Posters seem to enjoy the Word Association thread, so maybe the following game(s) might appeal. Just something to maybe engage the attention during quiet spells. I watch a lot of old telly shows and very frequently see car registration plates ending in CY or WN, which are of course Swansea registrations. I wondered why and the conclusion I reached, correctly or otherwise, was that, when film makers shot outdoor footage where car registrations could be seen, they needed something anonymous and were supplied redundant plate numbers by the DVLA to use. Being located in Swansea, I guess they opted to use a lot of local plates.
Anyway, I thought we could have a competition to run to the end of the season to see who spots the most CY or WN plates on TV shows. If you play, you can post the show on which you saw them on here and also the number itself if you have time to note it.
The second game is simplicity itself and started with the staff of my company years ago. The challenge was to spot vehicle registration numbers when out and about from 1 to 999 IN ORDER - just the numeral itself but it has to be in order. For instance, you might see a "2" but that doesn't count unless you've already seen "1". When you have seen "1" THEN you can move on to "2" but not before.
There must have been 20/30 people playing this but only ONE person (Gill) managed to go from 1-999 in sequence and it took many, many months. BUT BE WARNED. If you do this, do NOT do it whilst driving. One of my guys was driving a car with 4 other members of staff in it. They were in a stop-start queue when he noticed a number on a car coming the other way - a number he had been waiting weeks for. In his 'excitement' he failed to notice that the queue had come to a stop and ran into the back of the car in front!! Luckily it was at crawl pace but it still cost me a claim on my company's car insurance.
Anyway, if you do play along, post your HONEST progress on here. There's a tenner for the first one to 999 but I reckon my money's safe!!
Anyway, I thought we could have a competition to run to the end of the season to see who spots the most CY or WN plates on TV shows. If you play, you can post the show on which you saw them on here and also the number itself if you have time to note it.
The second game is simplicity itself and started with the staff of my company years ago. The challenge was to spot vehicle registration numbers when out and about from 1 to 999 IN ORDER - just the numeral itself but it has to be in order. For instance, you might see a "2" but that doesn't count unless you've already seen "1". When you have seen "1" THEN you can move on to "2" but not before.
There must have been 20/30 people playing this but only ONE person (Gill) managed to go from 1-999 in sequence and it took many, many months. BUT BE WARNED. If you do this, do NOT do it whilst driving. One of my guys was driving a car with 4 other members of staff in it. They were in a stop-start queue when he noticed a number on a car coming the other way - a number he had been waiting weeks for. In his 'excitement' he failed to notice that the queue had come to a stop and ran into the back of the car in front!! Luckily it was at crawl pace but it still cost me a claim on my company's car insurance.
Anyway, if you do play along, post your HONEST
progress on here. There's a tenner for the first one to 999 but I reckon my money's safe!!
