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Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Glengavel » Wed Dec 08, 2021 9:27 am

Is it to do with Church? Or the Constabulary/Police? Baffled here, as always...
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Wed Dec 08, 2021 12:34 pm

No, something more frivolous, though I'm sure its participants wouldn't agree it was..
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Fri Dec 10, 2021 12:04 pm

These initials apply only to men, there are separate sets for women
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby HalfManHalfTitanium » Fri Dec 10, 2021 7:28 pm

Sgurr wrote:The SC became the ACSB


The Scotch Cup became the Air Canada Silver Broom?

I am not sure what the IOCPC is, but I suspect that the IOC bit could be International Olympic Committee?

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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Fri Dec 10, 2021 8:50 pm

Well done, over to you. The IOPCC is the IOP President's Cup, and I have no idea what the IOP is either.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby HalfManHalfTitanium » Fri Dec 10, 2021 10:56 pm

Sgurr wrote:Well done, over to you. The IOPCC is the IOP President's Cup, and I have no idea what the IOP is either.


Thanks!

I am part-way through reading your TR Walking while “ill”. I am reading it slowly to properly appreciate it. Thank you so much for sharing it.

TMWD went to RH
RH became the M
The LI, the RC, the SR and the BA followed in sequence.

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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby HalfManHalfTitanium » Fri Dec 10, 2021 11:13 pm

HalfManHalfTitanium wrote:
Sgurr wrote:Well done, over to you. The IOPCC is the IOP President's Cup, and I have no idea what the IOP is either.


Thanks!

I am part-way through reading your TR Walking while “ill”. I am reading it slowly to properly appreciate it. Thank you so much for sharing it.

TMWD went to RH
RH became the M
The LI, the RC, the SR and the BA followed in sequence.

Tim


As it’s nearly the festive season, here’s a picture clue straight off -
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Glengavel » Mon Dec 13, 2021 9:08 am

I think I know the theme but I can't get RH and M.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby HalfManHalfTitanium » Mon Dec 13, 2021 5:58 pm

Glengavel wrote:I think I know the theme but I can't get RH and M.


Well done! - a picture clue may help.

They weren't there
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Glengavel » Mon Dec 13, 2021 9:54 pm

OK, I'm back to square one... :lol:
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Mon Dec 13, 2021 11:20 pm

So am I. I thought the connection was Richard Hannay (RH) and (some of?) these women have played in 39 Steps, but I can't find films in which Hannay actors have also played which might match the letters. I thought the fist picture was steps, but now have my doubts.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby HalfManHalfTitanium » Tue Dec 14, 2021 12:43 am

Sgurr, you have got it. :clap: :clap: :clap:

When I said "they weren't there" I was referring to the fact that in John Buchan's 39 steps, there was no woman aboard the train.

The idea was added by Hitchcock in the first film version (he later used the identical device, including the innocent man on the run, in North by Northwest).

The pictures are the female lead characters in stills from the four film versions of 39 steps. (Trivia - Karen Dotrice, who looks very Covid-compliant in the 1978 version, also played Jane, the little girl in Mary Poppins).

Going back to the main clue - here's the answer - the first six chapters of the book

Chapter I The Man Who Died - the spy who visits Richard Hannay
Chapter II The Milkman Sets Out on his Travels (Richard Hannay escapes disguised as a Milkman)
Chapter III The Adventure of the Literary Innkeeper
Chapter IV The Adventure of the Radical Candidate
Chapter V The Adventure of the Spectacled Roadman
Chapter VI The Adventure of the Bald Archaeologist

The main photo shows the Steps that inspired the book's title, and were the setting for the final scene. "Buchan's son, William, later wrote that the name of the book originated when the author's daughter was counting the stairs at St Cuby, a private nursing home on Cliff Promenade in Broadstairs, where Buchan was convalescing. 'There was a wooden staircase leading down to the beach. My sister, who was about six, and who had just learnt to count properly, went down them and gleefully announced: there are 39 steps.' "
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby rohan » Tue Dec 14, 2021 1:28 am

(Trivia - Karen Dotrice, who looks very Covid-compliant in the 1978 version,
Arrgh, she has the old man's take on the wearing of the mask... nose exposed...leaking germs and viruses. Apologies to any old men for this generalisation based solely on my observations as a passenger on the X7 bus route.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Tue Dec 14, 2021 11:48 am

IT was only a vague thought, I never matched it with the chapters. However, I'll take it.

MB was based on JG
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby CharlesT » Tue Dec 14, 2021 11:53 am

rohan wrote:
(Trivia - Karen Dotrice, who looks very Covid-compliant in the 1978 version,
Arrgh, she has the old man's take on the wearing of the mask... nose exposed...leaking germs and viruses. Apologies to any old men for this generalisation based solely on my observations as a passenger on the X7 bus route.


An old man responds...
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