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Quiz ... really.

Robert TK Author:Robert TK posts : 1193   (Master)Date : 02-19-04 16:02

Quiz ... really.

1. Which famous author was one of the first people from the UK to start skiing?

2. What was the previous name for snowboarding?

3. What's the name for the plastic bit on the bottom of a ski pole?

Prize is pint in the White Hart 14th of March 2004 (or a gold star if you can't collect your pint in person)
Daniel Snell Author:Daniel Snell posts : 5800   (Master)Date : 02-19-04 16:09

re: Quiz ... really.

Are damn I had better try for this one that will be 2 pints you owe me!!
Pamporovo Pete Author: posts : 13   (Beginner)Date : 02-19-04 16:09

re: Quiz ... really.

1. J.R. Hartley.
2. Sitting on your arseing.
3. Milk bottle top.

Am I close enough for a half?

Pamps Pete Cool
Robert TK Author:Robert TK posts : 1193   (Master)Date : 02-19-04 16:11

re: Quiz ... really.

Half a stotinki maybe!
Robert TK Author:Robert TK posts : 1193   (Master)Date : 02-19-04 16:44

Clue One

(He) wrote about the descent into Arosa for The Strand. "But now we had a pleasure which boots can never give. For a third of a mile we shot along over gently dipping curves, skimming down into the valley without a motion of our feet. In that great untrodden waste, with snow-fields bounding our vision on every side and no marks of life save the tracks of chamois and of foxes, it was glorious to whizz along in this easy fashion."

(He) predicted, "the time will come when hundred of ...
(He) wrote about the descent into Arosa for The Strand. "But now we had a pleasure which boots can never give. For a third of a mile we shot along over gently dipping curves, skimming down into the valley without a motion of our feet. In that great untrodden waste, with snow-fields bounding our vision on every side and no marks of life save the tracks of chamois and of foxes, it was glorious to whizz along in this easy fashion."

(He) predicted, "the time will come when hundred of Englishmen will come to Switzerland for a skiing season."

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Pamporovo Pete Author: posts : 13   (Beginner)Date : 02-19-04 16:47

re: Clue One

Ahhhhhhhh got it....

Spike Milligan Razz

Pamps Pete Cool
Fi Author: posts : 13   (Beginner)Date : 02-19-04 22:56

re: Clue One

the thing on the bottom of the poles are called "doyleys" or "daisys"