Crazy Fool's Newsround - 15th - 21st May 09 volume 330

15th - 21st May 09 volume 330
May, 21st 2009 06:02 AM

‘Play’, quizzes, trivia, sponsors, sport and world news – it’s all in

crazy fool’s newsround

(fresh edition brought to your doorstep every Friday morning)

Plus the radio show – with a new look

That was the week weren’t it;

The scene: Herodotus has got fool in a half Nelson after some quarrel about Phoenician blinds

Herodotus: Fancy a pint

fool: What day is it?

Herodotus: Monday

fool: Has it got a y in it?

Herodotus: No

fool: Well yes then I fancy a pint

Herodotus: What if I said yes

fool: Well then I’d fancy a pint, but what if I’d said Cheeeeese double pleeeease

Herodotus: I’d say you’re an idiot

fool: That’s what got us in this mess in the first place

Herodotus: Let’s go to the pub

Narrator: Don’t you just love it when a plan comes together

1. Name the A-Team?

2. What is a tam-o’-shanter?

3. What is a cockchafer?

4. What kind of mammal is a chamois?

5. What fabric is produced from flax?

6. Does coq au vin contain red or white wine?

7. Hot Chocolate’s You Sexy Thing was the theme for which 1997 film?

8. What is a Capuchin? A) A large coffee B) A monk C) A bell-tower

Get all the answers and more in the *Comps & results page – or buzz him, manually, on cf.crazyfool@gmail.com Also, the Silent Third Party earned he-self a free T-shirt this week for quiz dedication.

WHO AM I? – 2009 – It most certainly definitely wasn’t; Bill Clinton, Hillary Clint, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Don Jonson nor ‘some freaking beggar’ – here’s clue No.1 again: “I spent a fair amount of time on Saigon’s streets – not a lot of people know that.” – saddle up to Clue numero dos: “A lot of the time of it was spent on opium.”

is it me?

For previous results in the Main Comp – check the *comps and results page.

Scores at the end of week 19 in the 2009 Main Comp series - with a sub points tally in brackets for the first answer in:

For those on the ladder to success, rung on:

Dracule: 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 (1, 1, 1, 1, 1)

Legal Eagle: 1, 1, 1 (1, 1, 1)

Hannibal Lecherure: the song remains the same (LZ):

Silent Third Party, formerly known as Quizmaster: 1, 1, 1 (1)

Casualty: zip

Others: 1

Quote(s) for the week:

Brent: If there’s one other person who’s influenced me in that way, I think – someone who’s a maverick, someone who does that to the system – then it’s Ian Botham. Because Beefy will happily say, “That’s what I think of your selection policy. Yes, I’ve hit the odd copper. Yes, I’ve enjoyed the odd doobie, but will you piss off and leave me alone? I’m walking to John O’Groats for some spastics.”

The Office

*Non-descript trivia moment*

SOME Greek DIETIES

Eros…love, desire

Zeus…ruler of the Gods

Nike…victory

Amphitrite…sea, salt

Eurus…east wind

fool’s Gold

Lacrosse is the fastest growing sport in the USA

Kisses given under the mistletoe are called Ioran-thaceous

The only eight-letter word with four G’s in it is giggling

Dr. Phil Ology’s word of the week:

“Words, don’t come easy to me, how can I find the way to make you love me, oh words, they don’t come easy…”

PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS (also spelled PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOKONIOSIS) = a lung disease caused by breathing in particles of siliceous volcanic dust.

This is the longest word in any English dictionary. However, it was coined by Everett Smith, the President of The National Puzzlers' League, in 1935 purely for the purpose of inventing a new "longest word". The Oxford English Dictionary described the word as factitious. Nevertheless it also appears in the Webster's, Random House, and Chambers dictionaries. You wouldn't want to have to say it if you were suffering from it.

