Sunday, December 11, 2005

Bollocks, The Dog's and just the plain kind

Friday evening we organised a fundraising quiz at work to raise money for the Asian Earthquake appeal. 17 teams participating at £10 per team and a lot of money from raffle ticket sales. I reckon all in we might have gathered close to £ 1,000. Bloody good night was had though by all attending and I managed a couple of pints before having to narrowly catch the very busy last train home. I'm sitting on the train listening to my walkman and concentrating on the crossword and suddenly there's four guys rolling around at the doorway knocking lumps out of each other. Two guys seemingly ran along the corridor and started laying into the two other guys for no reason. Fortunately there was a uniformed policeman on board who had to work bloody hard to separate them, before the assailants ran off at the next stop. Bastards.

Saturday went to Glasgow with thewife and had rather a nice day wandering round the place spending a fortune ending up with sore feet. I had to laugh at one point though when she expressed an urgency to get to a loo and then spent 10 minutes drooling over a shoe shop.

Sunday afternoon was spent at a gig. The youth drop in centre that I work at on Wednesdays runs a "Rock School" on Sundays. Six of the bands were playing and some of th lads who are regulars on Wednesday had asked me if I was going along to see them. Not having heard them before I reckoned I should. Given that this particular band, Pyro, are aged between 13 and 15 I was most impressed. Apparently they can be a bit hit or miss, when they're good they're very good and when they're bad they're dire. Today they were very good good. Tight sound, and just looked the part as well. Even the quiet one had a stage persona the opposite of his normal self. They need some work on the vocals but overall I was immensely pleased I'd gone along. Look out for them in about five years time.

It was a perfect afternoon until some bugger told us the fitba score. Bloody huns, get stuffed by everyone until they come up against us. There'll be no end of stick at work.

Oh and that quiz.. here's a wee sample

Easy Round

1. Who was the Trojan Prince who stole Helen from Menelaus causing the siege of Troy?

2. What was Wim Wenders’ 1984 Film, starring Harry Dean Stanton

______, Texas

3. What is the capital of France?

It wasn't all that easy. My favourite answer though was for:

What made Cape Town grocer Louis Washkansky world famous in 1967?

He was the first to use plastic carrier bags. Hmmph.
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