02-18-2006, 12:18 PM | #921 |
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3.7 Sidmouth
3.8 Dartmouth 4.0 Barnstaple 4.2 Bideford 4.3 Appledore (I know more about Devon than about Somerset )
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And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool. |
02-18-2006, 12:21 PM | #922 |
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i know not much about devon unfortunately, and i lived in exeter for 16 years!!
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02-18-2006, 12:26 PM | #923 | |
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02-18-2006, 12:27 PM | #924 |
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3.5 devon
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02-18-2006, 12:29 PM | #925 |
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Correct indeed. you may proceed.
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02-19-2006, 05:41 AM | #926 |
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...tiny village that part of the country:
3.1 - Former 1920's american car. = Exford ...village in that part of the country: 3.2 - Economically on the low and safely put away. = Porlock ...village in that part of the country: 3.3 - minus Eve + weight. = Lynton ...village in that part of the country: 3.4 - minus Eve + big winged bug. = Lynmouth ...part of the country: 3.5 - They won. = Devon ...city in that part of the country: 3.6 - Former Radio Waves with a major place of worship = Exeter and its cathedral ...city in that part of the country: 3.7 - Mr Pointier's eating organ. = Sidmouth ...town in that part of the country: 3.8 - Small arrow + eating organ. = Dartmouth ...city in that part of the country: 3.9 - To go forth on the sea + eating organ. And an 1960's car. = Plymouth ...city in that part of the country: 4.0 - Storage facility + sharp things used to put papers together. = Barnstaple ...city in that part of the country: 4.1 - Bad off truncated + truncated tunnel-buddycountry + run fingers thru hair. = Ilfracombe ...city in that part of the country: 4.2 - To wait for + shallow river crossing. = Bideford ...town in that part of the country: 4.3 - NYC's nickname + misspronounced houseopening. = Appledore ...tiny village in that part of the country: 4.4 - A piece of garlic + double 11th letter + single 5th letter. = Clovelly ...walking area: 4.5 - Little arrow + heath + Lands Green area. = Dartmoor National Park Last edited by Grey_Wolf : 02-22-2006 at 04:09 AM. |
02-20-2006, 12:45 PM | #927 |
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ack! geography! the bane of my school career!!!
lol we need to get back to celebrities... either that or there are some and i'm just slightly more inept than i thought... lol
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02-20-2006, 12:56 PM | #928 | |
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02-20-2006, 01:42 PM | #929 |
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3.9 Exmouth?
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02-20-2006, 02:16 PM | #930 |
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4.4 clovelly?
interesting trivia about clovelly - cars are banned from the village itself, you need to park on top of the hill and walk down |
02-20-2006, 04:09 PM | #931 |
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Try again, CC. Y'r correct, LCU. You may both proceed.
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02-21-2006, 05:01 PM | #932 |
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Hey, mooters, let's get unclueing, shall we...
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02-21-2006, 05:15 PM | #933 |
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3.1 Plymouth?
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02-22-2006, 04:21 AM | #934 |
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sorry, but that was incorrect. Try again on the ones which come next..
So here goes... ...town in that part of the country: 1.1 - The Rank below King + community. = Princetown ...town in that part of the country: 1.2 - What we do here in threads + Constructed river crossing. = Postbridge Last edited by Grey_Wolf : 02-26-2006 at 05:59 AM. |
02-22-2006, 04:41 AM | #935 |
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...part of the country:
2.1 - One of four seeds + Medieval bricked protection. = Cornwall ...port in this part of the country: 2.5 - Elisabeth's oldest son + community. = Charlestown ...protruding piece of land: 2.8 - The Reptile. = The Lizard ... place of religious contemplation: 2.9 - Holified Mike's High earth elevation = St Michael's Mount ...idyllic fishing village: 3.1 - Rodent's Residence = Mousehole ...part of the country: 3.3 - The Nation's South-Westernmost Tip. = Land's End ...famous from a rhyme: 3.5 - As I was going to **** I met a man with seven wives = As I was going to St Ives I met a man with seven wives And every wife had seven sacks And every sack had seven cats And every cat had seven kits Kits, cats, sacks, wives How many were going to St Ives? ...village in that part of the country: 3.8 - King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table adopted tourismic site. = Tintagel ...and this concludes this session of the GB Game. Last edited by Grey_Wolf : 02-26-2006 at 06:18 AM. |
02-22-2006, 09:38 AM | #936 |
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1.1 Princetown
1.2 Postbridge 2.1 Cornwall 2.5 Charlestown 2.8 The Lizard 2.9 St Michael's Mount
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02-22-2006, 10:14 AM | #937 |
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Correct indeed. You may proceed.
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02-22-2006, 02:55 PM | #938 |
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More to unclue.
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02-22-2006, 03:34 PM | #939 |
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3.1 mousehole
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02-22-2006, 06:26 PM | #940 |
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Correct indeed. you may proceed.
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