One quiz at a time

griff · Post by **griff** » 07:45 Thu 17 Jul 2014

No tricks. I will say that I am no longer where I was.

Post by **DRT** » 07:52 Thu 17 Jul 2014

Cape Town?

Post by **flash_uk** » 09:03 Thu 17 Jul 2014

Singapore

griff · Post by **griff** » 09:23 Thu 17 Jul 2014

Still in Terra Australis.

griff · Post by **griff** » 11:56 Thu 17 Jul 2014

Another clue: I would need to be where I was, to be where I have been suggested to be.

CaliforniaBrad · Post by **CaliforniaBrad** » 17:41 Thu 17 Jul 2014

In Sydney at home with your wife?

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griff · Post by **griff** » 21:16 Thu 17 Jul 2014

I wasn't at home...

Post by **DRT** » 21:52 Thu 17 Jul 2014

Uluru?

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 22:22 Thu 17 Jul 2014

Byron Bay.

Post by **DRT** » 22:24 Thu 17 Jul 2014

Bunga Bunga?

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 22:35 Thu 17 Jul 2014

Perth, because it is the home of the 'national paranoia network'

Post by **DRT** » 22:38 Thu 17 Jul 2014

LGTrotter wrote:Perth, because it is the home of the 'national paranoia network'

A lovely place it is too. I have often thought I might retire there as it's only half an hour from Edinburgh.

griff · Post by **griff** » 03:32 Fri 18 Jul 2014

Well I AM in Perth. It wasn't exactly what I was looking for. I went through a body scanner at the airport and felt a little paranoid!

griff · Post by **griff** » 03:40 Fri 18 Jul 2014

And a nice town it is too

Post by **flash_uk** » 19:10 Wed 17 Sep 2014

Daniel's question on cricket photography reminded me that we have not heard from this thread for a while. You must have thought of a question by now Owen?!

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 19:11 Wed 17 Sep 2014

flash_uk wrote:Daniel's question on cricket photography reminded me that we have not heard from this thread for a while. You must have thought of a question by now Owen?!

Oh don't start him off…!

Post by **jdaw1** » 19:20 Wed 17 Sep 2014

I hereby seize ancient powers.

Within the last few months I bought a bottle of an alcoholic drink. It was opened soon after purchase, and a glass drunk. My guess is that it will take me more than a year, and possibly several, to finish it. Indeed, I haven’t had another glass since. What is it, precisely?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 19:24 Wed 17 Sep 2014

Is it an aqua vitae of some description?

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 19:24 Wed 17 Sep 2014

A bottle of Calvados?

Post by **jdaw1** » 19:25 Wed 17 Sep 2014

djewesbury wrote:Is it an aqua vitae of some description?

Too vague. What isn’t?

AW77 wrote:A bottle of Calvados?

Not apple.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 19:26 Wed 17 Sep 2014

A vermouth? Presumably you are well enough brought up to know that one only shows it to the glass from a distance when making a proper martini.

Post by **jdaw1** » 19:28 Wed 17 Sep 2014

djewesbury wrote:A vermouth? Presumably you are well enough brought up to know that one only shows it to the glass from a distance when making a proper martini.

I completely agree that the correct quantity of vermouth is measured in parts per billion. But no, not that.

Post by **flash_uk** » 19:34 Wed 17 Sep 2014

Absinthe?

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 19:36 Wed 17 Sep 2014

A Portuguese brandy?

Post by **jdaw1** » 19:39 Wed 17 Sep 2014

Question:

jdaw1 wrote:Within the last few months I bought a bottle of an alcoholic drink. It was opened soon after purchase, and a glass drunk. My guess is that it will take me more than a year, and possibly several, to finish it. Indeed, I haven’t had another glass since. What is it, precisely?

Clues:

jdaw1 wrote:
AW77 wrote:A bottle of Calvados?
Not apple.

jdaw1 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:A vermouth? Presumably you are well enough brought up to know that one only shows it to the glass from a distance when making a proper martini.
I completely agree that the correct quantity of vermouth is measured in parts per billion. But no, not that.

flash_uk wrote:Absinthe?

No. Nearest yet, but not.

AW77 wrote:A Portuguese brandy?

Not grape.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 19:40 Wed 17 Sep 2014

A Swedish whisky.

