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There are 11 questions, PM me your answers to them by Sunday Mar 8th 21.00 GMT, each answer on a different line with corresponding question number.

Your score for each question is number of people who give the same correct answer. So you want to go for answers that you think will be less commonly given. Levelling commonly happens. The answer most commonly given is called the sheep, with the corresponding sheep score.

You are not allowed to do research such as Google searches to come up with answers.  Those who do will be spotted by the other contestants and no doubt pointed out. Such villains will have it on their conscience and will have to devise a way of purging their sins. (http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=40356.msg907376#msg907376)

If you give an incorrect answer, you will receive the sheep score + one half the number of distinct correct answers given, rounded up.

You MUST pass on one, and only one, question and score a 0 for that question.

Any questions, post in this thread. Don’t expect a straight answer. Oh and I am away most of this weekend.

Spelling mistakes will be accepted as correct if spelled in Ironsideish

Appeals, objections etc are allowed but must be brought up after the provisional answer list has been posted and before the running scores are posted, no earlier post will be considered but can be quoted. An appeal must have a proposer and a seconder. Non-entrants will be ignored. Once a proposer and a seconder have identified themselves any other entrant is allowed to post evidence in support of or against the objection, known as the “free for all”. If the appeal is successful the answer list will be adjusted before the scores for that round are posted. If the appeal is unsuccessful the proposer will have 2 points added to his or her score and the seconder will receive 1 points. Each entrant will be allowed to be a proposer and/or seconder 9 times. An appeal relates to one answer, multiple appeals in respect of answers to one question will require individual proposers and seconders though, if they have enough appeals available to them, the same two entrants can appeal multiple answers to the same question. Arguing about answers and gentle insulting is encouraged but will not be part of the appeal process without the identified appellants.

I am also pleased to announce that I have a sealed envelope with the results contained therein. I wish to thank the Zimbabwe Electoral Committee for their efficiency.

Finally if you feel the need for divine intervention I have to disappoint you, there is doubt as to the existence of a benign Almighty but my blonde Username is BriefBL, you never know, it could help.





1.   Name one of the top 10 “England All Time Money List” as specified in THM database, no peeking.

2.   Name a Shakespeare comedy play. Not just one you find funny because there is lots of blood and gore, that may just happen to be a classed a tragedy.

3.   Name one of the Beatles Top 10 selling singles in the UK.

4.   Name one of the top 10 most popular English pub names as surveyed by CAMRA in 2007.

5.   Name a Commissioned Rank in the British Army. There will be no “whale” grouping as each rank is distinct.

6.   A game that uses a die or dice.

7.   A team that has won the English FA cup on more than 3 occasions.

8.   A member of the present HM Cabinet who is also a Secretary of State.

9.   A menu item from McDonalds that contains meat.

10.   A member of the starting eleven of the English Football team in the 1966 World Cup Final.

11.   One of the Ancient Seven Wonders of the World. For the avoidance of doubt and to stall the pedants, the list was settled upon in the Middle Ages and was the one you heard about at school.

Entrants:

cdw1111
Moskvich
gatso
rex008
Rod Paradise
bobAlike
ItsMrAlex2u
kinboshi
Silo Graham
Rupert
Colchester Kev
AndrewT
EvilPie
Acidmouse
thetank
Ironside
12barblues
Claw75
rossfourfive
Laxie
Nakor
matt674
pokerfan
stallyon
sharplea
Wardonkey
amvgrath1uk
Delboy
suzanne
chrisbruce
Eck
Dingdell
Sherriff Fatman
GlasgowBandit
Joobie538

Post has been up minutes and still no arguments.

[  ] It will stay like this

I will do it now ... just to save time.

wat?

Just use yer pass for that one.

9.   A menu item from McDonalds that contains meat.


Thats a tough one ... Im going for McFlurry, probs has more meat than anything else the serve.

Looking forward to the arguments about whether or not limited edition menu items such as the wonderful McRib will be accepted!

+1

LOL the McRib ... I had a mate who got me a massive bag of these out of the freezer for a fiver :)  ... he doesnt work there anymore :(

I need a translation please with regards to the objections, seconders, etc.  The free-for-all bit makes perfect sense though.

This is going to be fun...

Can it be a boxed game?  :dontask:

Only if it's aquatic.

(you started all this you know :D)

[ ] I can do this without google
[X] I'll try anyway
[ ] I'll be getting them all correct

Do metaphorical dice count?

You sure it wasn't Dewi who started it? Next time i'm question master it's going to be a picture special so there can be no less arguing.

Thanks to tank for the first set of answers

[X] I'm impressed with his speed
[  ] I'm impressed with his answers

try msn search

I want to be able to go to my local McD's to research the answers. If I can't buy it there, this weekend, tough. Does it say it matters?


and fail
Do you want a metaphorical answer?

I sent mine, no idea on one question so passed :)

Received with thanks. Some look correct.

First answer kind of set the tone.

[  ] Will come last

FFS!!!

1 - Submit answers
2 - Check on google
3 - Scream

Tragedy? Fuckin tragedy?? I thought it was hilarious!!!!!

Great set of questions. Should be some high scores coming out.

Good luck everyone.

Just give him metaphorical points.

+1

I suspect that, in my desire to avoid fails, I've entered plenty of sheep, so to speak.

I'll take them!

Will put them in my meta bucket (which I keep it next to my PC ever since you suggested such a practice a couple of months ago)

Sent ... please dont let me win, i dont want to do the next one !!

