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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 » Mon Sep 13, 2021 4:27 pm

Ah no, it's a BoS.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Mon Sep 13, 2021 4:41 pm

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

Postby CharlesT » Mon Sep 13, 2021 6:16 pm

Sgurr wrote:Stromness Museum?

Yes. Now the rest should follow.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby CharlesT » Tue Sep 14, 2021 8:24 am

They are in my opinion beautiful things and would have likely been symbolic of the owner's prestige.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Tue Sep 14, 2021 10:36 am

They don't give much help. I have been combing their possessions (they don't show manY0and can only think there is a different way of describing some of them. Will have another go. I was going to say Balls of Stone, but realise this isn't what they are, but where they came from.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby CharlesT » Tue Sep 14, 2021 10:56 am

Sgurr wrote:They don't give much help. I have been combing their possessions (they don't show manY0and can only think there is a different way of describing some of them. Will have another go. I was going to say Balls of Stone, but realise this isn't what they are, but where they came from.

I can't imagine how you won't have seen some examples if you have looked on the website.

BTW BoS is not balls of stone but where the item I had in mind was found.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Tue Sep 14, 2021 4:27 pm

Pestle Macehead from Bay of Stove. Should pack in speed reading, it gets one nowhere.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby CharlesT » Tue Sep 14, 2021 4:42 pm

Sgurr wrote:Pestle Macehead from Bay of Stove. Should pack in speed reading, it gets one nowhere.

Correct, and a fine thing it is.
I was once sublected to a speed reading course by an employer. Rather strangely they let us choose our own books. I chose Voltaire's Candide, it being short and a work I had almost verbatim. Puzzled the course leader no end. A colleague chose Three Men in a Boat for similar reasons, which only goes to show the diversity and cunning of human nature.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Tue Sep 14, 2021 6:25 pm

Given a refresher course, I could do Three Men in a Boat, but never Candide. . Grandson had to give a brief modern history of a non European country in a post-grad course, but luckily was all ready with Iran that he had done as an undergrad. More cunning tricks.

If you are aware of LC, you will surely know about SYL
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Wed Sep 15, 2021 9:59 pm

LC is associated with W
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Thu Sep 16, 2021 6:00 pm

LC was born in W
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Glengavel » Fri Sep 17, 2021 9:40 am

SYL looks maddeningly familiar. Scottish Youth something?
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Fri Sep 17, 2021 10:30 am

It does, doesn't it. But it's not. I could equally well have said for SYL BYG
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby CharlesT » Fri Sep 17, 2021 11:15 am

Sgurr wrote:It does, doesn't it. But it's not. I could equally well have said for SYL BYG

See you later, before ye go?
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Fri Sep 17, 2021 11:30 am

The last one BYG is almost right Charles (the meaning is the same), but the other isn't, though one of the words is.
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