[LRUG] December Meeting... something different?

[Tiest Vilee]

sounds like a great idea, as long as you give me the answers before
hand.  So I can verify them.  yeah.  that's it.  Verify.

On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:24:22 +0100, "Murray Steele"
<murray.steele at gmail.com> said:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've had this idea for the December meeting to do something a little bit
> different.  The few people I've harrangued in the pub with the idea seem
> to
> not *hate* the idea, so I thought I'd suggest it to a wider audience (and
> risk having to actually organise something for once).
> 
> I thought it might be fun to have a pub quiz.  Themed around ruby
> somehow,
> but not actually with questions about ruby.  E.g. less 'What's a
> singleton
> class?' more 'What's the capital city of Japan?' ... uh except perhaps
> harder than that.  Although there's some milage in questions about ruby
> history or the ruby community if people would prefer a slightly stronger
> ruby connection than 'ruby comes from japan' etc...
> 
> Hopefully, we'll even be able to come up with some prizes.  If anyone has
> good connections to companies with a penchant for giving out free-things
> to
> user-groups speak up now, otherwise I can use this as an excuse to clear
> my
> book shelves of some of the
> great-really-and-not-at-all-something-I-bought-for-a-course-at-uni-but-didn't-realise-I-wouldn't-ever-need-it
> books that I no longer have room for (for example: an almost mint copy of
> 'Mastering COBOL').
> 
> It's still a bit of a tiny wee baby of a plan, so everything's a bit
> vague
> in my mind, but if people are interested there are a couple of months to
> work out something good.
> 
> So, anyone think it'd be a fun diversion from the dull grey of a London
> winter?
> 
> Muz