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Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:19 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
DRT wrote:djewesbury wrote:MacDonald was exonerated within months and the rumours (that he was having sexual relations with young boys in Ceylon) dismissed as malicious gossip.
My reading slightly different to yours. Some appeared to retain doubts about his character as a result of similar concerns in other parts of the Empire. Heaven forbid that the British establishment would even dream of making excuses and covering up the wrongdoings of a national treasure
Yes, actually, your reading is right. But it's quite amazing that the official report spoke so glowingly of him.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:22 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by DRT
djewesbury wrote:Yes, actually, your reading is right. But it's quite amazing that the official report spoke so glowingly of him.
Yes,
truely amazing.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:23 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
DRT wrote:djewesbury wrote:Yes, actually, your reading is right. But it's quite amazing that the official report spoke so glowingly of him.
Yes,
truely amazing.
You are far too cynical.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:24 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by DRT
Owen!!
Pay attention. It's your question.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:29 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by LGTrotter
I wish I had held back the information about Take That pants now.
Lovely question Daniel. If only I could think of one.
I have already gone on about Dorothy L Sayers and Lord Peter Wimsey and the 1847 port. The books mention several others. I have a particular one in mind, the date and the shipper if you please.
Clues are available at the usual rates.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:35 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by DRT
{engage "I-don't-have-a-clue-what-Owen-is-on-about" random guessing mode}
Sandeman 1873?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:38 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by LGTrotter
DRT wrote:{engage "I-don't-have-a-clue-what-Owen-is-on-about" random guessing mode}
Sandeman 1873?
Good plan. Younger and not Sandeman. And it's not a name/shipper you come across much these days.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:41 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by AW77
Feuerheerd 1890
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:43 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by LGTrotter
For clarification; Dorothy L Sayers wrote interwar detective fiction (good stuff in my opinion). Her sleuth was Lord Peter Wimsey. He, and other characters around him often drank port. Often it was just given as 'port'. A few were given dates, as in the 1847 which appears in the 'port and literature' thread. Even fewer were given dates and shippers. This is one of those few.
And now I can't find the book so I can only hope that my memory is sound.
AW77 wrote:Feuerheerd 1890
Younger and an English marque. Edit; british I think.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:49 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by DRT
Morgan Brothers' 1904?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:54 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by AW77
Robertson's 1910
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:55 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by LGTrotter
DRT wrote:Morgan Brothers' 1904?
No, too old still, just. There is more than one name in the shippers title.
I just hope I am right that it was a British shipper back then.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:59 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by LGTrotter
AW77 wrote:Robertson's 1910
Too young, just a little. Might well have been bottled in that year. Not Robertson's.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:07 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by AW77
Lets get the year first: 1908
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:07 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
I am finding references to Cockburn 96 and 08 in Sayers. But you say it has two names. Butler Nephew 08? (Nephew is not a 'name' as such but I have no other idea).
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:11 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by LGTrotter
AW77 wrote:Lets get the year first: 1908
Exactly.
djewesbury wrote:I am finding references to Cockburn 96 and 08 in Sayers. But you say it has two names. Butler Nephew 08? (Nephew is not a 'name' as such but I have no other idea).
Just more than one person mentioned. As in Butler Nephew, or Skinner and Rooke.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:12 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by LGTrotter
This port is mentioned twice in the book, once near the start and once when Lord Peter is having lunch with his man, Bunter at Walbeach.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:17 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by DRT
MacKenzie 1908?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:19 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by LGTrotter
DRT wrote:MacKenzie 1908?
Nope, two words in the shippers name. (Do I need an apostrophe in 'shippers'? Oh well I shall find out soon enough.)
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:20 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
LGTrotter wrote:(Do I need an apostrophe in 'shippers'? Oh well I shall find out soon enough.)
I thought you carried your apostrophes at all times around here these days.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:21 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by DRT
LGTrotter wrote:DRT wrote:MacKenzie 1908?
Nope, two words in the shippers name. (Do I need an apostrophe in 'shippers'? Oh well I shall find out soon enough.)
Self disclosure gets you off the hook. "Shipper's name", "Shippers' names".
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:24 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by LGTrotter
djewesbury wrote:LGTrotter wrote:(Do I need an apostrophe in 'shippers'? Oh well I shall find out soon enough.)
I thought you carried your apostrophes at all times around here these days.
I have a rather haphazard relationship with them. Sometimes I scatter them like rice at a wedding, at others I hoard them back, with no real reference to the rules of punctuation.