BriefBL

I have no idea what is meant by the appeals process changes, but will be appealing constantly

Let me set questions which will give little room for argument, says I. I can see plenty happening already. FML. Good luck Kev in the next one.

I dont care, i dont want to win ... I just want a good row LOL

The man from Zimbabwe, he says .....Kev.

Sent.  FML.

+1, also FML

(although I put "fck my life" in a text to my mate last night and his reply was "you spelt wife wrong" LoL)

Hahahaha!! 

I've got people in my office using FML now in everyday conversation.  I'll have them playing the reverse sheep game soon...

Sent!

[  ]Wont come last this time: Amen

Will sort this after I sort dinner for the troops.  Be back in 30.

Sent. I'm torn between wanting to win because I'm obsessively competitive, and not wanting to for the agony of having to run it :).

I'm unsure about at least 2 of my answers though, so unlikely to have the worry :).

wow all these PMs, I almost feel popular.

The results thread will soon sort that out - just ask JonMW.

i want to WIN i think and ironside reverse sheep game will be fun and the best run

ohh crap i didnt read rules of the game :(

anyone understand the new appeals process?

It wont matter if Rob runs it like JonMW :D

yes i say i propose an apeal against xxxx and then someone says they second it

then we debate the answer

if we lose then i get 2 pts added to my score and the seconder gets 1 pt added

FML he's about right.

so you say hippo is wrong, I agree, robert says 'fuck you all, andrewt rocks, hippo's right' and so we suffer for pointing out the ridic answer?

cool, anything to simplify the game

Questionmaster introduces new rule so uncomplicated even Ironstein can understand it.

[  ] Questionmaster understands point of reverse sheep game.

Odds on this weeks quiz running to more pages than last weeks?

You have to be careful with predictive texts as well.

I remember an ex of mine who never spoke to me again when I said I was on my way round to kick her *****

Sigh....

[  ] I get that joke

story kinda fails without knowing a) what you meant to write or b) what you actually wrote

'I thought Evilpie had central heating in his house but he must be thinking of getting a real fire put in as he sends me texts saying he wants coal'.

Yep. that's about it. The appeals will be considered carefully.

Like you really have a chance of a successful appeal after that post


see above

sent,off to google check.

This thread is already delivering.

 rotflmfao

As long as one person got it I'm happy.

Type the following in to your phone "I'm coming round now to kick your pussy".

Try to imagine something slightly more friendly that you could offer to do to a lady that your predictive text has just fucked up for you.

ooooh these are hard!  I thought the idea of this game was that the questions were easy but the skill was in getting a distinct answer.  I expect to get at least a couple wrong this week!

sits back smuggly,ready for mid table obscurity.

if i dont get at least one (shakespeare) wrong and at least one that i can argue for ages about, i will have deemed this a failure :D

answers sent - off to google check now!

Im not googling my answers until results day

Sigh. I have had a post of mine reported!
Just happens to be the first post of this thread
Just happens to be a mod who reported me.
Just happens that I don't care.

Won't say who it was but please be careful, folks, don't get your posts rpeotred. ;)

who would do a silly thing like that bob?

just sent my answers

+1

I don't want to know how bad I've done until the day of reckoning, well at least until next Sunday.

;)

I'm cutting and pasting the answers into a Word document so, those who are yet to send their answers, please don't repeat the questions, just the number. Ta muchly,

did i get any fails

wont be here on sunday as i am planning on playing the new blondepoker.com freezeout at the nash

To be fair, anyone who has done that has already broken the rules as quoted in paragraph 1 of the OP:


OP specifically states each answer on a different line with corresponding number.  There is no mention of including the question which coincides with said number.  Therefore participants who have committed this breach should be penalized severely.  

My answers will be on the way shortly.  Adhering to the guidelines set by our esteemed Quiz Master.   ;D  

just remembered scores come in on monday

i will be here then

215+ days on this forum suggests that will be the case in any event.

x number of peeps posted 11 Questions with their answers. So are you planning X x 11 appeals? You may be successful, you may not. Got a seconder?

215 days means less than 1 in 4 days spent on here

Could you rephrase your question so I can give a lower number.

can you rephrase you answer so a normal human can understand it

sent


any betting markets for this game? over/under on number of failed appeal points given out?



I have edited your post. You have given away info which will help others. By telling others whcih you passed on means there is lower possible sheep score and higher potential chance of Ace.

i aint going to appeal i want to win


ONE TIME FTW

[  ] will be winning
[ x ] will be appealing

You heard it here first: Ironside is not appealing.

Entrant list now in the first post, after the questions.

I sent mine in the past 10 minutes.

soz

np

:)up

answers sent (firstly posted on thread before realizing that i hadn't cut and pasted questions into a PM to Robert!  ;noflopshomer;)

disappointed that i couldnt use my pass tactically on a question where there is more likelyhood that i will be a sheep due to the fact that i didnt know any answers to about 3 or 4 of the questions!! :D

So now we have to sit around and wait until Sunday for the madness to begin?

Nope, Monday

i must be in the lead

21 Entries to the Second Quiz - about 3 actually followed that instruction.

And you did nothing about it when you had the power?!  Shocking.

Reverse Sheep Game II Results Commitee Rules: 
Really should have just disqualified everyone who didn't submit in the right format. Would have made life a lot easier.

My answers were submitted on different lines, with the corresponding number. It just so happened that I included the question in between.


Questionmaster is a lawyer - brevity in your entry is a very risky play.

Quietly confident

There's a first.

He abused his power in every other possible way though.

