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Posted: **08:26 Fri 28 Mar 2014**

AHB wrote:Is it a tawny with indication of age?

No, not a tawny. 10/20 questions/guesses remaining.

Posted: **15:25 Fri 28 Mar 2014**

A recap, since we're on a new page. The question:

PhilW wrote:I have just opened and decanted a bottle of port. I was surprised to find that the cork did not have the producer's name on it; I believe this is the only bottle younger than I where I have seen this; I am certain it is not a fake. What is it?

What is known so far:

It is not a VP, nor an SQVP
It is not a Tawny
It is bottled and shipped by a Portuguese producer
It was purchased in the UK
It is not from the '80s
It is not Tuke Holdsworth, nor a Côtto
It is not supermarket branded, nor a BOB
I had never opened this port previously

10/20 questions/guesses remain.

Posted: **15:45 Fri 28 Mar 2014**

PhilW wrote:A recap, since we're on a new page. The question:
PhilW wrote:I have just opened and decanted a bottle of port. I was surprised to find that the cork did not have the producer's name on it; I believe this is the only bottle younger than I where I have seen this; I am certain it is not a fake. What is it?
What is known so far:
It is not a VP, nor an SQVP

It is not a Tawny

It is bottled and shipped by a Portuguese producer

It was purchased in the UK

It is not from the '80s

It is not Tuke Holdsworth, nor a Côtto

It is not supermarket branded, nor a BOB

I had never opened this port previously
10/20 questions/guesses remain.

And I think you said it was younger than you, should that be included as a fact?

Posted: **15:45 Fri 28 Mar 2014**

It must be a white port then - is it Dalva 71?

Posted: **16:26 Fri 28 Mar 2014**

Niepoort Garrafeira 1977? (Is that younger than PhilW?)

Posted: **16:34 Fri 28 Mar 2014**

Glenn E. wrote:Niepoort Garrafeira 1977? (Is that younger than PhilW?)

You charmer.

Posted: **17:43 Fri 28 Mar 2014**

djewesbury wrote:And I think you said it was younger than you, should that be included as a fact?

I repeated the question in which that information appeared.

djewesbury wrote:It must be a white port then - is it Dalva 71?

Nope, and not a white port.

Glenn E. wrote:Niepoort Garrafeira 1977? (Is that younger than PhilW?)

Nope, and not a Garrafeira (yes).
8/20 questions/guesses remain.

Posted: **17:44 Fri 28 Mar 2014**

Is it an LBV?

Posted: **00:39 Sat 29 Mar 2014**

djewesbury wrote:Is it an LBV?

No.
7/20 remaining.

Posted: **10:11 Sat 29 Mar 2014**

I'm thinking a crusted port, from the 70s...

Posted: **10:56 Sat 29 Mar 2014**

Cockburn Special Reserve from 1973?

Posted: **13:35 Sat 29 Mar 2014**

djewesbury wrote:Cockburn Special Reserve from 1973?

No.

flash_uk wrote:I'm thinking a crusted port, from the 70s...

Counting that as two questions (since probably helpful to do so, rather than just saying no):
(i) Yes it is crusted, (ii) No, not from the 70s

Interestingly, I have two different 1973 crusted ports, and was intending to pick up a third at Sworders, but the bidding on them went waaaaaay over what I would have expected for that particular lot; which is a shame, as a mini-crusted-73-horizontal sometime seemed like quite a charming idea.

4/20 guesses/questions remaining.

Posted: **13:37 Sat 29 Mar 2014**

It's a Graham Crusted. Er, 98?

Posted: **13:47 Sat 29 Mar 2014**

djewesbury wrote:It's a Graham Crusted. Er, 98?

Indeed it is/was. I was intending to provide a pic of the cork, but it was "tidied" and I can't find it (probably gone with the rubbish collection). There was no brand on the cork, only "Crusted Port" and "Bottled 1998" (or it may just have been "Crusted 1998", I can't remember exactly). Surprising to me that it did not have "Graham's" on the cork.

Posted: **13:50 Sat 29 Mar 2014**

This is indeed peculiar. I can't really remember what any I've had in the past have had branded on the cork.
Oh - my guess now. Errmmm.

Posted: **13:52 Sat 29 Mar 2014**

djewesbury wrote:Oh - my guess now. Errmmm.

No more guessing needed, you already got the answer :doh:
Don't feel obliged to follow up with another question; I think our previous approach of "ask when you have something" works better than "now you have to ask something"

Posted: **13:53 Sat 29 Mar 2014**

Yes sorry I meant question, not guess.
Good, I'll think about it and post at some point in the not too distant future.

Posted: **15:45 Sat 29 Mar 2014**

PhilW wrote:(this thread needs renaming to "20 questions"! ok... 17 questions/guesses remaining!)

PhilW wrote:Don't feel obliged to follow up with another question; I think our previous approach of "ask when you have something" works better than "now you have to ask something"

Lots of rule changing being proposed, without so much as an attempt at a consensus or even a vote. Pah! The old rules were good for 275 pages; let them continue.

I do hope that Daniel ignores this new-fangled revolutionary claptrap and does his duty.

Posted: **15:48 Sat 29 Mar 2014**

jdaw1 wrote:
PhilW wrote:(this thread needs renaming to "20 questions"! ok... 17 questions/guesses remaining!)
PhilW wrote:Don't feel obliged to follow up with another question; I think our previous approach of "ask when you have something" works better than "now you have to ask something"
Lots of rule changing being proposed, without so much as an attempt at a consensus or even a vote. Pah! The old rules were good for 275 pages; let them continue.

