Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:45 Tue 26 Nov 2013
To what?jdaw1 wrote:So close.DRT wrote:periods of nothingness
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One quiz at a time
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Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:45 Tue 26 Nov 2013
But were we to look at the number of posts within fixed periods of time, we would see that the total yielded in each successive period of time was greater than the immediately preceding period. The number of posts multiplies like topsy. The thread is out of control. It has diverted us all from more interesting and important things.
And allowed dark forces to rise to power.
And allowed dark forces to rise to power.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:45 Tue 26 Nov 2013
Nothing happened.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:45 Tue 26 Nov 2013
Again, you come near the heart of the question, and again you steer away.DRT wrote:To what?jdaw1 wrote:So close.DRT wrote:periods of nothingness
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:46 Tue 26 Nov 2013
Would that be important to this thread?djewesbury wrote:Nothing happened.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:46 Tue 26 Nov 2013
Didn't someone new ask a question followed by a period of nothingness?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:47 Tue 26 Nov 2013
Depends on your view of nothing, I like nothing. Zero best of all.jdaw1 wrote:Would that be important to this thread?djewesbury wrote:Nothing happened.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:48 Tue 26 Nov 2013
"Better on your arise than on your feet,LGTrotter wrote:Depends on your view of nothing, I like nothing. Zero best of all.jdaw1 wrote:Would that be important to this thread?djewesbury wrote:Nothing happened.
Flat on your back than either,
Dead than the lot."
John Paul II said something similar.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:49 Tue 26 Nov 2013
Did someone ask a question and then disappear, leaving those of us left here to generate a huge volume of guesses with no answers being returned for a prolonged period?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:50 Tue 26 Nov 2013
Period of nothingness. Then some happened important to this thread. Port involved, as you have been told.
This shouldn’t take much sleuthing.
This shouldn’t take much sleuthing.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:50 Tue 26 Nov 2013
It did go quiet. Then what happened?DRT wrote:Did someone ask a question and then disappear, leaving those of us left here to generate a huge volume of guesses with no answers being returned for a prolonged period?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:51 Tue 26 Nov 2013
You revived this thread (shouted up from cellar).jdaw1 wrote:Period of nothingness. Then some happened important to this thread. Port involved, as you have been told.
This shouldn’t take much sleuthing.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:52 Tue 26 Nov 2013
Nearer and nearer.djewesbury wrote:You revived this thread (shouted up from cellar).
This shouldn’t take much sleuthing.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:52 Tue 26 Nov 2013
There is only one sensible person here tonight.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:57 Tue 26 Nov 2013
Glenn gave two correct answers, Viola and recorder, but for some reason I got the question.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:58 Tue 26 Nov 2013
Was that ‟important to this thread”? Indeed, was it after the period of nothingness?LGTrotter wrote:Glenn gave two correct answers, Viola and recorder, but for some reason I got the question.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:59 Tue 26 Nov 2013
You got me there I will allow.jdaw1 wrote:Was that ‟important to this thread”? Indeed, was it after the period of nothingness?LGTrotter wrote:Glenn gave two correct answers, Viola and recorder, but for some reason I got the question.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:02 Tue 26 Nov 2013
The thing is, nothing has been important to this thread. This is a thread of no importance. What could be of importance to something so trivial?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:03 Tue 26 Nov 2013
Remind yourself of the question, on I think on page 69, that resuscitated this thread.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:05 Tue 26 Nov 2013
In the wrong place DRT wrote:I have sleuthed, sleuthed and sleuthed some more and can't find the answer.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:07 Tue 26 Nov 2013
I can't do that on my phone.jdaw1 wrote:Remind yourself of the question, on I think on page 69, that resuscitated this thread.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:08 Tue 26 Nov 2013
You’re playing from your phone?! You sad man.djewesbury wrote:I can't do that on my phone.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:09 Tue 26 Nov 2013
JDAW was drinking two ports that were identical apart from the vintage. I think the answer was Warre LBV 198something and 198something-else.djewesbury wrote:I can't do that on my phone.jdaw1 wrote:Remind yourself of the question, on I think on page 69, that resuscitated this thread.
Is it that someone asked a question after a period of nothingness?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:09 Tue 26 Nov 2013
You drank W LBV 81 & 82.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:10 Tue 26 Nov 2013
Men in glass houses!jdaw1 wrote:You’re playing from your phone?! You sad man.djewesbury wrote:I can't do that on my phone.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:11 Tue 26 Nov 2013
And what else then happened?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:11 Tue 26 Nov 2013
should put their pants on.DRT wrote:Men in glass houses!jdaw1 wrote:You’re playing from your phone?! You sad man.djewesbury wrote:I can't do that on my phone.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:11 Tue 26 Nov 2013
JDAW’s email inbox:DRT wrote:Men in glass houses!jdaw1 wrote:You’re playing from your phone?! You sad man.djewesbury wrote:I can't do that on my phone.