The opposite usually applies. The more said the more that can be twisted, turned back and inserted in an orifice.

I'm giving him leeway here, it makes a change for him to abuse others.

The Reverse Sheep Game II Results Committee stands by their decisions. All were made for the greater good of the game.

Have submitted my answers. Great thread last time had to get involved as i love a good argument quiz.

Happy with most of mine, but did get 1 wrong. In fact anyone who doesnt get at least 1 wrong should be insta banned for clearly being a googler.

Hopefully my level 12 thinking on 1 of them will serve me well.

I went for Level 1 thinking - probably because for a lot of them, I could only think of one thing...

ditto this - think I managed to get them all right, but expecting lots of sheep scores

I must admit I am a bit worried. Worried that the questions arent ambiguous enough to ensure the appropriate level of rioting occurs.

Although having said that all I need to do is think back to Hippo, France and my own whale shark and i guess i can relax

i think i got them all right and i cant cheat as i cant speel goggle

I propose a challenge against Ironside

seconded

OK, so we are now officially in "free for all"

Evidence for the prosectution:

Ironsides answer to questions would have been suspected as googled already due to the aforementions repeatedly stated ambitions to run the quiz.
The school boy error of "I cant even speel goggle" is enough for a conviction IMO

+ 10 pt penalty

If there is to be a fictional committee it hasn't convened yet, so for now I will tell you that your arguments do have some force.

FML

i dont care anymore

after the punch up down the pub last week being reclassified as a war

i have no hope of winning

I was level 1 with a twist, but cannot reveal my fruit. 

Fruit?
Wasnt that the last quiz?

FYP

Enough force to also reinstate my Hilton?

Yeah and I'd have Aced that question if I'd bothered to answer it.


Your Hilton was yesterday.  Had to close down due to the recession.

If only I had that within my power.

fictional?

 :dontask:

Only you and you alone could make such decisions. Now get your answers sorted.

do the further complications to the appeal process mean that the answers will now be given over a 3 day period rather than the traditional 2?

No, I intend it to be over within 2 evenings, maybe less.

The secret lies in this clause:
"Appeals, objections etc are allowed but must be brought up after the provisional answer list has been posted and before the running scores are posted"

I reckon, if I can post quick enough there will be an eleven second gap. I am trying to get that time down.

It's only Thursday.  Sighhhhhhhhh

18 in the first, 21 in the 2nd now 26 in already for the 3rd. So very tempted to close to further entries but will be patient. However the prospect of doing the answers whilst Kev is at the greyhounds does appeal.

i am hoping for 100 when i do the quiz


one time FTW

It took a couple of rounds before some of us were willing to be at the mercy of you lot.

decided to have a go this time :)

( oh dear at some of my answers)

Fck everyones lives, i am going to appeal my way to victory

You may not need to appeal anything. BriefBL transfer is your friend.

This is a hard one :-(

 


Did you post the above in the wrong place ?

Was it meant for your web cam friend ?

;)

I don't understand the sad face either?

:dontask:

 :-X

Im not as young as I used to be and not quite up to the all nighters as i once was...trust me it will happen to you one day ;-)

Says she at nearly 4am!   rotflmfao

have i won yet?

Let me check my blonde account. brb

No

I've decided against entering this one as I am too much in fear of reprisals and recriminations from my time as Chairman of the Reverse Sheep Game II Committee.

I shall enjoy sniping from the sidelines obviously.

have you checked your stars account?

ffs bribing lawyers is hard work nowadays, what happened to the days of plain old brown envelopes in seedy breakfast cafes?

Cowards Non Entrants will be ignored

A little style please.

No change to Stars balance so I refer my friend to my earlier answer, i.e. No.

When's the answers happening?

I answered th questions but I don't know if I get the concept of the game, is there another thread to read?

Or can someone tell me in short.

You can always start by reading the first post, in full. Then check out the last two sheep threads.

Tomorrow. Will post later tonight as to times.

Too long, dont have the concentration for that type of stuff.  Took me about 40 minutes to read and answer the questions.

What do you want?

A video tutorial?

lol, if you think the questions are bad enough for time consumption it takes about 3 days to go thru the answers!!

stars username please Robert

You miss the point ... if you win you have to do the next one ... winning is for mugs :D

Boo!!!!

Why wait so long?

Do it now IMO

if you're bored mr mw, how about you do yours properly while we're waiting for robert?

The Committee stands by all their decisions.

All were done for the good of the game

nope, definitely still your turn and will be until all mistakes are either rectified or forgotten about

I'm on holiday next week.  Reverse sheep setting grimming ftw

Aceby4 ty

$120/1k sent

Congratulations!!

 ;thankyou;

My pleasure, or it would have been, there seems to have been a hold up the transfer. Not looking good, last place beckons

FML 34 entries. 374 answers. Far too many.

Wait a second Robert, the 1st page said 9pm. Joobs was gonna send answers but forgot and thought that 9.20pm would be too late - yet you have appeared to keep answer submissions open til later without informing us...

check your account - confirmation email received from stars at 22.10.  Are you gonna grim me?

LOL ... the moaning starts.

Unfounded moan Sharples ... GTFO.

Serious question IMHO. Isn't moaning part of the game anyway?

No it was already closed.
I reminded people
Been open for ages
Complaints that it would be open too long
had ages to send answers
Rules are rules.



Just send the bloody PM, you have 5 mins

Yeah but not moaning on someone elses behalf because a weeks notice is not long enough to get answers submitted.


GTFO .... then come back so you can be told to GTFO again imo.