Things that are really getting on my nose, up my goat and around my wick this week:

Deceptive seat cushions – You’ve lived off melons and tuna all week so you go down to your local café for a Saturday morning tear-up with the egg n bacon. All good, you spy a chair with a decorative cushion that’ll soften the blow if the farmers flare up, even so, it looks like it’ll take the cold edge off the wrought iron arse park. Bam, you sit down on the duck decorated fabric and find out that’s just what it is – fabric, because the inch and half thick spongy padding you’ve been ushered to is a trap, a lie a deception paralleling Gerard Depodiue’s nose, which is not real you see, it’s fake, ambiguous, a pseudo nose; worn only for the cameras, in real life it’s a petit wee button of a snoot, not dissimilar to Queenie’s in Blackadder II…! – Deceptive seat cushions - Bastards!

Things that are just Sweet Love:

Moments I’ve cherished this week are the buying and selling of fresh prawns outside a Chinese restaurant in downtown Saigon. - That and the expertise way at which the tree-fellers dismantle the loping branches that bridge Saigon’s streets. The fact that they’ve never been anywhere near a horticultural college and just know stuff is the buzz.

A viewer’s favourite haystacks from Bosnia #114 (which is really one of the original 9 – can you guess which one it is – is it one of your favourites?)

This is another plane:

And now this bit:

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Don't forget the *classifieds – something for the weekend? - Just a haircut please.

Ok, what’s on in cfn this week? – Remember; there’s a lot more on offer in the menu on the left, but in the meantime the fool recommends these:

*Digger; brings you his taste of round 7 and wraps around round 8

*Trigger: has couple on the go

*cf's radio show: - OUT NOW– new and improved, with all the buttons – the pause, the play and slidy bit that gets you where you want… almost – Available now are the long forgotten Christmas show and it’s September predecessor, - new one coming soon - look out for the fish!

*Tit-bits – .../...Dear Tech Support…/…It is August…/…After going through…/…Voted best Scottish short joke…/…

*Grub–Up – * New- New – new – NEW! – Brand new menu in crazy fool’s kitchen/café – click on the Grub-up icon on the left to see what tickles your fancy – fool recommends the Gazpacho

*Poetry Corner: ‘Ode to a crazy fool’s Shepherd’s Pie’

*NEW...Fishman...NEW...Fishman! – Read all the Fishman’s tails in… On The Pond, April ‘09’ – On the shelves now - may The Dog be with you

* Classifieds – Some top deals on furniture this week – an expats house clearance sale – look under; ‘for sale’.

1 large Hitachi fridge, with freezer, 1700mm height, 350mm width & 640mm deep. 3 years old, paid $800 sell for $300. 1 kitchen dining table and 6 chairs. $100.

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Buy six pies and get a free T-shirt; see the full fool’s menu in Grub-up and choose your shirt!

Great Lions and Bokkies shirts coming soon

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I need a T-shirt

Now then, now then, now then, you’re just in time for the rugby bit, dun, dun, duuun - for rugby folk ET all; but please, if you’re not keen, do move along now, there’s a good chap (ess):

For years they been telling us that ‘Guinness is good for you”, well, it certainly is for Leicester – that’s 6 in the last 10 years!

The final rounds of the Super 14’s separated the sweat from the stink and the Bulls have silently snuck into a Loftus semi. Beware.

Plus the Top14 rears its flamboyant head again/ the Geech admits, whilst PdV licks his latest wounds, and Eddie loves a moan eh!

Guinness Premiership final:

Leicester beat London Irish 10-9 in what has been repeatedly described as a turgid game. For that it was, with fits and starts of paddock merriment where flair and pace were settled up the middle, especially from Leicester’s Dan Hipkiss. Then for spells it turned into dogged close quarter fighting where Steffan Armitage was the man to stand out.