A very glass house.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:11 Tue 26 Nov 2013
Someone guessed the answer and then asked another question?jdaw1 wrote:And what else then happened?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:14 Tue 26 Nov 2013
Derek drank an 1873 or some such thing.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:15 Tue 26 Nov 2013
That can't be the answer. I have only had it once.djewesbury wrote:Derek drank an 1873 or some such thing.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:16 Tue 26 Nov 2013
That was the next Q though.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:17 Tue 26 Nov 2013
You know something else about the drinking of the Warre ’81 and ’82 LBVs. And you know that something similar happened last Friday. What?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:18 Tue 26 Nov 2013
In the question that revived this thread JDAW re-stated the rules. Last Friday JDAW issued a minor reprimand to Glenn for introducing the concept of "bonus points" for supplementary questions that are redundant in the context of the rules of the thread. Is it that the participants were reminded of the rules in order to maintain the original intent of the thread?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:19 Tue 26 Nov 2013
Your mother-in-law visited? Your wife held a book club meeting?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:26 Tue 26 Nov 2013
And? Go on!djewesbury wrote:Your wife held a book club meeting?
jdaw1 wrote:Something happened last Friday. Something similar happened previously, and was important to this thread. What did the two things have in common?Back on page 183 jdaw1 wrote:I have a good question, but it has only a few hours shelf life remaining. So I’d like to win. But this objective is slightly hampered by my having no idea what the answer might be.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:27 Tue 26 Nov 2013
Good Lord. You drank port with your wife's friends, and opened an 84. Hold on.jdaw1 wrote:And? Go on!djewesbury wrote:Your wife held a book club meeting?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:28 Tue 26 Nov 2013
There's a terrible lot of stuff back there. I think the only answer I have is that we should get to bed a bit earlier.
Oh and the book club again.
Oh and the book club again.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:29 Tue 26 Nov 2013
JDAW was left home alone and therefore unfettered in both his Port drinking and his participation in this thread?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:29 Tue 26 Nov 2013
That's it. That's all you told us. Except that they brought rubbish with them.djewesbury wrote:Good Lord. You drank port with your wife's friends, and opened an 84. Hold on.jdaw1 wrote:And? Go on!djewesbury wrote:Your wife held a book club meeting?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:31 Tue 26 Nov 2013
And again.LGTrotter wrote:Oh and the book club again.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:32 Tue 26 Nov 2013
I’ll take that as near enough.LGTrotter wrote:Oh and the book club again.
This thread had been silent for almost 1½ years, when I restarted it with a question about the Port being served at my wife's book club meeting. Last Friday, she and an overlapping set of friends met, again chez nous, this time for a clothes-swap party. The common element was the wife’s parties (at which her friends drink my port).
It is the question of the man who has drunk his share of a ½ bottle of Champagne, one bottle of Rhone, and is now working on the Port. What could go wrong?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:34 Tue 26 Nov 2013
{saying nothing}jdaw1 wrote:a clothes-swap party.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:35 Tue 26 Nov 2013
I sometimes go to a party in which I swap thirteen-fourteenths of a bottle of Port for thirteen one-fourteenths of other bottles. Is that so different?DRT wrote:{saying nothing}jdaw1 wrote:a clothes-swap party.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:37 Tue 26 Nov 2013
Ahem.DRT wrote:{saying nothing}jdaw1 wrote:a clothes-swap party.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:37 Tue 26 Nov 2013
My image of a group of girls swapping clothes is very different to us sharing some Port.jdaw1 wrote:I sometimes go to a party in which I swap thirteen-fourteenths of a bottle of Port for thirteen one-fourteenths of other bottles. Is that so different?DRT wrote:{saying nothing}jdaw1 wrote:a clothes-swap party.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:38 Tue 26 Nov 2013
If you're in a hole, stop digging.jdaw1 wrote:I sometimes go to a party in which I swap thirteen-fourteenths of a bottle of Port for thirteen one-fourteenths of other bottles. Is that so different?DRT wrote:{saying nothing}jdaw1 wrote:a clothes-swap party.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:38 Tue 26 Nov 2013
Was that your question?LGTrotter wrote:Ahem.
‟Hallelujah”?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:38 Tue 26 Nov 2013
Hold on. I said 'book club' first. Look up there.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:40 Tue 26 Nov 2013
Thank God! Over to Daniel...djewesbury wrote:Hold on. I said 'book club' first. Look up there.