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Due to enemy shelling (i.e. heavy snowfall and hence tiresome days at the office) black out conditions are observed on the blog. (Modified mash quote by which I mean that I just don't have any energy to ponder up difficult simpsons questions right now. But do not worry, they will come!)

Soup #35

It is back! Once again it is back, your favourite segment on this blog - The soups. (For those of you that can't remember what it was all about: I make all the soups in a book with 85 different soups in it and write about the experience here on the blog. I went into the project with gusto but have kind of slowed down a bit lately (only two new soups were made last year). I do however mean to finish the project.)

Wonton soup was on the menu today. A mixture of fish, crab, ginger, garlic and spring onions were put on a square of wonton dough which then was folded and glued together with a little water. The dumplings were then cooked in a chicken broth together with shallots, ginger and a little sugar. The soup was finished of with rise vinegar, soy, spring onions, parsley and sesame oil.

I must say that it was great. It took some time to make the dumplings, but considering that it was the first time it was not too bad. It was rather easy to make and the result was a well balanced soup with lots of great dumplings.

Quiz answer #9

Of course it was M*A*S*H I was asking about, and first of all: Radar had an uncle that could make binoculars out of corn on the cob/salt and pepper shakers/or just about anything, whose name was Ed. Radar left the show with a hardship discharge so that he could go home and help his mother with the farm when Ed suddenly passed away. 

Major Houlihan got the nickname hotlips after hawkeye and the other guys snuck a microphone into her tent when she was making out with a general (I think it was a general), and then proceeded to broadcast the interchange over the PA system. The general commented on her hot lips and the name stuck.

Charles Emerson Winchester III. The major who got stuck in the 'festering sewer' ('Know this: You can cut me off from the civilized world, you can incarcerate me with two moronic inmates, you can torture me with your thrice daily swill, But you can not break the spirit of a Winchester. My voice shall be heard from this wilderness and I shall be delivered from this fetid and festering sewer') after a gaming debt of 672$ and 17c that his boss at Tokyo general owed him.

The booze that Klinger managed to scrounge up for Charles was a bottle of Napoleon Cognac. Which he refuses to share with Klinger with the comment 'when the delivery boy brings you a new divan you do not invite him to repose upon it'. (I will give one point for Cognac).

Someone recently told me that I have watched far to much of that series, but I hardly think so.

Soon the last question is upon us, and I do believe it will be from a couple of different movies... (Or maybe it will be Simpsons. Yes, I really feel that it needs to be from Simpsons.)

Quiz #9

Radar has an oncle, what is his name? (1p)
What is Houlihans nickname? (1p)
What is Charles full name? (1p)
Klinger managed to scrounge up a bottle of booze for Charles. What kind? (2p)

Quiz answer #8

First rule: 'You don't talk about fightclub'
Second rule: 'You don't talk about fightclub'

A friend supplied to you by the airline company for the duration of the flight: A Single-serving friend.

And finally Bob. The huge guy with the huge bitch tits but without testicles. He was portrayed, quite well I might add, by none other than Meatloaf himself. 

Quiz #8

You all probably know the first rule of fightclub, but what is the second rule? (1p)
What does the guy that Edward Norton plays call persons he sits next to when flying? (1p)
Who plays Bob? (1p)

Quiz answer #7

It turns out that the question was not all that easy after all. Well, what do you know...

Kramers christian name is of course Cosmo!
The ones doing the nasty in Jerrys van (he had it in one episode), were Georges parents!
And finally, George got the job at the Jankies by following his new found religion: doing the opposite of what I would usually do.

cmh probably spent the last few days watching the entire series as he scored three points. Next: One of my favorite movies. 

Fuck

A week ago we were very happy to cancel the combort internet as we are moving. Now that we know where we are moving to, we are very sad to realize that it seems that combort is the one and only internet provider that we can get. Fuckelifuck.

