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Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 11:50 Wed 02 Sep 2015
by DRT
PhilW wrote:A toilet seat? (I can just see Derek coming home to his mum and dad, waving his prized new possession made in woodwork).
You can tell Daniel is keen to win.
A question, if we're allowed - was this something you chose to make, or were told to make?
None of the above.
I seem to remember that there was a choice of two or three items to be made and I chose this one.
An obscure hint: the item was used by my parents for many years. Without modification, its purpose changed from around 1982 onwards.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 12:24 Wed 02 Sep 2015
by djewesbury
DRT wrote:PhilW wrote:A toilet seat? (I can just see Derek coming home to his mum and dad, waving his prized new possession made in woodwork).
You can tell Daniel is keen to win.
A question, if we're allowed - was this something you chose to make, or were told to make?
None of the above.
I seem to remember that there was a choice of two or three items to be made and I chose this one.
An obscure hint: the item was used by my parents for many years. Without modification, its purpose changed from around 1982 onwards.
A bit of wood for them to beat you with? You were 17 in 1982 and thus too big for them to beat. From them on it was hung on the wall, where it remains to this day, inspiring fond memories for all - a real Turnbull family conversation piece!
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 13:27 Wed 02 Sep 2015
by DRT
djewesbury wrote:A bit of wood for them to beat you with? You were 17 in 1982 and thus too big for them to beat. From them on it was hung on the wall, where it remains to this day, inspiring fond memories for all - a real Turnbull family conversation piece!
No.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 13:29 Wed 02 Sep 2015
by djewesbury
A glockenspiel?
Oh, not my turn. Phil, ask him if it was a glockenspiel.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 14:36 Wed 02 Sep 2015
by Glenn E.
A cutting board?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 15:05 Wed 02 Sep 2015
by PhilW
An egg-rack?
Later used as hamster climbing frame one Derek had left home for university and it was safe to have animals in the house again?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 17:28 Wed 02 Sep 2015
by DRT
No, no and no.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 18:33 Wed 02 Sep 2015
by djewesbury
Some wood?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 19:15 Wed 02 Sep 2015
by PhilW
I did contemplate "toothpicks" and "sawdust", but for now I'll go with bookends?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 19:42 Wed 02 Sep 2015
by AW77
A dinner tray?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 19:43 Wed 02 Sep 2015
by PhilW
A box?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 19:50 Wed 02 Sep 2015
by Glenn E.
a tv dinner stand?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:34 Wed 02 Sep 2015
by JWEW
A croquet set
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:50 Wed 02 Sep 2015
by flash_uk
A teapot stand
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:28 Wed 02 Sep 2015
by PhilW
A letter-opener?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:55 Wed 02 Sep 2015
by jdaw1
Nothing?
Aside: views of One Quiz about to overtake those of Apostrophe Crimes.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:53 Wed 02 Sep 2015
by DRT
PhilW wrote:bookends?
Close.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:56 Wed 02 Sep 2015
by djewesbury
A pipe rack
A boot rack
A walking stick rack
A coal scuttle
A bus driver
A terribly good period novel
Oops more than one guess.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:00 Wed 02 Sep 2015
by DRT
djewesbury wrote:A pipe rack
A boot rack
A walking stick rack
A coal scuttle
A bus driver
A terribly good period novel
Oops more than one guess.
All incorrect, but will be rejected one at a time as other guesses come in so you need to wait for six more guesses from other people before you are allowed another guess.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:04 Thu 03 Sep 2015
by djewesbury
Was it more or less boring than any of the above...? Or, did it become more or less boring after 1982?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 05:16 Thu 03 Sep 2015
by DRT
djewesbury wrote:Was it more or less boring than any of the above...? Or, did it become more or less boring after 1982?
Not your turn.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 14:41 Thu 03 Sep 2015
by Glenn E.
A bookshelf?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 14:54 Thu 03 Sep 2015
by djewesbury
Not my turn.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:21 Thu 03 Sep 2015
by DRT
Glenn E. wrote:A bookshelf?
