Then why did you say anything?QuizMaster wrote:There's something very interesting about that new Dr. Who. Please don't ask me, as a refusal to divulge information often offends.
Tease. :P
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michaelmartin_526
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Its amazing on another part of the forum Quizmaster isnt exactly unforthcoming with the thread 'Quizmaster's Footy tip'.
On this part of the forum he's often giving clues yet not the solution....
When there is nothing of substance delivered I think is it something to get into or just a false lead to keep me away from the real money?
On this part of the forum he's often giving clues yet not the solution....
When there is nothing of substance delivered I think is it something to get into or just a false lead to keep me away from the real money?
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quizmaster revealed 
news archive 1993)
Man with 15,000 answers mines rich vein in trivia: Law student takes pounds 60 maximum jackpot out of dozens of pub quiz machines every week
THESE DAYS Gerry, 35, goes to the pub in disguise. Every night except Wednesday, he visits six in succession and empties their trivia machines. He knows 15,000 answers. He makes a small fortune.
Gerry - he will not give his full name - has leapt on his bike with such enthusiasm that his initiative would surely warm Norman Tebbit's heart. Unable to get solicitor's articles in the depths of recession, he began an MA in International Law at Hhhouventry University last year with a view to teaching instead.
Such was his talent for trivia that he has paid his tuition fees in instalments out of his winnings. Now they also support a car and chauffeur. On a good week, he has pounds 850 tax-free to play with.
Gerry, a former army medical technician, takes trivia very seriously. He plans raids with military precision, making sorties to locate the most lucrative quiz machines in pubs from Derby to Newbury before descending, commando-style, to empty them.
If he cannot answer a question he repeats it into a portable dictation machine and looks up the answer at his Hhouventry home. Usually he finds it in one of the hundreds of books he has accumulated for the purpose. If not, he goes to the library.
Landlords are not impressed by his performance, although legal, which is why he tends to wear wigs. He tries to escape attention by buying a pint and not going on the machines immediately. But the moment he starts winning, the locals huddle round in innocent admiration. Then the landlord gives him the boot.
The machines Gerry targets allow the pounds 20 jackpot to mount up as credits so his game goes unnoticed until he has extracted the maximum pounds 60 for his 20p stake. 'But it's hard work at the end of the day,' he said. 'I've had to employ a driver to take me round the country. I'll say, 'Let's hit Derby tonight', so we check out all the pubs for machines. Then we come back the following week and hit them.
'I work every day except Wednesday. Friday, Saturday and Sunday are the busiest because everyone thinks they're clever and plays the machines. That means you can win by answering less questions. On Monday and Tuesday I mop up the areas I didn't do at the weekend. It's a hell of a life, actually.
'I can't go to most of the pubs in hhhouventry any more. For example I used to do the Sunday pub quiz in one pub but the landlord banned me because I knew all the answers. In fact he wouldn't pay me the prize even though I'd paid the entry fee. I tried to explain that was illegal because we had entered a contract but he just told me to get out.'
People get a 'little bit jealous' when Gerry and the nine other trivia masters in the West Midlands constantly win, which is why he prefers not to be identified. One colleague made the mistake of playing a quiz machine after several drunken rugby players. They felt his winnings were unfair, smashed up his car and laced it with paint-stripper.
Once, the law student had a close call with the DSS after a hire car company asked why he always paid in pounds 1 coins. He said: 'But when the DSS came round I told them my winnings came under the Gambling Act 1968. I said, 'Are you going to take away someone's Grand National winnings? You can't do that.' So I was able to circumvent their little attack.'
West Midlands landlords will be pleased to hear he is thinking of moving; Hhhouventry is getting 'too hhhhhot to hhhhhandle'. It is one reason why he rents his house. The other is that his wife and former quiz partner has left him, taking their daughter with her. Nothing trivial about that.
'The other is that his wife and former quiz partner has left him' that would probably aid his quiz machining and quizzing unless her name was daphne
news archive 1993)Man with 15,000 answers mines rich vein in trivia: Law student takes pounds 60 maximum jackpot out of dozens of pub quiz machines every week
THESE DAYS Gerry, 35, goes to the pub in disguise. Every night except Wednesday, he visits six in succession and empties their trivia machines. He knows 15,000 answers. He makes a small fortune.
Gerry - he will not give his full name - has leapt on his bike with such enthusiasm that his initiative would surely warm Norman Tebbit's heart. Unable to get solicitor's articles in the depths of recession, he began an MA in International Law at Hhhouventry University last year with a view to teaching instead.
Such was his talent for trivia that he has paid his tuition fees in instalments out of his winnings. Now they also support a car and chauffeur. On a good week, he has pounds 850 tax-free to play with.
Gerry, a former army medical technician, takes trivia very seriously. He plans raids with military precision, making sorties to locate the most lucrative quiz machines in pubs from Derby to Newbury before descending, commando-style, to empty them.