I like that poll, especially as my vote that we should definitely not have a poll has now pushed that option into the lead.

jdaw1 wrote:I do hope that Daniel ignores this new-fangled revolutionary claptrap and does his duty.

Somehow I knew you'd say that.

Posted: **16:07 Sat 29 Mar 2014**

djewesbury wrote:I like that poll, especially as my vote that we should definitely not have a poll has now pushed that option into the lead.

Into a lead shared with two others.

Posted: **16:08 Sat 29 Mar 2014**

Has this poll been rigged?? I'm sure I was in the lead. Oh, democracy. This is why I don't want us to have a poll!

Posted: **16:27 Sat 29 Mar 2014**

djewesbury wrote:Has this poll been rigged?? I'm sure I was in the lead. Oh, democracy. This is why I don't want us to have a poll!

People have up to five votes, which may be changed. Maybe somebody else voted, or maybe somebody changed his vote to confound your plans.

Posted: **19:55 Sun 30 Mar 2014**

jdaw1 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:Has this poll been rigged?? I'm sure I was in the lead. Oh, democracy. This is why I don't want us to have a poll!
People have up to five votes, which may be changed. Maybe somebody else voted, or maybe somebody changed his vote to confound your plans.

Isn't this what transferable voting systems are all about? They allow the electorate to frustrate a decision being made?

Posted: **20:43 Sun 30 Mar 2014**

Two quizzes at a time.

I am currently at a quiz. What is the theme?

Posted: **20:44 Sun 30 Mar 2014**

Two quizzes at a time.

I am currently at a quiz. What is the theme?

Posted: **21:05 Sun 30 Mar 2014**

Films

Posted: **21:08 Sun 30 Mar 2014**

Port wine

Posted: **21:34 Sun 30 Mar 2014**

Yes! The Belfast Film Festival quiz!
Your turn!

EDIT: Flash, not André..

Posted: **21:37 Sun 30 Mar 2014**

Will sleep on it...

Posted: **20:20 Sat 05 Apr 2014**

Have you awoken yet?

Posted: **21:17 Sat 05 Apr 2014**

flash_uk wrote:Will sleep on it...

Is the answer a bed?

Posted: **21:19 Sat 05 Apr 2014**

DRT wrote:
flash_uk wrote:Will sleep on it...
Is the answer a bed?

Whoops. Derek's turn. Are you sure you wanted that?

Posted: **21:39 Sat 05 Apr 2014**

djewesbury wrote:
DRT wrote:
flash_uk wrote:Will sleep on it...
Is the answer a bed?
Whoops. Derek's turn. Are you sure you wanted that?

Over to you Derek

Posted: **22:02 Sat 05 Apr 2014**

flash_uk wrote:
djewesbury wrote:
DRT wrote:
flash_uk wrote:Will sleep on it...
Is the answer a bed?
Whoops. Derek's turn. Are you sure you wanted that?
Over to you Derek

I refer you to Rule 42b. It is still Flash's turn.

Posted: **22:10 Sat 05 Apr 2014**

DRT wrote:
flash_uk wrote:
djewesbury wrote:
DRT wrote:
flash_uk wrote:Will sleep on it...
Is the answer a bed?
Whoops. Derek's turn. Are you sure you wanted that?
Over to you Derek
I refer you to Rule 42b. It is still Flash's turn.

By common consensus this Rule was struck down in the meeting where we realised that this game does not have 42 Rules.

Posted: **22:29 Sat 05 Apr 2014**

Last week I observed and photographed a feature within our solar system that I had not previously witnessed.

What did I photograph?

Posted: **22:37 Sat 05 Apr 2014**

DRT wrote:Last week I observed and photographed a feature within our solar system that I had not previously witnessed.

What did I photograph?

Something's moon?

Posted: **23:39 Sat 05 Apr 2014**

djewesbury wrote:Something's moon?

No.

Posted: **05:44 Sun 06 Apr 2014**

A celestial occurance?

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Posted: **07:26 Sun 06 Apr 2014**

CaliforniaBrad wrote:A celestial occurance?

Yes, but the answer needs to be more specific.

Posted: **07:52 Sun 06 Apr 2014**

A red dwarf

Edited: forget that guess, I just re-read your question and noticed it says "within our solar system". So my guess is the ISS.

Posted: **07:59 Sun 06 Apr 2014**

flash_uk wrote:my guess is the ISS.

No, I have seen that many times with the naked eye. What I witnessed was through a telescope.

Posted: **08:47 Sun 06 Apr 2014**

A conjunction of two planets?

Posted: **08:54 Sun 06 Apr 2014**

mpij wrote:A conjunction of two planets?

No.

Posted: **09:25 Sun 06 Apr 2014**

Was it a rain shower on Neptune?

Posted: **09:34 Sun 06 Apr 2014**

djewesbury wrote:Was it a rain shower on Neptune?

No, but [clue incoming] you have correctly deduced that the "feature" I witnessed was a phenomenon rather than an object.

Posted: **09:57 Sun 06 Apr 2014**

An atmospheric feature on earth?

Posted: **10:17 Sun 06 Apr 2014**

jdaw1 wrote:An atmospheric feature on earth?

No. Not on Earth.

Posted: **10:34 Sun 06 Apr 2014**

It isn’t my turn, so I can’t guess a solar flare. So I shan’t.

Posted: **10:37 Sun 06 Apr 2014**

Derek will surely have seen solar flares before.

But still, was it a solar flare?

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