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Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

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

Postby Sgurr » Thu Aug 02, 2018 9:52 pm

Is it the Irish Tunnel, talked about on and off for many years, but never (yet) constructed?
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby rockhopper » Thu Aug 02, 2018 10:00 pm

Sgurr wrote:Is it the Irish Tunnel, talked about on and off for many years, but never (yet) constructed?

'fraid not but if you were playing mastermind and CharlesT's last guess immediately preceded this guess, you'd get one black peg :wink: - cheers :)
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby Sgurr » Fri Aug 03, 2018 12:46 pm

Well, I can find another tunnel beginning with I....Inchindown, but it doesn't seem to fit your clue. However, I have had an interesting 1/2 hour trying to understand the concept of Invisible tunnels, but they don't seem particularly related to Scotland (did a Scot perhaps invent them?) Or have I mis-remembered the rules of Mastermind. Played it with our kids, but the grandkids preferred something more violent e.g. Mousie Mousie. :crazy: :crazy:
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby rockhopper » Fri Aug 03, 2018 1:41 pm

Sgurr wrote:Well, I can find another tunnel beginning with I....Inchindown, but it doesn't seem to fit your clue. However, I have had an interesting 1/2 hour trying to understand the concept of Invisible tunnels, but they don't seem particularly related to Scotland (did a Scot perhaps invent them?) Or have I mis-remembered the rules of Mastermind. Played it with our kids, but the grandkids preferred something more violent e.g. Mousie Mousie. :crazy: :crazy:

Inchindown tunnels is the correct answer :clap: :clap: Black peg for Tunnel as second word and no peg for Irish / Innocent as first word.

Inchindown tunnels hold the world record for the longest echo in a man-made structure (an underground fuel depot constructed in Scotland before World War Two).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-25757937

An echo "goes and returns", ie make the noise and then hear it again and again and again....OK maybe a bit tenuous but you and Charles are experts at this 8)

Over to you - cheers :)
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby Sgurr » Fri Aug 03, 2018 2:13 pm

Yes, both of us can blether for Scotland :crazy:

Cs are connected with MM as is an A
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby gld73 » Fri Aug 03, 2018 11:52 pm

Well if someone has to be first to make a daft stab at an answer, it might as well be me... (it'll rule out geological features if nothing else!!)

Corries are connected with many munros as is an arete
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby Sgurr » Sat Aug 04, 2018 9:54 am

Very innovative, but the A and the Cs are descriptions of people (not their names).
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby Sgurr » Mon Aug 06, 2018 8:20 pm

They all ended up dead before their time as a result of what happened on MM
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby Sgurr » Thu Aug 09, 2018 8:38 pm

The A is known as AS
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby Sgurr » Mon Aug 13, 2018 12:13 am

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

Postby gld73 » Tue Aug 14, 2018 1:30 am

Campbells are connected with MacDonald massacre, as is an Argyll .... but that doesn't fit with the photo!
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby Sgurr » Tue Aug 14, 2018 11:26 am

THis is what you see if you look the other way

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

Postby Sgurr » Wed Aug 15, 2018 8:19 pm

Think all the usual suspects must be out of wi-fi range. OK, The C's dragged AS out of his carriage at MM and did him in.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby CharlesT » Thu Aug 16, 2018 1:26 pm

Sgurr wrote:Think all the usual suspects must be out of wi-fi range. OK, The C's dragged AS out of his carriage at MM and did him in.


After much searching I find this relates to Archbishop Shsrp murdered by militant Covenanters on Magus Moor, where the pictured memorial stands. Having had no prior knowkedge I now possess another bit of useless information.

Having been educated, in their inimitable fashion, by the Jesuits I have a profound ignorance of any religious concerns not of Roman origin. That's my excuse anyway.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby Sgurr » Thu Aug 16, 2018 1:32 pm

Phew. All yours Charles. Just persuaded husband to go for a walk there this morning to take a photo of the Latin inscription on his memorial. I guessed that if I got nobody else, you would have a go. Nice walk once I had extricated myself from ditch and brambles after trying to take a Weather Watcher pic. over the fence. The various sects of protestant are even fiercer re. each other than they are about the RCs. A friend of mine once got to be an MP, and I foolishly said she must expect a lot of backstabbing "Only from my own side."

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