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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 HalfManHalfTitanium » Thu Nov 18, 2021 4:35 pm

RICHARDCFF wrote:Hamish's Mountain Walk?


Spot on!

The walk itself undoubtedly went on and on - I found that the book did a bit, too.

Over to you!

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

Postby RICHARDCFF » Thu Nov 18, 2021 9:14 pm

DC was one of the objectives of the DC
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Thu Nov 18, 2021 10:49 pm

Dundee cake-making was one of the objectives of the Dundee cake-makers?
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby RICHARDCFF » Fri Nov 19, 2021 9:46 am

Sgurr wrote:Dundee cake-making was one of the objectives of the Dundee cake-makers?


No, not that. :lol: Neither Dundee nor cakes feature in the answer, which comprises three different words...
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby RICHARDCFF » Sat Nov 20, 2021 9:58 am

The first DC in the puzzle has often been linked to CD; the second DC in the puzzle lasted for seven years
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby RICHARDCFF » Sun Nov 21, 2021 10:46 am

The first DC in the puzzle is a shadow of its former self; the second DC pitted H against D
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby RICHARDCFF » Mon Nov 22, 2021 9:43 pm

The first DC lies around 40 miles from (another) CD - same two words but in a different order...
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby HalfManHalfTitanium » Mon Nov 22, 2021 10:10 pm

RICHARDCFF wrote:DC was one of the objectives of the DC


Douglas Castle was one of the objectives of the Douglas Cause, between Baron Douglas and the Duke of Hamilton?

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

Postby RICHARDCFF » Mon Nov 22, 2021 11:10 pm

Correct! :clap:

Douglas Castle: Only a tower remains, the bulk of the structure having been demolished in the 1930s. It is associated with Castle Douglas, Scott's last novel. It is around 40 miles from the much later and unrelated town of Castle Douglas.

The Douglas Cause: An 18th century cause celebre legal case relating to the inheritance of the property (including Douglas Castle) of the wealthy first Duke of Douglas; it pitted the Hamiltons against the Douglases and went on for 7 years at great expense and 'gripped the nation'. The circumstances were bizarre but there is no space here for any more details!

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

Postby HalfManHalfTitanium » Wed Nov 24, 2021 2:45 pm

RICHARDCFF wrote:Correct! :clap:

Douglas Castle: Only a tower remains, the bulk of the structure having been demolished in the 1930s. It is associated with Castle Douglas, Scott's last novel. It is around 40 miles from the much later and unrelated town of Castle Douglas.

The Douglas Cause: An 18th century cause celebre legal case relating to the inheritance of the property (including Douglas Castle) of the wealthy first Duke of Douglas; it pitted the Hamiltons against the Douglases and went on for 7 years at great expense and 'gripped the nation'. The circumstances were bizarre but there is no space here for any more details!

Over to you...


Thanks!

WED and WEBT took AML back into "business". Not enjoyable, apparently, but profitable.

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

Postby HalfManHalfTitanium » Wed Nov 24, 2021 6:56 pm

HalfManHalfTitanium wrote:
RICHARDCFF wrote:Correct! :clap:

Douglas Castle: Only a tower remains, the bulk of the structure having been demolished in the 1930s. It is associated with Castle Douglas, Scott's last novel. It is around 40 miles from the much later and unrelated town of Castle Douglas.

The Douglas Cause: An 18th century cause celebre legal case relating to the inheritance of the property (including Douglas Castle) of the wealthy first Duke of Douglas; it pitted the Hamiltons against the Douglases and went on for 7 years at great expense and 'gripped the nation'. The circumstances were bizarre but there is no space here for any more details!

Over to you...


Thanks!

WED and WEBT took AML back into "business". Not enjoyable, apparently, but profitable.

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Other efforts had been located in lower and higher latitudes. The former effort was referenced in PF (not Scottish). The latter in one case included references to an English poet and a Romanised Greek hero, and in another case mentioned an animal that would have found the location most unsuitable.

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

Postby Glengavel » Thu Nov 25, 2021 9:26 am

Where Eagles Dare and When Eight Bells Toll took Alistair MacLean back to the top of the best-sellers after a hiatus from writing. WEBT is the only book set wholly in a Scottish location, incidentally.

Earlier efforts you hint at are HMS Ulysses and Ice Station Zebra, both set in high latitudes. Not sure who PF and the English poet are.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby HalfManHalfTitanium » Thu Nov 25, 2021 6:43 pm

Glengavel wrote:Where Eagles Dare and When Eight Bells Toll took Alistair MacLean back to the top of the best-sellers after a hiatus from writing. WEBT is the only book set wholly in a Scottish location, incidentally.

Earlier efforts you hint at are HMS Ulysses and Ice Station Zebra, both set in high latitudes. Not sure who PF and the English poet are.


:clap: :clap: :clap:
(if there was a bell emoji, I'd do eight of them)

The English poet quoted at the start of HMS Ulysses is Tennyson

"My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset, and the baths of all the western stars
Maybe the gulfs will wash us down
Maybe we will touch the Happy Isles"

I said "business, not enjoyable but profitable" because MacLean was quoted as saying that he did not enjoy writing and was a "businessman" who wrote to make money.

He was also criticised for not finding space in his fast-moving plots for romantic storylines. A bit like a reviewer of Jane Austen saying "Even though written during the Industrial Revolution, these disappointing novels don't feature even a single cotton mill or iron foundry".

Anyway, you have saved me finding photos of the Scottish locations (Fingal's Cave, Duart Castle and others) used in the film version of Eight Bells.

Instead, here is a picture explanation of why PF stands for Pulp Fiction.

im-the-guns-of-the-navarone.jpg
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Glengavel » Fri Nov 26, 2021 7:50 pm

Thanks, Alistair MacLean was one of my first literary loves, much to my English teacher's horror. If he had never written another word after HMS Ulysses he'd have been feted as one of the greats, His output declined in quality as the years went by, but he could fairly get the pulse racing.

FS has been applied to many but JG was one of the earliest.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Glengavel » Sun Nov 28, 2021 10:53 am

Glengavel wrote:Thanks, Alistair MacLean was one of my first literary loves, much to my English teacher's horror. If he had never written another word after HMS Ulysses he'd have been feted as one of the greats, His output declined in quality as the years went by, but he could fairly get the pulse racing.

FS has been applied to many but JG was one of the earliest.


Other FS include GO.
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