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Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby Sgurr » Tue May 15, 2018 11:08 am

If D had a surname, it would probably begin with S
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby Sgurr » Fri May 18, 2018 4:53 pm

Baaaa!!
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby CharlesT » Sat May 19, 2018 8:23 am

Well I've been drawn to North Ronaldsay and the seaweed eating sheep. Could RI be Ronaldsay Island and D a reference to the Drystane Dykes which keep them off the cultivated land?
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby Sgurr » Sat May 19, 2018 9:17 am

Sorry Charles, no. Maybe I should rephrase : RI became famous (but obviously not famous enough) when it introduced D the S to the world
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby CharlesT » Sat May 19, 2018 10:56 am

I can find a reference to Derek the Sheep, of whom I knew nothing. Never read a comic in my life, even the adult ones which are called newspapers I believe.

RI remains an utter mystery though.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby Sgurr » Sat May 19, 2018 1:16 pm

Not Derek. Sorry. D the S is now stuffed and in the NMoS
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby CharlesT » Sat May 19, 2018 1:27 pm

Sgurr wrote:Not Derek. Sorry. D the S is now stuffed and in the NMoS


Ah! It's Dolly the sheep and RI is the Roslin Institute whereat she was begat. Would never have got there without being lead by the nose. :(
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby Sgurr » Sat May 19, 2018 2:03 pm

At last. Always thought you knew everything, but it must be ancient history, not modern science. Your turn.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby CharlesT » Sat May 19, 2018 3:06 pm

Sgurr wrote:At last. Always thought you knew everything, but it must be ancient history, not modern science. Your turn.


You can't expect a philosopher mathematician to know such things, heaven forfend!

However, "Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare " as they say.

The EC, PEC and TSS were some of the means by which the SE came to be developed.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby Sgurr » Sat May 19, 2018 4:10 pm

The Easy Club, the Political Economy Club and The Select Society were some of the means whereby the Scottish Enlightenment took place???
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby CharlesT » Sat May 19, 2018 4:56 pm

Sgurr wrote:The Easy Club, the Political Economy Club and The Select Society were some of the means whereby the Scottish Enlightenment took place???


Excellent and wholly correct answer. Was it that easy? Your go again.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby Sgurr » Sat May 19, 2018 5:27 pm

Only in so far as things discussed by the Easy Club were easy.

The EoD has reappeared after a gap of some two and a half centuries.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby Sgurr » Tue May 22, 2018 9:56 am

It reappeared on the exact date of the post.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby CharlesT » Tue May 22, 2018 1:04 pm

Sgurr wrote:It reappeared on the exact date of the post.


A plague on you! You compelled me to look into the royal event of that day, something I had avoided entirely thus far.

Prince Harry is now Earl of Dumbarton I gather.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby Sgurr » Tue May 22, 2018 1:50 pm

No compulsion Charles, just your competitive nature (takes one to know one). Yes, that's it: more precisely it is the Earldom of Dumbarton. I had to close my door and view on iplayer, as any mention of anything Royal elicited a similar response from R. It's a lost cause now I'm afraid. Even Alex Salmond was forced to say we'd keep them after independence....or was it just HER?
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