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Who or what?
i: is Hazel's cousin?
ii: was crowned in Dublin Cathedral?
iii: eponymous water bird has long been bedded down?
iv: gained the GC for heroism on the Ely-Newmarket line?
v: died in legal captivity of coronary thrombosis on 16 November, 1952?
vi: wrote a risqué novel, which saw him tried but acquitted for irreligion and immorality?
vii: carried on with George, regardless of Caroline, and later Frances?
viii: put his name to a Top Secret Management Handbook?
ix: tragically completed his fourth, but not his eighth?
x: created William and Maudie?

Famous -berts

Date: 2011-01-07 03:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jeff-worrell.livejournal.com
Dil (and Dog and Cat)
Gil
Ram
Hum Hum
Engel
Ernie and
??

Re: Famous -berts

Date: 2011-01-07 03:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marnameow.livejournal.com
Dog or Cat (isn't one of them a bit evil? I can't tell them apart) = vii?

Catbert / Google clue on v.

Date: 2011-01-07 05:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jeff-worrell.livejournal.com
Catbert is the Evil Director of Human Resources. As you say, he looks v. similar to Dogbert (who's also acting a bit evil at the moment as CEO of Dilbert's company).

Some in-depth googling reveals that one of the -berts in my list above is in fact the answer to v.

answer on v.

Date: 2011-01-10 10:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jeff-worrell.livejournal.com
Finishing this one off, Humbert Humbert is reported to have died of a heart attack on 16.11.52 at the end of Lolita (sez Google)

Dogbert confirmed

Date: 2011-01-07 05:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jeff-worrell.livejournal.com
You meant viii rather than vii, right?
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