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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 RICHARDCFF » Sat Oct 16, 2021 10:03 am

TA and JD's discovery of B was statistically improbable
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby RICHARDCFF » Sun Oct 17, 2021 12:56 pm

I calculate the probability of TA and JD's arrival at B on that particular day as 1 in 36,524
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby RICHARDCFF » Mon Oct 18, 2021 10:31 am

Not long afterwards, TA and JD returned and, to their surprise, found B again, where TA was reunited with FC
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Glengavel » Mon Oct 18, 2021 4:47 pm

Bit of google work revealed 36524 in days is a hundred years, which led me to think of Brigadoon but was struggling with the other initials, however the main characters in the film (and play) are Tommy Albright, Jeff Douglas and Fiona Campbell, played in the film by those fine Scottish thespians Gene Kelly, Van Johnson and Cyd Charisse.

Despite its Scottish setting, it was filmed on a stage in Hollywood with no Scottish actors, even the back story myth is probably German in origin.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby RICHARDCFF » Mon Oct 18, 2021 9:44 pm

Correct! :clap: :lol:

Brigadoon, the Scottish village that appears for only one day every hundred years, including the day that Gene Kelly and Van Johnson turn up...
The 1954 film did not receive favourable reviews ("Pretty weak synthetic Scotch") but I find a certain charm in the whimsical tale.... See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-COFhbIdk9s for an interesting viewpoint...

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

Postby Sgurr » Mon Oct 18, 2021 9:51 pm

I am afraid that my instructions to staff at the beginning of the tourist season was "bring out all the Brigadoon books" i.e. NOT Swing Hammer Swing and books of that ilk.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby rohan » Mon Oct 18, 2021 10:01 pm

Sgurr wrote:I am afraid that my instructions to staff at the beginning of the tourist season was "bring out all the Brigadoon books" i.e. NOT Swing Hammer Swing and books of that ilk.


I am reassured by this having never seen the film and having no knowledge of the plot. Sounds like I've not missed much
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby CharlesT » Mon Oct 18, 2021 10:48 pm

rohan wrote:
Sgurr wrote:I am afraid that my instructions to staff at the beginning of the tourist season was "bring out all the Brigadoon books" i.e. NOT Swing Hammer Swing and books of that ilk.


I am reassured by this having never seen the film and having no knowledge of the plot. Sounds like I've not missed much

Me too, looks like a whole heap of ....."claptrap" (for want of a more fitting term and to spare the blushes of our gentle readers).... :roll:
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby rohan » Tue Oct 19, 2021 10:51 am

CharlesT wrote:
rohan wrote:
Sgurr wrote:I am afraid that my instructions to staff at the beginning of the tourist season was "bring out all the Brigadoon books" i.e. NOT Swing Hammer Swing and books of that ilk.


I am reassured by this having never seen the film and having no knowledge of the plot. Sounds like I've not missed much

Me too, looks like a whole heap of ....."claptrap" (for want of a more fitting term and to spare the blushes of our gentle readers).... :roll:


It doesn't break the rules of this quiz, ...lapt... though the film maybe.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby RICHARDCFF » Tue Oct 19, 2021 11:13 am

It doesn't break the rules of this quiz, ...lapt... though the film maybe.


Brigadoon lovers and sceptics alike might be interested in the book Brigadoon, Braveheart and the Scots: Distortions of Scotland in the Hollywood Cinema by Colin McArthur. Hardcover as much as £95.87 but I just downloaded the Kindle edition for £7.27
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby CharlesT » Tue Oct 19, 2021 11:35 am

I watched Braveheart, along with Waterworld and similar ridiculous renderings, on an endless flight to Australia some time ago, the only other options being sleeping or getting drunk, which as I don't drink were both of limited value to me. What a load of rubbish they were. My sympathies go out to all who may have suffered similarly.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Tue Oct 19, 2021 12:48 pm

CharlesT wrote:I watched Braveheart, along with Waterworld and similar ridiculous renderings, on an endless flight to Australia some time ago, the only other options being sleeping or getting drunk, which as I don't drink were both of limited value to me. What a load of rubbish they were. My sympathies go out to all who may have suffered similarly.


Better than the long haul flight movie we had The Edge, where Antony Hopkins survives an air crash and has to escape from a bear in the wilderness.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby CharlesT » Tue Oct 19, 2021 1:42 pm

Sgurr wrote:
CharlesT wrote:I watched Braveheart, along with Waterworld and similar ridiculous renderings, on an endless flight to Australia some time ago, the only other options being sleeping or getting drunk, which as I don't drink were both of limited value to me. What a load of rubbish they were. My sympathies go out to all who may have suffered similarly.


Better than the long haul flight movie we had The Edge, where Antony Hopkins survives an air crash and has to escape from a bear in the wilderness.

A new take on the "exit pursued by a bear" stage direction, maybe the producer had been reading A Winter's Tale
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby rohan » Tue Oct 19, 2021 2:04 pm

Sgurr wrote:
CharlesT wrote:I watched Braveheart, along with Waterworld and similar ridiculous renderings, on an endless flight to Australia some time ago, the only other options being sleeping or getting drunk, which as I don't drink were both of limited value to me. What a load of rubbish they were. My sympathies go out to all who may have suffered similarly.


Better than the long haul flight movie we had The Edge, where Antony Hopkins survives an air crash and has to escape from a bear in the wilderness.

Someone had a macabre sense of humour when selecting the in flight movies or is it all done by bots?
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby CharlesT » Tue Oct 19, 2021 7:35 pm

rohan wrote:Someone had a macabre sense of humour when selecting the in flight movies or is it all done by bots?

My return flight was redeemed by a screening of Babe, more my level of cinema.

Suppose it's about time someone set a puzzle.
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