Marine Hound

So someone has two kids, and you are told one of them is a boy. What is the probability the other is a girl?

Well a priori the approximate distribution is:

2 boys - 25%
1 of each - 50%
2 girls - 25%
So does that mean the first possibility - 2 boys - is eliminated so the probability of a girl is 50/75 or 2/3rds. Or does it invalidate your a priori assumption and it's basically 50:50? These and other such wondrous stories formed the pre-quiz discussions this week.

8 jobs to disappear by 2030? Lots doing this but I chose:



Look, I'm failing here to insert a link but if anyone's bothered it's here:
www.huffingtonpost.com/gobankingrates/8-jobs-that-will-go-extin_b_8010878.html

Kevster, you won't care but drivers are included. This way underestimates the resourcefulness and abilities to evolve of such characters in my opinion. Actuaries not included, more's the pity.

Also at the start, the new Irish gaffer had brought his posse and a backing of Irish music to the pub. Now in my opinion, there's only actually about 7 Irish folk songs and nothing I heard contradicted that. Still, he bought us a drink last week so more power to him, maybe they'll do Cheltenham?

On with the quiz, I'm not even going to include the picture round, it was food items and really quite easy. The only memorable thing about the current affairs was which 63 year old ... Sports Illustrated etc. It does call for a picture:

Out of the three it wouldn't be the one on the left would it? Maybe she was one of Billy Joel's?

Next round, food and drink. One of Daren's specialities and we didn't leave much out there, triple sec flavouring escaping us.

Onto connections and I'm afraid I sent us down a bit of a blind alley with linking them as colour blind. The actual, rather lame in my opinion, connection was that they all are, or have been teetotal. Never trust anyone who doesn't like a drink, that's what I say.

Ten pointers, we didn't know what a bishop's crook was but D2 may have got close enough to earn the points, actually crosier.

Now at this point in my notes, I've got, "February, the month of mud and cabbages". No idea where that came from but it just about sums it up.

Onto the link-ups. Nothing too elegant this week and we failed to wrap it back to Sudoku.

Jeopardy and it was clearly "balls-deep" this week. The one that tripped us was the medal awarded to US Military wounded in battle? Answer:

Now we've had this the other way, and the Purple Heart is often awarded posthumously. Ummm.

Can't remember the music and the number of teams who've played in the Prem? 47, not 41 and the evening had an empty handed feel to it but it was good to see King Kong Balls emerge with a rare victory.

BTW, we need an opportunity to drink the Hound sloe gin, maybe the Scout quiz on the 11th March or a Cheltenham day offers that.

Laters bitch.