Serendipity

This week we were called Jim's Elbow because, strangely enough, Jim's elbow was hurting for no apparent reason. Our team consisted of myself, His Lordship, Jim plus late arrivals Claire and Hugh. (His Lordship & Jim's brother in law was also supposed to come, but as expected he didn't turn up).

12 teams were playing last night, including us, obviously the crap weather discouraged people from coming along, including last weeks winners.

( it's the General Knowledge Round )
Answers will be screened so feel free to take a punt at the questions and I'll let you know what your scores are. We did shockingly and only managed to get 11 out of 15 on this round. My boyband knowledge has huge gaps in as I didn't know what Take That's last number one was *is ashamed*. I'm sorry Gary, Mark, Jason, Howard and Robbie. Please forgive me.

The picture round we did a little better, correctly guessing Speedy Gonzales, that Southampton was where the Titanic sailed from etc. All in all we got 8 out of ten on the picture round. Not great, but not terrible either.

The sounds we did rubbish in, none of us watch soaps so we're buggered as soo nas anything vaguely soapy comes on, plus we didn't guess the Bodyguard or the Italian Job for the film clips, I couldn't remember the name of the animal programme Ben Fogle presents, but I did guess the Grange Hill in the tv themes round so I redeemed myself slightly.

The Music round was also shockingly bad. I have to hand my Rocky Horror membership back as I could remember the name of the bloke who did the Time Warp remix - Damian *sighs*

Our final socre was 28/40. Our worst for ages. But we managed to come second for our troubles. (First got 32).

In the Boys V Girls guess the song round His Lordship correctly guessed MC Hammer (he got mocked) Fine Young Cannibals, Guns ‘’n’ Roses and another one which I can't remember. He was mocking the girls, he's a very naughty boy.

Jim impressed everyone by guessing Red Hot Chili Peppers on the first note. FIRST NOTE!

I didn't guess any. Sorry, I just don't know Bustard or McFly or Will Young songs in order to participate. :/ The girls lost 15-14.
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Then we came home to find that Doctor Who won National Television Awards in all the categories it was nommed for. \o/ I r very pleased for them.

Maybe now, with the ratings and the awards, TV companies will be more willing to put some money in to developing more Sci-Fi for UK TV. It's already starting with The Nekkid Adventures of Captain Jack Torchwood. Hopefully other channels will start to follow suit (and that they'll be better than Hex)

Much busier at the quiz last night with at least 3 teams of at least 10 people. Obviously the notority the pub has gained from Pete Doherty visiting has got business booming. Our team this week consisted of Myself and His Lordship plus, Claire, Hugh, Will and Jim who were all late hence our team name this week: Jim's Late (We're keeping to a theme here)

Things we learnt from the pub quiz
[x] Hitler was Time Magazine's Man of the Year in 1938. (This amused me greatly)
[x] Apparently in Scissor Paper Stone the loser has to tap the winner on the wrist with two fingers. (Not rules we've ever played by)
[x] The nail on your middle finger grows the fastest.

No Johnny Depp in the sounds or films round. *cries* But I did guess Bruce Almighty as the film clip so it wasn't all bad.

We had a very respectable second place, even with Jim's defection. (He got no Beer - ha!) Still can't quite get the elusive first, and we were beaten by a team called Minge

In the Girls v. Boys Music Round I shamed myself with Will Young (it's the song I thought for ages was called You're Gay - it's not it's Your Game *blushes*) and His Lordship redeemed himself by not shouting out for Vanilla Ice (Ice Ice Baby) or The Shamen (Ebenezer Goode) and he won it for the boys by guessing Michael Jackson.

And 'lo we went home and to bed.

Till next week then....

This is a momentous occassion.

My One Thousandth Post.

I suppose I should make a big speech or something, thanking you all for putting up with reading my ramblings and stuff over the last two-and-a-bit years.

So, yeah, Thank You!
I'd like *sob* to thank my mum, dad, cat and husband *cries* for supporting me. My teachers for teaching me to type; Van Statten for creating t'internet *giggles*. Everyone who reads this and leaves lovely comments *sobs louder*. I lvoe you all!! *ahem* I'm silly.
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Pub Quiz
So we toddled off to the Pub Quiz; myself (Specialist Subject: useless facts), His Lordship (SS: sports, rock), His Lordship's sister and hubby (SS: Late 70s & 80s pop), Ellie (SS: Law type stuff), Claire and Hugh (SS: 60s & 70s Music).

Because Jim wasn't there (being in Slovenia and all) we named ourselves Jim's in Slovenia in his honour.

Random facts we learnt fro the quiz:
[x] The Crown owns more land in the UK that the Church and the National Trust.
[x] Antelopes are the animal that can jump the highest
[x] Locusts are the single biggest pest

We did okay, we came joint second. (As there's only 4 bottle of crap beer for second we have to have a tiebreak). The question being: How many people in every pick their nose and eat it. A quick straw poll around the team gave the guess 1 in 4 (yeah, we're all disgusting), the other team said 1 in 200.

The actual statistic is 1 in 70 (there's a lot of liars out there - there must be. :) )
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In other news:
[x] back at work now, still full of cold
[x] another new temp, she's called Nic, she seems really nice. Did Archeology at Uni. Discussing places to go out in Shrewsbury. She's impressed by my getting barred from all of Shrewsbury that time
[x] broken the car again. Something happened to the clutch when I was going around the roundabout by Tescos last night and now it's 'clicking' when I press it down. We think the clutch cable may be going. Shall be trying to get it booked into the garage for the weekend
[x] my nan is still in hospital. She's ready to go home apparently. She's been moved into the intensive care ward. Currently she's got high blood sugar, pneumonia and they x-rayed her yesterday and discovered she's got gall stones too. it can only happen to my nan. Bless. She's fine though. (Well as fine as can be expected) Annoyed that she's missing her soaps though.
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Message to morbid_sparks: Sparks, did it turn up? If it did, enjoy the pretties! If not I'll kick the Postman.