denied

Table Quiz.

We led from round three, possibly earlier.

In round five or six, I said that SONAR stands for Sound Navigation And Ranging. The "correct" answer was "...And RADAR". The organisers, questioned on this, said, quote, people were taking it too seriously (at €40 per table I think we were entitled to do so) and besides their answerbook said RADAR and RADAR it was.

Predictably, the quiz went to a tiebreak which we lost.

I have since discovered we were further gypped on the composition of brass; knowing that bronze was copper and tin, I (largely) guessed copper and zinc for brass. The "correct" answer was copper and tin. Brass is indeed made of copper and zinc. Ha ha of course note that "some types of brass are called bronzes" (copper and tin and zinc, although always taught to me without the zinc) and therefore your quizmaster is still an idiot.

fully expecting to be beaten up by roving Palestinians at this point

Israel approves Palestinian plans to bury Yasser Arafat in Ramallah, as he lies in a deep coma in a French hospital.

"I'm not dead!" "Ere, he say's he's not dead!" "Yes he is" "I'm not!" "He isn't" "Well, he will be soon, he's very ill" (Monty Python, of course)

irony

I was behind a peoplewagon this morning. Lots of stickers advertising the driver's christianity on the rear window - christ the saviour, etc. The vehicle bearing these stickers was a Mitusbishi Chariot.

in which my jukebox fucks with my head

So out of the blue I get instant message from an ex. As I'm chatting to her, the jukebox switches to Bob Dylan's Most Of The Time. Now it's on a track called, approximately, "$her_husband's_name's Song".