Beau Peep Notice Board

Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Roger Kettle on June 04, 2007, 11:05:32 PM

Title: It's the annual Custer quiz again.
Post by: Roger Kettle on June 04, 2007, 11:05:32 PM: I'm struggling.
Who was the photographer who accompanied the famous 1872 Grand Duke Alexis buffalo hunt?
In what year were the last government-issue Indian Wars Campaign badges struck?
My sad quest to complete this damn thing continues. Of the 20 questions, I've got 13 of them. I may be back.
Title: Re: It's the annual Custer quiz again.
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on June 04, 2007, 11:44:45 PM: I know how to spell Custer if that's any help? :-\
Title: Re: It's the annual Custer quiz again.
Post by: Malc on June 05, 2007, 12:25:51 AM: I think the photographer was David Bailey.

If I can be of any more help, just ask.
Title: Re: It's the annual Custer quiz again.
Post by: Diane CBPFC on June 05, 2007, 02:21:12 AM: Pretty soon you will be the last one left in the club Roger - I win the Annual Canadian Beau Peep competition each year.

Edric Eaton

http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://www.ephemerasociety.org/images/articles/duke1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.ephemerasociety.org/articles/grandduke.html&h=399&w=267&sz=75&hl=en&start=3&um=1&tbnid=Z5shy6TwghVjtM:&tbnh=124&tbnw=83&prev=/images%3Fq%3D1872%2BGrand%2BDuke%2BAlexis%2Bbuffalo%2Bhunt%2Bphotographer%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG (http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://www.ephemerasociety.org/images/articles/duke1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.ephemerasociety.org/articles/grandduke.html&h=399&w=267&sz=75&hl=en&start=3&um=1&tbnid=Z5shy6TwghVjtM:&tbnh=124&tbnw=83&prev=/images%3Fq%3D1872%2BGrand%2BDuke%2BAlexis%2Bbuffalo%2Bhunt%2Bphotographer%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG)
Title: Re: It's the annual Custer quiz again.
Post by: Roger Kettle on June 05, 2007, 09:07:09 AM: OH, THANK YOU, DIANE! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
Title: Re: It's the annual Custer quiz again.
Post by: Mince on June 05, 2007, 01:35:04 PM: What's a Custer?
Title: Re: It's the annual Custer quiz again.
Post by: Colin on June 05, 2007, 03:03:34 PM: Quote from: Mince on June 05, 2007, 01:35:04 PM
What's a Custer?

I think it's the one on the right

(http://www.five.tv/media/image/11771514.jpg)
Title: Re: It's the annual Custer quiz again.
Post by: Diane CBPFC on June 05, 2007, 07:47:03 PM: You're welcome Rog - it is amazing the stuff Google will find.
Title: Re: It's the annual Custer quiz again.
Post by: Roger Kettle on June 05, 2007, 08:20:09 PM: Well, I tried my 200 books AND google and still couldn't find it. I'm also trying to find the act of Congress that was approved on June 22, 1876. I cant find anything specific to that date but it may have had something to do with the right to bear arms----though I would have thought it would have a more direct relevence to Custer, given the name of the quiz.
Title: Re: It's the annual Custer quiz again.
Post by: Mince on June 05, 2007, 08:47:00 PM: Is this it? It's got the date, Custer and congress in it.

http://lbha.org/Research/terryord.htm
Title: Re: It's the annual Custer quiz again.
Post by: Diane CBPFC on June 05, 2007, 08:58:45 PM: I could only find the Indian Appropriations Act of June 22, 1874 so that is two year off.
Title: Re: It's the annual Custer quiz again.
Post by: Mince on June 05, 2007, 09:12:29 PM: It was three days before Custer's death, if that helps.
Title: Re: It's the annual Custer quiz again.
Post by: Roger Kettle on June 05, 2007, 09:19:33 PM: I am SO sorry! the date I should have given you is June 22 , 1866. I got confused with Custer's death in 1876. I apologise for the time you guys have wasted because of my stupidity.
Title: Re: It's the annual Custer quiz again.
Post by: Mince on June 05, 2007, 09:29:31 PM: Are you going to kill him, Diane, or shall I?
Title: Re: It's the annual Custer quiz again.
Post by: Mince on June 05, 2007, 09:37:05 PM: Does this help?