The exiles challenged with plenty of biff, but were beaten deservedly by that one point, as Mike Catt said, “We paid the price for not making the most of periods where we were in charge of the game.” Although talk to any Tiger and he’ll tell you it was a poor performance by them to a man…or tiger. Everyone was pleased with the win, which was moulded by Jordan Crane’s surge and stretch for the line on the 61^st minute – a move that started with a reverse pass by Moody to the powerful Ayoola Erinle.

However, Tigers coach Richard Cockerill echoed the whole team’s thoughts that a vast improvement is needed for this weekend against Leinster, but was chuffed with winning yet another Guinness Premiership; “Over the balance of the year we deserve to be champions. I’m pleased with the win because the pressure was on.”

Still 81,600 enjoyed the game at Twickenham and this Saturday they’re off to Murrayfield to play Leinster for the Heineken Cup. Last week I said they win by 10 – they got 10 – this week I’ll say they’ll lose by 2!

Super 14’s

The Crusaders booked themselves a semi courtesy of a 15-13 win over the Blues. At 6-3 at half time the best defence versus the best attacking team in the comp were near enough locked. The Blues had been scorning 4 tries a game bar one and the Crusaders had never lost by more than 7 points. This time Leon McDonald kicked them to victory.

The Lions and Tah’s had a tense game that finished 38-33 in favour of the Aussies. They got their 5 required tries but maths in the table denied them a semis spot. A first half rout of 4 tries by the Tah’s was soon relinquished with a flurry of touch downs from the Lions. Willem Alberts was the big No.8 who made the score a tad more respectable late on with rough n tough tumbling try, as the Tah’s slowly began to lose their puff on the Highveld. In the end a five point lead was not enough.

The Chiefs took care of the Brumbies 10-7 – eventually. The Brumbies needed an 8 point win with 4 tries and they pushed the Waikato outfit all the way. Adam Ashley-Cooper had a cracking game with a corker of a hand-off on Dwayne Sweeney then grubbed through for Fanifo to score. But the Chiefs plied their time and Donald ‘Duck’ made sure they went through to the last 4 – he somehow managed to slip two tackles score a try, kick the goal and hit a penalty.

The Force and Highlander’s dead rubber turned out in favour of the Perth lads 33-28 with a sterling performance from the Git – you want genius; there it is. Within 40 seconds he had grubbed through for Cross to score, and in the second half his best move was taking all the Highlanders left then changing direction for Staniforth to get his second. He’s off to the Brumbies with Josh Valentine. Drew Mitchell’s going to Tah’s and Staniforth’s off to Japan. – Let’s hope they get some coming in.

The Hurricanes booked their spot in the semis with a win over the Reds in Queensland 37-28. Five tries did it, but the Reds put up a fight and for once Quade was on his game for the 80. So’oialo and Vito were inspirational in attack and the best score came from inside their half for Nonu to finish getting his 8^th of the tournament and on top of the leader board – he’ll probably pick up best player too. And someone tell Piri Littleshit not to dance after scoring again please.

The Stormers finished off their season on a high beating the Cheetahs 28-22. Bok’s spots were tussled here between Juan Smith, Heinrich Brussow, Luke Watson and Duane Vermeulan.

And the Sharks and the Bulls had a great scrap, where the Test side won 27-26. The first try came from Bulls Zane Kirchner on a blindside run. Then Keegan Daniel snuck one back for the Natal outfit. Okwa Ndungane swivelled round Zane to put the Sharks two one up. Then a pearler of a move that started near enough on their own line sent Pienaar up the right flank, onto the Beast, off to Terblanche who was held just shy of the chalk but he did enough to hook it up fro Sykes on the charge. Immediately the Bulls struck back with a telling run from Spies and onto Akowa Ndungane to score on the right. From then on Morning Steyn pumped the Sharks back three with ball after high ball. They turned they ran it back, but the clock was ticking. Dannie Rossow reached for a late try for the Bulls. And still the Sharks ran it back – their late Kankowsi try was good, the quickly taken drop conversion was good, but time was not on their side. The Bulls head to Loftus.