PS but if any three entrants appeal (for free), within the nxt 15 mins, the answers get dumped.

Is that the first apeal (free!! ;)  ) ?

NO LATE ENTRIES imo.

ONE

"Hello Aceby4,

We have transferred $0.12 to your account as requested by 'Clairep75'.


Good luck to you both.

Regards,

PokerStars Cashier"

I know I'm cheap but not that cheap!

Joobies answers received

5 mins for any more objections then issue closed

shhhhhh

i would send you hush money but i only have 2 cents in my stars account!

I vote allow late entry on the understanding that late entrant sets the next one regardless :)

You're in

Please send, 2c and centrefold style pic ty.

You're joking, right? She's sadistic enough to bloody enjoy it!!

Quiz masters can set the rules..... let me just check something

Nope, you're not the quizmaster so STFU.




Anybody setting unders/overs for how many enemies I can make in the next 24 hours?

make as many as you like ... just dont make me win !!

in fact ... im gonna nick some money out of your blonde account ... just to make sure !

yes - exactly as I said before $120/1k  you can't just change your mind now you've got your mitts on the cash!!

lol sore point, misclicked and entered $50 HU comp in error, thought the guy was getting a bit aggressive then saw what we were playing for, [  ] I won.

Decimals isn't your strong point, is it. Leave such things to the man/ape of the house, don't worry your girlie head about it.

The time has passed for entries in the Reverse Sheep Part the Third. Now the huge bloody task of collating the answers will continue. I've already gone through the first 20 odd and now predict there will be blood spilt. I did hope I could get through this quiz with a total lack of controversy but it's going to happen, that's as sure a the fact Kiv will post multiple "Farces" on this thread.

On some questions I have been lenient and given a fair bit of leeway on others I have been a right bstard. However please be comforted that I have treated all your answers with equal disdain. Not one of you took the initiative to transfer  proper $$s to BriefBL so no favouritism is to be show.

A word for the nit pickers, according to one source, the Romans threw pedants like you to the lions. Don't ask, said the source, "What lions, as there are various sorts you know?!". Please remember that scoring is an ongoing process, the fat question master doesn't sing until the end of the appeal process of question 11. Don't get me mad, you won't like it when I'm mad.

Finally if you don't like my brand of farcical reverse sheep quizzing, be comforted by the fact that it will be someone else's turn next time, maybe you. As for this week just be grateful it's not JonboyMW or Ironsod marking your "efforts".

I plan to start the reveal at 19.30 GMT tomorrow, Monday. Get in sandwiches, pizza or whatever you want with lashings of black coffee as I am thinking of trying to kill all 11 questions in one, long, night. Any complaints? (Actually the more I think if it the less I think that will be possible)

I would add that anyone who googled ought to feel shame however looking at the answers I am sure many of you couldn't even spell Google.

Now I think I have insulted many of you and got the blood boiling, if so, GOOD. It will teach you a lesson for making be do this and add to the carnage tomorrow.

[ ] i am good at maths
[X] I used a calculator too

2c shipped and pic sent!!

please someone tell me my maths is right!  Am I really that bad?!

[X] I am looking forward to this
[  ] I have sympathy for RobertHM
[X] I don't want to win - hence no shippage to BriefBL

lol both received.

13 pages already and it still isn't answer day.

brb off to have a errrr short break with the pic Joobie sent.

having reviewed the quote above i have to agree the decimal point is in the right place

What pic is this? I think I might need to have some words here...

Do you turn green and rip your shirt off?

thats not really an image i want as i'm about to go to bed!! :(

shhh I'm busy

it's ok - she told me she's photoshopped your face out so it could be anyone

er....  

er....

Right back, thanks Joobs xx

Now to do some answer sorting.

you're welcome ;) xx

;grr; ;grr; ;frustrated;

This thread took off for another 4 pages out of the blue.  Was sure 'answer time' had commenced.  Sigh.  Bad beat. 

Don't worry, you'll feel worse this time tomorrow.

Right I read the whole thread of sheep game 1 I think my effort could be an epic fail.  Baws.

As long as I don't finish last this week I will be happy.

and the Day of Reckoning finally arrives

Let battle commence !!!

[X] FYL

FYP

WHY ARE WE WAITING

bugger think the 4cans of redbull last night still havent left the system man i want some sleep

+1
FOL

Sigh

Spamming the sheep for the Equal chance feeder.

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=40561.0

Would play but bank transfer to ipoker taking usual 10 working days... sigh.

3 minutes and counting.

Quiz master had better not be late !!

Except that he's busy playing a Stars comp.  FOL

We'll he can effing well sit out of it !!

Priorities FFS !!!!!!

Tis grand.  He just donked out, so he has no excuse now.

just out

but, to be honest, not sure I could be bothered with this tonight, shall we leave it until tomorrow, or maybe Wednesday?

Are you all sitting comfortably?

Have lost the will to live waiting for this...GET A MOVE ON!!!

Rioting and bloodshed would surely follow

Ok, after a record number of entries, the marking took for ever, in fact I gave up with the numbers as they are liable to change anyway...... the first question:

Name one of the top 10 “England All Time Money List” as specified in THM database, no peeking.

It's a poker forum and, still, many never thought that THM might mean something.

