Thaths,
They don't have any GS on at the Grim's Dyke in November. The next performance
will be a repeat of the Mikado on 9th Dec. when are you planning to be in
London? I can find out if there are any live performances planned at other
venues.
Cheers
Divya
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On 16 Oct 2012,
Hi Divya,
I plan to be in the Metrop. from Nov 17 to Nov 24.
Thaths
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:54 AM, Divya divyasamp...@yahoo.com wrote:
Thaths,
They don't have any GS on at the Grim's Dyke in November. The next
performance will be a repeat of the Mikado on 9th Dec. when are you
planning
On 16-Oct-12 2:02 AM, Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote:
three silk-listers abstaining, ALL AT THE SAME TIME, from productive work.
Ram, I believe that was your cue.
What? You mean arachnis?
Well played.
--
((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
In the interest of furthering thread drift...
It's been a while since I've been able to catch a decent performance of
Pinafore, but there was a very nice Pirates of Penzance at the Grim's Dyke
Hotel earlier this year (formerly the home of W.S.Gilbert, and also
conveniently close to where I
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 3:22 AM, Divya divyasamp...@yahoo.com wrote:
In the interest of furthering thread drift...
It's been a while since I've been able to catch a decent performance of
Pinafore, but there was a very nice Pirates of Penzance at the Grim's Dyke
Hotel earlier this year
Sent from my iPad
On Oct 15, 2012, at 9:19 AM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote:
Bonobashi is forest dweller, not forester. Subtle, but present.
Oh, like Kattukaran? You're not related to Gabin by any chance,
that's a thought. next long weekend silkmeet in a jungle lodge type place like
kabini
--srs (iPad)
On 15-Oct-2012, at 11:59, Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote:
Sent from my iPad
On Oct 15, 2012, at 9:19 AM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 11:59
Sent from my iPad
On Oct 15, 2012, at 12:00 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote:
that's a thought. next long weekend silkmeet in a jungle lodge type place
like kabini
--srs (iPad)
On 15-Oct-2012, at 11:59, Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote:
Sent from my iPad
On 15-Oct-12 12:06 PM, Bonobashi wrote:
Imagine my frayed nerves, at the mere thought of more than three silk-listers
gathered together, drifting threads. Imagine the ecological damage. Imagine
the economic consequences of, say, three silk-listers abstaining, ALL AT THE
SAME TIME, from
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote:
threads. Imagine the ecological damage. Imagine the economic consequences of,
say, three silk-listers abstaining, ALL AT
THE SAME TIME, from productive work. Why can't you meet in Pecos or something?
Productive work?
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote:
Productive work? Silklisters? They're all too busy plotting thread
drift (and bad puns) to bother with work.
As various listmembers would testify (*cough*sidin*cough*), this IS work.
Udhay
--
((Udhay Shankar N))
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 1:52 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote:
Not fair to Noddy. This is a chestnut, which, considering its vintage,
may be considered fresh maal once again. It dates back to the Anglo-Indian
era in
Three, three. You and he, however charitably we look at the primordial merit
oozing out of you two, still make one less than three.
Sent from my iPad
On Oct 15, 2012, at 12:12 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
On 15-Oct-12 12:06 PM, Bonobashi wrote:
Imagine my frayed nerves, at
Sent from my iPad
On Oct 15, 2012, at 12:13 PM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote:
threads. Imagine the ecological damage. Imagine the economic consequences
of, say, three silk-listers abstaining, ALL AT
THE
Sent from my iPad
On Oct 15, 2012, at 4:52 PM, ashok _ listmans...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 1:52 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote:
Not fair to Noddy. This is a chestnut, which, considering its
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 12:13:36PM +0530, Biju Chacko wrote:
Productive work? Silklisters? They're all too busy plotting thread
drift (and bad puns) to bother with work.
/me suddenly attempts to look busy
... it would only inflame passions to point out that it should be
a chukkah, played for 7 1/2 minutes, on old regimental polo
grounds ...
