Comments on: The pub quiz

By: Mr Angry

Mr Angry — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:26:53 +0000

Fussy Bitch – the names were the best bit

Dr J – There was no Latin section, or the scores would’ve been even less.

Oli – Liar.

z – Use it next time. Churchgoers all love a little play on words. Isn’t churchgoer a misleading name, I bet most of them aren’t much of a go-er at all.

drunk punk – you were clearly the brains of the bunch!

marycub – you’re not wrong.

Sam – to be fair, I wasn’t in a student Union venue, just a pub. And though I officially stayed in a hotel, it would better be described as a B&B over a pub. When I’m there next you can hook me up with some student hotties?

Cleavers – That is what Internet phones are designed for!

snowbug – There was a lot of drinking now you mention it…

Alan – I used to play football out that way, so I know what you’re saying about the locals. I didn’t clean up though.

Murph – Now THAT is a good quiz name!

marycub – I once snogged a 13 year old (I was 12) does that count?

Billboy – you send your daughter to school in France? I am calling Childline.

GH – I was told 5 minutes into my chosen career that my degree was worth nothing…which was nice.

By: Murph

Murph — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:15:57 +0000

We had a pub team called the “Norfolk Enchants” and so another team started up called “Suffolk Enwhats”.

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 22:33:33 +0000

Used to see a girl in Corby, Northants, my mate and I used to go to all the quizzes and clean up. It was like taking candy from babies. Mind you it helped that they were all pissed up jocks.

By: snowbug

snowbug — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 21:35:31 +0000

They have to dumb-down the quizes as all the participants are drinking and were born in a different decade then us…

By: Cleavers

Cleavers — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:49:56 +0000

I went to my first Canadian pub quiz last night and was a bit thrown as it wasn’t at all like anything I’ve been used to back home. It’s very formal, where the pub has to register, the questions are provided in a sealed envelope the night of, and it’s all logged online for a league of sorts. Plus,it was bloody difficult. Damn those GCSEs.

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:45:21 +0000

I feel like two worlds have collided – I can’t believe you were in Bangor, Mr A.

I feel I ought to defend my students, but hey. If you came to a pub quiz in one of our Students’ Union venues I’ve no doubt that you would find a stiff challenge to your quiz-conquering intellect.

What most surprises me is that you found somewhere to stay round here…

By: marycub

marycub — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:22:14 +0000

i feel the intellectual level of this country is quickly diminishing

By: drunk punk

drunk punk — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:05:24 +0000

reluctantly joined the mrs in a church quiz night. our team consisted of me, the wife, her 85 year old mother (had Caz late in life), a deaf old bloke who’s answers consisted of “Eh? Wassat again?”, a woman who looked like Barbara Woodhouse and actually said “Sit!” as I approached our table and a Polish couple who spoke minimal intelligible English. We won. What more can you say?

By: GH

GH — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 11:38:49 +0000

As a mate of mine says, you’ve gotta look on the positive side. Most Uni leavers now are so crap that they make your degree worth more in the job market.

Oh, and there’s nothing wrong with being a dirty old man. Letching at young girlies in student pubs is a large part of my life when I’m single…. and not so single. Its almost enough to make me want to become a professor. As I recall most of them have a drool problem too.

GH.

By: billyboy

billyboy — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:25:04 +0000

I live in France and my 14 year old daughters curiculum is very similar to whn I was at school in the 70s. Recently she needed some help with her maths. As I have said, it is quite a while since I had done these type of equations so I thought it best to do abit of revision and with this in mind I went to the BBC website. It is a very good site, but I could not find them in the GSCE section. The reason being is that they are now cionsiderd “A” level maths. I then started looking through the site and find that in general the UK syallabus is about 2 years behind what I did in the 70s and what les frogs do now.

I think I might have eaten shergar or at least one of his relatives.

By: marycub

marycub — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:38:09 +0000

Not before my time (just) but i will say this… you are as old as the woman you feel bear that in mind next time you’re hanging around student pubs.

By: z

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:30:01 +0000

Damn. I wish I’d thought of Norfolk Enchants as my team name for the church quiz a few weeks ago. Now it’d be plagiarism.

By: Oli

Oli — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:16:52 +0000

To be honest that question was before my time too.

By: Dr J

Dr J — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:47:31 +0000

A depressing insight into the minds of the Big Brother generation. And just when I’m ready to draw my pension these blighters will be in charge!

“O tempora, o mores!” indeed.

By: Fussy Bitch

Fussy Bitch — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:25:02 +0000

SWith questions that difficult the Ist and 2nd teams obviously earned bonus points for imaginative names.