fool says: Chiefs will lose to the ‘Canes and the Bulls will tidy up the Crusaders

Top 14:

Round27:

In the last of the regulars Perpignan stayed on top with their win at Castres 32-26/ Bayonne beat Stade Francais 31-27, but still lose out in Europe next year thanks to Mauro Bergamasco’s try that denied them the bonus point. Also look out for Aussie Craig Gower playing for Italy next week./ Clermont smashed Dax 73-3 with 11 tries – where is Dax again!/ Toulon beat Montpellier 23-3 and a try by Tana helped them into the top 10./ Mont-de-Marsan were taken apart by 8 tries from Toulouse./ And Biarritz helped themselves into the Heineken Cup with a 38-10 win over Montauban./ Bourgain and Brive shared 19 a piece but it could all be in vain for Brive if Bourgain beat Northampton in this week’s European Challenge Cup final.

Some Shorts:

Sgt. Wilko’s off to Toulon for a £650k one year deal. The lad who spent 12 years at the Falcons said, “A fresh start is what I need and I’ll get it there. I feel like a kid again.” – Be careful what you say these days!

Percy Montgomery has retired after 102 international Tests and 300 first class games in 13 years. He’s taken up the kicking coach job for the MB’s. Ironically he started his test career against the Lions in ’97 and takes his first managerial role against the Lions. He’ll play in the Baa Baa’s match next week against England.

The Eddie Jones rant: “I’d be very surprised if (O’Connor) stays at the Force, given that they’re run by cowboys.”

“The Brumbies are getting Matt Giteau, and if they got James O’Connor, they’ve got the nucleus to become the strongest team in Australia.”

On the Tah’s; “I don’t think the Warratah’s this year have looked as if they’ve moved on at all.”

And on the ELV’s he reckons it was a, “lot of wine drunk by old coaches in Stellenbosch which has been wasted.” And, “They definitely stuffed up the laws.” – Thanks Eddie.

SANZAR have agreed on something at last, but won’t tell us till next month – It’s the Super 15’s!

British & Irish Lions tour to MB-land:

The Geech is not going to replace centre Tom Shanklin and is happy with the intended 26 man squad. Tom Croft will replace Alan Quinlan who out on suspension for eye gouging. Geech said, “Tom was very unlucky not to be selected in the original party.” – That was a bit lucky for you eh Geech.

Delon Armitage is on standby for Leigh Halfpenny who has a bad thigh. Jerry Flannery is not going because he’s smashed his elbow and I reckon that Scottish fella might get it – what’s name again… Ross something?

PdV’s got more injury woes with Pienaar and Wynand Oliver going down at the weekend, but they should be ok. More of a problem is who will play fly half? Earl Rose – no. Pienaar – maybe. Morning Steyn – likely/ reliable goal kicker. Butch James – hasn’t played enough. Francois Steyn – na. Meyer Bosman – don’t think so. Andre Pretorious – think about it.

I’m done.

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end rugby here!

Pie and a pint

Ok, a willow the wisp of cricket now:

Don’t ask me what’s happening in the IPL, because it’s just got away from me; let’s review it again come the finals. In the meantime eat lard.

I do know England walloped the Windies in the 2^nd Test at Chester-le-Street, with Jimmy taking a 5-fer, to which he said, “My control is improving every game.” – The crowd said ‘bring on the Ashes.’

Onions bagged himself two, but what a two – Ramnaresh ‘Ronnie’ Sarwan and Gayle. Levi didn’t say anything about that but did say, “Jimmy’s control with swinging the ball is exceptional and he is going to be a threat against anyone.” – The crowd said ‘bring on the Ashes.’

Cook got himself 160 and Ravi helped himself to his 3^rd ton in a row on 108. England won by an innings and 83 runs, and sure, the Windies weren’t exactly ‘with it’, but then England was; Levis said so, “The real positive to come out of this series is how clinical we’ve been.” – To which the crowd said, ‘how clinical we’ve been.’

