The Hound Funbus Rides Again

Where to start tonight? Well for me it started around 5pm with a phone call from Kevster on his way to collect Daren. Heading down to the gate I was somewhat surprised to see, not your everyday taxi, but something more like a nine seater beast, which frankly makes the local footballer's Range Rover sport look like a Smart car.

Parking this monster would be no easy task, so having collected Daren and Graham it was up to the White Lion in Warlingham to take in some early evening sunshine. It proves that this vehicle is essential for the task in hand, namely taking 6 kids plus escort to and from school on a daily basis. It seems that Kevster's driving a style is proving a hit for youngsters and parents alike, with none of the gutteral language, constant road rage and enforced Classic FM provided by regular driver Terry. Let's hope so as I feel Steve's feeling a bit isolated as the only worker with 4 Hounds to support.

So it was a pleasant early evening, Kevster showed great skill manoeuvring in and out of the car park and dropped the three of us off to commence the quiz. Daren headed off to "the shop" and we were ready.

Now trashy celeb culture hits none of our sweet spots. I think we got two of them and can't really say we hit the crossbar with any others.

This kind of set the tone for the whole quiz. Whether it was the pre match pints or just the rounds as they fell, it was never really going to be our night. Current affairs generally baffled us, British sitcoms provided some relief but the connections might as well have been in Sanskrit. Three ten pointers at least kept us in the game at halfway but there was clearly ground to make up.

Cutting to the chase, Q1 of the Jeopardy, who had a quickie marriage to Lisa Marie Presley in approx. 2003. A good bear trap does not reveal its nature, the three of us were unanimous on Jacko and we moved to question 2.

Well, she may be younger than me, but it turns out LMP has had enough weddings to make a film about and when they come along at that frequency, none of the marriages are going to last that long, including one to noted Elvis fan, Nick Cage which fitted the time a lot better.

Frankly we didn't deserve better, the only surprise being a better jeopardy could have seen us tied first. Until next week. Quick reminder of Hound events to follow:

14th May - Scout quiz - Hearty refreshments, dodgy maths and the potential for some tasty interruptions

21st May- FA Cup final, not really a Hound event but looks like most of us are going.

3rd June - The Oaks, what else is there to say

16th June - England v Wales at Hound Towers

Watch this space as well for some Hound cricket.