[LRUG] December Meeting... something different?

[Murray Steele]

I think I can see through your thinly veiled plot to win that Cobol book,
and as no bribe was offered I'm going to have to refuse ;)

On 11/10/06, Tiest Vilee <tiestvilee at fastmail.com.au> wrote:
>
>
> 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
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