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Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 18:43 Sat 05 Sep 2015
by LGTrotter
Don't go. We need you Alex. I could post a picture of a dachshund dressed as a minion if this will help leaven the bread of these stodgy posts.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 19:03 Sat 05 Sep 2015
by djewesbury
Tweet of the Day is indeed an excellent programme. I've stayed with Chris Watson at Aldeburgh. He was recording everything. However I prefer his work with Cabaret Voltaire.
I would suggest we begin with The History of Sexuality vol. 1.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 19:13 Sat 05 Sep 2015
by Alex Bridgeman
LGTrotter wrote:Don't go. We need you Alex. I could post a picture of a dachshund dressed as a minion if this will help leaven the bread of these stodgy posts.
Yes!! That's what we need. Let's have pictures of dogs dressed as minions, preferably dogs named after famous philosophers just to keep the tone up.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 19:52 Sat 05 Sep 2015
by DRT
Meet
Socrates...
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Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:39 Sat 05 Sep 2015
by LGTrotter
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Philosophy.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:47 Sat 05 Sep 2015
by LGTrotter
And Socrates looks very thoughtful and lovely. I had a jack russell called Hegel once. I will try to look out a picture of him.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:39 Sat 05 Sep 2015
by PhilW
Socrates looks fairly unimpressed. The dachshunds seems to be taking it well in their stride.
You never hear about Schrodinger's dog. Perhaps his earlier experiments had a lower survival rate; at least the cat had a 50/50 chance - to begin with, at least.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:54 Sat 05 Sep 2015
by DRT
PhilW wrote:Socrates looks fairly unimpressed. The dachshunds seems to be taking it well in their stride.
You never hear about Schrodinger's dog. Perhaps his earlier experiments had a lower survival rate; at least the cat had a 50/50 chance - to begin with, at least.
How do you know that the dog wasn't in the box with the cat?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:13 Sat 05 Sep 2015
by jdaw1
Leave the cat alone — he is already half dead.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:31 Sat 05 Sep 2015
by djewesbury
jdaw1 wrote:Leave the cat alone — he is already half dead.
Or, not.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:39 Sat 05 Sep 2015
by DRT
Is Schrodinger's cat the new question?
I suppose we would never know.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:39 Sat 05 Sep 2015
by djewesbury
That might be the definitive end of the thread.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 19:06 Mon 07 Sep 2015
by Alex Bridgeman
djewesbury wrote:That might be the definitive end of the thread.
Or perhaps not. Perhaps there is another thread starting on some other forum as we read this one.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:30 Mon 07 Sep 2015
by DRT
AHB wrote:djewesbury wrote:That might be the definitive end of the thread.
Or perhaps not. Perhaps there is another thread starting on some other forum as we read this one.
But we wouldn't know whether or not that was true unless we opened the thread we didn't know about.
The thread is dead. Long live the thread!
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 13:20 Mon 14 Sep 2015
by djewesbury
Could the admins please close this thread to further posts, so that we can now admire it in its fullness? (That wasn't a quiz question.)
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:56 Tue 15 Sep 2015
by Alex Bridgeman
djewesbury wrote:Could the admins please close this thread to further posts, so that we can now admire it in its fullness? (That wasn't a quiz question.)
That would require an admin to look at the thread, which could cause sufficient uncertainty so as to cause the thread to reopen. Is that what you wanted?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:20 Tue 15 Sep 2015
by djewesbury
AHB wrote:djewesbury wrote:Could the admins please close this thread to further posts, so that we can now admire it in its fullness? (That wasn't a quiz question.)
That would require an admin to look at the thread, which could cause sufficient uncertainty so as to cause the thread to reopen. Is that what you wanted?
Sorry, not my turn.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:42 Mon 11 Jan 2016
by flash_uk
Would anyone be interested to have one quiz at a time resurrected?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:44 Mon 11 Jan 2016
by DRT
Hmmm? There are really only two possible answers and if I choose the right one it means it's my turn
Being a brave soldier I will say "Yes"
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:46 Mon 11 Jan 2016
by flash_uk
DRT wrote:"Yes"
Correct
Your turn.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:49 Mon 11 Jan 2016
by DRT
On Christmas Day I received five bottles of malt whisky as gifts.
Name three of them.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:33 Mon 11 Jan 2016
by djewesbury
This is a wild guess... 2 x Lagavulin 16, a Talisker 10 and an Aberlour 12 ?
It's just a guess to get us started.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:39 Mon 11 Jan 2016
by Doggett
DRT wrote:
On Christmas Day I received five bottles of malt whisky as gifts.
Name three of them.
From the unhappy face, I am guessing it wasn't...
Laphroaig
Talisker
Port Askaig
And so may have been...
Glen Moray
Glen Grant
Morrisons Signature Distiller's choice
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:56 Mon 11 Jan 2016
by DRT
djewesbury wrote:This is a wild guess... 2 x Lagavulin 16, a Talisker 10 and an Aberlour 12 ?
It's just a guess to get us started.
I knew you would fall into the trap, you being the only person I told on the day or since.
Your turn.
