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I Wish They All Could Be Caledonian...Not...
Seamus...the forbidden Posted Mar 13, 2003
Not rugby players then...
...athletes possibly
Seamus
I Wish They All Could Be Caledonian...Not...
Seamus...the forbidden Posted Mar 13, 2003
Should have been a "?" after that last remark
Seamus
I Wish They All Could Be Caledonian...Not...
Oom Foofoo Posted Mar 13, 2003
Can you be a wee tiny bit more specific?
I Wish They All Could Be Caledonian...Not...
Wumbeevil Posted Mar 13, 2003
Hmm, vehicles and animals? Is this anything to do with the Liverpool fans coming here tonight to nick our motors?
At least two of them are footballers, so are we looking for a club?
I Wish They All Could Be Caledonian...Not...
Oom Foofoo Posted Mar 13, 2003
Nah yer man Seamus had it pretty much dead on - the answer was British athletes:
a) Jarod Deacon
b) Rob Denmark
c) Darren Chin
d) Mark Hilton
e) R Henry (cant remember his first name but it deffo begins with R)
f) Dwain Chambers
g) Colin Jackson
h) Jason Gardener
Vehicles and Animals is an album by Athlete.
I Wish They All Could Be Caledonian...Not...
Seamus...the forbidden Posted Mar 14, 2003
Didn't realise I'd found the answer.I thought there might be something more complicated involved.
Now I suppose I'll have to set a question.
Seamus
s off in panic
poitou-charente
Seamus...the forbidden Posted Mar 14, 2003
I'm looking for a flower which legend says was named after a lady. She was the mistress of somebody who had a half-brother.
Now,if I tell you this half-brother's name, you might smell a rat. So I'm going to make it (relatively) a little more difficult.
The three statements below have in common the fact that they can each lead you to this lady's name. So find the connection and you find the lady.
The writer Edgar Wallace had a half-brother who was also an author.
The artist John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope had a neice who was also a painter.
The singer-songwriter Pete Seeger had a half sister who was also a singer-songwriter.
Now this lady appears to have had quite a few flowers named after her, and I'm looking for one particular flower, as I regard all the others as usurpers. To help you find the particular flower I'm looking for I give you the following phrase.
Ex Caelis Oblatus
Seamus
poitou-charente
The Ghost of Polidari Posted Mar 14, 2003
The 3 people appear to be :
Evelyn De Morgan
Marriott Edgar and
Peggy Seeger
which is as far as I've got...
poitou-charente
Seamus...the forbidden Posted Mar 14, 2003
is spot on with the names.
Don't know who Ruth Crawford is.
No mermaids involved that I know of.
Seamus
poitou-charente
Oom Foofoo Posted Mar 14, 2003
Doh! Ruth Crawford is Peggy's mum.
From what I can remember from Latin, 'ex caelis oblatus' means something like 'offered from the sky'.
poitou-charente
Oom Foofoo Posted Mar 14, 2003
And the lady is Fair Rosamond Clifford? So would it be the Fair Rosamond Clematis?
poitou-charente
Oom Foofoo Posted Mar 14, 2003
Fair Rosamond Rose?
I still cant find a connection to the latin thing anywhere.
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Pinniped Posted Mar 14, 2003
* can't resist a bit of pedantry *
Ex caelis oblatEs means "offered by the sky", as in foundlings. Eco (as in Umberto) is an acronym from it, yeah? Oblati/Oblates are also people who offer themselves to God; monks and nuns etc
But oblatUs would mean "oval-shaped"...probably. Latin not a strong suit, but possibly there's deeper word-play here?
As for Poitou-Charente, that's a bit of Western France, right? With Poitiers in it.
* Thinkx : only we'd better not get onto France with Seamus again... *
Lancaster and York
Seamus...the forbidden Posted Mar 14, 2003
The Poitou-Charente bit was a clue to Fair Rosamund, who came between Anjou (Henry of) and Aquitane (Eleanor of), as does Poitou-Charente.
There seems to be an eco in here, I'd follow it if I were you.
Oh and Pin, I thought our last trip to France was quite amusing, perhaps we should ask Al*c along next time.
Seamus
Lancaster and York
mikeypie Posted Mar 14, 2003
*pops over to see if Seamus is interested in answering my question F51431?thread=247151&post=3133584#p3133584 and getting this monkey off my back*
Lancaster and York
Wumbeevil Posted Mar 14, 2003
This place is making even less sense now than it did last night when I was
*goes off on search of a solution in the fridge*
Is it a rose? it's always a bleedin' rose.
...or Morning Glory seed consumption
...or the Monkey Puzzle on Mikey's back
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