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[dubdobdee]

8.

i: Who named his daughter after Great Aunt Betsey?
ii: Who was called the Tee’d Ball by the young advocates?
iii: Where were Middle Eastern differences settled “with one accord”?
iv: Which “King” lost his life in the battle across the river from San Antonio?
v: Whose cardiectomy remnant was interred beneath an example of Chlorophora excelsa?
vi: Which leading Covenanter was hung, drawn and quartered for complicity in an archiepiscopal murder?
vii: Who witnessed the suicide of the kaffir king and Christian minister in the Rooirand cave?
viii: Which hairy little man with pink lips and a wall eye came out of the sun?
ix: Who received an apparently well-deserved caprine nickname?
x: Who underwent a nocturnal mammary transformation?

INCOMPLETE: we need x!

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[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

got a bit over-excited googling daves:

ii is an RL Stephenson thing David Balfour in Adventures of David Balfour: Kidnapped & Catriona, byebyepride to thread, obv ;)

vi is David Hackston, details here, but Scottish C17 hardcore Presbyterian HD&Qed for being involved (although not actually doing it himself because they had beef and he thought it too obvious) in killing an archbishop.

vii is BLOODY BUCHAN AGANE! viz David Crawfurd in Prester John

viii is from Under Milk Wood, but I can't find a link with the precise bit (that isn't just other people playing this game!)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

Quoted from Project Gutenberg:

SECOND VOICE
Mrs Dai Bread One and Mrs Dai Bread Two are sitting outside their house in Donkey Lane, one darkly one plumplblooming in the quick, dewy sun. Mrs Dai Bread Two is looking into a crystal ball which she holds in the lap of her dirty yellow petticoat, hard against her hard dark thighs.

MRS DAI BREAD TWO
Cross my palm with silver. Out of our housekeeping money. Aah!

MRS DAI BREAD ONE
What d'you see, lovie?

MRS DAI BREAD TWO
I see a featherbed. With three pillows on it. And a text above the bed. I can't read what it says, there's great clouds blowing. Now they have blown away. God is Love, the text says.

MRS DAI BREAD ONE (Delighted)
That's our bed.

MRS DAI BREAD TWO
And now it's vanished. The sun's spinning like a top. Who's this coming out of the sun? It's a hairy little man with big pink lips. He got a wall eye.

MRS DAI BREAD ONE
It's Dai, it's Dai Bread!

MRS DAI BREAD TWO
Ssh! The featherbed's floating back. The little man's taking his boots off. He's pulling his shirt over his head. He's beating his chest with his fists. He's climbing into bed.

MRS DAI BREAD ONE
Go on, go on.

MRS DAI BREAD TWO
There's two women in bed. He looks at them both, with his head cocked on one side. He's whistling through his teeth. Now he grips his little arms round one of the women.

MRS DAI BREAD ONE
Which one, which one?

MRS DAI BREAD TWO
I can't see any more. There's great clouds blowing again.

MRS DAI BREAD ONE
Ach, the mean old clouds!