In the spirit of distinguishing chassepôt rifles from javelins, a bit
of pedantry:
7 1/2, unless it's the last chukka (and unless a penalty has been
Sent from my iPad
On Oct 15, 2012, at 8:27 PM, Dave Long dave.l...@bluewin.ch wrote:
... it would only inflame passions to point out that it should be a chukkah,
played for 7 1/2 minutes, on old regimental polo grounds ...
In the spirit of distinguishing chassepôt rifles from javelins, a
On Oct 15, 2012 12:13 PM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote:
Productive work? Silklisters? They're all too busy plotting thread
drift (and bad puns) to bother with work.
-- b
Planning thread drift? Bollocks! We do it when we're bored of the thread.
And a pun or two is always good.
On 15 October 2012 12:12, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
three silk-listers abstaining, ALL AT THE SAME TIME, from productive work.
Ram, I believe that was your cue.
What? You mean arachnis?
Ram
On 15 October 2012 19:50, Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote:
Unkind, very. Silk-listers arrive at the list after sailing through their
work. We might make an exception for Shiv. The imagination boggles at the
thought of him sailing through HIS work.
As a Bambaiyya ex-colleague of mine
On 16 October 2012 02:04, Ramakrishnan Sundaram r.sunda...@gmail.com wrote:
As a Bambaiyya ex-colleague of mine used to say, gaand faadke darwaza bana
diya.
I know, replying to oneself, and bad form, and all that sort of stuff...
but I think that's one line where I could have added /rimshot.
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Ramakrishnan Sundaram r.sunda...@gmail.com
wrote:
On 16 October 2012 02:04, Ramakrishnan Sundaram r.sunda...@gmail.com
wrote:
As a Bambaiyya ex-colleague of mine used to say, gaand faadke darwaza
bana diya.
I know, replying to oneself, and bad form, and
Sent from my iPad
On Oct 16, 2012, at 2:21 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Ramakrishnan Sundaram r.sunda...@gmail.com
wrote:
On 16 October 2012 02:04, Ramakrishnan Sundaram r.sunda...@gmail.com wrote:
As a Bambaiyya ex-colleague of mine used to say,
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote:
Bonobashi is forest dweller, not forester. Subtle, but present.
Oh, like Kattukaran? You're not related to Gabin by any chance, are you?
-- b
On Oct 13, 2012, at 7:28 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote:
bonobashis should know all about foresters
--srs (iPad)
On 13-Oct-2012, at 7:10, Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote:
Sent from my iPad
On Oct 13, 2012, at 6:37 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
On
.and how would i/we cope with mili-metternichs left with nothing to
criticize?
Sent from my iPad
On Oct 12, 2012, at 9:53 AM, Naresh xxx...@yahoo.com wrote:
BTW that's half-point kodi.Ahh! these long term Bangalorevaasis who don't
know Kannada yet...and living in Malleswaram too!!
Allahabad - that's where the east-west midpoint was determined, and the time
zone derived from that .
Sent from my iPad
On Oct 12, 2012, at 10:56 AM, Naresh xxx...@yahoo.com wrote:
Thanks everyone for the quiz help (more audio -visual question banks welcome)
and Mr Bonobashi for the
Here have a go at these..have added clues for impending dotage
1.In the hindi version of Tintin, Snowy is known as Nutkhat, and Tintin is
known as Tintin, what are the Thomson twins known as? (Clue: Common Indian Joke)
2.Over the years 'Lux', the Unilever bathing soap has used beautiful women,
2. Paul Newman ?
5. Employees are the most valuable resource :)
On 12 October 2012 16:03, Namitha Jagadeesh namith...@gmail.com wrote:
1. Santa-Banta?
2. Shah Rukh Khan (don't know the other)
3. BMW
4. Safari?
(am usually content to lurk, but couldn't resist jumping in)
Namitha
On Fri,
Also seem to remember a Lux ad with Abhishek Bacchan and Aishwarya Rai
(though he wasn't shown as using the soap)
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Ashwin Kumar ashwi...@gmail.com wrote:
2. Paul Newman ?
5. Employees are the most valuable resource :)
On 12 October 2012 16:03, Namitha
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
I must thank this thread. You people just gifted me one of the quiz
Tcchah, I meant, one round of the quiz.