Chris Gayle’s mind may be anywhere but Test cricket these days, but still, he doesn’t like to lose, “I’m very disappointed with the way things went down and I’m not finding too many excuses. Congratulations to Andrew Strauss and his team, but hopefully we look to the one-day internationals now.” – The crowd said, ‘starts today at Headingly’

There’s still a month and half till the Ashes but it’s on everyone’s mind; Levi said, “It certainly gets the heart beating faster and the juices flowing.” – As for the Ashes he reckons he’ll not be intimidated by Punters words of attrition in trying to un-hinge a captain’s mind. The Punts said, “Australia always try to target the captain. If you can put him under a bit more pressure, you can generally, take another couple of guys down with him. That’s what we’ll be trying to do.”

Levi said, “I don’t mind other guys dancing with my girl…’ – No hang on, that was The Who.

No Symonds for the Aussies, which may not be to Punters liking as for looking for answers he said, “That is as simple and as difficult as it needs to be.”

All rounders Shane Watson and Andrew McDonald are in instead, along with batsman Marcus North and their only specialist spinner Nathan Hauritz.

Bob Willis commented, “Andrew McDonald is more like Ronald McDonald as far as I’m concerned. Shane Watson can’t keep fit and with Brett Lee half the pace he used to be the bookies must surely be trimming their odds on England right now.”

But let’s close this week with funny fella Graeme Swann, “I played with Mike Hussey when I was at Northants and I always claimed I’d face him in an Ashes Test someday – somehow I don’t think he believed me.”

Australia squad: Ricky Ponting (c), Michael Clarke (vc), Stuart Clark, Brad Haddin, Nathan Hauritz, Ben Hilfenhaus, Phillip Hughes, Michael Hussey, Mitchell Johnson, Simon Katich, Brett Lee, Graham Manou, Andrew McDonald, Marcus North, Peter Siddle, Shane Watson.

That’s it.

Other sports:

Jensen Button goes into Monaco’s F1GP this weekend with nothing else on his mind; “I’m always thinking about racing now. Before, I would try and take my mind away from it. Now it is just racing that is running through my mind. I’m probably a right boring bastard at the moment. My girlfriend will probably tell me when she turns up.” – Turns up, she’s been here half hour, shagging the sound man – gave up on you weeks ago.

And Usain Bolt did it again, this time in the streets of Manchester in the 150m’s – a new world record at 14.35s – think that was my best for the 100! – He did the first hundred in 9.9s. Not bad for someone who had a car accident on 29^th April and had to have stitches in his foot – his insurance company probably had a heart attack – ‘crickey, not the feet, give him a hideous facial scar but not the feet…’

And now let’s hear it for the news: Bong, bong, bong:

The notorious Black Widow spider that stalks the pans of an Aussie out back dunny has a cousin called the False Widow. She in turn stalks the outhouses of England’s West Country. She carries enough poison to kill a human and came to Devon from the Canary Islands 140 years ago, and has since set up colonies in Gloucestershire and Wiltshire, according with their recent mild winters. Mild winters, my arse. Herodotus spoke of the cold lands of Britain 7000 years ago and they’ve never got any warmer.

A fossil of a 47million year old lemur monkey has been dug up and described as the genuine ‘missing link’. Ida, as it has been called, is 95% intact and experts are calling her the ‘8^th wonder of the world’. In the palaeontologists world a spokesman said, “It is somewhat like an asteroid falling down to earth.” – See Charles Darwin was right and those mad-cap loonies in the religious schools of South Africa and North America better take heed.

