After Quiz Night
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gilpin25So, Quiz Night... The good news is that we came third out of sixteen teams, and therefore won a prize. The bad news is that the inquest on how we lost second place by one point will probably run and run until either I emigrate or the next one comes along.
Notable highlights of the evening include turning up at the school where it was being held - to find people being dragged literally off the street to make up teams of six, when originally only five members were required. Turns out the headmaster's wife suddenly fancied being part of his team at the last minute (this is where you all shout "Fiddle!" because we said a lot worse), so everyone else had to accomodate her whim.
Hubby and I exchanged nervous glances, wondering who our friends had roped in by no doubt unsavory means. It turned out to be Jim. His specialist subject was cars, and there wasn't a car question all night for him, but he said he was quite happy eating all the crisps.
We had an amazing run of full score rounds, but fell apart on the round on the Himalaya's School Trip. Friend's son had been, but he could only remember the name of one place he'd been to, although he was full of fascinating information on which teachers had got off with each other. And, handily, they were all in the hall for me to stare at.
Headmaster's Team won (I can't repeat what we said, but it wasn't "Congratulations"). There was a tie for second, so there was a tie-breaker. It was on the Himalaya's school trip, and ... you can guess the rest.
There were only five prizes, so we all tried to be noble behind each other's backs. I gave my box of chocs to Jim. He gave his wine to my Hubby, as he doesn't drink, while Male Friend was giving me his chocs to give to Hubby. Various other wheeler dealings went on, and when I got back to the sanctuary of our car, it was to find confused but happy Hubby clutching two bottles of wine and a box of chocs.
The next one's at the end of the month, apparently. Friends reckon we're on a winning roll now. Oh yeah!
Meanwhile, I'm looking forward to doing some reading at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
metamorfic_moon, and trying to get over the shock of managing a story in a week. The snag is, absolutely nothing else got done, and I told Hubby it was a one-off... that's going to happen twice? ;)
Notable highlights of the evening include turning up at the school where it was being held - to find people being dragged literally off the street to make up teams of six, when originally only five members were required. Turns out the headmaster's wife suddenly fancied being part of his team at the last minute (this is where you all shout "Fiddle!" because we said a lot worse), so everyone else had to accomodate her whim.
Hubby and I exchanged nervous glances, wondering who our friends had roped in by no doubt unsavory means. It turned out to be Jim. His specialist subject was cars, and there wasn't a car question all night for him, but he said he was quite happy eating all the crisps.
We had an amazing run of full score rounds, but fell apart on the round on the Himalaya's School Trip. Friend's son had been, but he could only remember the name of one place he'd been to, although he was full of fascinating information on which teachers had got off with each other. And, handily, they were all in the hall for me to stare at.
Headmaster's Team won (I can't repeat what we said, but it wasn't "Congratulations"). There was a tie for second, so there was a tie-breaker. It was on the Himalaya's school trip, and ... you can guess the rest.
There were only five prizes, so we all tried to be noble behind each other's backs. I gave my box of chocs to Jim. He gave his wine to my Hubby, as he doesn't drink, while Male Friend was giving me his chocs to give to Hubby. Various other wheeler dealings went on, and when I got back to the sanctuary of our car, it was to find confused but happy Hubby clutching two bottles of wine and a box of chocs.
The next one's at the end of the month, apparently. Friends reckon we're on a winning roll now. Oh yeah!
Meanwhile, I'm looking forward to doing some reading at
metamorfic_moon, and trying to get over the shock of managing a story in a week. The snag is, absolutely nothing else got done, and I told Hubby it was a one-off... that's going to happen twice? ;)
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Date: 2006-10-12 02:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-12 03:25 pm (UTC)If you makes you feel better, I'd probably have got all the Eurovision questions right too. Not sure about all the members of Hear'Say. Danny, Mylene, Kim...there was a blonde one.... No, I'm out ;).
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Date: 2006-10-12 05:50 pm (UTC)Now if only I could get the last one. It's been bugging me all afternoon....
Nathan? Nigel? Nial? For some reason I'm stuck in an 'n' place....
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Date: 2006-10-12 05:59 pm (UTC)The one I always forget is Kim, which considering she ended up the most 'famous' - or am I judging this by inches in OK Mag? - is slightly ironic. Anyway Hubby just rattled them off, while the rest of us were going 'Er,' and Jim was wondering where the hell the car questions were. ;)
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Date: 2006-10-12 07:52 pm (UTC)*smacks self on forehead*
Surprised he hasn't made more of a career out of being sweet, to be honest. Although none of the others have exactly set the world alight, have they?
Could Hubby manage all members of Liberty X too, do you think? I'd be hard pressed to come up with one of them.
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Date: 2006-10-12 09:31 pm (UTC)Why isn't it the cool things you know that you get remembered for?!
Didn't Suzanne have Darren Day's baby? I suppose that's fame of a sort. Noel was probably wise to stay sweet and go home quietly.
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Date: 2006-10-12 10:15 pm (UTC)Extras was hilarious tonight, I thought. I couldn't watch the last bit, where Ian McKellen was trying to force him into the kiss.
Did Suzanne have Darren Day's baby? Is there any female in the C list showbiz world Darren Day hasn't slept with? I fear for Connie from Maria....
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Date: 2006-10-13 08:00 am (UTC)Have you noticed we've come up with a whole new game to stun the world? No more Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, but ... Remus Lupin.
So - we had quiz night, with a HP question, the undoubted star of which is Remus.
There was another question on Will Young, who won Pop Idol...
From which dubious source came Hear'Say...
One of whose members was Suzanne...
Who was Darren Day's girlfriend, as was Anna Friel...
Who is David Thewlis' girlfriend...
Who plays Remus In HP!
Allowing for my slight cheating at the start, do you think we could market this and make a fortune for Christmas?
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Date: 2006-10-13 10:52 am (UTC)I'm still chuckling this morning at Sir Ian's master class on playing Gandulf - as time goes on, I'm finding it harder and harder to take LOTR seriously, and that's not going to help.
My best mate got married just after the first LOTR came out, and the vicar looked exactly like and acted exactly like Ian McKellen's Gandulf - as the bride came down the aisle, all you could hear were the whispered words 'it's Gandulf!' and 'You will not pass!'. Havn't been able to take it seriously since then, I don't think.
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Date: 2006-10-13 02:31 pm (UTC)No, "delusional" is a person who thinks 'Now if Lady B. had stayed in touch, and got to meet David Thewlis, she could have mentioned me, he'd have thought I sounded fascinating, and then I'd have run off with him to that ballroom he once had, to practise an oversway or two...' But obviously I'm far too sensible and mature for anything like that, as I'm sure you appreciate.
Mind you, if it means I have to do all those adverts Anna does, about shampoo and the like...
I was channel hopping for five minutes at lunch time, and lo and behold, there's Kim Marsh telling me she's starring in Emmerdale or something. That'll teach me. Where's Noel, that's what I want to know?
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Date: 2006-10-16 09:20 am (UTC)I think I'd do OK in a shampoo advert.... As long as I didn't put my back out throwing my hair over my shoulder, obviously.