wellinghall: (Ferret)
[personal profile] wellinghall
From Facebook:
1. If we woke up in prison together, what would you say to me, using exactly four words?
2. Which famous person do I look like?

From University Challenge:
3. Can you do simple sums in binary? (They couldn't!)

From Saki:
4. What did the Caspian see?

From Blake:
5. And did those feet in ancient time, Walk upon England's mountains green?

Date: 2010-02-01 09:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fallingtowers.livejournal.com
From Facebook:

Any escape plans yet?

can you do simple sums in binary?

I think so. Mostly because I've gotten used to thinking in binary again since my flatmate bought a fluorescent binary clock for our shared bathroom.

Date: 2010-02-02 08:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
The clock sounds interesting.

Date: 2010-02-03 07:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] didiusjulianus.livejournal.com
Where can I get a binary clock?

Date: 2010-02-03 08:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fallingtowers.livejournal.com
My roommate got hers from Think Geek (http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/giftsforhim/59e0/). (Where it is ironically advertised in the "Gifts for him section" with the slogan "your mom can't read it". Um.)

Date: 2010-02-04 11:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
I'm tempted ... but we already have too much Stuff (TM).

Date: 2010-02-01 09:50 pm (UTC)
emperor: (Default)
From: [personal profile] emperor
*groan*

Date: 2010-02-02 08:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
I aim to please :-)
(deleted comment)

Date: 2010-02-02 08:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
I thought they were very cheeky on the starter question, buzzing in before they'd got the answer.

Date: 2010-02-03 07:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] didiusjulianus.livejournal.com
Yeah well, cheeky can get you a long way in life, if used sparingly and appropriately.

Date: 2010-02-04 11:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
This is true.

Date: 2010-02-01 10:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] miss-next.livejournal.com
1. Why are we here?
2. Er, pass. I'm not good on famous people.
3. Oh yes. Or any other base you care to name.
4. The only Caspian I can think of saw the Dawn Treader, but that's the wrong one.
5. I very much doubt it. We'd have heard.

Date: 2010-02-02 08:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
#4 is from one of Saki's early Reginald short stories (although I can't remember which one).

Date: 2010-02-02 12:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bouncy-elf.livejournal.com
1. What did you do?
2. Nuh uh
3. I get it! :D Yes I am that slow...
4. Whose feet...

Date: 2010-02-02 08:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
#4 (or #5 in my original post) - Christ's - from the hymn Jerusalem.

(Another nice icon, BTW)
Edited Date: 2010-02-02 08:43 am (UTC)

Date: 2010-02-02 12:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bouncy-elf.livejournal.com
I forgot two... oops

Date: 2010-02-02 08:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
We forgive you :-)

Date: 2010-02-02 07:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] segh.livejournal.com
1. Oh no, not again.
2. Colin Firth.
3. Yes and no.
4. Why was Clapham Common?
5. Well, there was that story about Joseph of Arimathea taking Jesus on his trading voyages. But it was just put about by the monks of Glastonbury to increase their tourist revenue. Later they thought of rock bands.

Date: 2010-02-02 08:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
#2, thank you.
#4, I like it :-)

Date: 2010-02-02 08:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] segh.livejournal.com
#4 I blush to admit, I had it from Dornford Yates.

Date: 2010-02-02 08:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
It isn't original either, but have you ever wondered just what the knights in white sat in?

Date: 2010-02-02 04:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] segh.livejournal.com
No, but they could get the stain out if they used Purcell.

Date: 2010-02-02 05:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
Nnnnnn ...

Date: 2010-02-03 07:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] didiusjulianus.livejournal.com
Colin Firth? Where, where?

Date: 2010-02-04 11:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
Calm down, it's only an advert

Date: 2010-02-02 10:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bookwormsarah.livejournal.com
1 Bloody hell. What happened?
2 Pass...
3 Yes. Or at least I haven't tried recently. At primary school we used to do sums in lots of different bases.
4 For some reason I want to start singing 'Istanbul to Constantinople'
5 Probably not physically, but metaphorically yes.

Date: 2010-02-02 12:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
I don't think I know your song in #4

Date: 2010-02-02 01:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bookwormsarah.livejournal.com
I don't really know it, only the start (or possibly the chorus - who knows) - for some reason I have the Muppets in my head but that doesn't actually mean they sang it...

Date: 2010-02-02 04:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bookwormsarah.livejournal.com
Dodoodidoo...

(Must dig out the Muppet Show Cast Album when I get home)

Date: 2010-02-02 05:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bookwormsarah.livejournal.com
Dodoo didoodoo didoodoo didoodoo didoodoodududidadidoodoo...

Date: 2010-02-02 05:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
Manamana manamamana manamana mannaamanna

Date: 2010-02-02 04:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladyofastolat.livejournal.com
Could it be Istanbul (not Constantinople), which has a very catchy tune which I now can't get out of my head. (Grr! But at least it's better than the Dogtanian theme tune which was plaguing me yesterday.) I know it's on Youtube, since I found it last year, but I can't give a link at the moment, since I'm at work.

Date: 2010-02-02 04:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
I am barely aware of Dogtanian (although I did - briefly - see yesterday's discussion). I must have been doing something else when it was on tele.

Date: 2010-02-02 05:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bookwormsarah.livejournal.com
I was thoroughly scarred when I read the real version and discovered that Juliet was the wife of D'Artagnion's landlord, and they had known each other about five minutes... I kept thinking "Well *this* didn't happen in Muskehounds..."

Date: 2010-02-02 05:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
I know the Three Musketeers from The Banana Splits.

Date: 2010-02-02 04:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bookwormsarah.livejournal.com
That'll be it!

And thanks for the Dogtanian earworm...which links to Willy Fogg in my mind. Oh, 1980s cartoons... *sobs*

Date: 2010-02-02 05:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
Hah. 1985. Was at Uni already, no TV.

Date: 2010-02-02 09:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] philmophlegm.livejournal.com
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks.


(It's nowhere near the Caspian Sea though. Black Sea - yes. Sea of Marmara - yes. Aegean Sea - yes. Caspian Sea is miles away.

Date: 2010-02-03 09:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
There's a rhyme from the Crimea at the back of my mind, but it's refusing to come out.

Profile

wellinghall: (Default)
wellinghall

December 2023

S M T W T F S
     12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
31      

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Jun. 14th, 2025 01:33 pm
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios