Early Risers.

[iL Dottore]

I like the way Bear, PhiljW and The Lurker are thinking. There’s definitely a role for these chaps in Captain Cynical’s organisation.

 

The answers provided are - for the most part - correct. Question 3 I would argue is the box jellyfish as the stings are so agonising that you would spasm, go under and drown very quickly. As for 5), the trick question, if you knew about it then it wouldn’t be a perfect crime….

 

PhiljW is complaining that today’s quiz was too easy. Harrumph! I guess I’ll have to bring forward my next quiz (on musical instruments) and make it really hard!

[TheQ]

Mooring Awl, Inner Temple  Hare,

Finished the book I was reading, so went to sleep early, woken at 01:05 by some heavy hydraulically driven farm machinery going past.. Very hot, went downstairs to the sofa a bit cooler there, total sleep about 6 hours, but very broken up...

 

The Book I was Reading? Richard the Turd Third.. A very detailed book, there can't be many countries in the world where they can tell you what a man eat (or was served to him) on a day 538 years ago.. Royal accounts and even City accounts from places like York and Southampton still hold a remarkable amount of information..

 

An Idea for Blue Moon's control panel just popped into brain, smaller lighter, much more elegant.. Plus an Idea to reduce my and the boats internal soggyness if it were raining during a race.. Now to try some scale drawings...

 

Of scale, ordered some whisky barrels for something unmentionable.. They arrived well modelled BUT...  A scale 2 foot high? So I've ordered some for the scale double the size, and they put some scale figures alongside showing them to be about 4ft high in that scale. Now that's the sort of thing I'm looking for..  Also arrived some windows for a building..

What can we see through the arched window today Children?...  We can see..... a Still..

 

Now to work out where to put a little tray of cheap whisky and a small fan, we're going to have smelly vision on the unmentionable.. I'd love to be able to add the smell of peat fires... But not the rotting seaweed on the beach, nor the Heilan coos..

 

Now children, I've been informing spamming you about sailing, When some whisky is drunk I think a quiz might be in order to see who's been paying attention..

 

But first.. 

Time to measure another shunt, 2 already done this morning.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 9, 2021 by TheQ

[PhilJ W]

7 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

PhiljW is complaining that today’s quiz was too easy. Harrumph! I guess I’ll have to bring forward my next quiz (on musical instruments) and make it really hard!

As I am completely tone deaf and sing like an elephant with his gonads gripped in a vice I think I will pass on any music question. 

[New Haven Neil]

Morning, and a dull but warm one it is, persisting down off and on, 18c, and a Fraggle at a bit of a loose end.  This may mean housework....pah!

 

A bit late on this morning too, but because I was distracted by a faceache link to this:

 

 

John Miles being from my home town, and as confirmed by the album cover at the time, he used the same barber as me!

[AndrewC]

Moaning all from the boring borough. 

 

le quiz

 

1: mozzers don't kill but certain plasmodiums carried by mozzers do. Malaria. 

2: tax man, although Hollywood would say Sean Connery

3: Has to be shark for the raw entertainment value and victim's fear factor. The others while deadly would be boring to watch. 

4: phaque pharma 

5: Serco track & trace. 

 

Another day du merde yesterday (patented frenglish) I did manage one household honey do from my list between stupid meetings that overran my lunch break. The Cat6a cabling to the train shed (yes I said train, so awl me to death) has been upgraded, tested, and the junction outside the back door replaced with a better waterproof box. This is all in aid of running a 10Gbit backbone to each of the mesh routers. It will also allow me to take my office laptops and related stuff off wifi, freeing up capacity & therefore speed for the rest. 

Seems that DHL are in serious competition to be the most totally sh*t delivery service by giving yokel and herpes a run for their money. Monday 8am: out for delivery. 9 hours later: 'Unable to locate address'. Then: 'The recipient was not present' Next update:  'It was not possible to deliver the shipment. Checks are being made.' Still waiting for a response from the so called team. ar5ebadgering sh1tweasels. I believe the correct translation is driver running late and couldn't be arsed so put what ever excuse popped up first in his handheld device. No motion at the door from the Ring camera recorded within an hour of their supposed 'The recipient was not present' update. 

