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  1. I highlighted 'Game of chess' but the correct answer is The Fire Sermon. I should have read it properly.

    I had a guess at that one and chose The Fire Sermon as I liked the sound of it. I wouldn't have been there, anyway, as checked some I was unsure of after submitting my answers and wouldn't have got past £64,000 - Pan is right but I thought Pan had something to do with music so I chose Diana as she definitely had something to do with animals, though not flocks and herds.

  2. Condescending bullshit from the Spaniards. Pedro;

     

    "Tahiti will do everything they can to frustrate us," he said. "It's an important game, and we must respect our opponents. We must also make sure we don't take victory as a given, or think too much about the number of goals we might score."

     

    No, he can't come out and say; "We expect we will win 12-0" but if there is nothing to say then say nothing.

     

    I won't be watching. Spain are boring.

  3. £100

     

    Which vehicles compete in the annual Tour De France ?

     

    C - Bicycles

     

     

    £200

     

    In the X - Files, what is Agent Mulder's first name ?

     

    A - Fox

     

     

    £300

     

    Who won the 1967 Eurovision Song Contest with 'Puppet on a String' ?

     

    d - Sandie Shaw

     

     

    £500

     

    What was the nickname of Peter Jenkins in Grange Hill ?

     

    c - Tucker

     

     

    £1000

     

    Which singer is famously known as the 'Man in Black'

     

    c - Johnny Cash

     

     

    £2000

     

    On which river does the city of Vienna stand ?

     

    a - Danube

     

    £4000

     

    Which city hosted the summer olympic games in 1908 and 1948 ?

     

    d - London

     

     

    £8000

     

    From which plant is the heart-drug digitalis obtained ?

     

     

    a - Foxglove

     

     

    £16,000

     

    Who became queen of The Netherlands in 1980 ?

     

    c - Beatrix

     

     

    £32,000

     

    Which of these measurements of unit is the largest ?

     

    c - Bushel

     

     

    £64,000

     

    What is the literal translation of the Stegosaurus dinosaur ?

     

    b - Roof Lizard

     

     

    £125,000

     

     

    In Greek Mythology, who was the god of flocks and herds ?

     

    a - Diana

     

     

    £250,000

     

    Who was awarded the nobel peace prize in 1979 ?

     

    d - Mother Teresa of Calcutta

     

     

    £500,000

     

    Which of these geological periods came first ?

     

     

    a - Cretaceous

     

     

    £1,000,000

     

    What is the title of the third part of T.S. Eliot's poem 'The waste land' ?

     

    d - The Fire Sermon

     

  4. I don't think there will be many, or any, surprises. A few will flatter to deceive, early on, such as West Brom, as usual, and Sunderland before their regular awful last 25 games and either Hull or Cardiff will start like heroes before fading fast.

     

    I hope Villa go down, disappear into obscurity, taking Newcastle with them and both grounds are demolished to make way for new Aldi supermarkets or Tesco Expresses, I'm not really bothered which, or turn one into a drop in centre for deluded gobshites and the other into a drop in centre for deluded gobshites.

     

    I expect Crystal Palace to go down.

  5. Think we get liverpool on aug 31st. Usually October and April. Happy to play them whenever!

    Happy to play them anytime, too. They're just another team in the league, to me. An irrelevance. Like a needy dog constantly requiring attention. I dislike Aston Villa, Chelsea and Newcastle more than I do them and I want to beat every team in the PL as much as I want to beat them.

  6. If someone has a Hayfever allergy (can appreciate the problem), I'd advise Loratadine tablets. You can buy them from a pharmacist easy enough.

    Buy them from the supermarket pharmacy - supermarket own packaging - just on shelf for you to serve yourself and pay at checkout. Quarter of the price of branded Loratadine for twice as many per box.

     

    March-September for me (depending on how mild Spring is). Atishoo! Bless me!

  7. They don't look big enough to hold 31+ people safely. Overloaded (though the first to sink was empty)?

     

    Totally agree with scrapping them now, although the Mayor wants to see if anyone is dead from this latest accident before making a decision.

     

    Calling your narrowboat Predator is a bit much,too - and there's at least 3 of them.

  8.  

    How much for a seat that isn't flea-ridden? I never take the optional extras :dry:.

    :D

     

    6pm film (Fast & Furious 6, for what it's worth) - in there at 5.40, 15 minutes waiting to pay for a bag of dried up pick & mix while two nauseatingly pretentious little runts ordered extra sauce and Oreo on their Ben & Jerry's while Pops waited in the wings with his coat over his arm in a very studious fashion to then be told at 5.55 as we tendered our tickets "Screen 3 is just being cleaned" (I resisted the temptation to ask if the seats were, too) and when we were allowed in just after 6 we were told we "are in the blue seats this evening, Sir, in the front half". It was pitch frigging black in there!! They all looked blue and 8 people in an approximate 400 seat auditorium is hardly going to cause seating wars now is it!!

     

    Seen above post about Odeon. This was an Odeon. Dated doesn't even come close and to be charged £16.40 for two 'standard' tickets and £5.29 for the piss pick & mix and to be asked by the greasy skinned, slack-jawed troll on the pick & mix/Ben & Jerry's counter to rate the service we had received online made the whole experience a bit surreal.

     

    Some of the action scenes in the film were good and Vin & Dwayne being rock hard blokey type manly strong but silent men type blokes was fun and my wife got her quota of eye candy from Vin and Paul Walker so all was not lost.

     

    Showcase roolz!

  9.  

    He got four goals for us in 14 games. If Reading play him right and he has his head screwed on then yeah 15 goals or more.

     

    He got 4 in 27 games : 14 starts, 13 as sub - 3 in 21 in the league (10 starts 11 as sub), 1 in 4 in the FA Cup (2 starts, 2sub), 0 in 2 in the League Cup (2 starts).

     

    He'll be lucky to hit double figures, in any league, but he's not regarded as a striker as mentioned above so I wouldn't be expecting that from him for that reason and also because of his goalscoring record

  10. There is absolutely no chance we sold him for £700K. None.

     

    I don't believe he was sold because he couldn't head the ball either. Something else went on with this.

    He has admitted he couldn't adapt to the physical side of the English game and was homesick for Italy. Simple as that.

     

    His only league appearance was in a 4-0 defeat to Villa, at Villa (Boxing Day 2005). Toffeeweb likely getting confused as we bought him from Udinese, who we then played in a friendly at Goodison (I was at both games and Kroldrup looked "magnificent" in the tippy-tappy friendly when he got 5 minutes to think about who to give the ball away to. Don't know about couldn't head it... he couldn't kick it, either). He got injured in training after the Udinese friendly in the August and wasn't fit again until the Villa game. He was worse than Glenn Keeley, when we played Villa, and that's saying something as Keeley's Everton career lasted about half an hour - against Liverpool, at Goodison in THAT 0-5 while on loan from Blackburn - he was on his way back to Blackburn before full time!

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