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Runaways .... his inclination to do a true daily double has him leaving the other two contestants in the dust. He will bet all of say $25,000 and double it to $50,000. Its exciting to watch just to see if just once will he do a true daily double and give the wrong question.

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Yes.in the first half of the game when he has time to recoup it if he's wrong; in double jeopardy or final jeopardy I haven't seen him make a bet that would lose it for him. Yesterday I noticed he didn't ring in on a bunch of questions that I didn't consider that hard, so he isn't infallible, but so far he's been walking over every other contestant that I've seen.

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Might try to make it out to see Manning Park this summer, I try every summer but it never works out, maybe this summer we can manage one small road trip.

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https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...667c041ed6.jpg

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Almost time for Jeopardy!
When I heard they'd discovered a cure for dyslexia, it was like music to my arse.
Re: Jeopardy - I got a few big money ones they didn't... but no payday.

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Saw this guy on Live at the Apollo the other evening, some of his puns made me groan, but damn funny all in all.

Does he get much Canadian TV exposure?

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Nope, never heard of him. I liked the Craig Ferguson late night show, but can't recall seeing the comedian. If he isn't on one of the comedy tours going across the country, or on the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival tv specials, he's flying under the radar.
Edit: Turns out he's been on Just For Laughs several times, and I just didn't see him.

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I've been here too long, I actually like playoff season. :(

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Becoming a regular event in this building. Appears to be false alarm again. But man these alarms are getting annoying.

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Rush hour in Saskatoon, under a double rainbow.
https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...84f8a068d8.jpg

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James Holzhauer is making a slow start today on Jeopardy, this could be interesting.
edit; nah, he made 80,000 and left them in the dust anyway.

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We needed some cash today to pay a water system guy, OH said have you got any cash ( he knows I usually have a little srash) We paid the guy and after he Mr Piff says, it's a good job you've got some money tucked away I forgot to get some out. I just replied, i took it from the puppy fund....

We've got a puppy fund??? He says. Yep, I've been saving tips, was supposed to be a vacation fund but it's probably a puppy fund😉🤣🤣🤣

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Great cover of a classic

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Always forget Easter weekend is a holiday weekend here and that it's not just a typical Friday.

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RV living is looking more and more attractive by the day.

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One of the classics; I used to show this at film night back in the 80's.

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I saw the Moody Blues perform this live at Jones Beach Theater in NY years ago. They have the New York Philamonic <sp> with them. They did the entire album.

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I nearly :frown: saw The Dave Matthews Band at Jones Beach in the late '90s. I'd been working just up the road in Hauppauge for a few weeks, got called back to Switzerland three days before the gig. :thumbdown:

Swapped the two tickets for a week's car 'rental' on my next trip out... Still miffed at not seeing DMB though.

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One way to steal an ATM

https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comment..._steal_an_atm/

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Theme music for Mammon S2

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That puts our 'half-ton and a chain' guys to shame.

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https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...e852d32bfd.jpg

Last orders for Bristol pub linked to Robinson Crusoe and Treasure Island

:( Drank in there many a time.

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Arf a mo' ...

Guardian says "The British hospitality company Whitbread owns the building and said it was being sold as a going concern"

Bristol Post says "Given that the council-owned building dates all the way back to 1664..." and "Leaseholders Whitbread"

Someone's a bit off. But who? :confused:

Interesting quote near the top of the Post article "Don't let Wetherspoon anywhere near it" :p

I thought Wetherspoon were shedding their bad image?

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It has an entry on Bristol's list of land/buildings owned or managed by the council (Bristol, City ofhttp://opendatacommunities.org/id/unitary-authority/bristol29/01/201910815916942PublicHouseLlandogerTrowAndHotelLla ndogerTrowAndHotelKingStreetCityCentreBristolBS14E RKingStreetBristolBS14ERCentral358889172707Freehol dLeaseOutLandandBuilding(s)10000.1136InvestmentPro perties)

I'd be sad to know it was gone, even if the liklihood of drinking in there again was low. Still, there's always the Hatchet.

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I hate pants shopping, so hard to find the size I need.

All my pants at home are 38x34 and fit, but every pair of work pants I have tried on at Marks that are the correct color, are too small at the waist. I dunno if 38x34 is smaller in Canada vs the US, but certainly not the same size lol.

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Doesn't have quite the same look.

Surprised the volley doesn't get a mention - seems to be only one year later than the Llandoger.

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We did the King Bill a lot more than the Volley - can't immediately remember if there was a reason for that, right next door.

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...a7c57a5dbe.png

Is the Trow not almost a copy of the Hatchet? ;) (or did you mean inside - in which case yes, different buildings, different layouts)

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When you see those pics it's very similar.

Only if you approach from Denmark St (the angle in the pic) do you see that but it's only small in comparison. All the other angles - from when it was the old cinema or O2Academy - it could just as easily be the Hole in the Wall at Queen Sq.


https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...9f505dfe9a.png


If you approach it from any way but Denmark st, you're too close to look up and see it.

That aside, it just doesn't look as old as the Llandoger. I think it's the low level windows. Perhaps it's just me. :unsure:

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OMG Bristol - I used to go the Hole In the Wall both midweek and every Friday after work - I worked at Queens Square in the local Govt offices, on the switchboard (old plug and dollseye

switchboard).. and went to THITW with a guy called Danny G who worked at the advertising agency across the square .. we used to sink the best part of a bottle of Jamiesons between us.. happy memories, I was totally smitten with him.. He wore black corduroy suits and white cheesecloth shirts and used Aramis aftershave, despite having a little bit of a beard.. and he smoked skinny cigars. :D

That just took me back ohhhhhhh more than 40 years! :D

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Easter Bunny on security cam at work, 3:01:54 this morning.
https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...8324ed6134.jpg

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Priceless :lol: Hope the bunny left lots of eggs, the chocolate ones I mean!

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This one went by our house on Friday

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I'd have thought this might go with a corduroy suit more than cheesecloth - unless he had the physique.

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Almost 1/2 the population in Canada is apparently maxed out.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/maxed-ou...says-1.1247336

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Random browsings of google maps and wikipedia results in discovering the line

"The Saskota Flyway (Highway 9) is known as the International Road to Adventure, because it takes you from Hudson Bay, Saskatchewan, all the way south to Bismarck, North Dakota"

How to put this politely.... my idea of 'adventure' is apparently not the same as that author's :lol:

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This below may be a bit more adventurous!
https://adventuresoverland.com/fixed...ndon-2019.html

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https://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=...source=twitter
Here, kitty kitty kitty...

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BC Public Service have a weird way of doing job interviews. Local government here is what I'd consider 'normal' interview - interviewer has questions, you sit down, they ask them, there's back and forth, you can talk, clarify, question back, etc. Provincial? You get given the full list of questions when you arrive, and 20 minutes to study. That is everything you'll be asked, handed to you. Then they show up, read the questions out in full, and write notes as you answer. When you're done talking, they read out the next question.

I suppose it allows for a more 'objective' outcome rather than judging how a conversation goes, but there's no need to be in the same place, they could just video applicants & then watch them all back to back. It's not so much an interview as 'give five short speeches on these topics'.