LOL

I am confused already

Roland De Wolfe (4)
Gatso
Rupert
suzanne
GlasgowBandit

Dave Ulliot (4)
Silo Graham
amcgrath1uk
Dingdell
Joobie538

Julian Gardner (3)
ItsMrAlex2u
Nakor
AndrewT

Joe Beevers (3)
Rex008
Laxie
Matt674

Surinder Sunar (2)
bobAlike
Colchester Kev

Ram Vaswani (2)
Moskvich
chrisbruce

John Gale (2)
Wardonkey
Delboy

Julian Thew (1)
Claw75

Harry Demetriou (1)
Ironside

Mark Teltscher (1)
Sharplea

9 pointers

Neil Channing
Rossfourfive

Marc Goodwin
Kinboshi

Barney Boatman
12barblues

Duke of Westminster
EvilPie

Scotty Nguin
Acidmouse

William “newmanseye” McAllister
Thetank

Richard Branson
stallion

Jon Kalmar
Eck

John Duthie
Sherriff Fatman


Pass (0)
cdw1111
Rod Paradise
pokerfan
 

 ;popcorn;

[ ]Thinking this was a good pass.

[X] thinking I should have passed others.... :(

 ;popcorn;

FML Channing 11th

Richard Branson !!!

WTF ?????

level 1 obv

yep, I giggled lol

yep, I agree with you

you should have passed another.

No appeals, no issues, no pedantic complaints?

Softening you up for a tirade of abuse obv.

Pah - Goodwin isn't even close to the top 10.

But he's closer than the Duke of Westminster!!!

rotflmfao
rotflmfao
rotflmfao
rotflmfao
rotflmfao

Considering appealing about some peoples sanity.

Duke of westminster / Richard Branson ........

(not their sanity of course)

Hmmmmmmm

I have one complaint.  

Some people cheated.

Hopefully my I have understood my spreadsheet sort function:

cdw1111   0
Rod Paradise   0
pokerfan   0
Ironside   1
Claw75   1
sharplea   1
Moskvich   2
bobAlike   2
Colchester Kev   2
Wardonkey   2
Delboy   2
chrisbruce   2
rex008   3
ItsMrAlex2u   3
AndrewT   3
Laxie   3
Nakor   3
matt674   3
gatso   4
Silo Graham   4
Rupert   4
amcgrath1uk   4
suzanne   4
Dingdell   4
GlasgowBandit   4
Joobie538   4
kinboshi   9
EvilPie   9
Acidmouse   9
thetank   9
12barblues   9
rossfourfive   9
stallyon   9
Eck   9
Sherriff Fatman   9

NEXT !!!!

So is 4 a good start?  There are others who done worse right?

Tanks answer needs more love

This one does have comedy value:

Name a Shakespeare comedy play. Not just one you find funny because there is lots of blood and gore, that may just happen to be a classed a tragedy.

This.

eeepc running down battery - going to have to swap pub seat :( the brief is too slow)






















 ;)

What kind of layout is that results table?

Slapdash imo

Don't piss off the quiz master who has editing powers.

Much Ado About Nothing (7)
bobAlike
kinboshi
Silo Graham
AndrewT
Acidmouse
Delboy
chrisbruce


Taming of the Shrew (6)
Cdw1111
ItsMrAlex2u
Ironside
Wardonkey
Sherriff Fatman
Joobie538


A Midsummers Night Dream (5)
Rex008
Rossfourfive
Pokerfan
stallion
Eck


As You Like It (4)
Gatso
Rod Paradise
thetank
Claw75


All’s Well That End’s Well (3)
Moskvich
Colchester Kev
Nakor


Merry Wives of Windsor (2)
12barblues
Laxie


The comedy of Errors (2)
Rupert
suzanne


Merchant of Venice (1)
amcgrath1uk


Winter’s Tale (1)
GlasgowBandit


12 pointers

King Lear
Evil Pie
Matt674
Dingdell

Objection - The Winter's Tale isn't a comedy.

It's either a tragi-comedy or a romance.

I'm going badly so far.  But not as badly as EvilPie... rotflmfao

Objection seconded

Do you have a seconder?

I will then consider it with an open mind, then penalise you

Rod and Tank got their answer from an over-proof whisky....

Noted

Prove it

sh1t. Sort function is fkd, going to be messy.

The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare, first published in the First Folio in 1623. Although it was listed as a comedy when it first appeared, some modern editors have relabeled the play a romance.

F**K of the two of you.  Alex I would have backed you on the Hilton if I was in that game.  Tragi-comedy is still a comedy IMO.

The main plot of The Winter's Tale is taken from Robert Greene's pastoral romance Pandosto, published in 1590. Shakespeare's changes to the plot are uncharacteristically slight, especially in light of the romance's undramatic nature, and Shakespeare's fidelity to it gives The Winter's Tale its most distinctive feature: the sixteen-year gap between the third and fourth acts.



Note : "Changes to plot are SLIGHT" ergo, play is a romance

[  ] Professionalism as a quiz master


[  ]  Professionalism as a Mod

Some, not all. Majority of experts say otherwise. No link. Objection failing badly atm.

I think the author gets to categorise his own play....

If he wrote it as a comedy .... then its a fkin comedy

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O57-WintersTaleThe.html
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1O57-WintersTaleThe.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Winter%27s_Tale

It's not fkin funny.

Oh that old chestnut "I would have helped honest guv"

[ x ] am glad I'm not involved in first objection.  gives us a chance to see how this judge intends to play it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragicomedy

And Shakespeare is modern GTFO! 
The geezer has been dead for a couple of hundred year, next you'll be telling me Baz Lurmans take on R & J was better than the original.


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I have to go and collect my son now.

My life had better not be any more fcked when i get back !!!