Yes, which turned into a CD rack in 1982. It looked something like this...
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Glenn's turn.
Daniel has to wait for five more guesses before he can guess again.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:14 Thu 03 Sep 2015
by Alex Bridgeman
The answer to Glenn's question is £100.
My turn. Now I just have to think of a question.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:23 Thu 03 Sep 2015
by jdaw1
Surpassed:
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:24 Thu 03 Sep 2015
by djewesbury
jdaw1 wrote:Surpassed:
Immortalised!
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:25 Thu 03 Sep 2015
by djewesbury
The answer to Alex's question is mint.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:27 Thu 03 Sep 2015
by Glenn E.
How many times will Daniel post before it's his turn to guess?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:28 Thu 03 Sep 2015
by djewesbury
I know this. But drat, not my turn.
A donkey?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:11 Fri 04 Sep 2015
by jdaw1
The answer to Daniel’s question is 1+e^(iπ). Like Derek’s, really.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 04:45 Fri 04 Sep 2015
by DRT
jdaw1 wrote:The answer to Daniel’s question is 1+e^(iπ). Like Derek’s, really.
Are you trying to suggest that Daniel is more
mathematically beautiful than me? How can you possibly say that when we have never seen what is under that beard?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 08:14 Fri 04 Sep 2015
by jdaw1
jdaw1 wrote:Nothing?
jdaw1 wrote:1+e^(iπ).
Same score, old chap.
And no, we do not want to see under the beard. Scary!
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 11:01 Fri 04 Sep 2015
by PhilW
jdaw1 wrote:And no, we do not want to see under the beard. Scary!
+(-(e^(iπ)))
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 12:07 Fri 04 Sep 2015
by djewesbury
I thought we'd agreed that this forum would be conducted in English. This is the last warning - any more of this and I'm bringing in the poststructuralists. Then you'll be sorry.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 12:36 Fri 04 Sep 2015
by jdaw1
djewesbury wrote:bringing in the poststructuralists. Then you'll be sorry.
That could fit here. Does a bottle of, say, Graham 1985, have a single “identity as a stable "self" with a single, discernible” flavour? Or is each bottle — in a less-cryptic version of a post-structuralist’s words, each reading of each work of each author — experienced differently? Perhaps Port drinkers are merely repressed post-structuralists.
Everybody hide!
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 17:38 Fri 04 Sep 2015
by LGTrotter
djewesbury wrote:I thought we'd agreed that this forum would be conducted in English. This is the last warning - any more of this and I'm bringing in the poststructuralists. Then you'll be sorry.
I'll see your Derrida and raise you a Foucault. Go on, you know you want to...
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 17:40 Fri 04 Sep 2015
by djewesbury
LGTrotter wrote:djewesbury wrote:I thought we'd agreed that this forum would be conducted in English. This is the last warning - any more of this and I'm bringing in the poststructuralists. Then you'll be sorry.
I'll see your Derrida and raise you a Foucault. Go on, you know you want to...
I for one would be far happier if we did than if we just posted random symbols. And while we're at it I'll happily bring along Deleuze and Guattari, Walter Benjamin and Georges Bataille. And what about Guy Debord?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 17:42 Fri 04 Sep 2015
by DRT
As Kevin Bacon said in A Few Good Men: Is there a question anywhere in our future?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 18:41 Fri 04 Sep 2015
by Glenn E.
DRT wrote:As Kevin Bacon said in A Few Good Men: Is there a question anywhere in our future?
It has already been posted:
Glenn E. wrote:How many times will Daniel post before it's his turn to guess?
The tally continues to rise, as no one has posted a guess and so none of Daniel's pre-guesses has yet been consumed.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 19:10 Fri 04 Sep 2015
by DRT
A donkey?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 19:33 Fri 04 Sep 2015
by djewesbury
I have a question when you're ready.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 19:43 Fri 04 Sep 2015
by jdaw1
djewesbury wrote:random symbols.