 

Much cooler this morning. Bit o rain overnight. Time to check the company email to see what steaming turds dropped in overnight. 

Enjoy the day. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[BSW01]

Good morning everyone 

 

It’s quite dull today, very overcast and very little sun shine to be seen. Breakfast has now been consumed and I’ll shortly set off to the big orange DIY shed for a couple of bags of mortar, which I will store in the shed until weekend when construction of the fireplace wall will continue. After that, I have no firm plans until after dinner, when Charlie will drop by for his weekly model making session and we will spend the afternoon in the workshop. So, what do I do in the intervening couple of hours, I shall have a play on the computer designing windows for the engine shed. I tried printing decals and applying them to thin acetate sheet, but the ink was very thin and see through and the decals wrinkled too. My plan is to print a tinted frame onto a self adhesive paper label and cut out the frames! 

 

Back later

 

Brian

 

 

Edited September 9, 2021 by BSW01

[tigerburnie]

Morning, very dark up here, no sign of any predicted thunder storms, but it does not look like a day for doing much, a visit to the surgery for my flu jab could just be the high light of the day. I do have wood to cut for the winter fires, but it's not a day for annoying the neighbours with a chainsaw, possibly a bit of time in the the old summer house playing  and getting fishing gear prepared for a visit to the river Tay next week when I again will no doubt lose my battle of wits with a Salmon. Take care all and keep taking the tablets.

[PupCam]

No flying today, hangar door jammed ....

 

3 hours ago, polybear said:

Do any other fellow ERer's get the impression that Puppers is trying to swindle Bear?  Now if Puppers were to awake one fine morning, pull back the curtains to be greeted to the sight of all fence panels miraculously treated.....with Mr. Blobby pink wood stain, complete with yellow circles.....

 

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

That's too horrible to contemplate!  

 

OK Bear, how many LDCs did you require?   Do you need to set up a "Just in Bear Time"  delivery system?   Have you got plenty of hard standing for 8 off 40 Tonne articulated lorries?   When should deliveries start?  

 

 

 

 

 

[iL Dottore]

You only have @PhilJ W to blame for the following. He complained that this morning's quiz was too easy.

 

Here's a slightly harder quiz:

 

1.    Which is the odd one out: SOUND CITY, HIWATT, Mesa-Boogie, W-E-M?

2.    Annie Haslam was/is the lead singer with which group?

• The Victorian Era
• Renaissance
• The Middle Ages
• The Enlightenment
• Annie’s All-Star Band

3.    What do Joe Strummer, Steve “The Colonel” Cropper and Bruce Springsteen all have in common (apart from being successful musicians)?

4.    What is unique about Dave Brubeck’s Take 5 and who played the sax on the recording?

5.    “The Great American Songbook” is a genre brings together the best of American popular music from about 1920 to about 1960. Linda Ronstadt recorded 3 albums of songs from the Great American Songbook.

• What were the names of the albums?
• With which renowned musician did Linda collaborate?

6.    Who is/was the “Chairman of The Board”?

7.    What caused fights at its premiere in 1913 in Paris?

8.    On which folk rock album would you find a poem by Robert Burns and who was the group that recorded the album

9.    In June 2019 someone spent $3.9 Million on buying a guitar, a record price.

• What was the make (and year) of the guitar?
• Why was it so special?

10.  Arvo Pärt composes modern liturgical and classical music using the compositional technique known as i) Cacophony; ii) Tintinnabuli; iii) Chromatic Harmony

 

Bonus Question:

11. What is "Mother of Toilet Seat"?

 

Have fun!

Edited September 9, 2021 by iL Dottore
Date correction. Added bonus question

[New Haven Neil]

Well I only know 2, and that is because a close friend is a relation.  Renaissance.  And oh what a voice!

[PhilJ W]

I know # 2 but Neil has answered. #6 Chairman of the board is Frank Sinatra. I think # 1 is Sound City which is a studio. The others are all types of music.