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/browse/llhb_039_date.html
Title: Re: It's the annual Custer quiz again.
Post by: Diane CBPFC on June 05, 2007, 09:41:30 PM: It wasn't that much of a waste of time Rog - I could have sorted a sock drawer but I've been putting that off anyway. ;D
Title: Re: It's the annual Custer quiz again.
Post by: Mince on June 05, 2007, 09:49:11 PM: Had Roger got the date correct, the sock drawer would be sorted, and so one morning in the not too distant future you won't have socks to wear and will be late to work, and your grumpiness will affect a co-worker who will go out drinking that night because he "hates himself" and get blind drunk and try to break into a top-secret nuclear bunker, and in dealing with him, someone will inadvertently fall on a button and launch the missiles.

Thanks, Roger - you just started World War III.
Title: Re: It's the annual Custer quiz again.
Post by: Roger Kettle on June 05, 2007, 09:56:03 PM: Oh, dear.
Title: Re: It's the annual Custer quiz again.
Post by: Diane CBPFC on June 06, 2007, 07:40:54 PM: Any luck finding the answer yet Roger? It dosn't appear to be online - you may have to go to a library or get one of your Amerian friends to do that for you have them bug the librarian.

I'm rooting for you. ;D
Title: Re: It's the annual Custer quiz again.
Post by: Diane CBPFC on June 06, 2007, 07:44:21 PM: Quote from: Mince on June 05, 2007, 09:49:11 PM
Had Roger got the date correct, the sock drawer would be sorted, and so one morning in the not too distant future you won't have socks to wear and will be late to work, and your grumpiness will affect a co-worker who will go out drinking that night because he "hates himself" and get blind drunk and try to break into a top-secret nuclear bunker, and in dealing with him, someone will inadvertently fall on a button and launch the missiles.

Thanks, Roger - you just started World War III.

Don't be silly and go worrying and upsetting ROger in the midst of his big Custer contest - the worst thing that could happen around here would be a case of cow tipping or toilet-papering a barn.
Title: Re: It's the annual Custer quiz again.
Post by: Roger Kettle on June 06, 2007, 08:21:15 PM: Diane, I still have a couple of weeks before sending in the answers so I'll keep at it. More importantly, what's cow tipping?
Title: Re: It's the annual Custer quiz again.
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on June 06, 2007, 08:57:20 PM: You mean this is a real competition? I thought it was a quaint joke...like a line out of an Alan Bennett play, or a Les Dawson monologue.

Wow! If you win, I think they should make a film about it - I can hear the brass band building up to the nerve-tingling decider question right now. A cross between Brassed Off and Rocky.

Who do you think should play you, Roger? Dustin Hoffman or David Essex?
Title: Re: It's the annual Custer quiz again.
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on June 06, 2007, 08:58:48 PM: Quote from: Roger Kettle on June 06, 2007, 08:21:15 PM
More importantly, what's cow tipping?

You mean you've never had really good service from a cow?
Title: Re: It's the annual Custer quiz again.
Post by: Roger Kettle on June 06, 2007, 09:57:19 PM: Quote from: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on June 06, 2007, 08:57:20 PM

Who do you think should play you, Roger? Dustin Hoffman or David Essex?
Someone old, grey and balding. When I was younger, people used to say I looked like Dudley Moore. Now it's Patrick Moore.
Title: Re: It's the annual Custer quiz again.
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on June 07, 2007, 12:17:55 AM: Oh, dear.
Title: Re: It's the annual Custer quiz again.
Post by: The Peepmaster on June 07, 2007, 09:10:53 AM: Quote from: Roger Kettle on June 06, 2007, 09:57:19 PM
Quote from: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on June 06, 2007, 08:57:20 PM

Who do you think should play you, Roger? Dustin Hoffman or David Essex?
Someone old, grey and balding. When I was younger, people used to say I looked like Dudley Moore. Now it's Patrick Moore.