The suggestion of randomness emphasises Charles Snow’s division. Each symbol is deep with meaning; the relationship between them is both inevitable and astonishing.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 11:52 Sat 05 Sep 2015
by Alex Bridgeman
LGTrotter wrote:djewesbury wrote:I thought we'd agreed that this forum would be conducted in English. This is the last warning - any more of this and I'm bringing in the poststructuralists. Then you'll be sorry.
I'll see your Derrida and raise you a Foucault. Go on, you know you want to...
The pendulum swings first one way and then the other while the world rotates underneath it. There is a fine example I. The science museum, if I remember my youth accurately.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 14:49 Sat 05 Sep 2015
by djewesbury
AHB wrote:LGTrotter wrote:djewesbury wrote:I thought we'd agreed that this forum would be conducted in English. This is the last warning - any more of this and I'm bringing in the poststructuralists. Then you'll be sorry.
I'll see your Derrida and raise you a Foucault. Go on, you know you want to...
The pendulum swings first one way and then the other while the world rotates underneath it. There is a fine example I. The science museum, if I remember my youth accurately.
Also in the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles; and is there still anything in the Panthéon, or was that just the site of the initial demonstration?
Wrong Foucault, but -5 points for trying.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 14:51 Sat 05 Sep 2015
by jdaw1
djewesbury wrote:but -5 points for trying.
Teacher encouraging pupils to be silent. Noted.
He really isn’t a micro-economist.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 15:10 Sat 05 Sep 2015
by PhilW
AHB wrote:LGTrotter wrote:
I'll see your Derrida and raise you a Foucault. Go on, you know you want to...
The pendulum swings first one way and then the other while the world rotates underneath it. There is a fine example I. The science museum, if I remember my youth accurately.
We had one in the Physics/Engineering building at university. An interesting device. Was the Foucault you intended as interesting, and if so, why?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 15:56 Sat 05 Sep 2015
by djewesbury
PhilW wrote:AHB wrote:LGTrotter wrote:
I'll see your Derrida and raise you a Foucault. Go on, you know you want to...
The pendulum swings first one way and then the other while the world rotates underneath it. There is a fine example I. The science museum, if I remember my youth accurately.
We had one in the Physics/Engineering building at university. An interesting device. Was the Foucault you intended as interesting, and if so, why?
Define 'as interesting'.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 18:25 Sat 05 Sep 2015
by LGTrotter
PhilW wrote:AHB wrote:LGTrotter wrote:
I'll see your Derrida and raise you a Foucault. Go on, you know you want to...
The pendulum swings first one way and then the other while the world rotates underneath it. There is a fine example I. The science museum, if I remember my youth accurately.
We had one in the Physics/Engineering building at university. An interesting device. Was the Foucault you intended as interesting, and if so, why?
I would refer you to the course reading list, 'Madness and civilisation' and 'Discipline and punish', particularly the first title, and the chapter on the ship of fools may prove useful in understanding the forum, the second title we will consider in the specialist theme of 'Apostrophe Crimes' in the second semester.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 18:34 Sat 05 Sep 2015
by Alex Bridgeman
djewesbury wrote:AHB wrote:LGTrotter wrote:djewesbury wrote:I thought we'd agreed that this forum would be conducted in English. This is the last warning - any more of this and I'm bringing in the poststructuralists. Then you'll be sorry.
I'll see your Derrida and raise you a Foucault. Go on, you know you want to...
The pendulum swings first one way and then the other while the world rotates underneath it. There is a fine example I. The science museum, if I remember my youth accurately.
Also in the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles; and is there still anything in the Panthéon, or was that just the site of the initial demonstration?
Wrong Foucault, but -5 points for trying.
Well that's what I get for trying to lighten the mood and make meaningless drivel something more entertaining than Poets Corner. I shall go off in a huff and listen to the cricket.
Oh heck. No I won't. What shall I do instead which is more entertaining than meaningless drivel ... Aha! I shall catch up on back episodes of
Tweet of the Day.