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i: On what was Smiler fed?
ii: Where is the vanelline source of ferruginous waters?
iii: Whose scholarly woodpecker was a wooden bookend?
iv: Where, according to Bede, was Adda’s brother the Abbot?
v: What was given its name by Lamancha owing to the execrable food and wine?
vi: Where was she heard singing about her laddie’s blue bonnet and dimpled chin?
vii: To which establishment was the frisky prentice hauled with fanfares?
viii: Where in 1940 were tables for two laid as tables for four?
ix: What was earned by William and discarded by Tony?
x: Whence the Cholmeleians?
INCOMPLETE: we need ii, viii and ix!
i: On what was Smiler fed?
ii: Where is the vanelline source of ferruginous waters?
iii: Whose scholarly woodpecker was a wooden bookend?
iv: Where, according to Bede, was Adda’s brother the Abbot?
v: What was given its name by Lamancha owing to the execrable food and wine?
vi: Where was she heard singing about her laddie’s blue bonnet and dimpled chin?
vii: To which establishment was the frisky prentice hauled with fanfares?
viii: Where in 1940 were tables for two laid as tables for four?
ix: What was earned by William and discarded by Tony?
x: Whence the Cholmeleians?
INCOMPLETE: we need ii, viii and ix!
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Date: 2016-01-13 10:20 am (UTC)iii: is this PROFESSOR YAFFLE in BAGPUSS?? :D :D
ix: is Tony here Tony Blair?
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Date: 2016-01-13 10:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-13 10:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-13 10:20 am (UTC)iii - PROFESSOR YAFFLE from BAGPUSS :D
i is so familiar, will think about it some more...
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Date: 2016-01-13 10:22 am (UTC)How this helps with any of the other questions I'm not sure!
Tom E.
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Date: 2016-01-13 07:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-14 11:51 am (UTC)x is easy to google - it's a Highgate school, so highGATE.
everyone knew iii, but who does Yaffle *belong* to. PostGATE
vi - i had an inkling this was a tyneside poem, and found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Keel_Row. The answer being SandGATE
I'm sure others got the theme via google too. anyone go for the other Qs?
(Alan)
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Date: 2016-01-14 01:18 pm (UTC)So anyway, x is easy to Google - they are the alumnae of Highgate School. So ans: Highgate
any fule kno iii was about Prof Yaffle. But what's the theme connection to the above. Oh hello Oliver Postgate
vi I had a hunch was a Tyneside poem, and turns out I was right… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Keel_Row which is in Sandgate
Other gate answers plz
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Date: 2016-01-14 01:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-14 01:51 pm (UTC)as a lustily maverick beak i can point out that you have in fact lost nothing and gained much by my ruling :D
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Date: 2016-01-14 02:00 pm (UTC)(autocorrect gold: funkiller -> funkier)
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Date: 2016-01-14 02:15 pm (UTC)^^^this is what happens with anono-comments ppl, you can't tell who left them and wild accusations fly (sorry not sorry)
(yours became "suspicious comment", probably because of the links in it -- i shd probably go back thru everything for more "suspicious comments", they're much easier to overlook than the merely unscreened)
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Date: 2016-01-14 01:52 pm (UTC)http://www.ecatholic2000.com/bede2/untitled-83.shtml
so it's not just ending in GATE
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Date: 2016-01-14 07:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-14 07:37 pm (UTC)A London dining-club is a curious organism, for it combines great tenacity of life with a chameleon-like tendency to change its colour. A club which begins as a haunt of roysterers may end as a blameless academic fraternity; another, which at the start is a meeting-place of the intelligent, becomes in the progress of time a select coterie of sportsmen. So it has been with the institution of which I am the chronicler. It has changed its name and is now the Thursday Club, and the number of permissible members has been increased. Its dinners are admirable; conversation at its board is dignified and a little serious; it has enlarged its interests, and would not now refuse a Lord Chancellor or a Bishop.
But in its infancy it was different. Founded just after the close of the War by a few people who had been leading queer lives and wanted to keep together, it was a gathering of youngish men who met only for reminiscences and relaxation. It was officially limited to fifteen members--fifteen, because a dozen was dull, thirteen was unlucky, and fourteen had in those days an unpleasing flavour of President Wilson and his points. At first, until Burminster took it in hand, the food and wine were execrable; hence the name of the Runagates Club, given it by Lamancha from the verse in the 68th Psalm: "He letteth the runagates continue in scarceness."
But all defects in the fare were atoned for by the talk…
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Date: 2016-01-24 07:02 pm (UTC)"Ferruginous" water, i.e. with iron in, aka chalybeate waters. Found in many Spa towns inc HarroGATE.
However, even the OUP English Dictionary doesn't know what "vanelline" means.
wikipedia.