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0018584.html

bring back whisky, aspirin and razors.

http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/tragicomedy

Have you watched Austin Powers - not funny either....

FML - internet broken. Have to try and follow this on my phone.

post more graphics peeps

Shakespeare and comedy in the same sentence

ppffffffffffffffff

http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/winterstale/section8.rhtml

"The story itself is filled with events not typically found in comic works (e.g., the sudden death of a child and the fatal savaging of a man by a bear); likewise, the value system of the first three acts and the fifth extends beyond the social concerns that are the usual purview of comedy to include the ethical and metaphysical assumptions informing tragedy. Such factors, among others, may be responsible for the rivalry between two terms that for over a century have vied for preeminence in the matter of the play’s classification: romance and tragicomedy."

I know (sick) jokes about both.....

Kin owns stock in google

I had to write a fkin essay in my English A-Level about the elements of tragedy and comedy in The Winter's Tale that make up the 'tragicomedy' or romance.  It wasn't funny, it's not a tragedy, it's a tragicomedy.

"In the late nineteenth century Edward Dowden became the first to classify The Winter’s Tale and those final plays usually grouped with it (Pericles, Cymbeline, and The Tempest) as romances.10 What Dowden seems to have had in mind were stories of exotic adventure and travel, shipwrecks, spiritual and/or moral quests, romantic love, reunions of lovers and families long separated, virtue tested and proved triumphant, and nobility hidden and then discovered – all unfolding in a world familiar with supernatural forces, wide-ranging marvels, magic, and enchantment. This romance tradition, primarily available to Shakespeare in narrative form,11 also included the dramatic as in the medieval saint’s play of trial and conversion, a genre replete with one marvel after another.12 If Shakespeare’s final dramas are understood as spiritual journeys ending in self-discovery by the central character,13 then the saint’s play (or miracle play, as it is sometimes called), ‘popularly performed late'."

Vast majority have classed it as a comedy, as did the author, some experts class it as tragicomedy. It's a comedy. Appeal denied. 2 points kinboshi*, 1 ItsMrAlex2u

*About the same for your essay.

Debate winner IMHO.

GTFO Boshi ;D

Well played the quizmaster.

Yay I'm back.


Quiz fulfilling expectation thus far.

Though I now regret not submitting The Taming of the Hippo as an answer.

Its a tragedy that there is only 6 reged for the equal chance feeder, 2 more needed  ;)

http://media.www.marquettetribune.org/media/storage/paper1130/news/2008/04/10/Marquee/Shakespeares.a.Winters.Tale.Now.Playing.At.Helfaer.Theatre-3310474.shtml

The vast majority?  Vast majority of people who haven't read it or seen it?

OK, not sorted yet, but you can see the scores

cdw1111   6
Moskvich   5
gatso   8
rex008   8
Rod Paradise   4
bobAlike   9
ItsMrAlex2u   10
kinboshi   18
Silo Graham   11
Rupert   6
Colchester Kev   5
AndrewT   10
EvilPie   21
Acidmouse   16
thetank   13
Ironside   7
12barblues   11
Claw75   5
rossfourfive   14
Laxie   5
Nakor   6
matt674   15
pokerfan   5
stallyon   14
sharplea   1
Wardonkey   8
amcgrath1uk   5
Delboy   9
suzanne   6
chrisbruce   9
Eck   14
Dingdell   16
Sherriff Fatman   15
GlasgowBandit   5
Joobie538   10

"It's a unique play and rather defies description," Kilmurry said. "It's listed as a romance in any 'Complete Works of Shakespeare.' However, that hardly prepares you for the contrast of darkness versus light we get in the play, as well as the magical and fanciful aspects."

I was going to put Measure for Measure for this, but didn't as it's a 'problem play', so put All's Well That Blah Blah Blah instead, but turns out that that's a problem play too. Under the new rules, which I haven't read properly, how many points do I get if I successfully appeal against my own answer?


Could be genuinely hilarious, if you get a bear with good timing.

- 2 more points for  ;frustrated; and  ;izimbra; IMO

Please, Sir, appeal has been considered and ruled upon, such posts smack of bitterness

Yaaaaaaaaaaas get it round you Boshi!!  Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Scoring sheet a shocking mess!

ItsMrAlex2u is no bloody use as a seconder if he just buggers off after the objection and leaves me to bring all the evidence forward.

<<cough>> amateur <<cough>>

Bitterness!!  You ain't seen nothing yet.

Did your best, considering

So, it wasn't really an appeal as the seconder was absent during the process.

This was the same Kilmurry who once discribed Kinboshi as a "lag-tard" in a dtd cash game!!

In which case, you can't be penalised as there wasn't a proper appeal anyway.  Need to appeal yer appeal Kin.

sharplea   1
Rod Paradise   4
Moskvich   5
Colchester Kev   5
Claw75   5
Laxie   5
pokerfan   5
amcgrath1uk   5
GlasgowBandit   5
cdw1111   6
Rupert   6
Nakor   6
suzanne   6
Ironside   7
gatso   8
rex008   8
Wardonkey   8
bobAlike   9
Delboy   9
chrisbruce   9
ItsMrAlex2u   10
AndrewT   10
Joobie538   10
Silo Graham   11
12barblues   11
thetank   13
rossfourfive   14
stallyon   14
Eck   14
matt674   15
Sheriff Fatman   15
Acidmouse   16
Dingdell   16
kinboshi   18
EvilPie   21

Just call me teacher's pet.

No, that was his brother.

It must be, I'm winning.

