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It's the Weekly Pub Quiz Post

No Jim again this week ('cos he's in Ireland visiting the Oirish girls he met on his travels around Europe. Bless). So it was His Lordship, me, Clair and Hugh as team Truffle Shuffle (Which may be our new team name - but only if His Lordship does the truffle Shuffle when we win.

( General Ignorance - the General Knowledge Round )
(Comments are screened so you can have a go)

We managed a very respectable 12/15 putting us joint top with the team of seven sitting on the next table to us (but more on them later *looks vaguely annoyed*). You'd think I'd have got the T&D one right *rolls eyes* I thought there were only 7 judges in that year but I was wrong and it threw my years out. pah.

The pictures round was okay, we got 8/10 not particularly good, but ok. Strangely so did the table next to us. Hmmmmm. The voices round we did rubbish at, but I feel discriminated against because I don't watch soaps. One of the voices however was Andrea from Dancing on Ice but I couldn't remember her surname. His Lordship wasn't impressed:
HL: "You watch it for five hours on a Saturday evening!"
Me: "But I don't watch it for her!" Annoyingly I could remember everyone else's surnames. Pah.

We did much better on the TV and Film sounds round, correctly spotting the theme tune (write the theem toon, sing the theem toon) to League of Gentlemen, Bonanza and Juliet Bravo. Only two teams out of the fourteen got Juliet Bravo - us and the team next to us. How strange. (I'm spotting a pattern here).

The TV sound round started with the line: "Are you my mummy?" <- cue me giving out a huge squeal of fangirl!glee and then crying at the thought of gaskmask!Jamie.

Our music round went really well too. We got a lot right. We were feeling very positive about getting 1st or 2nd but when the scores were totted up we got 30-something but only came third. THIRD!

But who came first and second? Well. The two teams were actually joint first and can you guess who they were? That's right, it was the table next to us. They'd entered as two teams, copied some of our answers and got 12 bottles of crap beer out of it.

As we walked past them to go to the Boys V Girls round they said very loudly "I can't believe we won and we gave different answers too!" Sadly Claire and His Lordship didn't make a sarcastic comment back. I know I'm not the best of losers at the best of times but it really annoys me when there's blatant cheating.

Whatever.

The Boys V Girls round was a whitewash by the boys winning 12-4 *looks ashamed* but I did get Roswell right on the second duff. His Lordship got loads right and one of the theme tunes was Mysterious Cities of Gold - I loved that when I was a kid (as did Andi Peters).

Stupid Pub Quiz.

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It's the Weekly Pub Quiz Post!!

So Team Cheddar Pavement were back again. His Lordship, myself, Claire and Hugh making up the team (no Jim *again* this week). Claire and Hugh set new standards of being late not getting in until question 11.

( general ignorance - the general knowledge round )
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We did terrible and only managed to get 8 out of 15. Terrible, really terrible. Got us into joint second place after the first round.

The Picture Round was more fun with Bonnie Langford as one of the people. (Hardly anyone got her right - we were super geeky and gave her Who character's name too because we weren't sure what he wanted). We managed 9/10 which is very respectable.

Another week, another terrible voices round. I really am rubbish at it - thankfully the others aren't much better either. The TV/Film round we got full marks on thanks to my encyclopaedic knowledge of crap TV adverts (I don't even watch *that* much TV).

So the scores were totted up and we somehow managed to come first. Go Team Cheddar Pavement! Go 6 bottles of Grolsch and 2 bottles of crappy alcopop were ours.

Then the highlight of the evening the Boys v. Girls round. I got many TV themes again this week including Evita, the mighty, mighty Fraggle Rock and two others which I can't remember. Embarrassingly I didn't get Angel (His Lordship got it before me. Forshame) - my head was stuck in "it's Buffy!" mode. Forshame. Luckily there were other girls on my team who were pretty good and we managed to beat the boys 15-12.

Then it was out into the rain and back home. Until next week.

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It's the Weekly Pub Quiz Post!

A smaller, more compact team this week of His Lordship, Me, Claire and Hugh. Claire's doing a PGCE at the moment and is learning about pedagogy (i.e. teaching). We weren't sure how to pronounce it so we thought to foil Pub Quiz Guy with something unpronouncable. *laughs*

( general ignorance aka the general knowledge round )
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At the end of the general knowledge round we had ten and were in joint 3rd place.

