IT’S A FRIDAY QUIZ NIGHT

joe6pack Friday night

quizpackHello patrons.

Tonight for something a little different we will have a little quiz night.

download (2)The rules

I will post a series of  10 questions

You will have 15 mins to think about them and post your answers.

Then another series of questions etc.

I will score the previous series and post totals before the next series.

If I make mistakes shoot me.

THIS IS A HONESTY SYSTEM. PLEASE NO GOOGLE ETC.

ASKING PARTNERS, FRIENDS,ETC IS ACCEPTABLE

This takes a little bit of work, so if I run a little late with posting forgive me.

First game will begin about 6.00pm correct time.

10 min/5 min warning will be given.

The winner will be crowned” THE PUB” Champion until the next time.

Join in have a bit of fun and good luck.

 

 

409 thoughts on “IT’S A FRIDAY QUIZ NIGHT”

  1. tlbd

    Books that won’t be written: The Wit of Tony Abbott.

    It would be a one page job with no text.

  5. Al Palster

    Yes indeed , not long after I didn’t start reading Lazarus Rising I didn’t start reading Battlelines 🙂

  6. CTar1

    Chilcot could be interesting…………………eventually.

    Iraq invasion 2003: The bloody warnings six wise men gave to Tony Blair as he prepared to launch poorly planned campaign

    ……….Those “six wise men” were all academics, expert in Iraq, the Middle East and international affairs

    ……..The six men were assembled around the Cabinet table in 2002 by Sir Lawrence Freedman, professor of war studies at King’s College London and an adviser to Blair.

    …….There has been outrage at the news that the report will not be published until after the election, but Dr Dodge believes this is partly because members of the panel want to get their draft of history absolutely right – and that they will not pull punches.

    “They fought like cats and dogs to get the transcripts of the conversations between Blair and George W Bush,” says the political scientist, who gave evidence to the inquiry’s first gathering back in 2009.

    “This is not going to be written in high mandarin. It will be clear and direct. It is going to be damning.”

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/iraq-invasion-2003-the-bloody-warnings-six-wise-men-gave-to-tony-blair-as-he-prepared-to-launch-poorly-planned-campaign-10000839.html

  8. jaycee
    I am on a freebie facebook page where people give each other stuff, with rules, or post where stuff is out on the street that someone has said they need etc. Sometimes it will be a few nappies to last to payday, or some toys or some fruit on a tree etc up to asking for furniture, beds mostly.

    Anyway, people get caught out taking stuff for free ‘for anyone in need’ and selling on gumtree or the facebook bargain pages, except there are eyes everywhere and they get caught and banned. But there is always someone. I do the giving side mostly plant cuttings or clothes, crockery etc, or I will pick up a coffee table or baby bath on hard rubbish pile to offer,. I am not ‘in need’ as the page states but I have picked some things up from the page for people who do not use the internet.

    But the vultures are there. Taking stuff offered for people doing it tough. Just like our government, which validates such behaviour.

  9. Yes, well Puffy..you come to expect a percentage thing when dealing with an ‘off the street” scenario, because of the numbers involved…But amongst the ‘professional ‘ class, or the skilled classes , you’d think there would be a degree of dignity involved…but it seems like it’s every person for themselves and the devil take the hinder most !
    I mean honestly..can you name one financial adviser you’d trust with capability AND honesty?(excluding rellies)….one bank manager?…one real-estate agent?…one lawyer?…tradie?…horse-trader?..etc. etc. It’s getting so you can’t trust even your own judgement!!

  11. Jaycee,

    The real estate agent who handled my mother’s sale is a man of great integrity.

    I know a small number of lawyers who are scrupulously honest and capable, though the number is decreasing: they are mostly older than me, and are dying off.

    I trust my own financial judgment above that of any bankie I’ve ever encountered.

  12. Fiona…Not in any way contrdicting your experience in these affairs, but you’d have to agree that your professional / scholarly training and presentation elevates you in the eyes of those you have dealings with a notch or two above the pedestrian and therefore grants you a good deal of “gratuitous expectation” that is withdrawn to the “other postcode classes”.
    Likewise in matters of legal advice…I should expect if one approaches the barrister with a Geelong Grammar tie and/or vocabulary, they’d be met with a more accommodating ear!…if you get my drift.

  13. As for banking..I have to concur with your appraisal…I too trust to my own judgement…: “Get in that f#ckin’ mattress!!!”

