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Q11: Who or what:
i: had instinct?
ii: reds started as Villa?
iii: uniquely, got three in whose match?
iv: claimed continuing labial adhesiveness?
v: was formerly William and succeeded Louis?
vi: in repetitive utterances, anticipated Glyn Daniel et al?
vii: described a small arm accident on 17/6/15?
viii: was executed at Bolton after Worcester?
ix: was targeted by Nat and Dermot?
x: was presumptuous?

the rules as they have evolved:
a: nice full answers and anecdotes if poss
b: say if googled or no; leave time for non-googlers to play
c: obviously look ahead at future questions if you want
d: don't bring in confirming or dissenting answers from other fora until next set is up and running

spoilers no clue here tho i assume --given i and x, which are otherwise a bit broad -- that it's one that comes all at once when you get the theme

Date: 2009-01-13 10:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] freakytigger.livejournal.com
ii looks like a football club naming qn - a lot of clubs started life called something else (eg Arsenal = Dial Square). But I don't know who.

Date: 2009-01-13 11:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] freakytigger.livejournal.com
My hunch on this was right btw.

removing possibilities:

Date: 2009-01-13 11:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com
clubs called "reds"

man u were newton heath
middlesboro ??
liverpool i think have always been liverpool, formed, as they were, as a splinter team from everton
barnsley, doubt it
barnet, don't even play in red....

Re: removing possibilities:

Date: 2009-01-13 11:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] freakytigger.livejournal.com
The problem is that I had no idea this particular club were ever called the reds! It becomes immediately obvious which club it is when you know the theme though.

Re: removing possibilities:

Date: 2009-01-13 11:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com
aha, i think, with the answer to iii that i can take a good stab at the answer to this question being "who are they? exactly!"

Re: ii

Date: 2009-01-13 12:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jeff-worrell.livejournal.com
"dey" not "they", surely ;)

Re: ii

Date: 2009-01-13 02:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com
[drinks a pint of milk]
From: [identity profile] katstevens.livejournal.com
vi. Glyn Daniel is 1x pop archaeologist who was on the telly!

Check him out:

Date: 2009-01-13 10:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] katstevens.livejournal.com


I think I might have been confusing him in my mind with Fred Dineage :-0

clue via google

Date: 2009-01-13 11:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] katstevens.livejournal.com
OK I think I have this one now - apparently Glyn up there was on a programme called Animal, Vegetable, Mineral.

Date: 2009-01-13 11:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] freakytigger.livejournal.com
viii is relatively easily google-able BUT sheds no real light on any potential theme!

Date: 2009-01-13 11:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] freakytigger.livejournal.com
Oh wait! When a word from the answer to viii is combined with googling for ix you get it very quickly but I'm not at liberty to say what it is, under rule d.

This google also means I know the answers to ix and x.

iii is the football question! (ii may still be): both the answers in iii link to the theme.

Date: 2009-01-13 11:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com
it all looks pretty footbally from here (at first glance)

pathetic guessings

Date: 2009-01-13 11:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marnameow.livejournal.com
iv. Someone known for saying that their lips are sealed? But WHO?

Re: pathetic guessings

Date: 2009-01-13 11:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com
or their lips are sticky! ooer etc

iii (brane only)

Date: 2009-01-13 11:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com
given that the only football match (or pretty much match) i can think of that is named after someone is The Matthews Final (which was, i think the 1953 FA Cup Final), and this must be the only Cup final where someone scored a hat-trick and said scorer was not Sir Stanley, in fact i'm sure i saw something about this not long ago...

was it Nat Lofthouse?

Re: iii (now with added google)

Date: 2009-01-13 11:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com
ooh, so close, Lofthouse was playing, and scored, but it was Stan Mortensen who got the hat-trick

Re: iii (now with added google)

Date: 2009-01-13 11:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] freakytigger.livejournal.com
And two Stans make a theme!

As far as I can tell none of the questions refer to Eminem though :(

Re: iii (now with added google)

Date: 2009-01-13 11:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] katstevens.livejournal.com
So one of them must be Accrington Stanley, amirite?

Date: 2009-01-13 11:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marnameow.livejournal.com
vii. Given that that date is slap-bang in the middle of WWI, I wd imagine that there were plenty of small arm accidents happening.

Date: 2009-01-13 11:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] freakytigger.livejournal.com
Assuming it's 1915! (I have no insider knowledge of this qn so it may well be)

Date: 2009-01-13 11:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marnameow.livejournal.com
Good point.
*is stupid*

Date: 2009-01-13 11:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com
nothing on wiki for 17 june in a year ending in 15...

Date: 2009-01-13 12:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jeff-worrell.livejournal.com
Stanley Spencer MC (≠ the painter I think, although he also served) was a World War I diarist. Could it be him?

