OT - The Pub Quiz Thread

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Depends, Roller. Apparently people used to transcribe William Shakespear's plays and then sell the transcripts - but probably the answer you're looking for is Bob Dylan's unreleased recordings that came out on the bootleg 'Great White Wonder'
 
I know it's not my turn, but does anyone know who first coined the phrase "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" (or something like that)
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Erm.......Roller.......(apologies in advance)
 
The other R in Houston said:
Lol - Roller's first abuse of power!

I know it's not my turn, but does anyone know who first coined the phrase "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" (or something like that)
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Lord Acton ...but the first place I saw it was on Northwick Park Roundabout written on some hoarding
But I think that actually said "Power corrupts, but absolute power is rather quite neat"

(Trying to defuse the situation here )
 
Perth scotland
Chelmsford england
St Asaph wales

Isn't google marvellous ?

In the interest of fairness...."other search engines are available"

Next question....In Joe Walsh's track lifes been good....what does 185?
 
qprbeth said:
Lord Acton ...but the first place I saw it was on Northwick Park Roundabout written on some hoarding
But I think that actually said "Power corrupts, but absolute power is rather quite neat"

(Trying to defuse the situation here )
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Must be something about that roundabout - for many years in the 70s the grafitti "Nicholas Parsons is the Neo-opiate of the people' made me smile...

I reckon Asquith said that about Kitchener, Roller, but it sounds like a very modern quote.....
 
sb_73 said:
Must be something about that roundabout - for many years in the 70s the grafitti "Nicholas Parsons is the Neo-opiate of the people' made me smile...

I reckon Asquith said that about Kitchener, Roller, but it sounds like a very modern quote.....
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Over to you Stan.


Grinning~Cur said:
Elizabeth Bibesco said this, according to her mother Margot.
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Don't you just hate precocious children? Especially if they ruin quiz questions.... If Stan is still in the land of Shinto, please set the next question Grinners
 
Still here, until tomorrow - you're up early Roller, I didn't realise modding was a 24 hour responsibility.

Where did Winston Smith work?

Suggestion - can we fess up to googled answers (some good precedents set already)? I've no problem with them, but I'm only attempting answers from my increasingly fallible memory, and I'm so far off the pace with lots of these that I'm developing an inferiority complex.......

and a special one for the Floyd fans.....what did John Lydon (Rotten) have written on his T-shirt when he first met the other members of the Sex Pistols?
 
Ministry of Truth for Winston Smith.....Dying to know the Sex Pistol answers....

but a question for Stan...Do you hail from the Northwick Park area.....I remember the "Nicholas Parsons is the neo-opiate of the people" sign...there for ages.

Also there for ages...."M.Khan is bent" on the North circular.....and "Give Peas a chance" on M40 near the M25 turn off
 
qprbeth said:
Ministry of Truth for Winston Smith.....Dying to know the Sex Pistol answers....

but a question for Stan...Do you hail from the Northwick Park area.....I remember the "Nicholas Parsons is the neo-opiate of the people" sign...there for ages.

Also there for ages...."M.Khan is bent" on the North circular.....and "Give Peas a chance" on M40 near the M25 turn off
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Correct Beth, too easy.

I was born Honeypot Lane, which is NW10 apparently, lived nearly all of my youth Harrow Weald/Pinner, went to the now defunct Harrow Weald Grammar School, worked as a porter in Northwick Park Hospital during uni vacations. Like most, both sides of my family had migrated west up the Met line, all originally Clerkenwell/Marylebone for a long way back. In fact my son is the first member of my father's line to be born outside London since, we think, at least 1720. Got back for my daughter though.

Johnny, one of my great and enduring heroes, had customised (i.e ripped) his Pink Floyd T-shirt and added the words 'I hate,,,," to it - well before there was any such fashion. Genius.
 
sb_73 said:
Correct Beth, too easy.

I was born Honeypot Lane, which is NW10 apparently, lived nearly all of my youth Harrow Weald/Pinner, went to the now defunct Harrow Weald Grammar School, worked as a porter in Northwick Park Hospital during uni vacations. Like most, both sides of my family had migrated west up the Met line, all originally Clerkenwell/Marylebone for a long way back. In fact my son is the first member of my father's line to be born outside London since, we think, at least 1720. Got back for my daughter though.

Johnny, one of my great and enduring heroes, had customised (i.e ripped) his Pink Floyd T-shirt and added the words 'I hate,,,," to it - well before there was any such fashion. Genius.
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I was born in Honeypot Lane too, but I expect a few years before you.
We lived near South Kenton, and then more towards Preston Road.
Small world
 
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