  14. Jaycee,

    I don’t agree. When I was practising, I encountered several lawyers – including in the firm where I worked – who tried to pull swifties on me. Similarly after I “retired” – because I only let people know my previous employment when it suits me. I’ve also had to deal with several real estate agents who were less than scrupulous.

  15. Fiona….There’s an old saying..that I am dead certain you and many on this forum have heard..AND I am as certain reflects upon any professional circumstance that yourself have had the experience to confront…it goes like this : “You can take the boy/girl from West Heidelberg, but you cannot take …..(you know the rest!)” ..in your particular circumstance it may be a suburb somewhat more favourably postcoded!

  17. My hubbie was talked out of buying his SA gov’t housing house for a measly $40,000. (before he was my hubbie) by his financial blue and gold logo” adviser”. He would have paid no rent minimal upkeep. ( It was a very solid brick semi) and he could have sold it ofr three times that ten years later. His investment portfolio did not make that rate of increase, but at least the adviser got his trailing commissions,
    Hubby also followed the financial advice of a former Adelaide radio announcer (he always listened to the talkback) and it took ten years to get his modest compensation payout back after the investors were fleeced.

    Hubby worked at the Holdens factory in Elizabeth for the last 17 years of his working life, in the spare parts department, sending spares all over the country.

    So financial advisers? A special prison, overlooking a pile of gold they can never reach.

  18. To clarify things..This afternoon, I had to deal with the sale of “Sam” , our Standardbred pony to this hustler who sounded like a cross between the “yeah-but” girl from Little Brittain and Cybil from Fawlty Towers….while listening to her bullshit on about Sammy’s “shortcomings, I found myself unconsciously replying in the extremely short gaps in her prattling..; “Oh I know…yes..I know!!”..without the slightest feeling of irony from either of us!!

  19. Some might say : “You got a chip on your shoulder !!”….and I’d reply…: “Yeah!?..and I wonder how THAT got there?”

  21. Good one, Bill

    “No leader can end a conversation about our nation’s sense of self. No leader can settle the question of Australia’s global role and responsibilities. And no leader should take pride in trying,” Shorten said.

    “Pulling up the drawbridge of our identity, of our place in the world, shuts out the contribution of the next generation, the evolution of self that every people has undergone with joy and trepidation, in every century, and in most decades of that century.”

  22. My dad inherited a house from a friend who died. The diseased’s sister, naturally, felt it belonged to her. Dad made no fuss and told the lawyer he didn’t want it. Lawyer replied that not many would make such a gesture.

  26. jaycee

    Yes, it was the right thing to do. Yet, sometimes I think that dad was kind and fair to others even if it meant depriving his own children in the process. The idea in his mind was that We the children could always cope with any burden.

    I’m refuting his idea and doing the reverse with son. He definitely comes first.

  27. I am watching beautiful Adelaide, with the Tour Down Under racing its way around the city streets. Just gorgeous. It is hard to believe that we have had it for 17 years (and ALWAYS keeping a strict watch on Victoria, the pirates.) Although only in the last few years has it been part of the Tour world circuit.

    We were shocked when we lost the Grand Prix after ten years, but the government went on a concerted project to replace it and sourced a bike race. I say we got the better end of the deal. At least we don’t have a city clouded in GP pollution for a week. 😆

  32. It will be time to put together a SA Chapter knees up when I jet back from the Canberra meet-up. Does anyone have any pull in getting us into something interesting. New Adelaide Stadium, a winery, guvvy house, the brewery 😆 , any ideas. Just to offer an add-on activity for bludg/pubsers

  37. Leone,
    I hope so, Nothing would more underline the shallowness, absurdity and stupidy of this ‘honours’ system than investing Sir Lying Toad.

  39. The OH. responded with a suggestion to “cure” my grumpiness..; ” Some outside work can be good to distract you from the internet”..
    “Oh yes..” I sarcastically replied..” There’s a good motto in there ; ‘Work can set you free’ !”….then I ran!

  47. Our lot (I am speaking as a 2nd fleet descendant after we stole the place off the locals ) have never been impressed with the Bunyip Aristocracy.

  48. “Dame Peta Credlin”…for services rendered to the nation ?
    “Sir Mark Textor”…for rending served to the nation ?
    “Sir John Howard”..for the nation rented with it’s services ?
    “Sir Peter Costello”…For the rent that was served upon the nation ?
    “Dame Gina Rinehart”..for the rogering served upon the nation ?
    “Sir George Pell”…for nothing more than the rogering ?

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