So, last time, it was the answer to a crossword clue. Today, it’s the answer to a question in University Challenge:
Albrecht Durer!
Is he trying to take over the world?
I was unaware of the existence of this particular German artist and engraver until recent times. Now he’s everywhere. Why?
Answers on a postcard please.
Sue
Cos he can!
Pollx
he’s been cloned.
there is even one on this site!
carole x
No we’re not!
Are you exercising some kind of mind control? Forcing us to remember you at every possible moment? Or is it just me? Am I in fact obsessed with Albrecht Durer? Either the original or a reproduction!
Or am I going loopy? Are all these questions on UC, crossword clues to which I am giving the answer Albrecht Durer, etc wrong answers?
Please help me Mr Durer or whatever your name is.
Loopy Soo
Look into my eyyyes.
You are feeeeeeling sleeeeeepy.
When I snap my fingers you will …
Oh dear.
I can’t look…I can’t look!
Pollx
I thought it was just me. Yes he is everywhere! I’d never heard of him before as I’m not a cultured arty farty sort.
Still no idea what sort of artist he was but his name is following me around.
Mags xx
hiya
reticular activating system at work i think! (if that is correct spelling!)
eg if you are are told to look out for yellow cars then u will notice them. they have always been there but they didnt ‘register’.
so a.d is known to us to its highlighted in our minds/brains…maybe?!
ellie
Durer, the new Kardashian?
He will be a question on pointless next.
Mags xx
I’ve always been pointless.
I was gonna apply to go on Pointless and then I thought, ‘What’s the point? If I win it will still be pointless!’
Pollx
Am I pointless? Don’t think so, cos I keep people busy!
We may lead slow, mundane, little achieving lives, but just think how many folk would be unemployed without us lot to fill their days!
Here’s a list of mine. Add to it please, with your own.
Wheelchair makers, servicers.
Nurses with blood to extract and catheters to change.
Pad makers, packers and delivery folk. Then there’s that poor collection man who has to gather mountains of clinical waste to add to other mountains of yellow bags of clinical waste.
Plastic shiny twirler makers and sellers…my plastic twirly thingy is twirling in my garden right now! It gives me summat to gaze at, wondering how the last twirl looks like it’s disappearing into the garage wall. Clever stuff!
Xxx
Didn’t like to say …
By the way Ant, do you think you could stop staring at me in that scary way? It’s very unnerving and keeps on making me feel strangely frightened.
Sue
And now you’ve gone bonkers too. (Plastic twirly things?) Is it the weather?
Sue x
it must be due to the great sock conspiracy… M
should I blame my new oxybutynin patches for the seeing the plastic twirly things?
pollx
Durer, you’re looking like you’re straight out of Norfolk bor !
Nobody comes out of a Norfolk bar.
There’s always a degree of sideways drift as imbibers try to compensate for an imaginary camber.
Very flat Norfolk.
A.
Imaginary camber??? it is the curvature of the Earth, alcohol makes us more sensitive…
M