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Reiner Torheit
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« Reply #45 on: 17:28:07, 03-07-2008 »
Quote from: martle on 08:50:30, 03-07-2008

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don't have an adverse Criminal Record in the UK. 

You mean there's one that isn't adverse?  Shocked

Ta Martle Smiley  It's been a long time coming!  A "Disorderly Conduct" charge in Grosvenor Square after the Libya bombing (a small fine and bound-over to keep the peace) seemed to have expired,  although this might indeed have been exactly the kind of "non-adverse" record the Russians would have appreciated Wink
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« Reply #46 on: 17:30:18, 03-07-2008 »
Quote from: Reiner Torheit on 17:28:07, 03-07-2008
Grosvenor Square after the Libya bombing

The people with the cameras in the windows of the embassy still have your picture though (they have mine too).
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« Reply #47 on: 17:31:59, 03-07-2008 »
Quote from: richard barrett on 17:30:18, 03-07-2008
Quote from: Reiner Torheit on 17:28:07, 03-07-2008
Grosvenor Square after the Libya bombing

The people with the cameras in the windows of the embassy still have your picture though (they have mine too).
That might come in handy for publicity purposes when No! gets performed in Benghazi...
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« Reply #48 on: 18:22:49, 03-07-2008 »
I got 13 on the alternatve brit test, but I'm sure that's because the answers to the question about British Rail and Antisocial are wrong!  (Not so sure about the latter Wink)

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« Reply #49 on: 19:07:11, 03-07-2008 »
Shameful! I only scored 8 on the Alternative Brit quiz. Oh the shame Cry

<crawls off into a corner to weep quietly into a cup of weak Bovril>
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« Reply #50 on: 19:09:12, 03-07-2008 »
I scored 10 on the Alternative Quiz.  The only one I got full marks for was the 11+

But then that was only to be expected  Cheesy
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« Reply #51 on: 19:38:12, 03-07-2008 »
Grunwicks! i was just a lad

They wouldn't let us into the USA
We didn't wanna go there anyway!

As Sung by?

Answers on a postcard to...........
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Mary Chambers
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« Reply #52 on: 21:06:14, 03-07-2008 »
I got 11 on the Alternative British test.
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« Reply #53 on: 21:08:31, 03-07-2008 »
And congratulations to Comrade Torheit.
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« Reply #54 on: 11:39:56, 04-07-2008 »
Quote from: thompson1780 on 18:22:49, 03-07-2008
I got 13 on the alternatve brit test, but I'm sure that's because the answers to the question about British Rail and Antisocial are wrong!  (Not so sure about the latter Wink)

Tommo


I got those "wrong" too the first time I did it.  I can only assume they're testing your satire against the accepted level for UK residents.  Wink
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« Reply #55 on: 12:35:03, 04-07-2008 »
I only got 7/8 in the 11+. I got the bricks one wrong, but I didn't make much effort or try for long, honestly - and I'd have done brilliantly on the scarecrow essay Grin
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« Reply #56 on: 12:46:28, 04-07-2008 »
Quote from: Mary Chambers on 12:35:03, 04-07-2008
I only got 7/8 in the 11+. I got the bricks one wrong, but I didn't make much effort or try for long, honestly - and I'd have done brilliantly on the scarecrow essay Grin
My common sense got in the way of me working out the bricks thing for a good couple of minutes.  Who on earth would make a set of steps that starts about 3 feet in the air?  Tsk.  Grin

Here's my scarecrow essay:

One day I was a scarecrow and I was in a field. A crow came along and sat on me and I said hello crow and he gave me an icecream but I couldn't eat it because I was a scarecrow and my mouth was only pretend.  Then I woke up and found it was all a dream and then we had tea and went home and mummy let me watch TV until really late and I went to bed the end.
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« Reply #57 on: 14:28:45, 04-07-2008 »
Quote from: Morticia on 19:49:24, 02-07-2008
Is there somewhere I can move to that doesn't require that I fill in a Questionnaire? Wink


The R3ok Citizenship Test

1. How many Mahler Symphonies are played in the average week on R3?
(A) One
(B) Five
(C) Too many

2. TOP is:
(A) Opposite of BOTTOM
(B) Something applied to a cricket ball
(C) An alternative classical music forum

3. For what is the year 1908 best known:
(A) A big explosion in Tunguska, Siberia
(B) Schoenberg abandons tonality
(C) The end of civilized art

4. Which of the following is NOT a Moderator on R3ok:
(A) Morticia
(B) Martle
(C) Oliver Sudden

5. A music snob is:
(A) Somebody who only listens to classical music
(B) Somebody who only listens to pop music
(C) We don’t know but it’s worth 20 pages of debate

6. Rank these composers in order of empirical greatness: Beethoven, Bach, Schoenberg
(A) Schoenberg, Beethoven, Bach
(B) Schoenberg, Bach, Beethoven
(C) We do not consider Schoenberg a composer, why is he in this test?

7. Which of the following is green:
(A) Morticia
(B) Martle
(C) Oliver Sudden

8. Which of these words best fits the blanks in this sentence: “______, Let’s Talk ______”
(A) Very quietly
(B) Esperanto
(C) Brahms
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« Reply #58 on: 14:34:07, 04-07-2008 »
Nice one IRF.

When do I get my passport?

Tommo
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Ruby2
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« Reply #59 on: 14:34:39, 04-07-2008 »
Quote from: IgnorantRockFan on 14:28:45, 04-07-2008
5. A music snob is:
(A) Somebody who only listens to classical music
(B) Somebody who only listens to pop music
(C) We don’t know but it’s worth 20 pages of debate
Cheesy

Quote from: IgnorantRockFan on 14:28:45, 04-07-2008
6. Rank these composers in order of empirical greatness: Beethoven, Bach, Schoenberg
(A) Schoenberg, Beethoven, Bach
(B) Schoenberg, Bach, Beethoven
(C) We do not consider Schoenberg a composer, why is he in this test?
Has Mr Grew been helping you with this?  Grin
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