(I received a second Aberlour 12 after telling Danny Bhoy what I had)
One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:59 Mon 11 Jan 2016
by djewesbury
See Travel. Name the hotel.
(Show your working.)
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:14 Mon 11 Jan 2016
by LGTrotter
Surely they can put you up somewhere better than the Brussels cemetery?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:15 Mon 11 Jan 2016
by djewesbury
Nice try. And effortlessly, charmingly humorous as always. But wrong.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:10 Tue 12 Jan 2016
by DRT
The Metropole?
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Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 07:31 Tue 12 Jan 2016
by djewesbury
No
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 09:01 Tue 12 Jan 2016
by DRT
Not even half a mark for my working out?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 16:17 Tue 12 Jan 2016
by Alex Bridgeman
Am I allowed to answer?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 16:59 Tue 12 Jan 2016
by djewesbury
DRT wrote:Not even half a mark for my working out?
No
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 16:59 Tue 12 Jan 2016
by djewesbury
AHB wrote:Am I allowed to answer?
Yes
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 18:20 Tue 12 Jan 2016
by Alex Bridgeman
djewesbury wrote:AHB wrote:Am I allowed to answer?
Yes
Ole Granddady's house was a Dominican Abbey which got messed about a bit until he moved into it in the early 1800s when he was exiled from France by the Bourbon Kings. Although strictly speaking he was offered a full pardon by Louis XVIII but chose to go into exile in Brussels instead of staying in Paris. Now his house is the Carlton Hotel, the Brussels Dominican or something; very swanky. If you get the chance to take a look inside the Jacques-Louis David suite it's well worth a peep.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:40 Tue 12 Jan 2016
by LGTrotter
According to the history he 'exiled himself'. Or 'ran away' as we say in these parts. He was then invited back to be a court painter, but turned it down on account of finding the suite with sunken bath and hot and cold running courtesans more appealing. This must be the first example of 'sexing up a dossier' 200 years after the event. Rather like Chilcot.
With apologies to Alex's antecedents, only messin.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:15 Tue 12 Jan 2016
by djewesbury
Yes. Alex's turn. Rather nice here in The Dominican. But not looking forward to the day-long meeting tomorrow in which 6 people try to finish filling in a European Commission funding application for €5m.
Note to self: don't get taxis from the airport in future.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:52 Tue 12 Jan 2016
by Alex Bridgeman
LGTrotter wrote:According to the history he 'exiled himself'. Or 'ran away' as we say in these parts. He was then invited back to be a court painter, but turned it down on account of finding the suite with sunken bath and hot and cold running courtesans more appealing. This must be the first example of 'sexing up a dossier' 200 years after the event. Rather like Chilcot.
With apologies to Alex's antecedents, only messin.
I would run away too if I'd signed the King's death warrant only to see another King come back a few years later. There is a time to recognise that pushing water uphill is a pointless exercise.
And are you suggesting that I'm illegitimate? Born from a liaison with a hot or cold running courtesan? The amusing thing is (if I remember correctly) when he was in Brussels he was back with his ex-wife from his days in Paris.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:53 Tue 12 Jan 2016
by Alex Bridgeman
My quiz question: which port will I drink next? I won't know the answer until tomorrow, so guess away...
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:47 Tue 12 Jan 2016
by DRT
The same one as me?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:48 Thu 14 Jan 2016
by DRT
OK. It's time for a serious guess.
Was it a bottle of Fonseca 1977 that was much better than the second one we ordered, which was also lovely but didn't knock our socks off, or was it the youngest-tasting but lovely Taylor 1985 that any of the three of us had encountered?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 02:08 Thu 14 Jan 2016
by LGTrotter
Cockburn '85. Not well regarded but you have a few to spare. Drink up!
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 05:54 Thu 14 Jan 2016
by TLW
Vesuvio 1991. Now coming into its 25th year
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:49 Thu 14 Jan 2016
by Alex Bridgeman
Unfortunately DRT won, with uncanny prophetic powers. It was, indeed, the same as he drank and it was a bottle of Fonseca 1977.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 19:11 Fri 08 Jul 2016
by Alex Bridgeman
Things are too quiet so I'm asking a question. My question is "What Port am I about to open?"
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 19:17 Fri 08 Jul 2016
by jdaw1
Warre 1977. Obviously.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 19:42 Fri 08 Jul 2016
by Alex Bridgeman
jdaw1 wrote:Warre 1977. Obviously.
Neither Warre nor 1977.
It's now in a decanter and looking rather good.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:19 Fri 08 Jul 2016
by jdaw1
AHB wrote:Neither Warre nor 1977.
You sure? Third umpire please.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:24 Fri 08 Jul 2016
by PhilW
Gould Campbell 1960?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:17 Fri 08 Jul 2016
by jdaw1
PhilW wrote:Gould Campbell 1960?
Nonsense. Cockburn 1967. What else could it be?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:26 Fri 08 Jul 2016
by Alex Bridgeman
Not Gould Campbell, not Cockburn; not 1960, not 1967. It is a mainstream shipper and a recognised vintage.