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Re: Workshop Booze Up VI - These Are Not The Potatoes You Are Looking For
« Reply #975 on: February 22, 2016, 08:06:01 AM »
Good luck!

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Re: Workshop Booze Up VI - These Are Not The Potatoes You Are Looking For
« Reply #976 on: February 22, 2016, 11:08:58 AM »
I'm a brit and I have never heard of this quiz show.

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Re: Workshop Booze Up VI - These Are Not The Potatoes You Are Looking For
« Reply #977 on: February 22, 2016, 11:22:22 AM »
Good luck! And I have also not heard of this show :S
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Re: Workshop Booze Up VI - These Are Not The Potatoes You Are Looking For
« Reply #978 on: February 22, 2016, 12:58:34 PM »
It's on BBC Two - the webpage describes it as a "quiz show in which connections must be made between apparently unconnected things, where patience and lateral thinking are as vital as knowledge". If you want to try it out, the site includes a lot of example games. I've had a go at some of them with Jubal, and sometimes the thinking has to be very lateral indeed.

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Re: Workshop Booze Up VI - These Are Not The Potatoes You Are Looking For
« Reply #979 on: February 23, 2016, 12:10:33 AM »
Today went well I think.

Audition was short, but fine, we struggled on the R1s (guess the connection with as few clues as possible) and R2s (guess the end of the 4 part sequence with as few clues as possible) because the sport and pop culture knowledge was a bit outside our boundaries (partly on age grounds!). We got full marks on the practice wall though and did well on missing vowels; they definitely seemed to think we were a worthy standard, but it just depends what other teams they have and the average calibre. If we don't get on this time I feel like it would definitely be worth another shot in future. They also liked our cloaks (and the producer-y person was very excited to borrow a spare one for a photo!).

Also, random thing on the way home, hanging around in Marylebone station in a cloak (as you do), decided to play the piano for a bit. Both the piano and I had seen better days for music making, I was just hamering out chords on whichever of the keys still worked and singing along. My poor musical choice turned out to be a good life choice though - not only did I get someone actually telling me how nice it sounded, but - unbeknownst to me - it turned out that the nearby cupcake stand delivers free prize cupcakes to musicians they like, so I got free food out of it as well. Not bad considering I haven't played in years. :P

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Re: Workshop Booze Up VI - These Are Not The Potatoes You Are Looking For
« Reply #980 on: February 26, 2016, 09:24:46 AM »
"Less of a young professional - more of an ancient amateur. But frankly, I'm an absolute dream."

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Re: Workshop Booze Up VI - These Are Not The Potatoes You Are Looking For
« Reply #981 on: February 27, 2016, 10:03:31 PM »
Also just as proof of the above post, here's the cupcake :P

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Re: Workshop Booze Up VI - These Are Not The Potatoes You Are Looking For
« Reply #982 on: February 27, 2016, 10:16:58 PM »
Free cake best cake.

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Re: Workshop Booze Up VI - These Are Not The Potatoes You Are Looking For
« Reply #983 on: February 28, 2016, 12:16:10 AM »
Meanwhile I successfully replaced the front cv axle on my pickup.

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Re: Workshop Booze Up VI - These Are Not The Potatoes You Are Looking For
« Reply #984 on: February 28, 2016, 09:24:27 AM »
Working pickup best pickup

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Re: Workshop Booze Up VI - These Are Not The Potatoes You Are Looking For
« Reply #985 on: February 29, 2016, 10:40:13 PM »
Finished the last translation in my Greek textbook, so hopefully I won't get behind during the next fortnight as I'm away the next 2 weekends. :)
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Re: Workshop Booze Up VI - These Are Not The Potatoes You Are Looking For
« Reply #986 on: March 08, 2016, 10:48:25 PM »
Still coughing :(

Meanwhile, I spent a couple of hours this evening delivering political leaflets in Cambridge. It will probably not surprise anyone to know that they were LibDem leaflets :P

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Re: Workshop Booze Up VI - These Are Not The Potatoes You Are Looking For
« Reply #987 on: March 08, 2016, 11:35:21 PM »
I'm off to conference at the weekend!

As for now, though, I'm having a bunch of weird muscle tension issues and feeling rather stressed out and ill - a cocktail of emotional and work problems is proving thoroughly unhelpful in that regard. :(
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Re: Workshop Booze Up VI - These Are Not The Potatoes You Are Looking For
« Reply #988 on: March 09, 2016, 12:57:50 AM »
Playing some rtw should help.

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Re: Workshop Booze Up VI - These Are Not The Potatoes You Are Looking For
« Reply #989 on: March 09, 2016, 06:17:53 PM »
Swimming might help.
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