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Sunday, September 05, 2004
The last Malapropism 
What the hell. I should be depressed, we just missed out on the prizes at the King's Arms' Quiz. I was convinced beyond doubt, that croquet has never been an Olympic sport but I was wrong and it looks like thewife is going to remind me of that in perpetuity, despite the fact that I knew that 2-4-6-8- Motorway was a hit for The Tom Robinson Band. The most depressing aspect of this week quiz was question 31. This is a question, which wins a cash prize of up to �100, it hinges on a numerical question which no-one is likely to know the answer to, for example how many competitors entered the first Olympic Games. The prize money accumulates each week, if it gets to �100 the nearest answer wins. We won it once, tonight the prize is up to �80. The question was how many pages are in the Glasgow South Yellow Pages edition 2003-2004. We guessed 1,024 another team guessed 1,026. They were right, we were close, no cigar though. We are never bitter though and the night was lit up for me by a recollection , by the carpentry-lecturer of one of the Councillor's classic Malapropisms. Apparently he saw a particularly good movie last week. The Last Samaritan! You could not make that up if you tried. My all time favourite is of course, when he was best man to a friend who was going to Venice on honeymoon, he offered to go as well as their ghonorrea! No kidding!
posted by timesnewroman at 10:16 PM