On top of that some fucked up neighbor had stolen our wash time. Being mad from the previous realization I looked them up and rang, knocked and huffed and puffed on their door until... nothing happened.
The culprit did come down to the cellar a minute later when I was trying to jimmy the lock open and he was sooo sorry. Yea. Right. Luckily for him the machines were finished so he did not have to abort the program and end up with half washed damp clothes.

Great idea

K got a fantastic idea this morning. And I do realize that it would take a lot of research to get it to work but I also know that all the money spent would be paid back hundred-fold the day the finished product hits the market. So here it is, we give it away for free for anyone to develop (all we want is one of the finished products): A snooze button on kids!!!

Quiz #7

It is hard to think up questions that are just hard enough... So I think this one is a bit easier:

What is Kramers first name? (1p)
Who ended up having sex in Jerrys van? (1p)
What was the 'religion' that got George the job at the Jankies? (1p)


Monday at eight fifteen I want your answers, and yes, You may watch the entire series to get the answers, but No, you may not google them!

Quiz answer #6

I think the cure for his wrecked nerves was something like 'take of your shoes and make fists with your toes on the rug'. But I will accept 'curl your toes' as some of you wrote.
The president was Chester A Arthur. It was an intricate part of the third movie as it led Mclain to the school with the big bomb made out of jam?/syrup?.
And there are a couple of different ways to solve the puzzle. e.g.
1: fill the 3g jug
2: pour the 3g into the 5g jug
3: fill the 3g jug again
4: fill up the 5g jug with the water in the 3g jug until it is full (now there is 1g left in the 3g jug)
5: empty the 5g jug
6: pour the 1g into the 5g jug
7: fill the 3g jug and pour that into the 5g jug (which now should contain 4g)

No-one got all the answers (the president was the hard one).
New question tomorrow.

Quiz

To get even more players in the fantastically fun and exciting quiz, I am now instituting a consolidation price for the person who gets the most points on the five last questions!!!

So: New players (and old participants who are about to loose interest due to their lack of points), friends, family, new presidents and old presidents, present colleagues and those of yore - Don't be afraid, join in!!!

I'm extending the time on the last question another day so that as many of you as possible can answer, so come on, there is nothing to loose!

Tile stickers

Just got another great idea! Do you know of the stickers that you can put on tiles? A cheap and quick way to change the appearance of a boring white kitchen. Wouldn't it be a great idea to make such stickers but with a couple of standard recipes (like pancakes, meatballs, tomato sauce) so that you didn't have to look it up in a book? Wouldn't i't be perfect for a student kitchen? Can't you imagine going in to Designtorget and finding this product? Are you sure that you don't know any entrepreneurs that could turn my fantastic ideas into money (and give some of it to me)?

Quiz #6

What is the advice Mclain gets on how to calm down after flying? (1p)
Who was the 21'st presient of the united states of america? (2p)
And how could you use a 5 gallon jug and a 3 gallon jug to get exactly 4 gallons of water? (1p)

Yes, you guessed right, it is Die Hard trivia today. Two days from now, and of course no googling.

Quiz answer #5

Ok, so I couldn't the answer to this one, but I thought that I would watch the movie to get it. But then I could not find it on my computer, nor among the cd's. So I were quite convinced that I could find it in the storage room in the cellar, on vhs. Said and done, I went down there moved around all the boxes searching for the video player and tapes. Upon finding them I proceeded to carry it all up-stairs, then I spent twenty minutes searching for a power cord and a scart cable, found one but not the other.. Then I started to look through the tapes to locate the film. But of course could not find it. Hence I had to google for the scrpt (sorry, now tage wants to take an active role in the typing, so there mi''ght be more errors than usual... )

All this said, this is what Brian wrote:
"Romanes Eunt Domus" - 'People called Romanes they go the house'
while the correct grammar would be
"Romani Ite Domum" - 'Romans go home'

Many creds to mjn who almost nailed it (had 'Romani' instead of 'Romanes' in the first line) and gets two points. m were close enough for the bad grammar version and gets one point.