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Re: Caledonia you're calling me
DIR By: Bakis
Date: January 14, 2020, 5:51 am
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I'm feeling unreasonably pleased with myself having identified
Fournier and Butterworth as WW1 casualties on University
Challenge. Failed on the third bonus however.
In fairness those whose French teachers had not undertaken
postgraduate research on Fournier and conveyed the results to
generations of their pupils would have been at a disadvantage.
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Re: Caledonia you're calling me
DIR By: JCFC
Date: January 14, 2020, 6:16 am
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Those were the two I knew - the third meant nothing to me, even
after the students gave the correct reply.
I was not over-enamoured with Le Grand Meaulnes, but do
particularly like Banks of Green Willow.
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Re: Caledonia you're calling me
DIR By: QuoCob
Date: January 14, 2020, 7:28 am
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--- Quote from: Bakis link ---
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> I'm feeling unreasonably pleased with myself having identified
Fournier and Butterworth as WW1 casualties on University
Challenge. Failed on the third bonus however.
> In fairness those whose French teachers had not undertaken
postgraduate research on Fournier and conveyed the results to
generations of their pupils would have been at a disadvantage.
>
--- End Quote ---
I'm over the moon if I get my name right on University
Challenge...
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Re: Caledonia you're calling me
DIR By: Whistleblower
Date: January 14, 2020, 4:27 pm
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--- Quote from: Microscopist link ---
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> [quote] I too shall be watching Only Connect, a programme
which I find compelling
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I thought of Whistleblower when "shibboleth" came up in the
missing vowels round. Having not come across the word for
several years I have now encountered it four times in 2020 -
perhaps it will become the word of the year?
I look forward to reading JCFC's report on both games [emoji39]
[/quote]
shibboleth was one of only three missing vowel questions I got
right.
#Post#: 14795--------------------------------------------------
Re: Caledonia you're calling me
DIR By: Whistleblower
Date: January 14, 2020, 4:29 pm
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--- Quote from: QuoCob link ---
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> [quote author=Bakis link=topic=486.msg14783#msg14783
date=1579002704]
> I'm feeling unreasonably pleased with myself having identified
Fournier and Butterworth as WW1 casualties on University
Challenge. Failed on the third bonus however.
> In fairness those whose French teachers had not undertaken
postgraduate research on Fournier and conveyed the results to
generations of their pupils would have been at a disadvantage.
>
--- End Quote ---
I'm over the moon if I get my name right on University
Challenge...
[/quote]
Got Butterworth but not alas Fournier. Quo Cob, I am absolutely
with you but I'm not sure, under the pressure of the question
and time, whether I would even get my name right.
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Re: Caledonia you're calling me
DIR By: JCFC
Date: March 10, 2020, 8:15 am
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Receiving an e-mail from Hearts this lunchtime, I was surprised
to read
"Back the team as they look to enjoy another successful year!"
which seemed odd, given their current parlous position in the
Premiership.
All was explained, however, as scrolling down it continued
"Hearts Women season tickets are now on sale"
It seems I could have had one for £15 - a ticket that is.
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Re: Caledonia you're calling me
DIR By: JCFC
Date: March 10, 2020, 8:17 am
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As an afterthought, do Hearts Women share the men's team
nickname of The Jam Tarts?
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Re: Caledonia you're calling me
DIR By: JCFC
Date: March 14, 2020, 12:25 pm
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It had all seemed such a good idea. Transpennine's flash sale -
it lasted less than a day - provided train travel from
Huddersfield to Edinburgh for just £1 each way. Four nights in
a hotel (rather more than £1 each) would allow for a Friday
night development league match at Dalkeith and a Sunday trip to
Livingston v Hearts. As for Saturday, the choice was extensive:
There was a fine horticultural offer - Linlithgow Rose v
Crossgates Primrose, Dundonald Bluebell at Whitehill and Hill of
Beath Hawthorn at Tranent. The greatest attraction though (even
beating Matthew MacDermid at Stirling Albion) was a Junior Cup
Quarter Final replay between Broughty Athletic and Darvel. The
Scottish government had cleared the way for matches to go ahead,
but on Friday lunchtime the SFA decided, sensibly enough
perhaps, to suspend all football forthwith.
All was not quite lost, however, as one match to survive was at
Inverleith
Saturday 14th March 2020
Tennants National League Division 2
Stewart's Melville. 45 v 8 Newton Stewart
George Pounder (Glenalmond)
It was not the easiest of watches, with both sides in
combinationns of red and black though Stewart's had thin bands
of yellow. Mr Pounder, though, stood out in a lurid green shirt,
though the short sleeves over a black undershirt looked infra
dig for a public schoolmaster. The home side are top of the
table, while many of the visitors looked youthful and
lightweight. Though they managed a couple of individual breaks
in the early stages, they were under pressure most of the time,
particularly in the scrum, where their only hope was quick ball
or rapid backward movement. Stewart's went ahead with a
converted try on the quarter hour, Newton Stewart getting on the
scoreboard with a penalty five minutes later. The rest of the
half saw a lot of handling errors. Mr Pounder was quick to pick
up offside and obstruction, but was tested in the closing few
minutes of the half as Stewart's pressed near the line, opting
repeatedly for scrums rather than penalties as the visitors
offended time and again, till a card or even a penalty try
seemed likely. Eventually one forward was given a warning, they
did not dare offend again and the scrum headed for the line.
Stewart's made the mistake however of picking the ball up and
going for the corner. They were held up over the line, the
half-time whistle went and Stewart's were not entirely happy.
Their dominance secured them an unconverted pushover try early
in the second half, a handling error by the visitors soon
allowing them to add another try, converted this time. On 57
minutes a further scrum offence finally earned the visiting prop
a yellow card, necessitating the withdrawal of a flanker to be
replaced by the touch judge. At the next scrum they were pushed
back15 metres allowing Stewart's to pick up and flop over for
try number four. A foolish reaction by the home number 8 gave
him the chance to have a sit down for ten minutes, during which
Newton Stewart crossed for a try in the corner to make It 26-8.
On 77 minutes came the best moment of the match, a little kick
through from Stewart's being neatly picked up and passed to the
winger who went behind the posts. Or maybe not the best, as
another good move provided another try two minutes later. From
the restart five phases allowed Stewart's to score one final
try.
JCFC is not qualified to comment much on Mr Pounder's
performance - though ignorance does not normally stop him.
Suffice it to say that he looked to get most things right, had a
good manner and was of course treated with respect.
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Re: Caledonia you're calling me
DIR By: Microscopist
Date: March 14, 2020, 6:27 pm
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"The best laid plans o' mice an' men gang aft a-gley" - in this
case by way of a 120nm particle.
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Re: Caledonia you're calling me
DIR By: JCFC
Date: March 15, 2020, 10:42 am
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Beware - this will be even more boring and irrelevant than
usual. (Yes, that is possible.)
With the ticket for Livingston now useless, the number 36 bus
took me on a circuitous route through the Southern suburbs,
passing the Church Hill Theatre where Ramsay Dumbarton had once
played the Duke of Plaza Toro, before terminating at the Ocean
Centre in Leith. The return to the centre was made on foot, by
way of the Water of Leith Walkway, the Warriston Path and the
Rodney Street tunnel, arriving at the foot of Scotland Street.
Unsurprisingly there is no number 44, the odd numbers reaching
43, but the even ones finishing at 26. Round the corner at the
top there was Drummond Place, but no attempt was made to spot
the nudists of Moray Place. All of this. will be gobbledygook to
the vast majority, for which I apologise.
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