For all those pub conversations that stump you...

Bracken · Post by **Bracken** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 1:34 pm

You're down the pub, and after a few beers the conversation drifts off on a tangent, and someone asks a peculiar question that has everyone stumped. You know, things like "What exactly is scampi?", or "What's the oldest beer known to man?". What do you do?

The answer:

Text your question (if in the UK) to 63336 and wait for the response. Costs 50p per text but it's a bunch of people who have set up a service to answer any question you throw at them. Used it in the pub Saturday night and both questions we asked (the one's above) were answered within 5 minutes (i.e. before we had forgotten what we were talking about). Top notch service for a Saturday night booze up

Post by **Fingoniel** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 2:12 pm

/checks bracken isn't registered from freetextanswers.ru or something...

nope.. ok...

cool

how to cheat in pub quizzes!

or google on your mobile phone

Minimarv · Post by **Minimarv** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 2:29 pm

so what is scampi? ( apart from fingerbobs friend)

Byronis · Post by **Byronis** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 2:37 pm

IIRC scampi is an italian word for shrimp. But what scampi is depends on where you are. In our case it's battered or breadcrumbed shrimp tails.

Can't stand seafood myself

Bracken · Post by **Bracken** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 4:12 pm

Minimarv wrote:so what is scampi? ( apart from fingerbobs friend)

The answer we got was that it's prawns or shrimps coated in breadcrumbs...its the whole dish that is called scampi. We asked it because we weren't sure whether it was prawns in it or some reconstituted fish inside the breadcrumbs

lenda · Post by **lenda** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 4:27 pm

So nice to have a place to turn to with life's most important questions

Evzy · Post by **Evzy** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 5:38 pm

So whats the oldest beer known to man as well then?
And someone send one asking "whats the meaning of life?" another with "is there a god?" and maybe one asking "why?"

I wont cos I am too cheapskate to use me mobile phone for anything but 0898 sheep late night phone lines!!

lenda · Post by **lenda** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 6:46 pm

Evzy wrote:for anything but 0898 sheep late night phone lines!!

you rang master ?

Evzy · Post by **Evzy** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 7:40 pm

lenda wrote:
Evzy wrote:for anything but 0898 sheep late night phone lines!!
you rang master ?

Yeah ...where is mah dinner!!

Bracken · Post by **Bracken** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 9:42 pm

Evzy wrote:So whats the oldest beer known to man as well then?

Answer we got is that the Sumerians (whoever they were) brewed beer something like 4000 years ago... though I'd imagine it will have gone flat by now

Evzy · Post by **Evzy** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 11:35 pm

Will check the local Kwikie for it then.......

Byronis · Post by **Byronis** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 8:10 am

Bracken wrote:
Evzy wrote:So whats the oldest beer known to man as well then?
Answer we got is that the Sumerians (whoever they were) brewed beer something like 4000 years ago... though I'd imagine it will have gone flat by now

Are the Sumer-setians responsible for cider?

Marrah · Post by **Marrah** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 8:25 am

Terris wrote:
Are the Sumer-setians responsible for cider?

Lmao

Aadia · Post by **Aadia** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 10:34 am

Bracken wrote:
Evzy wrote:So whats the oldest beer known to man as well then?
Answer we got is that the Sumerians (whoever they were) brewed beer something like 4000 years ago... though I'd imagine it will have gone flat by now

It was 4000 BC !!! not 4000 years ago!

Post by **Xintyl** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 1:06 pm

I want to do that job!!!