Post by **jdaw1** » 19:43 Wed 17 Sep 2014

djewesbury wrote:A Swedish whisky.

No.

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 19:51 Wed 17 Sep 2014

Crème de Menthe ?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 19:53 Wed 17 Sep 2014

This is some sort of aqua vitae not made of apple or grape. Is it a bottle of poitín?

Post by **flash_uk** » 19:58 Wed 17 Sep 2014

Seeing as you have been in France lately, Benedictine?

Post by **jdaw1** » 20:02 Wed 17 Sep 2014

AW77 wrote:Crème de Menthe ?

Yuck.

djewesbury wrote:poitín?

Never tried.

flash_uk wrote:Seeing as you have been in France lately

well observed, and helpfully.

flash_uk wrote:Benedictine?

But no.

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 20:13 Wed 17 Sep 2014

jdaw1 wrote:
flash_uk wrote:Absinthe?
No. Nearest yet, but not.

Absinthe has anise in it. So how about other anise containing liquors? My guess: Pastis?

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 20:45 Wed 17 Sep 2014

Kümmel.

Post by **jdaw1** » 20:54 Wed 17 Sep 2014

AW77 wrote:Pastis?

Very good.

I asked for “precisely”. So I’ll allow ten posts from now. If within ten posts somebody get my favourite Pastis, that person wins. But if not within ten posts, AW77 has it.

LGTrotter wrote:Kümmel.

Err, no.

Oh, and do spot the hidden clue.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 21:00 Wed 17 Sep 2014

Ricard.

Post by **jdaw1** » 21:02 Wed 17 Sep 2014

djewesbury wrote:Ricard.

It is better that you had the grace to insult me in your own name, rather than anonymously behind my back. But even better would have been not to do it at all. Yuck.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 21:04 Wed 17 Sep 2014

jdaw1 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:Ricard.
It is better that you had the grace to insult me in your own name, rather than anonymously behind my back. But even better would have been not to do it at all. Yuck.

Now now, Julia!

Post by **jdaw1** » 21:09 Wed 17 Sep 2014

djewesbury wrote:Now now, Julia!

Not your guess. And anyway, I don’t know that brand of Pastis.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 21:10 Wed 17 Sep 2014

jdaw1 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:Now now, Julia!
Not your guess. And anyway, I don’t know that brand of Pastis.

What good grace. I doff to you.

Post by **jdaw1** » 21:13 Wed 17 Sep 2014

djewesbury wrote:What good grace. I doff to you.

Not your guess. And anyway, I don’t know that brand of Pastis.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 21:14 Wed 17 Sep 2014

jdaw1 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:What good grace. I doff to you.
Not your guess. And anyway, I don’t know that brand of Pastis.

Less amusing second time.
Ricard?

Post by **jdaw1** » 21:17 Wed 17 Sep 2014

djewesbury wrote:Less amusing second time.

When somebody else guesses, should these guesses be counted as your immediate response? Tempting though it is, it would allow others, waking after a repose, to make several quick consecutive guesses. Which would reward repose. So no, they don’t count.

But I had to think it through.

Nonetheless, I don’t know that brand of Pastis.

Post by **flash_uk** » 21:21 Wed 17 Sep 2014

Henri Bardouin

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 21:23 Wed 17 Sep 2014

Pernod?

Post by **jdaw1** » 21:25 Wed 17 Sep 2014

flash_uk wrote:Henri Bardouin

No. Indeed, not tasted. Is it good?

djewesbury wrote:Pernod?

Better than Ricard, but no.

Ignoring DJ wiffle, five posts gone.

Post by **flash_uk** » 21:30 Wed 17 Sep 2014

jdaw1 wrote:
flash_uk wrote:Henri Bardouin
No. Indeed, not tasted. Is it good?

The best apparently. Never tasted it.
How about Prado?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 21:31 Wed 17 Sep 2014

Lidl?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 21:44 Wed 17 Sep 2014

Never mind pastis. What about cricket photography?

Post by **jdaw1** » 21:50 Wed 17 Sep 2014

flash_uk wrote:How about Prado?

No. Again, not tasted.

djewesbury wrote:Lidl?

No.

djewesbury wrote:Never mind pastis. What about cricket photography?

It is a well known widely available standard brand.

That’s eight non-wiffle posts.

Post by **DRT** » 21:53 Wed 17 Sep 2014

Please can someone tell me the question?