The Guizer: A Book of Fools
A collection of stories by Alan Garner

I will review and post the rules as comments to this post prior to Posting the first quiz…..  “The game’s afoot, Watson” ….. (who really said that?)……

Summer 2009

Thanksgiving 2009

New Year, New Decade 2010

This summer I hung this Cheeto on the tree to fool a crow. (It did. He grabbed it in midair and came up short on the string. Never tried it again) I left it hanging. It made it through Thanksgiving and now into the new decade. The orange color turned to black and it has turned hard despite the rain. I’m hoping to set a new world record and need your support. Send money to me and send a link to this post in an email to 10 friends. Thanks.

No better thing befalls a man than a good wife, no worse thing than a bad one.

–Semonides of Amorgos

The kind of events that once took place will by reason of human nature take places again.

–Thucydides

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office
–Aesop (~550 BC)

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
–Aristotle

Only the dead have seen the end of war
–Plato

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will fin d a way around the laws.
–Plato

To be at once exceedingly wealthy and good is impossible.
–Plato (c. 428-348 BC)

The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

–Plato

There’s nothing certain in man’s life except this: That he must lose it.

–Aeschylus

Homer
Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.

In The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, the last series of short stories written circa 1920-27, the third to the last one written is named, “The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger”, a story of a woman supposedly mauled by a lion…… Here’s what jumped from the page setting off bells in my head, and, I quote, “It was six months before she was fit to give evidence, but the inquest was duly held, with the obvious verdict of Death from Misadventure”…… Apparently, In England, this is a legitimate medical term for people that die by intentionally placing themselves in danger….. I knew I had heard that phrase before……

I searched my CD collection and came up with “Death by Misadventure” by John Haitt off of his “Riding with the King” album….. It fits perfectly and I recommend the album highly….. It just goes to show that time may pass, but some things forever remain the same…..

Here’s one “I BET YOU DIDN’T KNOW”.

“Discovering in his mouth a tongue
He must his palaver balk;
So keeps it running all day long,
And fancies his red rag can talk.”

Red Rag (The). The tongue. In French, Le chiffon rouge; and balancer le chiffon means to prate.

WHAT IS THE SHORTEST RECORDED TUNE OF ALL TIME?

Someone out there knows the answer…..and I expect a certain amount of debate to follow.

1. Where did the Hatfields and McCoys live?
2. What are the highest and lowest elevations in the United States?
3. How do you tell the age of a fish?
4. How do archer fish “shoot” their victims?
5. What is the origin of “to go scot free”?
6. Who made the first transatlantic flight?
7. In how many films did Basil Rathbone play Sherlock Holmes?
8. What are close encounters of the first and second kind?
9. Who won the first World Series?

Point Values awarded not only for correctness, but also for originality, weirdness, and humor….. In other words, MR Is In Control (Devo)…..

5-Point BONUS – This is from a joke by Steven Wright, but, I’m looking for a straight answer – If you driving along at the speed of light, and you turn on your headlights, would they work?…. Along with Yes or No, I need Why or Why not…… Be creative on this one, as I really don’t have a set answer….. START YOUR SMARTS!……