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Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

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

Postby CharlesT » Sat Apr 07, 2018 4:49 pm

Sgurr wrote:Clyde Puffers? ( Dullard lacks a Vital Spark... Para Handy is a book, with which I am acquainted....(Trick question to all potential employees "Which book that you have read recently could you most enthusiastically recommend to customers" which saved having to ask "Do you actually read?" which filtered out dullards.)

It had better be this, or I will curl up and die.


You got there in the end, albeit with a bit of help. So no need to shuffle off this mortal coil just yet.

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

Postby Sgurr » Sat Apr 07, 2018 5:29 pm

Phew. That was very convoluted. But maybe I wouldn't have got the helpful clues if I had't ventured silly guesses.

T became associated(fictionally) with UB
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby CharlesT » Tue Apr 10, 2018 11:04 am

Sgurr wrote:Phew. That was very convoluted. But maybe I wouldn't have got the helpful clues if I had't ventured silly guesses.

T became associated(fictionally) with UB


I'd like it to be Urr Burgh and something to do with the Motte of Urr snd John Balliol (Toom Tabard), but it's not is it?

My roundabout way of asking for a clue.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby Sgurr » Tue Apr 10, 2018 11:20 am

I think that you are a bit highbrow Charles. UB is probably more commonly known as GUB and another associate is W
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby Sgurr » Thu Apr 12, 2018 10:31 pm

Sgurr wrote:I think that you are a bit highbrow Charles. UB is probably more commonly known as GUB and another associate is W



Further fictional (and televisual) associates are O, B and T
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby Sgurr » Sat Apr 14, 2018 10:39 pm

Sgurr wrote:
Sgurr wrote:I think that you are a bit highbrow Charles. UB is probably more commonly known as GUB and another associate is W



Further fictional (and televisual) associates are O, B and T


There is a song associated with the whole group, which starts "Overground u********** W******* f***.............."
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby CharlesT » Sun Apr 15, 2018 8:30 am

My knowledge of Wombles is limited to their name, has Wimbledon been transported to Scotland? We should be told.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby Sgurr » Sun Apr 15, 2018 10:38 am

CharlesT wrote:My knowledge of Wombles is limited to their name, has Wimbledon been transported to Scotland? We should be told.



You need their individual names Charles.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby CharlesT » Sun Apr 15, 2018 10:53 am

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CharlesT wrote:My knowledge of Wombles is limited to their name, has Wimbledon been transported to Scotland? We should be told.



You need their individual names Charles.


Seems like cheating to rely on Wikipedia for the answers, but here goes:

Tobermory (presumably the tenuous Scottish connection )
(Great) Uncle Bulgaria
Wellington
Orinoco
Bungo
Tomsk

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

Postby Sgurr » Sun Apr 15, 2018 2:43 pm

YES!!! I think Tobermory is in Scotland (By no means tenuously when I last looked). That is what I was looking for. Over to you.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby CharlesT » Sun Apr 15, 2018 3:56 pm

Sgurr wrote:YES!!! I think Tobermory is in Scotland (By no means tenuously when I last looked). That is what I was looking for. Over to you.


Wombles indeed! That's scraping the barrel. Last saw Tobermory in 1969, not a Womble in sight as I recall.

So! M came from O, of KL and M, betrayed A and ended at BoC.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby CharlesT » Mon Apr 16, 2018 1:52 pm

CharlesT wrote:
Sgurr wrote:YES!!! I think Tobermory is in Scotland (By no means tenuously when I last looked). That is what I was looking for. Over to you.


Wombles indeed! That's scraping the barrel. Last saw Tobermory in 1969, not a Womble in sight as I recall.

So! M came from O, of KL and M, betrayed A and ended at BoC.


Some help is in order. Of the above A is by far the one most likely to be known. Legendary even! : :D
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby Sgurr » Mon Apr 16, 2018 3:39 pm

OK, I have been working on Merlin, but have now switched sides to Mordred who betrayed Arthur who finished him off at the Battle of Camlann, which, since nobody knows where it was (except possibly Charles) could as well be in Scotland. I can't find any Os or KLs, so it's probably wrong. But the "Battle of Camlann" seems a better bet than "Bridge of Cally" which I took to bed with me last night.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby CharlesT » Mon Apr 16, 2018 6:32 pm

Sgurr wrote:OK, I have been working on Merlin, but have now switched sides to Mordred who betrayed Arthur who finished him off at the Battle of Camlann, which, since nobody knows where it was (except possibly Charles) could as well be in Scotland. I can't find any Os or KLs, so it's probably wrong. But the "Battle of Camlann" seems a better bet than "Bridge of Cally" which I took to bed with me last night.


You've got most of it, which is pretty good given its obscure nature.

We are in the realms of myth and made up history here, no-one knows if the Battle of Camlann took place never mind where, but it's a good story.

O is Orkney where Mordred was reputed to have been born to King Lot and Morgause, alternatively Arthur himself was said to have been the father and Morgause was Arthur's half-sister. Either way Arthur slew Mordred at the Battle of Camlann but was mortally wounded and died later in Avalon. Suspend belief and read the stories, they're great fun, if you don't mind a bit of gore.

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

Postby Sgurr » Mon Apr 16, 2018 8:03 pm

Now there is an increase in a certain type of activity SV is back in the hunt.
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