The same two out of three Hounds both look set to be attending this year's F.A. Cup final, to be referreed by Mark Clattenberg who made such a good job of the Chelsea-Spurs debacle yesterday. Much reminiscing about the last time the two teams met at Wembley by me, but why take my word for it when Attila the Stockbroker said it all so much better (check out 'Roll Up for the Donkey Derby' on Spotify), excerpt as follows;
'EEyore - EEyore, the Palace got to Wembley, they've never been there before,
EEyore-EEyore, roll up for the Donkey Derby, there's room for plenty more.
There's old Gary O'Reilly, what's he doing here?
He should be giving rides to little kids on Blackpool Pier.
Pemberton and Pardew, one roll for them I'd say,
And that's the leading animal in the school nativity play.
And as for Man United they hardly raised the tone, with Gary Crystal Pallister, a donkey of their own
The final was a comedy, the replay was a bore.
The crowd were shouting 'Eagles', but it should have been EEyore'.
In other news,
- world Snooker semi-finalist Marco Fu is apparently playing out of Frames Bar in Coulsdon currently, where Jimmy White is also a regular.
- Kevster could be back hounding soon, he has finally been deemed roadworthy.
- no Blue Badge for Daren yet, the paperwork is extremely unwieldy.
- something about 'bladder awareness', what the hell was that?
First round was pictures of puppets (andy pandy, pinky/perky, orville, spit the dog, sooty etc.), pretty easy for those of a certain age. Daren managed to recall 'Cuddles' the monkey, Keith Harris' lesser known stooge, meaning full marks.
Ok on current affairs, none of us had heard of Dr Who's new female sidekick. Famous women for Round 3, we fell into an Ella Fitzgerald/Billie Holiday related bear trap, forgot that Katherine Hepburn has more best actress Oscars than Meryl Streep, and fell short on Oedipus' mother Jocasta.
Double connections round again this week. We correctly identified Snooker for the first bit, despite only getting 1 of 4 questions right! The second part on Elevators was much easier.
We missed one ten pointer, Bassenthwaite Lake is the only body of water in the Lake District that actually has the word 'Lake' in it's official title. We went for Lake Windermere, which is apparently just called 'Windermere'. Pretty much everybody missed this one, so no need to panic yet.
I learnt something new on the chain letters round, I had hitherto thought that Swarfega was a tropical disease of some sort, but apparently it is a green, gelatinous all-purpose cleaning product invented in Derbyshire. T'internet tells me that it once had an orange rival called 'Dirty Paws'.
We made the right choices for the Jeopardy round, leaving out the two that we got wrong. Much debate as to Blur's second no. 1 single. It was 'Beetlebum', we had 'Charmless Man'. We also avoided a bear trap concerning 'The Big One' at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. 18 points followed on the music round.
No matter anyhow, the Moonhounds aced the jeopardy and beat us convincingly.
Such fun.
G-Force.
A cab and kebab as well, what more could a Thursday night hold?
ReplyDeleteAll I've got on bladder awareness is that World continence week is coming up in June. Not sure what that means for the rest of the time?
ReplyDelete