We got nine out of ten on the picture round, a cartoon of Colin Farell making me giggle at terribly-repressed memories of That video doing the rounds on t'internet.

We also did bosting on the sounds round and my (sad and geeky) knowledge of what year Billie released Girlfriend snagged us an extra point in the music round.

The proze this week for first was four bottles of Becks and four bottles of low-sugar Raspberry Bacardi Breezer so we really wanted to win.

And we did! Only by a point, but we did! Yay us!

Then it was the highlight of the evening, the Boys v Girls round. Loads more boys than girls this time.

I did stunning again this week with correct guesses on Star Wars, Ghostbusters (literally a fraction of a second before His Lordship), The Sound of Music, Jungle Book and Snow White (on the second tweet of Whistle While you Work) I just missed out on Red Dwarf by about half a second and guttingly I was also half a second behind the boy who correctly guessed Round the Twist. The girls lost 15-10 oh well.

On the subject of Round the Twist can you get it on DVD at all? I loved that when I was younger than I am now.

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Weekly Pub Quiz post!

It's that time of the week again when we head off to the bright lights of the big city (okay Telford Town Centre) to annoy the lcoals with our knowledge of all things useless.

Ensconced in our little alcove His Lordship and I awaited the arrival of the rest of the team. Last week they didn't turn up until question six, this week they were here just in time for question two. So our team this week was all regulars, His Lordship, me, Jim, Claire and Hugh. Because we couldn't think of anything Jim-related (and because I didn't want it to be hair related) we were called Team Cheddar Pavement (for those of you who don't know, Cheddar Pavement was His Lordship and Jim's suggestion for a baby name for their cousin Jack.)

( general ignorance )
As always comments are screened so you can all have a go and show off your immense knowledge.

Between five of us we managed to get 11, which isn't bad at all and at the end of that round put us in first place (Go Team Cheddar Pavement!)

The Pictures round was actually a lot easier than previous weeks, with the 118 118 men, Scappy Doo, Bend it like Beckham and Independance Day making appearances. I think we managed to get 9 or 10 off that round.

The sounds was dead hard this week. The only voice I got was Richard Hammond (it was the Brainiac experiement where they were using fire extinguishers to race office chairs down a track). The TV themes included two different versions of the Top of the Pops theme and The theme to the Brittas Empire (cue loads of Brittas/Carol impressions)

The Music round was okay, we got the year right and two of the three short song clips, didn't know the first word to Three Times a lady but did manage to get 10/10 on the bits 'n' pieces round (which inlcuded such classics as UB40, S Club 7 and The KLF)

The sheets were handed in, the scores totted up. We were nervous after our poor showing last week. We shouldn't be, considering we came first! Yay 4 bottles of crap beer and 4 bottles of crap alcopop for us! woo!

Boys V. Girls was TV and film themed again, so I was in with a good chance of getting some. The boys and girls were very evenly mixed and there were quite a lot of us. The boys took an early lead and were winning 4-1 until I got Will O' the Wisp. The Girls started to pull it back then, but the boys kept edging ahead. His Lordship and Jim shouted out The Young Ones at exactly the same time much to everyone's amusement.

It got to 14-10 to the boys: I thhen got: The Family Ness (can't beleive no one else got it), This Morning, Play Your Cards Right and This is your Life on pretty much the first note - much to the amusement of Pub Quiz Bloke.

14 all.

It was tense.

The last song played. It was The Avengers. I knew it! I knew it! I got pipped by the boy who knew the tune to The Tweenies. Gutted. *cries*

But as always a good night was had by all and we went home happy with our crap beer/alcopops safe in the knowledge that I watch way too much TV.

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It's the Weekly Pub Quiz Post!

Claire, Jim and Hugh were very late this week (finally turning up when Pub Quiz Bloke reached question 6) so we were called Claire, Jim & Hugh are well late this week

( general ingorance )
Comments are screened so you can make embarrassing guesses to your heart's content.

At the end of the general knowledge round we were joint top with twelve - go us.

We had a shockingly bad TV & Films round - managing to only get two. The Music round wasn't much better :( even the picture round gave us trouble and we ended up - for the first time in months - coming THIRD! Third! OMG!

We were all disgusted with ourselves.