Definitely a pie and a pint

Now, you hear of this, but not too often – an Aussie GP, Rob Carson drilled a hole into a 12 year-old’s skull and into the brain with a normal Black and Decker house drill in Maryborough, Victoria. Nicholas Rossi fell off his bike and ended up in hospital. A leading neurosurgeon said, “One of the gutsiest, life-saving effects imaginable.” – ‘Are you sure you’ll need that for an in-growing toe nail Doc?’ – ‘Don’t worry; you’ll be safe with me…drrrrrrr…’

Horse breeder Maisy Watson from Springwell Farm, Consett, Co. Durham UK, where Phileas Fogg hangs out, thinks she’s got the smallest mule in the world on her hands. At just 20 inches tall, Pecko hailed from the doings of nag Mrs Pickles and donkey Angus. Maisy squealed, “He barely comes up to my knee-cap now. I can pick him up and give him a cuddle.” – It’s a mule.

Crazy rock n roll capes XXXXXIIIIVVIVI! “The Clash absolutely annihilated Victoria Park that afternoon. It marked their graduation from underground cult status to fully fledged rock stardom.” – Rock Against Racism Carnival, April 1978.

Let’s get back to the animals - Italian Simone Arrigone 35 has just smashed the world record for being pushed along by a dolphin. Simone managed 450m’s in Rome on the noses of King and Paco. After he said, “To stay on track over hundreds of metres is hard, but we managed it. We had to train for over six months to get here and even then we only pull it off once in every 20 attempts. We did it in one go today so King and Paco get an extra tuna tonight that’s for sure.” – It’s the only other mammal that has sex for pleasure you know – the Iti’s that is.

Peter Kay corner – very Cooper-esque, but has actually been replaced by Steve Wright: “I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met.”

Keep with the animals? Ok – Nurse Charlotte Hanson 27 dropped her keys and her dog ate them…no, hang there was a better one…wasn’t it a dog that ran off with its owners mobile phone and managed to dial 999 (emergency services) whilst holding itself up in the shed. Its owners then stood out side pleading, “come on come out, we won’t hurt you…’, as the dog panted and whimpered down the phone. Apparently they had a lot of explaining to do.

No heels on the dolphins please

National disaster hits the UK - A cup of tea is to go up by 15%. That’s something like 50p a box of 160. The catastrophic situation has been blamed on droughts in India, Kenya and Sri Lanka, plus the world’s 5% rise in demand. A spokesman from Unilever who owns PG Tips explained, “It reflects the significant awareness in commodity costs we have been seeing throughout the business.” – The same avenue looks likely for cheese and cocoa products – uck man, my cheese and chocolate crisps are going up? An outraged expert in the field of tea said, “This is maximum profiteering.” – fool says, ‘attack Unilever. We can’t take it anymore. Give us cheaper tea.’

Britain’s oldest mum to be, 66, Ellis Aldeney, is one month away from dropping and says she decided to have the IVF treatment (in the Ukraine) so she could leave her money to someone. Yep, she’s stinking rich. Director of a plastics and textiles company, between her and her ex Robert, who is the other Director, they make a mint, plus riding whips for the Queen. She said, “I am a private person and while I appreciate there may be some publicity I will just ignore it. This has been a very personal decision.” – Ellis was once a debutante and an air hostess, a friend said of her, “Ellis is a strong minded and intelligent woman. She has seen a lot of life.” – Will we really all be living to 130 soon?

Ok, lastly, the Romanian virgin is no longer a virgin and still insists she’s not a prostitute. Alina Percea 18 took home the bacon recently from an Italian business man for a snip at £8,782 which will go towards her computer studies at University. Alina was whisked off to a five star hotel in Venice by the 45 year-old Italian whom she says, “He seemed much younger. He was very funny and charming. He didn’t have a beer belly.” – They met in the hotel lobby, did a bit of sight-seeing then back to the room for the business end, where they undressed each other, bedded, kissed and sexed. She said, “I felt a bit nervous. I liked it.” – She then sounds a little like Robin William’s sketch of Colonial Gaddaffi, “Ok, you cross this line, you’re dead. Ok, you cross this line you’re dead…’ – except her rebuttal went something like, “It’s not like prostitution because It was a one off – I did this for good reasons.” – Ok.