It was AN appeal, just not very good.

Ready to move on folks?

Oh - and loads of people used google in that round ldo.

2 more needed for the EC sat ... Robert will look favourably on the answers of anyone that plays it :)

Bring back JonMW.

Thank you

Now where's my apple?

minus another 2 for a failed appeal on whether the failed appeal was an appeal.

Where the hell is MrAlex2u?  He can't take that long - Jersey isn't that bloody big.

 rotflmfao

Andrew's a suck up BTW

That would have been awesome.

Go with your instincts in the future plz.

The next one is going to HURT

blame Yannick & seans. Takes longer for a deposit to show up than if I'd posted the cash...

FAIL.

You aren't the one to dish out the scores - that's Sir HM's job, and you also need a seconder for any appeal - so premature exclamation imo.

i wish

Looking at the answers - I really don't think they did

Rod, I will consider your sensible suggestion




Name one of the Beatles Top 10 selling singles in the UK

OK, FML etc. I got this list of the net. I am sticking by it.

Going to build up a reputation of trust over the first 4 or so questions before I start altering the scores before sorting.

I think they did.  Some even googled the wrong answers...

This thread is a tragedy.

Keeping my own record ;)

Anyone know how to stop that warning about how many posts have been posed in the time since you started typing? ANNOYING.

PS Boshi - suggestions to the honourable quizmaster are only kind gestures in appreciation for his work...

Thank god for EvilPie and the Duke of Westminster.

:D

Yes, you can do that in your profile settings - Look and Layout Preferences

Tread carefully with the Beatles.  One of my all time favs, so you'd better not butcher them!

Post on Bainn's forum

So did I WTF are you on about.....

Joke obviously but I'm checking my answer now.....

POTM  rotflmfao

 rotflmfao rotflmfao rotflmfao

To be fair I just seconded it because i saw the word OBJECTION.

I had no idea whethher it was or wasnt

  ;applause;

Hey Jude (7)
Rupert
Moskvich
Ironside
stallion
Eck
GlasgowBandit
Joobie538


Help! (5)
Gatso
ItsMrAlex2u
Rex008
Colchester Kev
Nakor


Can’t Buy Me Love (2)
Kinboshi
Matt674

She Loves You (1)
Cdw1111
amcgrath1uk

From Me to You (1)
sharplea

I Feel Fine (1)
Laxie

I want to Hold Your Hand (1)
Claw75


Fail!!!!

9 pointers

Ballard of John and Yoko
12barblues

Love Me Do
Rossfourfive
Pokerfan
suzanne

Please Please Me
Wardonkey

Paperback Writer
Delboy

Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever
AndrewT

Love Me Do
EvilPie

Lucy In The Sky with Diamonds
Acidmouse
Let it Be

thetank
Yellow submarine

Silo Graham
chrisbruce

Eleanor Rigby
Dingdell

Free as a Bird
Sherriff Fatman

Get Back
Rob Paradise

Yesterday
bobAlike

nice, i don't care what the others say - you do have the occasional good use!! ;)

You merited your ace

Objection - quiz master numerically dyslexic

I MORE NEEDED IN EC SAT ....

Was just going to post that.  She's slow in her old age.

Seconded.

OBJECTION!!!

Please Please Me reached number 3 in 1964.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Please_Please_Me_(song)

Seconder please.

oh fuck changed mine last minute from hard days night

read the question!!!!!

You're not going to stick to the obviously erroneous list you found though.... Get Back is well up there.

On BPL?

How much and that, I might play seeing as I'm pretty much having a non productive evening because of reverse sheep quizz.
Also, what is EC?

Its not a song that made the top ten, it has to be one of their Top ten best selling songs

...and is it in the Top 10 best selling Beatles singles?

Sorry Rod, it's a tragedy.

No - FAIL!

Pos.   Title   Year
1   She Loves You   1963
2   I Want To Hold Your Hand   1963
3   Can't Buy Me Love   1964
4   I Feel Fine   1964
5   We Can Work It Out/Day Tripper   1965
6   Help !   1965
7   Hey Jude   1968
8   A Hard Day's Night   1964
9   From Me To You   1963
10   Hello Goodbye   1967
copied from somewhere so must be right.

oh, fk...

GTFO

What were the other 3 then? Get Back was in the top 10.

ditto

Can be found here http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_were_the_Beatles%27_10_best_selling_singles as well as 101 other places.  Get Back is a great song, but never made the money it should have.

sorry typo but scores will be correct

FML i knew love me do had some sort of significance just forgot it was their first not best.

IN THE UK you muppets

[  ] Valid source.

That's the correct list

Let me catch up, any objectors and 2nders?

Americans don't count though - Get Back in top 10 on taste grounds.

Only against the winters tail and also the Hilton Las Vegas

Anyone want a game on Blonde while quizz is running?

Next question, I failed badly there.

[  ] I have time

10c/20c?  blonde cash table?

I'll not get a seconder - but your list includes yankee sales.

here's their longest at No 1 in the UK....