If he cannot answer a question he repeats it into a portable dictation machine and looks up the answer at his Hhouventry home. Usually he finds it in one of the hundreds of books he has accumulated for the purpose. If not, he goes to the library.
Landlords are not impressed by his performance, although legal, which is why he tends to wear wigs. He tries to escape attention by buying a pint and not going on the machines immediately. But the moment he starts winning, the locals huddle round in innocent admiration. Then the landlord gives him the boot.
The machines Gerry targets allow the pounds 20 jackpot to mount up as credits so his game goes unnoticed until he has extracted the maximum pounds 60 for his 20p stake. 'But it's hard work at the end of the day,' he said. 'I've had to employ a driver to take me round the country. I'll say, 'Let's hit Derby tonight', so we check out all the pubs for machines. Then we come back the following week and hit them.
'I work every day except Wednesday. Friday, Saturday and Sunday are the busiest because everyone thinks they're clever and plays the machines. That means you can win by answering less questions. On Monday and Tuesday I mop up the areas I didn't do at the weekend. It's a hell of a life, actually.
'I can't go to most of the pubs in hhhouventry any more. For example I used to do the Sunday pub quiz in one pub but the landlord banned me because I knew all the answers. In fact he wouldn't pay me the prize even though I'd paid the entry fee. I tried to explain that was illegal because we had entered a contract but he just told me to get out.'
People get a 'little bit jealous' when Gerry and the nine other trivia masters in the West Midlands constantly win, which is why he prefers not to be identified. One colleague made the mistake of playing a quiz machine after several drunken rugby players. They felt his winnings were unfair, smashed up his car and laced it with paint-stripper.
Once, the law student had a close call with the DSS after a hire car company asked why he always paid in pounds 1 coins. He said: 'But when the DSS came round I told them my winnings came under the Gambling Act 1968. I said, 'Are you going to take away someone's Grand National winnings? You can't do that.' So I was able to circumvent their little attack.'
West Midlands landlords will be pleased to hear he is thinking of moving; Hhhouventry is getting 'too hhhhhot to hhhhhandle'. It is one reason why he rents his house. The other is that his wife and former quiz partner has left him, taking their daughter with her. Nothing trivial about that.
'The other is that his wife and former quiz partner has left him' that would probably aid his quiz machining and quizzing unless her name was daphne
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about the MOTD road to glory: it is okay but whoever thought that it would be a good idea to use the ugliest fount available wants a smack-bottom.
i realise it is supposed to mimic the old-fashioned scoreboards but it hurts your eyes. also when the letters do that circular quivering (c&ped from PMP) it makes it look even more horrible and blocky.
there is a reason why it is so much quicker to read a sentence in lower-case script.
THIS ISN'T ME SHOUTING BUT, WHEN YOUR EYES HAVE TO PROCESS ALL THESE SQUARER LETTERS, IT REQUIRES MORE OF A CONSCIOUS EFFORT TO HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THE MEANING. ADD TO THAT RIDICULOUS SERIFS AND NO DISCERNIBLE SPACES AND YOU HAVE AN UGLY, UGLY SCENARIO.
all this could be changed by altering the fount to something more pleasing to the eye. this would be the sort of game i'd play but subconsciously it is a struggle for the time being.
i realise it is supposed to mimic the old-fashioned scoreboards but it hurts your eyes. also when the letters do that circular quivering (c&ped from PMP) it makes it look even more horrible and blocky.
there is a reason why it is so much quicker to read a sentence in lower-case script.
THIS ISN'T ME SHOUTING BUT, WHEN YOUR EYES HAVE TO PROCESS ALL THESE SQUARER LETTERS, IT REQUIRES MORE OF A CONSCIOUS EFFORT TO HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THE MEANING. ADD TO THAT RIDICULOUS SERIFS AND NO DISCERNIBLE SPACES AND YOU HAVE AN UGLY, UGLY SCENARIO.
all this could be changed by altering the fount to something more pleasing to the eye. this would be the sort of game i'd play but subconsciously it is a struggle for the time being.
nobody ever wins on those things.
There is probably a perfectly sane reason why font was spelled as fount in both instances.
I'd imagine fount is actually a traditional spelling of font dating back to the spread of Neo-Classico-Romantic language in Greece back in 742 BC, the ancient scribe Thodopilidus Pafoppilus abandoned the traditional Greek alphabet and after some scandal involving swapping of epsilons for omegas bailed out adding a sneaky u here and there and writing in strange founts.
JG edit: Or more likely fount was the word that gave Isty a clearance on Word Soup yesterday and he is now using it profusely, whenever the opportunity arises.
I'd imagine fount is actually a traditional spelling of font dating back to the spread of Neo-Classico-Romantic language in Greece back in 742 BC, the ancient scribe Thodopilidus Pafoppilus abandoned the traditional Greek alphabet and after some scandal involving swapping of epsilons for omegas bailed out adding a sneaky u here and there and writing in strange founts.
JG edit: Or more likely fount was the word that gave Isty a clearance on Word Soup yesterday and he is now using it profusely, whenever the opportunity arises.
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