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q16:
i: Which young tricyclist made lunch for Ponto?
ii: Whose delivery on Merrie England was marred by intoxication?
iii: Who worried his wife episodically for 21 years in Parkwood Hill?
iv: Described by a poet laureate, who reluctantly joined the night-riders of Devon?
v: Who, after losing two days and a boat, discharged himself from an East Anglian hospital?
vi: Whose well-meant ministerial flounderings were treated by his staff with both deference and duplicity?
vii: Who dealt with Israel, Abraham and Benjamin, and had bad dreams of booming surf?
viii: Who, in a maritime emergency, ungrammatically recommended cannibalism?
ix: Who had a hairy breast and was fixed up prime in Miss Watson’s will?
x: Which PI kept his mobile home on Beach Road?
COMPLETED:
i: JIM, Who ran away from his nurse and was eaten by a lion (poem by Hillaire Belloc)
ii: Kingsley Amis's LUCKY JIM (known by
marnameow)
iii: JIM DALE from radioshow Mrs Dale's Diary (known by
sbp)
iv: John Masefield's JIM DAVIES is a tale of smugglers in Devon in 1812 (Masefield guessed by
dubdobdee, google-checked by
jeff)
v: JIM BRADING in Arthur Ransome's We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea (known by
alextiefling)
vi: JIM HACKER in Yes, Minister (guessed by
braisedbywolves)
vii: JIM HAWKINS in Treasure Island (guessed by
dubdobdee)
viii: GUZZLING JIMMY in Thackeray's 'Little Billee' (googled by
jeff_worrell)
ix: is JIM inThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (proposed by
braisedbywolves, google-confirmed by
dubdobdee)
x: JIM ROCKFORD (played by James Garner) in The Rockford Files (guessed by
dubdobdee)
COMPLETED:
i: JIM, Who ran away from his nurse and was eaten by a lion (poem by Hillaire Belloc)
ii: Kingsley Amis's LUCKY JIM (known by
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iii: JIM DALE from radioshow Mrs Dale's Diary (known by
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iv: John Masefield's JIM DAVIES is a tale of smugglers in Devon in 1812 (Masefield guessed by
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v: JIM BRADING in Arthur Ransome's We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea (known by
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vi: JIM HACKER in Yes, Minister (guessed by
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vii: JIM HAWKINS in Treasure Island (guessed by
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viii: GUZZLING JIMMY in Thackeray's 'Little Billee' (googled by
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ix: is JIM in
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x: JIM ROCKFORD (played by James Garner) in The Rockford Files (guessed by
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Date: 2017-01-11 07:54 pm (UTC)x: too sleepy at the moment to answer this with anything but "this is that guy!" (my memory will be back in the morning)
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Date: 2017-01-11 09:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-01-13 06:51 pm (UTC)"It is the story of a boy who falls in with smugglers on the coast of Devon in 1812. The book is full of incident: there are gypsies, mysterious night riders, a sea voyage, storms, caves, fights, pursuits, and of course a sunken treasure." (Alison Lurie)
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Date: 2017-01-11 07:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-01-11 08:02 pm (UTC)also i think the fellow in x is called jim something (i keep coming up with james garfield, who is a president and not the answer)
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Date: 2017-01-11 08:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-01-11 08:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-01-11 09:14 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2017-01-11 08:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-01-11 08:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-01-12 08:20 am (UTC)ii is the hero of Kingsly Amis's Lucky Jim.
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Date: 2017-01-13 12:06 am (UTC)"The serial centred on Mrs Mary Dale, a doctor's wife, husband Jim, and the comings and goings of a middle-class society. The Dales lived at Virginia Lodge in the fictional London Metro-land-style suburb of Parkwood Hill. "
Wikipedia
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Date: 2017-01-13 12:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-01-13 12:12 am (UTC)Who ran away from his nurse
and was eaten by a lion.
(Hillaire Belloc)
There was a boy whose name was Jim
His friends were very good to him
They gave him tea and cakes and jam
And slices of delicious ham
And chocolate with pink inside
And little tricycles to ride
...
He ran away when he was able
And on this inauspicious day
He slipped his hand and ran away
He hadn't gone a yard when BANG
With open jaws a lion sprang
And hungrily began to eat
The boy, beginning at his feet
...
The honest keeper heard his cry
Though very fat, he almost ran
To help the little gentleman
"Ponto," he ordered as he came
For Ponto was the lion's name
"Ponto," he said with angry frown
"Down sir, let go, put it down!"
etc.
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Date: 2017-01-13 10:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-01-13 11:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-01-13 07:06 pm (UTC)From the poem "Little Billee", by WM Thackeray - http://www.bartleby.com/360/9/84.html -
"To gorging Jack says guzzling Jimmy, “We ’ve nothing left, us must eat we.”
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Date: 2017-01-14 06:48 pm (UTC)