Date: 2009-01-13 11:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jeff-worrell.livejournal.com
Is one of these Henry "Dr Livingstone I presume" Stanley?

D'oh! Of course - it is x. Yay me.

viii

Date: 2009-01-13 12:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jeff-worrell.livejournal.com
I have worked this one out now, by googling 'Battle of Worcester'

i

Date: 2009-01-13 12:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] katstevens.livejournal.com
My l33t prime minister skills may have solved this one but it's rather tenuous...

Re: i

Date: 2009-01-13 12:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] katstevens.livejournal.com
I think I've found this properly now (spoilers) - blimey this is obscure!

Stanwatch

Date: 2009-01-13 12:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] freakytigger.livejournal.com
Laurel?
Baldwin? (were his lips sealed?)

Re: Stanwatch

Date: 2009-01-13 12:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jeff-worrell.livejournal.com
Unwin?
Boardman?

Re: Stanwatch

Date: 2009-01-13 12:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] katstevens.livejournal.com
It is Baldwin - I was barking up the wrong tree with i

Other possible Stans

Date: 2009-01-13 12:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] katstevens.livejournal.com
- Bob
- Flat
- Port
- Morgan

Re: Stanwatch

Date: 2009-01-13 12:27 pm (UTC)

Date: 2009-01-13 01:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dubdobdee.livejournal.com
oo well done all!

in sales exchange news i got a brand new copy of Pirates OC Tribblebox, fingers x-ed this one is undamaged

Spoiler clue (post google)

Date: 2009-01-13 01:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jeff-worrell.livejournal.com
ix. is theatrical (and something happened to the writer recently)

Date: 2009-01-13 04:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jeff-worrell.livejournal.com
[drinks a Pinter milk]

(sorry)

stanleys so far unused

Date: 2009-01-13 01:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dubdobdee.livejournal.com
kubrick
gibbons
baxter

Re: stanleys so far unused

Date: 2009-01-13 02:44 pm (UTC)
koganbot: (Default)
From: [personal profile] koganbot
Kowalski
Steamer
Cup

so far (all via google i think)

Date: 2009-01-13 05:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dubdobdee.livejournal.com
i: had instinct? Granville Stanley Hall (kat plz to explain why)
ii: reds started as Villa? Accrington Stanley began life as Stanley Villa
iii: uniquely, got three in whose match? Stan Mortensen got a hat-trick in foopball (carsmile to explain signif)
iv: claimed continuing labial adhesiveness? PM stanley baldwin sed "my lips are sealed" (kat or the tiggah know why)
v: was formerly William and succeeded Louis?
vi: in repetitive utterances, anticipated Glyn Daniel et al? did kat get this?
vii: described a small arm accident on 17/6/15?
viii: was executed at Bolton after Worcester? james stanley 7th earl of derby executed at B after Battle of W (jeff say why and by who plz)
ix: was targeted by Nat and Dermot? is worrell korrekt abt this?
x: was presumptuous? stanley presumed livingstone was who was he was

i

Date: 2009-01-13 05:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] katstevens.livejournal.com
G. Stanley Hall was a psychologist dude who decided that instinct might be an influence on kids' development (well it seems obvious to us NOW but hmm ok yes well). Look, here he is being all chummy with Siggy F and co:



"Hall also coined the technical words describing types of tickling; knismesis or feather-like tickling, and gargalesis for the harder, laughter inducing type."

Re: i

Date: 2009-01-13 05:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] katstevens.livejournal.com
(he's in the middle at the front)

Re: so far

Date: 2009-01-13 05:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jeff-worrell.livejournal.com
jeff say why and by who plz
because he was a ruddy Royalist
presumably by the "Royal Executioner" :)
From: [identity profile] katstevens.livejournal.com
Glyn Daniel = tv presenter of 'Animal Vegetable Mineral', matters of which concern a certain Major General who also knows the Kings of England/fights historical, matters mathematical (equations simple & quadratical) etc etc etc.

ix.

Date: 2009-01-14 01:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jeff-worrell.livejournal.com
Finishing this one off following earlier clue above:

The play is 'The Birthday Party'. Stanley Webber is the main character. Nat = Nat Goldberg and Dermot = Dermot McCann, the two strangers who come looking for him.
From: [identity profile] jeff-worrell.livejournal.com
Blimey, this one seems pretty obscure to me too. But I guess some foaks would see it as part of our cultural heritage. The Year is of course 1815, rather than 1915.

v. (ditto)

Date: 2009-01-14 07:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jeff-worrell.livejournal.com
Kat was right to think of Port

Stanley in the Falklands founded in the area previously known as Port William (although the town was first of all, confusingly, called Port Jackson - acc. to Wiki - before it became Port Stanley); haha the locals just call it "Town".

Stanley replaced Port Louis as the capital of the Falklands. The end.

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