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote:
Allahabad - that's where the east-west midpoint was determined, and the
time zone derived from that .
Vikram Doctor had written about this a long time ago. There was #outrage in
Bombay over the use of Madras Time (the
Speaking of abstruse trivia
1. How are the Indian Railways and the San Francisco-Bay Area BART linked?
2. In 1903 the British government offered to home 5,000 square miles of
land to the World Zionist Organization to set up a homeland for the Jews.
The offer was declined in 1905. Where was
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
Speaking of abstruse trivia
1. Broad Gauge?
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Jude Britto jude.bri...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
Speaking of abstruse trivia
1. Broad Gauge?
You, sir, are on the right track.
Thaths
--
Homer: Hey, what does this job pay?
Carl: Nuthin'.
] quiz help
Speaking of abstruse trivia
1. How are the Indian Railways and the San Francisco-Bay Area BART linked?
2. In 1903 the British government offered to home 5,000 square miles of
land to the World Zionist Organization to set up a homeland for the Jews.
The offer was declined in 1905
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*Subject: *Re: [silk] quiz help
Speaking of abstruse trivia
1. How are the Indian Railways and the San Francisco-Bay Area BART linked?
2. In 1903 the British government offered to home 5,000 square miles of
land to the World Zionist Organization to set up a homeland for the Jews
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Reply-To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
Subject: Re: [silk] quiz help
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Nikhil Mehra nikhil.mehra...@gmail.comwrote:
**
Mau plateau, Kenya
Did you use web search in coming up with the answer?
Which bring me to the reason I have moved away from
On 10/12/12 11:16 AM October 12, 2012, Thaths wrote:
Which bring me to the reason I have moved away from quizzing circles.
Web search, Wikipedia and Google book search have not only made it
unnecessary to remember obscure trivia but also made the lives of quiz
masters easier. Quiz masters can
Oct 2012 09:36:59 -0700
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
ReplyTo: silklist@lists.hserus.net
Subject: Re: [silk] quiz help
Speaking of abstruse trivia
1. How are the Indian Railways and the San Francisco-Bay Area BART linked?
2. In 1903 the British government offered to home 5,000 square
-0700
*To: * silklist@lists.hserus.netsilklist@lists.hserus.net
*ReplyTo: * silklist@lists.hserus.netsilklist@lists.hserus.net
*Subject: *Re: [silk] quiz help
Speaking of abstruse trivia
1. How are the Indian Railways and the San Francisco-Bay Area BART linked?
2. In 1903 the British
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Subject: Re: [silk] quiz help
Speaking of abstruse trivia
1. How are the Indian Railways and the San Francisco-Bay Area BART linked?
2. In 1903 the British government offered to home 5,000 square miles of land
to the World Zionist Organization to set up a homeland for the Jews
On 13 October 2012 06:52, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote:
Not fair to Noddy. This is a chestnut, which, considering its vintage,
may be considered fresh maal once again. It dates back to the Anglo-Indian
era in quizzing,
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote:
And I suppose it would only inflame passions to point out that it should
be a chukkah, played for 7 1/2 minutes, on old regimental polo grounds, and
other polo grounds alike. I write in my alter ego of 'Joe Shearer', of
Sent from my iPad
On Oct 13, 2012, at 6:37 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote:
And I suppose it would only inflame passions to point out that it should be a
chukkah, played for 7 1/2 minutes, on old regimental polo
bonobashis should know all about foresters
--srs (iPad)
On 13-Oct-2012, at 7:10, Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote:
Sent from my iPad
On Oct 13, 2012, at 6:37 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote:
And I suppose
-0700
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
ReplyTo: silklist@lists.hserus.net
Subject: Re: [silk] quiz help
Speaking of abstruse trivia
1. How are the Indian Railways and the San Francisco-Bay Area BART linked?
2. In 1903 the British government offered to home 5,000 square miles of land
Dear Silklisters
I have to set a quiz for a bunch of 50 somethings (part of a quiz group that i
have been in for the past 20 yrs) and horror of horrors;it is on this saturday
13th october...And I totally forgot..