The Boys V Girls round was Film and TV themes again - I managed to get The Crystal Maze (Mumsie!), Futurama and another one that I can't remember again. And got beaten by a boy on Bagpuss. Shocking. The girls lost (again) but there were a lot more boys than girls (in our defence).

( answers to last weeks questions )

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It's the weekly Pub Quiz Post

This week our pub quiz was a bit depleted with just His Lordship, Jim and Me. In hour of this (and the fact we don't think we're particularly bright) we called ourselves We're not going to win 'cos Claire and Hugh aren't here. It was an omen

( general ignorance - have a go at the general knowledge round )
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We managed 9/10 between the three of us in the first round, which surprised us greatly and had us joint second with about 4 other teams. So there was all to play for.

We didn't do particularly well on the picture round - although my vaguely-remembered A-Level Biology knowledge came in useful as I recognised a diagram of a diaphram. (Jim thought it was a gall bladder *rolls eyes*).

His Lordship recognised a scene form Ghostbusters in about three words and I spotted the theme toon (write the theem toon, sing the theem toon) to Friday Night with Jonathan Ross.

We got full marks on the music round although I had a total mental block for a while over the name of the band Dead or Alive.

In the end the scores were totted up and we got 29! (Usually that's a 4th or 5th place spot (thusly proving how needed Claire and Hugh are) but this week we won! Only by a point but we still won! Yay us! Eight bottles of crap beer were outs \o/

The Boys V Girls round was a fairly tense affair - thankfully this week there were more girls than just me and the Landlady. I correctly got right Hollyoaks (again), the Simpsons (again - but it was an Irish diddly-diddly version) and The Raggydolls (dolls like you or me). I also got another one but can't remember what it was. His Lordship even managed to get 4 for the boys (well done big fella) but the girls beat the boys 15-12 or something.

Another productive night. And we palyed on the Top of the Pops Quiz machine and won £4 between us.

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It's the Weekly Pub Quiz post!!

His Lordship, Claire, Hugh and myself were joined by a special guest this week in the form of His Lordship's friend Matt (Matt has the questions emailed to him each week after I do the Pub Quiz Post - in the last two weeks he got 15/15 and 14/15 so he's not too shabby at the old Pub Quizzing). In his honour we were called Welcome Matt!!

( General Ignorance )
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We didn't do too badly on the Picture round and to my eternal shame I recognised the Power Rangers theme tune to steal us another point in the sounds round and we got full marks on the music round.

Rather annoying the team next to us were being little cheats, using their internet-connected phones to find out the answers to the questions they didn't know. Even more annoyingly they came second, so His Lordship is going to have a word with Pub Quiz Guy next week. Their cheating couldn't beat us and our non-cheating though as we came first! Yay!

This weeks Boys V. Girls round was TV and Film themes/songs. I was on fire. There were only about 6 girls on the girls team, against about 20 boys, so we knew we weren't going to do particularly well, we lost 15-9 but out of those nine I got SEVEN! (The Bill, Bod, The Muppet Show, Dogtanian, Neighbours, a quiz show (but I can't remember which one now) and thanks to John Barrowman (for whom I watched Richard & Judy for the first time ever on Monday) Richard & Judy.

His Lordship managed to get three for the boys team, thusly proving that I am the best. Yay!

( last weeks answers )

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The Weekly Pub Quiz Post!!

It's back after its Christmas Break. Last night's team (named Jim's Incompatible - long story) consisted of Jim, His Lordship, Me and Claire & Hugh. The team next to us has 12 members and still only managed to come eighth (*shakes head*)

We managed to do a little bit better.

( General Ignorance (Gosh I miss QI) )
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We managed a fairly respectable second (with 30 points, 3 behind the first place team - our weekly nemesis' (or is it nemesis's?)). It's Jim (bless him) he curses us into 2nd place. Although we'll have to make the most of him - there's only 19 pub quizzes now until he goes to Australia, then we won't have him at all. :(

Didn't do too badly on the Boys V Girls round, correctly getting Manic Street Preachers (Design for Life) and U2 (Elevation) before His Lordship (much to his annoyance. He did get Apache Indian though and a couple of hours so he wasn't too sad. Next week it's TV themes again so I'll romp home with that ;)

Sadly, Pub Quiz Bloke is busy the night of Claire & Hugh's wedding and can't do a pub quiz so me and His Lordship will do one for them. Once it's done I'll put it all up, music round, picture round and all and you lot can all have a go with it.

