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All the following are place names in Scotland:-
1. Maternal parent is in the pink here apparently.
2. Dispose of the church for a price.
3. Town belonging to the lady from Troy.
4. Murder my hairdressing implement.
5. Assassinate the lady in white (orientally, that is).
6. A safe place for Mick Jagger maybe.
7. This place has an abbey and a pattern.
8. A place for the lungs.
9. Agitate the fish here.
10. Garbo would have embraced the new here.
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Sir Kevin
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I give up! I've only been to Scotland once although I do know a couple of people who live there.
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Chorister
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No 7 is Paisley?
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Stercus Tauri
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1. Motherwell
2. Kirkliston
3. Helensburgh
4. Kilmacolm
Hmm... still working on the others. Back after a beer.
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Thay haif said. Quhat say thay, Lat thame say (George Keith, 5th Earl Marischal)
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Scots lass
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2 is Selkirk
3 is Helensburgh
I know a few of the others, but suspect I have an advantage...
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Stercus Tauri
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6. Stonehaven
Yes - Selkirk was 2!
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Thay haif said. Quhat say thay, Lat thame say (George Keith, 5th Earl Marischal)
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Stercus Tauri
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5. East Kilbride
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Thay haif said. Quhat say thay, Lat thame say (George Keith, 5th Earl Marischal)
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Pre-cambrian
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10 is Gretna I think
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LeRoc
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From the top of my head, I can name 5 places in Scotland. So not much help from me here...
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Scots lass
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quote:
Originally posted by LeRoc:
From the top of my head, I can name 5 places in Scotland. So not much help from me here...
Just as long as none of them are Brigadoon, you're ok...
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Ariston
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Someone clearly forgot about the borosilicate bovine. For shame.
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Ariel
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The consensus backstage is that this would be more at home in the Circus, so off it goes.
Ariel
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