Can the group point me to web resources (not the competition success kind
Dear Noddy,
I am glad to tell you that you are a dead duck. It is probable that KQA
members, the geriatrics, at any rate, will eat you alive when you turn up with
only five questions. It was against this greatest nightmare for any wanna-be QM
that Neil and Son maintain question banks of some
Dear Noddy,
In my enthusiasm to celebrate your impending beatification, I forgot; Brandy,
Yearbook, Humpty Dumpty and Hymen. I have little or nothing to do with the
world of figures.
Sent from my iPad
On Oct 11, 2012, at 7:33 PM, Naresh xxx...@yahoo.com wrote:
Dear Silklisters
I have
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Subject: Re: [silk] quiz help
Dear Noddy,
In my enthusiasm to celebrate your impending beatification, I forgot; Brandy,
Yearbook, Humpty Dumpty and Hymen. I have little or nothing to do with the
world of figures.
Sent from my iPad
On Oct 11, 2012, at 7:33 PM, Naresh xxx...@yahoo.com
Facebook sirji not yearbook!!!
Sent from Samsung MobileBonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote:Dear Noddy,
In my enthusiasm to celebrate your impending beatification, I forgot; Brandy,
Yearbook, Humpty Dumpty and Hymen. I have little or nothing to do with the
world of figures.
Sent from my
aiyo!
seri, parvagilla, half-point kuri, saar.
Sent from my iPad
On Oct 11, 2012, at 8:31 PM, xxxrum xxx...@yahoo.com wrote:
Facebook sirji not yearbook!!!
Sent from Samsung Mobile
Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote:
Dear Noddy,
In my enthusiasm to celebrate your impending
I have to set a quiz for a bunch of 50 somethings (part of a quiz group that
i have been in for the past 20 yrs) and horror of horrors;it is on this
saturday 13th october...And I totally forgot..
I thought Deepa was supposed to be the qm this month?
-surabhi
On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 19:33 +0530, Naresh wrote:
quiz for a bunch of 50 somethings
I thought people over 50 did not have enough brain cells left for a
quiz. Luckily for me I'm only 25
shiv
Oh, you poor thing! Dyslexic, and you didn't even know!
Sent from my iPad
On Oct 11, 2012, at 9:55 PM, SS cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 19:33 +0530, Naresh wrote:
quiz for a bunch of 50 somethings
I thought people over 50 did not have enough brain cells left for a
quiz.
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 9:43 PM, surabhi.to...@gmail.com wrote:
I have to set a quiz for a bunch of 50 somethings (part of a quiz group that
i have been in for the past 20 yrs) and horror of horrors;it is on this
saturday 13th october...And I totally forgot..
I thought Deepa was
what happened to KQA?
Sent from my iPad
On Oct 12, 2012, at 7:34 AM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 9:43 PM, surabhi.to...@gmail.com wrote:
I have to set a quiz for a bunch of 50 somethings (part of a quiz group
that i have been in for the past 20 yrs)
Is this the breakaway group (ours started in 1989) started by Kuruvilla and
others?
On 12-Oct-2012, at 7:34 AM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 9:43 PM, surabhi.to...@gmail.com wrote:
I have to set a quiz for a bunch of 50 somethings (part of a quiz group
BTW that's half-point kodi.Ahh! these long term Bangalorevaasis who don't
know Kannada yet...and living in Malleswaram too!!
On 11-Oct-2012, at 8:40 PM, Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote:
aiyo!
seri, parvagilla, half-point kuri, saar.
Sent from my iPad
On Oct 11, 2012, at
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Naresh xxx...@yahoo.com wrote:
Is this the breakaway group (ours started in 1989) started by Kuruvilla and
others?
I don't know the detailed history, but yes, when I joined in 1992 at
Thomas Olapally's place, Kuruvilla and Casper were active members.
After I
Thanks everyone for the quiz help (more audio -visual question banks welcome)
and Mr Bonobashi for the encouraging noises!!
I always wondered about this...Mr Cecil from The Straight Dope has nailed it..
Naresh
Why is India 30 minutes out of step with everybody else?
June 5, 1981
Dear Cecil:
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