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There was a cleaver financial double bluff perpetrated by a notable Tyneside family member.
The family member and the bluff please.

some apply

cleaver? Is that a hint? Is someone for the chop?

Maybe I should just split ....

Up the Geordies


There was a clever financial double bluff perpetrated by a notable Tyneside family member.
The family member and the bluff please

I'm having trouble thinking of any notable Tyneside families.

Oh there are think outside the box

I got out of my box and still couldn't think of any.
I suppose "notable" could mean musicians. Or a family in a song. Or "not able". Or people who haven't got a table. Or....

Cleaver sounds live one of those names like Chumley or Fanshawe, which are really 25 yards long.

It will come this family member was proud of his roots

Quite the reverse pebblederook

He was a plant?

Lets go for a klaxon:

Turnip Townsend

No HD

well known in his field though

Approaching a area pebblederook

keep toying with names though

I almost said Ingemar Johannsen but then remembered that he wasn't a Geordie....he was a swede.

Keep going not a sportsman

And Jasper Carrott is a brummie

Was the financial double bluff one of those 18th century scams which included The ..... one that I won't mention, and the one whose prospectus said it was "inviting subscriptions for a purpose which must remain secret".

Might be worth a try on the web, the nigerian bankers seem to get results

No just an individual on his own and a financial double bluff (not against individual(s) who still regard him as honest)

For some reason James Cook springs into my mind.

Cook as in vegetable preparation for consumption.
He came from the North East ???
As an explorer in the South Pacific he would have had many opportunities to make bargains with indigenous peoples who's notions of sovereignty and land ownership would have been alien to him.

For example the Maori concept that you don't own the land, the land owns you (therefore you cannot sell or give it away and hence the problems with the Waitangi Treaty).