I never thought Dudley Moore was ugly.
Title: Re: It's the annual Custer quiz again.
Post by: Roger Kettle on June 07, 2007, 06:18:55 PM: I've been working all day on a good comeback for you, Nige....
I'm not ugly---YOU are!
Title: Re: It's the annual Custer quiz again.
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on June 07, 2007, 06:43:59 PM: Satire at its pinnacle.
Title: Re: It's the annual Custer quiz again.
Post by: The Peepmaster on June 07, 2007, 07:03:03 PM: I bet you ming an' all!
Title: Re: It's the annual Custer quiz again.
Post by: Roger Kettle on June 07, 2007, 07:39:00 PM: Don't.
Title: Re: It's the annual Custer quiz again.
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on June 07, 2007, 08:28:32 PM: I'm writing this down...
Title: Re: It's the annual Custer quiz again.
Post by: The Peepmaster on June 07, 2007, 11:23:34 PM: Wit and repartee is a special skill, Tarquin.
Title: Re: It's the annual Custer quiz again.
Post by: Roger Kettle on June 07, 2007, 11:25:05 PM: Quote from: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on June 07, 2007, 08:28:32 PM
I'm writing this down...
Yes, well, I'm writing YOU down.
Title: Re: It's the annual Custer quiz again.
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on June 08, 2007, 12:15:17 AM: Quote from: Roger Kettle on June 07, 2007, 11:25:05 PM
Quote from: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on June 07, 2007, 08:28:32 PM
I'm writing this down...
Yes, well, I'm writing YOU down.

Oh, the tears are rolling down my cheeks. No, really!...
Title: Re: It's the annual Custer quiz again.
Post by: The Peepmaster on June 08, 2007, 12:36:59 AM: It's not just anyone that could moon at a passing train with his face!
Title: Re: It's the annual Custer quiz again.
Post by: Elizabeth on June 08, 2007, 09:36:23 AM: Now now boys - play nicely. Anyway, they used to call Dudley Moore Cuddly Dudley didn't they? Give's a hug, Rog. :-*
Title: Re: It's the annual Custer quiz again.
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on June 08, 2007, 10:38:40 AM: Quote from: The Peepmaster on June 08, 2007, 12:36:59 AM
It's not just anyone that could moon at a passing train with his face!

Word play now - all the classic devices. Keep it going chaps (but no tongues please).

I love it! Where's my pencil....?
Title: Re: It's the annual Custer quiz again.
Post by: The Peepmaster on June 08, 2007, 11:41:26 AM: Okay, Roger. I'm sorry I implied you were so ugly, that as a child, your Mum had to feed you with a catapult.
Title: Re: It's the annual Custer quiz again.
Post by: Mince on June 08, 2007, 11:47:21 AM: Quote from: The Peepmaster on June 08, 2007, 11:41:26 AM
Okay, Roger. I'm sorry I implied you were so ugly, that as a child, your Mum had to feed you with a catapult.

In fact, isn't Roger's mum already in the record books for owning the longest barge pole?
Title: Re: It's the annual Custer quiz again.
Post by: The Peepmaster on June 08, 2007, 12:00:51 PM: This is getting out of hand. I wasn't suggesting Roger was hideously ugly. Just that Dudley Moore wasn't quite so much, er..
Title: Re: It's the annual Custer quiz again.
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on June 08, 2007, 12:09:57 PM: And it all started out so well too. Typical! Well I've stopped writing now, and I'm typing my complaint to the Humorous Online Humiliation Ombudsman (HOHO).
Title: Re: It's the annual Custer quiz again.
Post by: Roger Kettle on June 08, 2007, 06:32:06 PM: I'm trying to work out the route of this thread....
"Can anyone help with my Custer quiz?"
"You're ugly."
I'm off to Elizabeth's for a hug.
Title: Re: It's the annual Custer quiz again.
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on June 08, 2007, 06:45:56 PM: Quote from: Roger Kettle on June 08, 2007, 06:32:06 PM
I'm trying to work out the route of this thread....
"Can anyone help with my Custer quiz?"
"You're ugly."
I'm off to Elizabeth's for a hug.

Mission accomplished then, Roger (call me suspicious!)?
Title: Re: It's the annual Custer quiz again.
Post by: Mince on June 08, 2007, 07:55:36 PM: I like you use of exclamation marks and question marks, Tarquin. It's almost artistic.