Fifteen To One

[roslyn251254]

Did you see it today? (You can watch it online if you missed it)
James (jim360) was on!

[Bazile]

thanks

how did you know he is jim360 from AB ?

[jno]

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience

... accrding to some lowly American judge, not a British Chancellor

[Mamyalynne]

Because that's his name Baz and we've seen him before - on Uni Challenge for example.

[roslyn251254]

Bazile - I remembered him from Univ challenge and he told Sandi Toksvig he was "jaguar"

[Bazile]

right, so he told us here on AB that he was appearing on UC

[jim360]

I'm going to have nightmares about Monty Don for years to come :(

[Peter Pedant]

no I was thinking of this erm 1900 paper

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1322630?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

.... when chief justice holmes ( 1) condemns as fallacious the notion that " the only force in development of Law is logic " ....

Oliver Wendell Holmes ( author of autocrat of the breakfast table etc ) obviously disagreed with the then widespread notion that "the Law was but logic etc "

[Peter Pedant]

Hi Jim
the hero appears

Hi jim we were just talking about you .....

[roslyn251254]

jim - you did well! Bad luck with the questions in the final!

[Bazile]

Hi there jim - nice to put a face to a name

[jourdain2]

Gosh, jim, just had a look.. 15 to 1 and Only Connect are the best quizzes around i.m.o.. Well done! I hadn't realised you were so very young. Good for you. :)

[jim360]

The way the questions fall is always a pain, especially when you know the answers to the ones around you! The first one I got wrong I had the right answer in my head too, but couldn't pick between Monty Don and Alan Titchmarsh as I've not seen Gardeners' World since Don started hosting so I didn't realise he'd ever left... after that I was basically doomed.

Still, I suppose suggesting that the Bay of Biscay is somewhere near India might earn me a slot in Private Eye's"Dumb Britain" feature, so that's something to look forward to at least.

[jourdain2]

That's right, always be positive. :) x

[Peter Pedant]

I didnt know who wrote " The Zinc Bed"
or perhaps it was the Zinc Bath

hmm but I do know where the Bay of Biscay is

[Bazile]

jim360

//..Still, I suppose suggesting that the Bay of Biscay is somewhere near India might earn me a slot in Private Eye's"Dumb Britain" feature,..//

Yes that was a silly answer - everybody knows it's near to the Cape of Good Hope

[Togo]

Isn't the Bay of Biscuit where the "Bourbons" come from? Or near to "Nice"?