Edited September 9, 2021 by PhilJ W

[monkeysarefun]

Everyone in question 3 died in a plane crash.

[monkeysarefun]

9 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

I know # 2 but Neil has answered. #6 Chairman of the board is Frank Sinatra. I think # 1 is Sound City which is a studio. The others are all types of music.

Except HIWATT which  is a species of penguin.

Edited September 9, 2021 by monkeysarefun

[Gwiwer]

4 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

what is the most deadly beast you would fill the pool with: Sharks? Electric Eels? Or Box Jellyfish?

I’m afraid my answer would fall foul of the “No potty-licks” house rule

 

Good morning all from a humid and gloomy House of Fun. The sun has made brief but failed attempts to burst through and we remain under fifty shades of grey stuff. 
 

I hope @chrisf manages a good and safe night out. Such things have been in very short supply of late and many of us have a deal of catching up due. 
 

Brown boxes are due today from several sources of which the most interesting may well be the Isle of Raasay. I have secured a third bottle of the very small output from their whisky distillery making one from each batch released to date. 
 

I’ll let you know my verdict when I have recuvrrrd  

 

Rcovred. 
 

Rick covered

 

Ruckoverrd

 

Ah shruffit. When I’ve shobered up  

[leopardml2341]

I'm not intelligent enough to engage with these quizzes

 

[leopardml2341]

Morning btw

[monkeysarefun]

1 minute ago, leopardml2341 said:

I'm not intelligent enough to engage with these quizzes

 

Just have a guess mate, thats all I'm doing!

[PhilJ W]

13 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

I know # 2 but Neil has answered. #6 Chairman of the board is Frank Sinatra. I think # 1 is Sound City which is a studio. The others are all types of music.

Correction, the answer to question 1 is W-E-M, the others are amplifiers. IIRC W-E-M was a group.

[Chris116]

13 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said:

Everyone in question 3 died in a plane crash.

I think Bruce Springsteen might be a little upset to be told how he is going to die!

[PhilJ W]

The answer to # 10 is Tintinnabuli 

[polybear]

3 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

This may mean housework....pah!

 

 

Bear feels your pain, having just completed the bathroom - that's 2 hours 38 minutes of my life I'll not see again.  Still:

(a) It's very clean, and

(b) It's a bit like having your goolies whacked between two house bricks - it feels great when it's finished.....

 

2 hours ago, AndrewC said:

5: Serco track & trace. 

 

 

2 hours ago, AndrewC said:

.....yokel and herpes....

 

DHL?  Drop it, hide it, lose it......

 

1 hour ago, PupCam said:

OK Bear, how many LDCs did you require?

 

 

Oodles.  And if Big H is visiting it'll be oodles and oodles...

 

1 hour ago, PupCam said:

  Do you need to set up a "Just in Bear Time"  delivery system? 

 

Sounds good...

 

1 hour ago, PupCam said:

  Have you got plenty of hard standing for 8 off 40 Tonne articulated lorries?

 

If Puppers has the drivers, Bear has the space....

 

1 hour ago, PupCam said:

   When should deliveries start?  

 

Ready....

 

1 hour ago, PupCam said:

 

 

 

Hmm....Bear thinks it's, well, somewhat subdued - that'll be down to Pupper's previous employment no doubt.

I was thinking more of:

 

- with:

[Tony_S]

45 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

What caused fights at its premiere in 1916 in Paris?

The battle of Verdun?

I suspect you may have meant 1913.

[jamie92208]

17 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

Correction, the answer to question 1 is W-E-M, the others are amplifiers. IIRC W-E-M was a group.

Not a group but a company called Western Electrical Music IIRC who were some of the first people to solve the problem of how to get decent soubd to large crowds at festivals. When the fompany folded many if thevpeople went to work for the Cliff Richard Organisation. Cliff makes quite a bitnif money providing PA and lighting services.

 

Jamie

[PhilJ W]

Is the answer to question 3 they all appeared in movies as themselves.

[iL Dottore]

4 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

The battle of Verdun?

I suspect you may have meant 1913.

You're right

Now corrected!