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C'mon, there's bound to be a few of you, what with the love on the forum for Ms Coren-Mitchell.
I've bought the Mrs tickets for Benedict Cumberbatch in Hamlet next August at the Barbican for Christmas. As the tickets won't arrive until about July, I'm going to get a few bits for her to unwrap on Christmas day that will serve as clues, in an Only Connect stylee, to her actual present.
I have three of the four clues I need, but I'm struggling with the fourth and need inspiration:
[b]???[/b] (For the Barbican)
A bottle of Benedictine
A cummerbund
A Hamlet cigar
Ideas on a postcard please. Or, ideally, on here...
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Fourteen bras?
A gold rose?
[i]Fourteen bras?
A gold rose?[/i]
Huh?
??? (For the Barbican)
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Some people have too much spare time
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Or not, your choice. 🙂
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Very christmassy Rob 🙂
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IHN - Member
Huh?
Instead of the cigar, obviously - much more romantic.
🙂
Too obvious:
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Too stupid:
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Too stupid:
Doubles up as a Cumberbatch clue though...
Done
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[i]Instead of the cigar, obviously - much more romantic[/i]
Huh?
Instead of the cigar, obviously - much more romanticHuh?
You need to get into character before handing them over, obviously.
Not sure about the roses though - bit like saying 'You're dead to me...'.
Well you did ask for Only Connect...
Take two otters. Dip feet in white paint and place on adjacent sides of a red sheet. Turn music on loudly behind each causing them to scurry across said sheet, leaving it marked with a white cross.
Startled otter (Cumberbatch), prints of Denmark?
Binners - I think it's more:
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prints of Denmark
That's actually a decent idea.
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[i]That's actually a decent idea.
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It is, you're right. Hmmm.....
Or one of these:
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Nope, Rusty, you've lost me...
Characters from Hamlet:
Fortinbras.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
Laertes.
I was going to stick an Osric Tentacles album up next, or a picture of Ving Rhames as Marcellus Wallace.
I really should have gone for Horned Viper.
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There we go.
(Salman Rushdie said Robert Ludlum would have called the drama 'The Elsinore Vacillation'. I consider this to be a bit funny. In context.)
Right, done:
http://www.zazzle.co.uk/vintage_travel_flag_day_denmark_postcard-239798599318016257
http://www.zazzle.co.uk/summer_day_at_the_south_beach_of_skagen_1884_postcard-239689581370293686
http://www.zazzle.co.uk/denmark_hanover_brunswick_mecklenburg_postcard-239206540678826564
Remember the can of fish. It's a Christmas delicacy not to be missed:
http://www.scandikitchen.co.uk/product/oskars-surstromming-475g/
When did you get your tickets IHN?
Completely sold out now..... 😐
This morning, there are still some available if you buy them as part of a tickets + hotel deal.
Ta!
EDIT -
Ouch - bit rich for me.
You sir, are a prince amongst men - I hope you've put a decent Christmas list together for yourself.
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[i]Ouch - bit rich for me.
You sir, are a prince amongst men - I hope you've put a decent Christmas list together for yourself.
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To be honest, I was a bit dim and thought the proce I saw was the package price, only when I'd booked did I realise it was per person 🙄
Ah well, that's what credit cards are for. Gusess it's my present too 🙂
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Errrr.... I do get it, obviously, but would you like to explain it for the rest of the class?
Errrr.... I do get it, obviously, but would you like to explain it for the rest of the class?
A Barbican is a gate outer wall of a castle/citadel or a fortification on a bridge. That's Walmgate Bar in York - I think.
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It'll double up as a tasty alternative Xmas dinner...
verses - that was one of the options I considered 🙂
Sticking with the food theme...
A coke can, filled with honey and with a Yorkie dipped in it would give you...
A (chocolate) bar-bee-can (of coke).
