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Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:40 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by LGTrotter
Jodl.
I have been watching bits of 'the world at war' of late, fascinating stuff with Hitler's valet.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:44 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by DRT
Adolf Eichmann?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:48 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by LGTrotter
DRT wrote:LGTrotter wrote:this very jolly game of 'guess the nazi'
Best laugh I've had on a Saturday night for years
I shall stick with 'guess the nazi' or even 'stab myself in the eye with a fork' when the alternative is X-factor.
Rosenburg.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:51 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by jdaw1
Prosecution not good? From memory three were acquitted at Nuremberg, one of whom was Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:55 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by LGTrotter
Always feels good to do some of these quizzes from memory, I have resorted to wiki for Von Papen.
And Wiki agrees with your memory that 3 were acquitted, chapeau.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:56 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by jdaw1
He was the other one I could remember. So, with help, Hans Fritzsche.
One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:58 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by djewesbury
I didn't say he was acquitted. He hanged. But the Americans thought the prosecution lacked finesse and there was some complaint afterward that the case against him was not thoroughly proved.
But Owen has guessed. Jodl it was. The name of my great grandfather was Geoffrey Dorling Roberts, or 'Khaki' Roberts. I once bought a book he'd written from an online bookshop. When it arrived it had an inscription 'To Gerald, from Khaki'. It seems that Gerald was the Lord Chancellor, Gerald Gardiner. A good coincidence, anyway, I thought.
Owen's turn.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:02 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by LGTrotter
I have owned 2 Jack Russell terriers that have been named after philosophers. Name either.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:04 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by djewesbury
LGTrotter wrote:I have owned 2 Jack Russell terriers that have been named after philosophers. Name either.
Er, Bertrand?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:08 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by LGTrotter
Realised after I posted it that I should have limited it to the other one; Hegel. I always felt foolish shouting 'Hegel' at him in public places. In my defence I would say that I did not name him and the other one I simply call Bert.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:10 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by djewesbury
LGTrotter wrote:Realised after I posted it that I should have limited it to the other one; Hegel. I always felt foolish shouting 'Hegel' at him in public places. In my defence I would say that I did not name him and the other one I simply call Bert.
So you have to ask another question then and it's not really my turn again.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:17 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by LGTrotter
djewesbury wrote:LGTrotter wrote:Realised after I posted it that I should have limited it to the other one; Hegel. I always felt foolish shouting 'Hegel' at him in public places. In my defence I would say that I did not name him and the other one I simply call Bert.
So you have to ask another question then and it's not really my turn again.
Oh Daniel, Daniel; when will you realise. I don't make the rules, I play by them. I've got a rule book here and I don't see anything about 'try again if you want' or 'Daniel can't think of a question so have another go'.
Your go.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:20 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by djewesbury
What am I braising right now?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:25 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by DRT
A Jack Russell?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:27 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by DRT
djewesbury wrote:The name of my great grandfather was Geoffrey Dorling Roberts, or 'Khaki' Roberts.
I hope he wasn't given that name at school
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:41 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by LGTrotter
DRT wrote:A Jack Russell?
I often think Bert would look good with an apple in his mouth.
Beef.
Unless you are planning a further question could we have the backstory of your great grandfather?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:38 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by DRT
Mutton?
One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:50 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by djewesbury
Neither dog nor beef.
How much can I tell you.. He was familiar with your part of the world, Owen.. He was born in Exeter, but became the Recorder for Bristol. He played Rugby for England a couple of times but his career was cut off by WW1. He trained in Law on his return and joined the bench. He seems to have had a long and varied career; one of the cases he was involved in was the infamous prosecution of Lord Montagu, Peter Wildeblood and Michael Pitt-Rivers for buggery in 1953, the case which led a committee of enquiry into the law on homosexuality (led by his old pal from Nuremberg David Maxwell Fyfe), the Wolfenden Report and eventually the decriminalisation in 1967.
He lived in the Middle Temple. He seems to have been friendly with thespians; once, when I was flying to the States, and getting a lift to the airport from my dad, he bought me a novel to read on the plane. The book was by famous (Somerset) TV and theatre producer, and general bon viveur, Ned Sherrin, and purely by coincidence, Khaki was a named character in it; presumably his defence of Noel Coward and others brought him to such attention.
His aunt lived in Belfast, and her husband founded the Rope Works here with Gustav Wolff (of 'Harland &' fame). Another aunt of his was Mrs Beeton.
That's enough about Khaki.
EDIT: apparently they had a high time at Nuremberg. There is a story that Khaki was sent home for being a little too devoted to the round of ambassadorial cocktail parties.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:52 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by djewesbury
Not mutton. It was not meat. The meat was chicken.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:56 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by marc j.
DRT wrote:A Jack Russell?
Wow! That was good...
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:57 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by DRT
djewesbury wrote:one of the cases he was involved in was the infamous prosecution of Lord Montagu, Peter Wildeblood and Michael Pitt-Rivers for buggery in 1953, the case which led a committee of enquiry into the law on homosexuality (led by his old pal from Nuremberg David Maxwell Fyfe), the Wolfenden Report and eventually the decriminalisation in 1967.
Sounds like he would have been a useful guy to have around Stormont to drag them into the 21st century
Onions?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:59 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by djewesbury
Not your turn Derek.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:02 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by DRT
djewesbury wrote:Not your turn Derek.
