The Only Way Is Hound

Again, a pleasure to report that the peloton was back up to full strength. Steve stormed in first to claim the yellow jersey, I was second while Kevster claimed the four seconds for third. A weary Daren followed in 4th while Graham trailed in some time later to take the lanterne rouge. However we all liked his top and wondered where he got it.

Let's have a stats update.

Still seems to be about 70% French with maybe 20% Russian engagement. No idea why that should be and probably never will. By way of posts:

Looks like "Downward Facing Hound" and "Radio Hound" battling for top spot at present. Will one of them make it to the thousand?

So the quiz started with some strange looking characters. But we seemed to have a full sheet of answers for which I claim absolutely no credit.

Current Affairs at least made some sort of sense. That was until news emerged that a woman in Taiwan had been granted a divorce on grounds of her hubby ignoring her texts. Also it was John Humphreys who have Jo Konta a hard time about her nationality. Apparently for his money you could get four Sophie Raworths. No contest.

Round 3 was art and lit. Don't think we had any problems here, Oberon was King of the Fairies and Phileas Fogg did live at 7 Savile Row.

Connections took a bit more getting our heads round. Was Murray Walker really still commenting two years and its always tough to get William Hague and IDS in the right order. Order emerged and they were all Sandhurst graduates including oddly Katie Hopkins who passed out when she passed out, as it were.

Ten pointers were similarly dispatched with Bam Bam clinching the deal as a Flintstones youngster.

Bam Bam. In his younger days.

Link-ups duly linked up and on to jeopardy. What the axilla was foxed us to start with and what product is durable, reliable and exciting? Missed this one as I was at the bar but wouldn't have been contributing. Well, Duracell it wasn't and Durex it was. Reminded me on the run on the London Rubber Company in the mid-eighties, a few of us carried the wave of their share price rise for a time. Crazy days those university years.

Well, that put paid to it. We were also required to identify the lunula:

Did we know but not put it? Well it was playing to the strength of anyone with a bit of medical knowledge which for sure wasn't us, LATT duly prevailed, nailing the jeopardy and storming clear. To reiterate, September timetable:

10.9 - Fontwell
16.9 - Daren's
23.9 - Pete's big 50

Quiz at the Wattenden sometime but leave that to Daren to resolve the Wednesday/Sunday conundrum, or I might.

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