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[dubdobdee]

10.

i: What was partnered on bended knee?
ii: Which two protagonists share a liking for Allie?
iii: How was Miss Languish’s strong will described by her aunt?
iv: What name was given by Disney to Barrie’s anonymous reptile?
v: Who maintained that he who trusts a woman will walk on duckweed in a pool?
vi: Who displayed his distinctive motif when winning for the second time at West Side?
vii: What suffered solar destruction following pachydermal confrontation?
viii: Who enjoyed a fusion initially with Horus, and later with Ra?
ix: Who changed hands while crossing the Irish Sea?
x: Which island trio has reptilian etymology?

INCOMPLETE: we need i and vi, and a confirm on ii!

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

no answers or clue at first glance: is the reptile the crocodile in iv which eats capt hook? -- i have neither read nor seen P.Pan

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

I think the answer there (to the name of Disney's crocodile at least) is Tick-Tock?

[(Anonymous)]

Assuming it's reptilian theme then viii is most likely SOBEK, crocodile god of Egypt (and familiar to comics fans as a lachrymose villain in 52

So the theme may well be not just reptiles but crocodiles!

(Is vii a Just So Stories reference? I know the elephant gets his trunk after a fight with a crocodile, but do not remember what happened to the croc)

Tom E.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i don't recall anything happening to the croc -- the story stays with the elephant -- but i can look this up easily

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

ii: If crocodiles, could Allie be a Gator or something?

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

x = Crocodile Island? Is that a place? It sounds vaguely familiar but that might just be the pleasing assonance in the name.

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

There are certainly such things as Cayman Islands, but whether there are three in the group I do not know without looking.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Yes! Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

is vi. Lacoste, with that little crocodile logo? And a game of golf? Or hang on, those are polo shirts? Do people wear them to play polo? Basically everything I know about polo comes from reading that Jilly Cooper book so I know it is a game of sexy intrigue with some horses and sticks and I don't remember the clothes at all.

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

Lacoste was a tenniser not a golfer, but otherwise that might be an idea!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Yes! The West Side Club I think was a US tennis place Back In The Day? Or was that what Flushing Meadows used to be called? Errr tennis memory fail, paging the Lex

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Googled to check this was indeed correct - it was the home of the US Open before FM:

By the late '70s, the popularity of the Open had boomed and the 15,000-seat Forest Hills stadium had become too small to handle the crowds. The USTA moved the Open to the broader expanses of Flushing Meadows in 1978.

So René Lacoste seems +1 tick.

[belecrivain.livejournal.com]

My first thought for ii, before the theme came into play, was the Canterbury Tale (Baker's? Miller's?) which features Nicholas and some other person for the hand (bed, really) of Allison. "on bended knee" might refer to Froggy who went a-courtin'.

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

Random crocodiley thoughts off the top of my head re no particular question:

-- besides crocodiles proper, alligators and caymans there are also GAVIALs (sp?).
-- iirc the Mugger Crocodile is the national reptile of Pakistan!
-- isn't there a crocodile movement in Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals?

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

ix if it's reptiles and the Irish Sea, St Patrick springs to mind? Not sure about the hand change thing though?

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

What did St Patrick say as he was driving the snakes out of Ireland?

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"Ye alright in the back there, lads??"

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia sez v) appears to be Kipling as well?

"The Mugger crocodile, a jackal and an adjutant stork (erroneously referred to as a crane in the story), three of the most unpleasant characters on the river, spend an afternoon bickering with each other until some Englishmen arrive to settle some unfinished business with the crocodile."

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

yes! this is in jungle book (possibly jungle book 2) and is -- in classic grisly kipling fashion -- a tremendous tale: it is called "the undertakers"

for an awful awful man he was a v great writer :(

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

via google and indeed a rival wiki-illiam response site, but too good not to share:

http://www.discogs.com/Bobby-Charles-Later-Alligator-On-Bended-Knee/release/2490981