That rule gets me every time. It is far too complicated for this time of night.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:11 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by jdaw1
On Fri 27 Sep 2013 this thread was re-awakened at
post 1706. Since when it has more than doubled in length, now at 3475 posts.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:12 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by djewesbury
jdaw1 wrote:On Fri 27 Sep 2013 this thread was re-awakened at
post 1706. Since when it has more than doubled in length, now at 3475 posts.
And it has become a scourge that threatens to swallow the whole of the rest of the forum... It's worse than heroin.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:15 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by LGTrotter
I can't think of anything else to braise.
Beetroot?
Daniel did not specify who he acted for, pro or anti buggery. Or did I miss that too? I thought Ned Sherrin mainly wrote a wheelbarrow full of theatrical anecdote books.
'Heroin' was going to be my Lou Reed tribute question.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:15 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by Alex Bridgeman
Turnips
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:20 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by DRT
Onions?
One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:21 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by djewesbury
LGTrotter wrote:I can't think of anything else to braise.
Beetroot?
You can [EDIT]braise anything. But this wasn't beetroot.
LGTrotter wrote:Daniel did not specify who he acted for, pro or anti buggery. Or did I miss that too?
Well spotted. He appeared for the prosecution, unfortunately. But he did so on the basis of taking the cases that come up, and he was by no means unsympathetic to the subsequent reforms..
LGTrotter wrote:I thought Ned Sherrin mainly wrote a wheelbarrow full of theatrical anecdote books.
and similar novels.
Khaki was also visited by Rudolf Hess's daughter in the 50s and supported her campaign for his release, writing to the government on her behalf..
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:21 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by djewesbury
AHB wrote:Turnips
No.
DRT wrote:Onions?
No.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:22 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by LGTrotter
DRT wrote:DRT wrote:Onions?
Onions?
?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:27 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by DRT
LGTrotter wrote:DRT wrote:DRT wrote:Onions?
Onions?
?
DRT wrote:Onions?
djewesbury wrote:Not your turn Derek.
AHB wrote:Turnips
DRT wrote:Onions?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:29 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by DRT
LGTrotter wrote:DRT wrote:DRT wrote:Onions?
Onions?
?
When posting, don't miss opportunities to guess
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:32 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by Alex Bridgeman
Swede
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:33 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by djewesbury
AHB wrote:Swede
Not Swede. What is Owen on about - I said 'no' to onions.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:33 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by LGTrotter
DRT wrote:LGTrotter wrote:DRT wrote:DRT wrote:Onions?
Onions?
?
When posting, don't miss opportunities to guess
Ah, got you. Hoped I wasn't going to have to do a MMSE. You seemed so lucid otherwise.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:36 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by LGTrotter
Daniel; my query thus; ?, was a query about why Derek had guessed onoins again rather than me guessing onions, then Derek responded to my original enquiry..... Oh forget it.
Celery
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:41 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by djewesbury
LGTrotter wrote:Daniel; my query thus; ?, was a query about why Derek had guessed onoins again rather than me guessing onions, then Derek responded to my original enquiry..... Oh forget it.
Celery
In your confusion you fell on one of the two acceptable answers. The other was little gem lettuce. Bathed in home-made chicken stock, a little olive oil, some thyme and rosemary, covered tightly and put in a hot oven for 20 minutes, these are lovely.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:45 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by LGTrotter
I have always been fearful of cooking lettuce, seems antithetical to their nature.
OK so what is my second favourite Lou Reed song.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:47 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by DRT
djewesbury wrote:What is Owen on about
I'm only guessing but I suspect those words have been used before.
Parsnip?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:49 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by DRT
LGTrotter wrote:OK so what is my second favourite Lou Reed song.
Goodnight Ladies?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:49 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by djewesbury
DRT wrote:djewesbury wrote:What is Owen on about
I'm only guessing but I suspect those words have been used before.
Parsnip?
See above. Sunday Morning.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:51 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by LGTrotter
DRT wrote:djewesbury wrote:What is Owen on about
I'm only guessing but I suspect those words have been used before.
Parsnip?
Earlier on in a post to Roy, by Daniel. I rise above such things. However I am at least ON THE RIGHT QUESTION.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:52 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by DRT
The Heroine?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:53 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by LGTrotter
By the way Daniel I see you did not rise to the challenge of describing Roys bum.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:53 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by DRT
LGTrotter wrote:I am at least ON THE RIGHT QUESTION.
DRT wrote:LGTrotter wrote:OK so what is my second favourite Lou Reed song.
Goodnight Ladies?
DRT wrote:The Heroine?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:54 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by LGTrotter
DRT wrote:The Heroine?
Wait your turn. Then be amusing.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:55 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by DRT
LGTrotter wrote:By the way Daniel I see you did not rise to the challenge of describing Roys bum.
Norman Stanley Fletcher!
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:56 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by DRT
LGTrotter wrote:DRT wrote:The Heroine?
Wait your turn. Then be amusing.
It was my turn. Danny Bhoy guessed Sunday Morning.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:59 Sat 02 Nov 2013
by LGTrotter
Sorry.
Not Sunday morning. Or Heroin, or the other one you suggested Derek.
For clarity I do mean Velvet Underground rather than his solo career.