 30 Sep 2013
A fine guess. Totally wrong.djewesbury wrote:Export office. Or whatever it's called now.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 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...!"
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:39 Mon 30 Sep 2013
Clues so far:
jdaw1 wrote:Footnote: though it has existed since Q. Vicky, I’m not certain that it has done so under its current name.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?
jdaw1 wrote:Perhaps I should say that the matter in hand is commercial in nature.
jdaw1 wrote:Perhaps the nearest yet, even if wrong.djewesbury wrote:Board of Trade?
jdaw1 wrote:And I thought this one would be easy.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:40 Mon 30 Sep 2013
A correspondence with HMT.djewesbury wrote:I am dreaming of civil servants receiving letters from JDAW. "We've got one! At last! Janice, he wrote...!"
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:42 Mon 30 Sep 2013
We appear to have run out of steam.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:43 Mon 30 Sep 2013
Though entirely commercial in function and purpose, the name is slightly domestic.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:43 Mon 30 Sep 2013
Very strange. Lots of posts just arrived at once.DRT wrote:We appear to have run out of steam.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:43 Mon 30 Sep 2013
The Home Office?jdaw1 wrote:Though entirely commercial in function and purpose, the name is slightly domestic.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:44 Mon 30 Sep 2013
Entirely commercial in function and purpose? Prisoners?DRT wrote:The Home Office?jdaw1 wrote:Though entirely commercial in function and purpose, the name is slightly domestic.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:45 Mon 30 Sep 2013
"domestic" / "home" - we are struggling.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:45 Mon 30 Sep 2013
OFTjdaw1 wrote:Though entirely commercial in function and purpose, the name is slightly domestic.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:46 Mon 30 Sep 2013
djewesbury wrote:OFT
jdaw1 wrote:No.DRT wrote:OFT?
Queen Victoria?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:46 Mon 30 Sep 2013
i do not claim to know the heredity of the OFT..jdaw1 wrote:djewesbury wrote:OFTjdaw1 wrote:No.DRT wrote:OFT?
Queen Victoria?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:47 Mon 30 Sep 2013
I'm out of guesses.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:48 Mon 30 Sep 2013
Fine, But you might note that this guess has previously been marked as incorrect. It is unlikely to become more correct by mere repetition.djewesbury wrote:i do not claim to know the heredity of the OFT..
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:48 Mon 30 Sep 2013
Companies House?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:49 Mon 30 Sep 2013
Think forms, and commercial.DRT wrote:I'm out of guesses.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:49 Mon 30 Sep 2013
Yes!DRT wrote:Companies House?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:49 Mon 30 Sep 2013
Woo-hoo!
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:50 Mon 30 Sep 2013
Ah. Yes. Ok. Good night, friends.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:51 Mon 30 Sep 2013
Is it J. D. A. Wiseman & Sons Independent Traders of Streatham plc?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:51 Mon 30 Sep 2013
My question tomorrow.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 09:24 Tue 01 Oct 2013
*taps fingers on desk at work...*
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 09:46 Tue 01 Oct 2013
Nothing to do?djewesbury wrote:*taps fingers on desk at work...*
djewesbury wrote:a full-time, permanent member of academic staff!
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 09:48 Tue 01 Oct 2013
It comes in fits and starts.. Suddenly there's hundreds of them, and just as suddenly, they all disappear..jdaw1 wrote:Nothing to do?djewesbury wrote:*taps fingers on desk at work...*djewesbury wrote:a full-time, permanent member of academic staff!
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:22 Tue 01 Oct 2013
Very quiet today. Maybe DRT is doing a task for me. If so, good.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:57 Tue 01 Oct 2013
Very quiet all round. Sometimes there's hundreds of them, and sometimes they just all disappear.jdaw1 wrote:Very quiet today. Maybe DRT is doing a task for me. If so, good.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 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:
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
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 16:01 Wed 02 Oct 2013
My guess first: Fonseca 1977?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 16:04 Wed 02 Oct 2013
I was going to say Fonseca. But it sounds older. 70?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 16:17 Wed 02 Oct 2013
Martinez 1967?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 16:18 Wed 02 Oct 2013
Cockburn 83?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 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.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 16:23 Wed 02 Oct 2013
Huh. I suppose that's fair..
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 17:22 Wed 02 Oct 2013
Is there not a quorum there yet...? I want another guess..
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 17:32 Wed 02 Oct 2013
There might be a quorum but the only person we know has seen this doesn't get there until 19:00.djewesbury wrote:Is there not a quorum there yet...? I want another guess..
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 17:33 Wed 02 Oct 2013
DRT wrote:There might be a quorum but the only person we know has seen this doesn't get there until 19:00.djewesbury wrote:Is there not a quorum there yet...? I want another guess..
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 18:31 Wed 02 Oct 2013
TN updated again and a text sent to The Bunghole to request guesses.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 19:37 Wed 02 Oct 2013
[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7472]Here[/url] AHB wrote:Graham 1970
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 19:41 Wed 02 Oct 2013
A request for guesses from The Bunghole was answered with...
The vintage has been guessed, but not the shipper.JDAW wrote:Busy: Drinking.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 19:42 Wed 02 Oct 2013
Can I guess again?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 19:47 Wed 02 Oct 2013
Yes.djewesbury wrote:Can I guess again?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 19:47 Wed 02 Oct 2013
Dow 1970.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 19:49 Wed 02 Oct 2013
Bingo!
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 19:51 Wed 02 Oct 2013
I knew it. That decription, I mean it was almost like I could taste it myself. What else could it be?DRT wrote:Bingo!
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..
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 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.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:10 Wed 02 Oct 2013
Hence...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.
DRT wrote:The overall profile of this wine is as expected, but some of the flavours are not typical.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:57 Wed 02 Oct 2013
D70? Though better than the BBR bottling I tasted earlier?