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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 Sgurr » Fri Jul 30, 2021 8:20 am

Dougray Scott played Jacob Kane in Arrowverse????? (Highly unlikely)
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby rohan » Fri Jul 30, 2021 7:29 pm

Sgurr wrote:Dougray Scott played Jacob Kane in Arrowverse????? (Highly unlikely)

Sgurr, your answers are an education in themselves! I have never heard of Arrowverse and I have only watched one thing with Dougray Scott in and that was "The Crow Road" .
No actors, films or TV series are involved, as yet, as far as I know.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Fri Jul 30, 2021 8:24 pm

Duncan Scott and Josh Kerr are both Scottish athletes in the UK team that has gone to Tokyo and both won gold medals in the European games of 2015, though in Kerr's case it was the junior championships.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby rohan » Fri Jul 30, 2021 9:18 pm

Sgurr wrote:Duncan Scott and Josh Kerr are both Scottish athletes in the UK team that has gone to Tokyo and both won gold medals in the European games of 2015, though in Kerr's case it was the junior championships.


No athletes involved. The thing that they have in common is separated by 27 yrs.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Fri Jul 30, 2021 10:04 pm

Were the 27 years those between the end of World Wars 1 & 2?
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby rohan » Sat Jul 31, 2021 10:31 am

Sgurr wrote:Were the 27 years those between the end of World Wars 1 & 2?


Much more recent. Am I right in thinking you had something to do with the book trade?
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Sat Jul 31, 2021 12:10 pm

Time between Scottish authors winning the Boooker, Douglas Stuart and James Kelman...in my defence, 2/3rd of the stock was antiquarian and 2nd hand, and we didn't stock Booker books when they came out as the chain stores could get much bigger discounts. Tended to stock things like "Golf Course Architecture " which nobody else did until Amazon arrived and my US customers, not wanting to carry heavy items home, just copied down the ISBNs. ...still it was fun while it lasted. Most ingenious question.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby rohan » Sat Jul 31, 2021 12:35 pm

Sgurr wrote:Time between Scottish authors winning the Boooker, Douglas Stuart and James Kelman...in my defence, 2/3rd of the stock was antiquarian and 2nd hand, and we didn't stock Booker books when they came out as the chain stores could get much bigger discounts. Tended to stock things like "Golf Course Architecture " which nobody else did until Amazon arrived and my US customers, not wanting to carry heavy items home, just copied down the ISBNs. ...still it was fun while it lasted. Most ingenious question.

Yes, the only 2 Scottish authors to win it, although James Kelman's win caused a bit if a stir amongst the literary establishment. Over to you!
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Sat Jul 31, 2021 1:12 pm

EM, MC and B are new entrants into an already crowded field.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Sun Aug 01, 2021 8:46 pm

Some of the establised names in the field are JW, G, and TG
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Mon Aug 02, 2021 10:22 pm

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

Postby Sgurr » Tue Aug 03, 2021 5:57 pm

But people very much appreciate them.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Glengavel » Tue Aug 03, 2021 9:26 pm

Whisky distilleries? Eden Mill and Brora are new-ish. Johnnie Walker, Glenfiddich and The Glenlivet are the established names. Don't know MC.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Tue Aug 03, 2021 9:45 pm

Excellent Glengavel, I can't with-hold it from you for the lack of a very new one: Midhope Castle.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Glengavel » Wed Aug 04, 2021 2:39 pm

Thanks, a favourite subject of mine. :)

AH was central to SB's success.
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