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It's the weekly Pub Quiz post!!

After a two week break (thanks to the lovely Rufus and sickness) we were settled in the 'Gorge for this weeks Pub Quiz. And we were ready and raring to win. (Because we're competitive that way).

Because Claire and Hugh want Pub Quiz bloke to do a quiz at their wedding, we broke with team name tradition this week and called ourselves Claire and Hugh are getting married and want you to do a pub quiz at their wedding reception :)

After the first round was marked there was a note saying (see me) after our team name. (Hugh did and the pair of them are goin to sort out dates over Christmas)

The general knowledge round has a fairly festive theme.

( general ignorance )
Shockingly we only managed 9/15 in this round (mainy due to my incompetence and lack of HP knowledge (boo!)

Picture round was all Christmassy stuff, like Miracle on 34th Street, The Santa Clause and a Muppets Christmas Carol. We also had Christmas Carols and had to fill in the blanks. Unfortunately I can only remember the stupid versions of the songs we sang at School.

For example:
[x] We Three Kings of Orient are, One in a taxi, One in a Car, One on a scooter beeping his hooter, Smoking a big cigar
(The question being how did the three wise men travel to the stable, Camel, Unknown or on Horseback)

[x] While Shepherds watched their flocks by night, while watching ITV, the Angel of the Lord came down and turned to BBC.
(The question being what is the missing line (which on my version is the ITV line))

The sounds round we did much better on. I feel I redeemed myself somewhat managing to guess Billie within two words (It was the scene from The End of the World where she's telling off Cassandra). (Even better only one other team got her right too).

We also got the A-Team right and I correctly guessed the Buffy theme tune (not that it was hard).

The results were totted up, we felt quietly confident and we WON!! (Yay us!) 4 bottles and Grolsch and 4 bottles of Watermelon Reef her ours. Hoorah for us!

Then it was the boys v. girls round. (Which I traditionally do rubbish on). Not tonight though. :D It was TV themes and adverts.

I correctly guessed: Police Squad, Hollyoaks (*blushes*), Friends (although His Lordship reckons he got it before me, but I got the points), Charlie's Angels and Grease. I was on fire!! Sadly the girls still lost 14-15. The boys next to us were very, very good (although they were guessing stuff like Aladdin, y'know films boys shouldn't get).

His Lordship was happy 'cos he guessed The Flumps. Bless 'im.

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Weekly Pub Quiz post!!!

Last night's team consisted on me, His lordship, Claire, Hugh and a special guest appearnce from Will (who was all ruffled up - I know girls who'd love to ruffle his hair :))
No Jim 'cos he'd had a crap day at work prompting our team name to be Jim's had a bad day at work

( general ignorance )

We managed a very respectable 13/15 - which is our best first round score ever. Also at the end of the first round we were the top team. Don't worry if you don't know the answers to many questions, one team maned ONE point in that round!!!

We did pretty good in the picture round and the sound rounds too - me guessing the theme tune (write the theme tune, sing the theme tune) to Coupling in about 3 notes (hurrah for Steven Moffat) and I did pretty niftily on the music round too. Claire has a storming quiz - getting loads and loads of questions right - good on her :D

The final outcome was 35/40 for us and we WON! Wo0t! 4 bottles of Holsten and 4 bottles of Reef was ours! And the bad memories of last week are gone!

On the Girls V Boys round, I correctly caught Betty Boo before His Lordship (whose specialist music subject is 90's crap pop) although he did get a couple to redeem himself.

Sadly there will be no pub quiz post again next week (We're going to see Rufus Wainwright! Yay!) I'm quite gutted to be missing it as the Boys V Girls round is going to be a TV themes special and that's almost my specialist subject.

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Weekly Pub Quiz post

This week our team was named Jim's Exam Nerves (as Jim had had a picture framing exam that day and we couldn't think of anything else).

( general knowledge (or as Stephen Fry would say general ignorance) )

The Picture round was all Hallowe'en themed with witches (East, West & Sabrina), guess the country (Romania), guess the films (The Sixth Sense (which we got) and Sleepy Hollow (which we didn't even though

morbid_sparks gave me a copy which I watched the other week - grrr), who was the odd-one-out out of Herman, Eddie and Grandad Musnter and Gomez Addams.