"From Me to You" (1963, 7 weeks), "She Loves You" (1963, 6 weeks), "I Want to Hold Your Hand" (1963, 5 weeks), "Can't Buy Me Love" (1964, 3 weeks), "A Hard Day's Night" (1964, 3 weeks), "I Feel Fine" (1964, 5 weeks), "Ticket to Ride" (1965, 3 weeks), "Help!" (1965, 3 weeks), "We Can Work It Out"/"Day Tripper" (1965, 5 weeks), "Paperback Writer" (1966, 2 weeks), "Yellow Submarine"/"Eleanor Rigby" (1966, 4 weeks), "All You Need Is Love" (1967, 3 weeks), "Hello, Goodbye" (1967, 7 weeks), "Lady Madonna" (1968, 2 weeks), "Hey Jude" (1968, 2 weeks), "Get Back" (1969, 6 weeks), "The Ballad of John and Yoko" (1969, 2 weeks).(Other note 'Penny Lane'/'Strawberry Fields Forever' no 1 in Melody maker charts 1967)

cool, will go find and sit

http://www.jpgr.co.uk/stats_top10s_beatles.html

my list cant be wrong,it came from the Biggest music FACTS ever book.

[ ] That was the question.

Rod, do you want me to 2nd you,?













that way I can be sure you'll lose 2 points

How much do I lose if I second his objection?

Baws, but in case of doubt the qizmaster's decision is right.... :(

1

Found it.

Sitting now but kbosh is too shy to play heads up, we need a.n. other.

good idea

Any more for the 10c/20c blonde cash game?  Me and tank are there waiting to donate....

I second his objection.

A limb

Too late - bite me ;D

My internet is too dodgy to chance it.  Been cutting out every 10 or 15 minutes with nearly a week now.  Sigh.  FML

Is your objection still live Rod?

seems not, scores to follow

an invitation to play with tank and boshi?  I'm there!

He hadn't withdrawn it before I seconded it.

HEY!  You can't reverse an objection AFTER the proof has been put out there!  

I OBJECT to the reversed objection!!!!  

cock up

I only asked a question and pointed out another source of data - the quizmaster has final say IMO - if he choosees to reconsider that is only a sign of his perspicacity and integrity IMHO.

seconded. that is ridic

So rigged.

How can I be on 11 points when I only had 5 the last round and an Ace this one?

errr you sure you've added those scores up right you twonk?

WTF!!!

did i miss 4 questions or something?

cocked up sheet

lol was just checking how my score could be 37.

It seems my score may well be 37 in a few qs time though!

I added the running totals, doh

Seconded.

He's a lawyer, not a mathematician.

Objection <> general discusion obv.

[X] 15 points on 1 question ridic obv.

[X] Seconder who has previously agreed and seconds after answer from quizmaster obv timebarred and punatively given added pints.

try some of that vanish oxy action stuff

 ;popcorn;

[X] This one IS an objection!

cdw1111   8
Moskvich   12
gatso   13
rex008   13
Rod Paradise   13
bobAlike   18
ItsMrAlex2u   15
kinboshi   20
Silo Graham   20
Rupert   13
Colchester Kev   10
AndrewT   19
EvilPie   30
Acidmouse   25
thetank   22
Ironside   14
12barblues   20
Claw75   6
rossfourfive   23
Laxie   6
Nakor   11
matt674   17
pokerfan   14
stallyon   21
sharplea   2
Wardonkey   17
amcgrath1uk   7
Delboy   18
suzanne   15
chrisbruce   18
Eck   21
Dingdell   25
Sherriff Fatman   24
GlasgowBandit   12
Joobie538   17

Bob's a twonk

And why does Sharplea only have 2 points 3 questions in?!  RIGGED!!!!

Ruling on objections

Rod agreed with me and so withdrew objection, thus stalling attempt of martyrdom by kinboshi.

Obections are question/answer related and not to the rules of the quiz.

This is hilarious  rotflmfao rotflmfao rotflmfao

Cos I passed Shakespeare ;)

[  ] I agree

seconded. he got 2 in one earlier as someone pointed out so min score even with pass and google is surely 3

Shakespeare passed most people by on here it seems.

I got 2 aces - re-read!

sharplea      1+0+1=2

[ ] Robert asks clear and unambiguous questions
[X] Robert should know how to ask clear and unambiguous questions, given his profession
[ ] I'm doing well in my first Reverse Sheep game

Bite me Boshi

yeah, soz, was asa I was thinking of. you just googled

Will beat him up for money,  joobie538 on stars ;)

Clearer?  :)

cdw1111      0   6      2   8
Moskvich      2   3      7   12
gatso      4   4      5   13
rex008      3   5      5   13
Rod Paradise      0   4      9   13
bobAlike      2   7      9   18
ItsMrAlex2u   1   3   6      5   15
kinboshi   2   9   7      2   20
Silo Graham      4   7      9   20
Rupert      4   2      7   13
Colchester Kev      2   3      5   10
AndrewT      3   7      9   19
EvilPie      9   12      9   30
Acidmouse      9   7      9   25
thetank      9   4      9   22
Ironside      1   6      7   14
12barblues      9   2      9   20
Claw75      1   4      1   6
rossfourfive      9   5      9   23
Laxie      3   2      1   6
Nakor      3   3      5   11
matt674      3   12      2   17
pokerfan      0   5      9   14
stallyon      9   5      7   21
sharplea      1   0      1   2
Wardonkey      2   6      9   17
amcgrath1uk      4   1      2   7
Delboy      2   7      9   18
suzanne      4   2      9   15
chrisbruce      2   7      9   18
Eck      9   5      7   21
Dingdell      4   12      9   25
Sherriff Fatman      9   6      9   24
GlasgowBandit      4   1      7   12
Joobie538      4   6      7   17

 ;applause;


Well done Robert, glad you've managed to find some maths which doesn't confuse you.

pic still working ;)

It would be if it was formatted correctly you twonk




EDIT: STOP EDITING MY POSTS!!!!!!

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