DRT wrote:LGTrotter wrote:DRT wrote:MacKenzie 1908?
Nope, two words in the shippers name. (Do I need an apostrophe in 'shippers'? Oh well I shall find out soon enough.)
Self disclosure gets you off the hook. "Shipper's name", "Shippers' names".
Ta.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:27 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
Quarles Harris.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:29 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by LGTrotter
It's a story about campanology. If anyone still is interested. I liked Daniel's question better. The self doubt creeps in.
djewesbury wrote:Quarles Harris.
No.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:30 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
LGTrotter wrote:It's a story about campanology. If anyone still is interested. I liked Daniel's question better. The self doubt creeps in.
djewesbury wrote:Quarles Harris.
No.
Never read Sayers, but I think I heard some LPWimsey stories on the Home Service many years ago.
You're too kind.
This is a good question.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:31 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by DRT
Tuke Holdsworth?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:32 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
DRT wrote:Tuke Holdsworth?
Good guess. I'm putting my money on this one.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:33 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
DRT wrote:Tuke Holdsworth?
Derek got it right!
Somewhere on the interweb, the interweb wrote:" Tell him to keep his spirits up. Such a nasty, depressing complaint. But he's over the worst now. I will send a little bottle of port wine as soon as he is able to take it. Tuke Holdsworth '08," added the Rector, in an aside to Wimsey.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:34 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by LGTrotter
DRT wrote:Tuke Holdsworth?
Yes!
Now you'll be off on your solo career again I s'pose?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:36 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by DRT
The BBC have a long tradition of making comedies in two series of six episodes. Which of those am I watching now?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:37 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
DRT wrote:The BBC have a long tradition of making comedies in two series of six episodes. Which of those am I watching now?
Fawlty Towers
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:40 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by DRT
djewesbury wrote:Fawlty Towers
No.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:49 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by LGTrotter
The young ones?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:52 Sun 01 Dec 2013
by DRT
LGTrotter wrote:The young ones?
No, but I am glad to see you are both paying attention.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:13 Mon 02 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
DRT wrote:LGTrotter wrote:The young ones?
No, but I am glad to see you are both paying attention.
Well I don't know how many series of things the BBC makes!
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:15 Mon 02 Dec 2013
by DRT
djewesbury wrote:DRT wrote:LGTrotter wrote:The young ones?
No, but I am glad to see you are both paying attention.
Well I don't know how many series of things the BBC makes!
Would you expect your students to give up after one obvious guess or would you expect them to put in some graft and do their research?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:16 Mon 02 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
DRT wrote:djewesbury wrote:DRT wrote:LGTrotter wrote:The young ones?
No, but I am glad to see you are both paying attention.
Well I don't know how many series of things the BBC makes!
Would you expect your students to give up after one obvious guess or would you expect them to put in some graft and do their research?
Sigh. Yes sir.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:27 Mon 02 Dec 2013
by LGTrotter
Do you think this Christmas cake is done?
This is not a euphemism. Now back to the library.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:31 Mon 02 Dec 2013
by DRT
LGTrotter wrote:Do you think this Christmas cake is done?
No.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:33 Mon 02 Dec 2013
by LGTrotter
DRT wrote:LGTrotter wrote:Do you think this Christmas cake is done?
No.
The answer will be known on Christmas eve.
The office?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:35 Mon 02 Dec 2013
by DRT
LGTrotter wrote:The office?
No.
Clue: it is on
this list.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:37 Mon 02 Dec 2013
by LGTrotter
Before I look; is it a long list or a short one?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:39 Mon 02 Dec 2013
by DRT
LGTrotter wrote:Before I look; is it a long list or a short one?
It is described as "incomplete".
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:41 Mon 02 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
His Lordship Entertains.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:41 Mon 02 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
May I just say that your clues so far are rubbish?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:43 Mon 02 Dec 2013
by DRT
djewesbury wrote:May I just say that your clues so far are rubbish?
But you haven't asked for a clue. Do you want one?
Assuming yes, this sitcom is relatively modern and is not mainstream stuff from a BBC point of view.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:44 Mon 02 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
I can't guess again yet. I am thinking though.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:47 Mon 02 Dec 2013
by DRT
djewesbury wrote:His Lordship Entertains.
No.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:51 Mon 02 Dec 2013
by LGTrotter
Mongrels?
Go the Dan!
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:54 Mon 02 Dec 2013
by DRT
LGTrotter wrote:Mongrels?
No. A bit older.