In the end we managed to come second (our nemesis Billy & the Bowel Movements beating us by 2 points - grrrr) and won two bottles of WKD (yummy :/) and 2 bottles of Holsten Pils (between five of us).

The Boys V Girls round was a lot of fun. I even managed to guess one of the songs before everyone else (Sheryl Crow). His Lordship and Jim managed to have a conversation about Doves before shouting out Doves as the answer to the song. The girls won by 15-11. yay us!

Until next week then...

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Weekly Pub Quiz Post

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)

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Weekly Pub Quiz Post!!

It's time for the Pub Quiz post!

No Jim again this week as he was in Birmingham doing stuff to prepare for his picture framing exams he's got in November so it was me, His Lordship, Claire, Hugh and Will playing as team Jim's doing an exam.

Things we learnt at the quiz this week:
[x] Gorilla's beat their chests when they're angry.
[x] The Eiffel Tower was built before the Empire State Building (and I even knew it was in 1889)
[x] The most popular holiday destination for Brits is Spain
[x] Lenny from the Simpson's surname is Leonard.
[x] Dates grow on palm trees
[x] Gareth Gates is the youngest male solo artist – ever – to go straight in at Number One.
[x] A snail's reproductive organs are in it's head

We lost a point on the picture round (where we usually get full marks) because we couldn't remember the name of the Building Society Mark Benton advertises. (You know the adverts with their effing new customers only *stabs* DIE! DIE! DIE!) (I'm sure he's a lovely bloke really and he is a good actor (He was ace in The Second Coming) but those bloody adverts annoy me soooooooo much that I cheered when he got shot by the Autons.

*breathes*

*breathes some more*

And now I am calm again. I wasn't the only one who disliked him/the adverts so it wasn't too bad.

On the voices/films rounds we dropped points by not knowing our disco classics, or fifties/sixties swing. But we did guess Phone Booth on the movies clips and His Lordship impressed everyone by guessing Where Eagles Dare for the other movie clip. Again no Johnny Depp. *cries*

His Lordship embarrassed himself in front of the group by guessing a Westlife song from just the intro. *tuts* I am so ashamed.

The scores were totted up and rechecked and out of the fifteen teams playing we managed a grand score of 31/40 which secured us a first place spot! Four bottles of Grolsh and four bottles of Irn Bru WKD were ours all ours. (The WKD is going to join the rest we've won over the weeks and become a care package to my sister – she's so poor she can't afford loo roll at uni – bless).

Then it was the girls v boys music round. I actually go one this week for the girls (Sugarbabes), His Lordship got two for the boys and Hugh managed three. The Boys won 15-13.

And then it was out into the rain and home for bed.

Until next week….

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It's the Weekly Pub Quiz post!!!

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....

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It's the weekly Pub Quiz Post

It's terrible isn't it? Romance must be dead when you spend your wedding anniversary with your mates at the local Pub Quiz (although in our defence we did go out for a meal, just the two of us beforehand).

It was a big team this week; His Lordship and myself, Claire and Hugh, Jim (back from his travels around Europe) and Claire's friends Will and Esther. In honour of Jim being home again the team was called Jim's Back!

Things we learnt at the quiz
[x]Death carries a scythe and an hourglass. (Not an iPod and an ASBO as one team guessed) (not us, we got that one right)
[x]The first word of Lighthouse Family's 'Lifted' is I.
[x]The DJ pronouces Jaoquin Pheonix's name as Jo-cheen, much to our amusement.

I impressed everyone with my impressively quick knowledge of how many colours there are in Smarties (8, by the way; red, orange, yellow, green, blue, pink, purple, brown). Hugh impressed everyone in the sounds round by correctly guessing an advert. he plucked the answer form the ether, it was amazing to watch.

Again it was another hard week, the DJ's really ramping up the difficulty of the questions.

But when the scores were totted up it seemed that our winning streak was over, only managing to come third. *cries* Because of our poor showing this week (and our great results in the weeks Jim was away) next week we're going to call ourselves Jim's in Disgrace or sommat similar.

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One Thousand Posts!

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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morbid_sparks: Sparks, did it turn up? If it did, enjoy the pretties! If not I'll kick the Postman.