keith lockey

Hey lads, I've just bought a cheap boat. I was down at the docks last night and a girl came out of a doorway and said I could have a tug for twenty pounds.

MAAAAAALCOOOOOOOM! AN OUTSTANDING WINNER, YES THEY ALL HAVE HAD SONGS ABOUT THEM. Bette Davis Eyes..............Kim Carnes James Dean.....................The Eagles Michael Caine...................Madness Robert de Niro's Waiting...Bananarama Superman.........................Stereophonics (Brilliant this) Either you lot are getting better or I am losing my mojo. Now about your prize. Oceanic Enterprises are about to replicate the Titanic....

Nope, Adam, please try again.

AND YOUR NEW QUIZ CONNECTION IS - THESE SET OF DUDES.

I started a quiz night at the Railway Tavern over a year ago. It ran for just 16 weeks because no one was bothering to come out. It was a damn good quiz but a night out now costs a small fortune. The price of a pint nowadays is a key factor in the demise of so many pubs, breweries should realise this but they know they have drinkers (punters) over a barrel. (No pun intended) One word sums it up...GREED.

WINNERS ALL! CLOWNS IS THE CORRECT ANSWER GOOD ONE MERC & MALC' PS. Malcolm, the pictures you posted are replicas of the ones I have ready. (The Michael Caine clown is from the film SLEUTH - brilliant.) I am making these far too easy, I've got to toughen the connections up - but don't fret, I have a cunning plan. Now as far as your prize goes, I think it should be a joint award, so I think it only fair you should both participate in the Mongolia-Siberia tandem bike extravaganza next spring. You will start at the Kamchatka Penninsula, then pedal down into Mongolia for the annual yak herding contest in Ulan Bator, from there you will cross the Takla Makan desert to look for the legendary Death Worm (as seen on Fortean TV) and then you will just have a final sprint finish to the Urals. (Pack your bicycle clips) Now Merc' do you want to do this before or after your paris Bungee jump?

Sorry Dolomite, wrong answer. Mercuryg - starting to sizzle, but rethink it.

Don't I know it, Keith, they knocked the Terrier down last year and I remember a time when people queued up to get in there. It's a damn shame and surely someone must be taking note of all the closures - it must be giving a sign off to the breweries at least. DROP YOUR PRICES!!!

George and Dragon does ring a Quasimodo. I know the one on the right with all the motorbikers was just one long room. The bar was to the left of the door. You walked in and the piano player stopped playing. Oh to have a retentive memory or a time machine. PS, Brian - Keith did mention something about the Percy somewhere on site - probably this one. I must admit it was never a favourite gin mill of mine.

Cheers anyway, Symptoms. The Mayfair was one place I never got to, but I remember it had a reputation. I'm a 'child' of the 60s 70s, mostly the seventies because I just started appreciating music then and I often find myself wandering back to those days in my mind. As you say, happy days. Now where's my Moody Blues albums?

Hi Symptoms, you seem to know Morpeth well. Now I got a shock a few months ago when I was there. They were demolishing the Old Red Bull Inn. Now I spent many a courting days in that pub and felt gutted when it was...gutted, if you excuse the pun. But apart from that I am having a running argument with my brother about some old groggeries in Morpeth. I'll describe the locale and maybe you can help me. There were two bars down a tunnel beneath the Queens Head - near where Woolworths was. Now I went down that tunnel one night in search of liquid solace. I turned right and found myself in a dingy little bar which was full of bikers. I had a quick sup there and went across from that to the other bar in the 'tunnel' and there was an even dingier bar there. Now one of them - i think the latter - was called the Cabellero or something. Can you or anyone else help clear this up, cheers.

Did you not know that, Merc'. Yeah, you've been communicating with a disembodied spirit for yonks. I shuffled off this mortal coil years ago, just nobody bothered to mention it in the obits'. I'm the creakiy door at midnight, the hint of a shadow in the darkness; the light at the end of the tunnel. A bit like Patrick Swayze but without the Whoopie.

YET ANOTHER NEW CONNECTION SORRY FOR DELAY - I'VE GOT THE WORKMEN HERE FOR A FEW WEEKS!!!!!

A WINNER - SO SOON! Yes, merc' you got it. They have both been master of ceremonies on Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells 1 & 2 respectively. You have just won a snowboarding holiday in the Sahara Desert. Okay, no more mister nice guy - time for some skullduggery with my connections. It will take a while because I've got the workmen here at the moment. But watch this space. Congrats Merc.

If you send me your answer through personal mail I can confirm on site that you have got it. Or you could just post the answer and claim fame and glory. (And get another super-duper prize.) I'll leave it to you - I have other devious connections waiting.

You know what, I thought if anybody gets this it will be Mercuryg. Do you want to send me the answer through personal mail just to check? I thought this might be easy. Cheers Merc.

Can anyone remember this from the mid-sixties. It ran into the early seventies. If I remember correctly he always ate corned beef and eggs or beans.

NEW QUIZ CONNECTION

Thank you Malcolm, because I have been wondering that myself. I believe there was one in Newbiggin.

TIME-WASTING!!!!! After the prize I got for you! The hours - nay - days and sleepless nights I put in to entertain you with a plethora of puzzles, a veritable cornucopia of clues and conundrums; scouring the internet for weeks on end, looking for pictures and images to post for your benefit so that Mercuryg can shine like a supernova in the Northumbrian sky; A Caesar crossing the Rubicon and marching into Rome at the head of his eyepatch legions. All this and you regard it as time-wasting!!!! Woe is me! Where's the sharp knife? The days I've gone without food; the nights I've burned the midnight oil to bring you gems of trivia; all this and it's regarded as a waste of time. Where's the asp in the basket of figs; unsheath my gladius so that I can fall upon my sword. Life has no meaning anymore. Just you wait, Mercuryg, I'll be the one packing your haversack with the bowling balls, and perchance there might just be a blacksmith's anvil in there as well. Well that's enough of the drama queen, folks. Until tomorrow when I will waste your time with more cunning connections. Adios, amigos, until our paths cross again.

Merc' - here's a preview of your prize. Though this one's a wimp, he didn't put on the haversack.

Congratulations Mercuryg, a brilliant piece of deduction - eventually. Now Merc', I can confirm your prize, now try not to get too excited. You will fly to Paris next weekend and take part in the English - French bungee jumping finals. You will be taken to the top of the Eiffel Tower and pushed...er.. you will bungee jump off the summit with a haversack full of bowling balls on your back. I know, I know, you can't believe your luck and I bet you just can't wait to show those Frenchies what you are made of. Though they will probably find that out when you make contact with the Champs Elysees. Break a leg Merc - and probably a lot more as well. NOW THEN CHAPS AND CHAPESSES. DO YOU WANT MORE?

A WINNER! Mercuryg has hit the back of the net. Thats right Merc' They all played characters who wore eyepatches.

No it's not that simple Keith and Merc', but when you see it you will kick yourself with you best pair of cowboy boots. You especially Mercuryg, because of one of the characters you mentioned earlier - you should derive some connection from that person. PS, I moved from my old house, honest, and after Sunday I will be aboding in a Shaolin temple somewhere in the Himalayas.