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What connects a French folk song, Stephen Fry, Tim McInnerney and three sequels?


lots of points available here

Stephen Fry and Tim McInnerney both appeared in Black Adder.

Is that a start?

And The Blackadder had three sequels.

Actually, it had six. But three series.

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he aims, he shoots, he scores

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he aims, he shoots, he scores

Quack, Quack, Oops

Anything to do with Love ?

more the opposite actually

Anything to do with dogs ?

No

not dogs

I was thinking of 101 dalmations - Tim McInnerey is in it - there are 3 sequals, Hugh Laurie was in in one too so I thought Stephen Fry might have been.

So - Anything to do with bridges ? (I'm working on the French song now)

the song is not from france

is it anything to do with Eton? Did Stephen Fry and Tim McInnerney both go there and is maybe the Eton boating song based on an old French folk tune?

there is a clue in the title and nobody has explored the opposite of love yet

Actually the clue in the title was what pointed me to Eton as Ian Fleming went there and so did Bond in the books, I also think Burgess or McLaine or one of those guys was an old Etonian. But it's obviously the wrong track so I will think again.

wrong track

nothing to do with bond

plenty to do with russia

czarist era

There was something about Stephen Fry's family being in Hungary so are we talking emigrees ?

no not emigrees

a part he plays and the type of production

mr fry plays the part of an aristocrat

is Tolstoy involved in any way?

Hang on a minute, forget Tolstoy, I think Chekhov might be a better bet. There was a song we used to be forced to sing in French lessons in school called, I think, Alouette which had something to do with plucking the feathers from a bird of some kind, I thought it was a dove but could it have been a Seagull?