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spookiemoviemania 02-19-18 12:18 AM

Famous Brits
 
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/prof...-kingdom-1.jpg

spookiemoviemania 02-19-18 06:59 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
No one has had a shot at this.

Stirchley 02-21-18 07:03 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
Edward VIII

Stirchley 02-21-18 07:04 PM

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Joel 02-21-18 08:03 PM

Woodward Allen

spookiemoviemania 02-22-18 10:20 PM

Originally Posted by Stirchley (Post 1870855)
Pleased to see some participation here. Thanks.
Familiar . Clue?

Stirchley 02-23-18 03:04 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
Very famous British composer. Has a foreign name.

Mr Minio 02-23-18 03:09 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
Gustav Holst

My favourite British person:

https://cdn-ed.versobooks.com/images...953bee7809.jpg

Chypmunk 02-23-18 03:10 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
I know that one ... it's Mr Minio :)

Mr Minio 02-23-18 03:11 PM

Originally Posted by Chypmunk (Post 1871602)
I know that one ... it's Mr Minio :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if1CTnCZGX4

Chypmunk 02-23-18 03:13 PM

Originally Posted by Mr Minio (Post 1871603)
Dayum .... I got no idea then :shrug:

(sure do look like Mr Minio though)

Mr Minio 02-23-18 03:23 PM

Originally Posted by Chypmunk (Post 1871605)
Dayum .... I got no idea then :shrug:
Oh come on, try guessing.

Stirchley 02-23-18 03:27 PM

Originally Posted by Mr Minio (Post 1871615)
Oh come on, try guessing.
Impressed you got Holst. No clue on yours.

Camo 02-23-18 03:27 PM

Originally Posted by Mr Minio (Post 1871599)
Gustav Holst

My favourite British person:

https://cdn-ed.versobooks.com/images...953bee7809.jpg
Harvie Krumpet?

https://i.imgur.com/3nZ7Igc.jpg




sorry that was mean

Chypmunk 02-23-18 03:28 PM

Originally Posted by Mr Minio (Post 1871615)
Oh come on, try guessing.
Nope not making an even bigger fool of myself :nope:
I'll leave this one to the MoFos with more than one brain cell :)

Mr Minio 02-23-18 03:34 PM

Originally Posted by Camo (Post 1871622)
Harvie Krumpet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKNh8uvD0K0

Stirchley 02-23-18 09:14 PM

Originally Posted by spookiemoviemania (Post 1871757)
No idea!!!
I think the game has de-railed somewhat. I suggest you take the next photo.

spookiemoviemania 02-23-18 09:36 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
https://www.biographyonline.net/wp-c...Jenner-100.jpg Was involved in humanitarian pursuits.

Stirchley 02-23-18 09:38 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
Darwin?

spookiemoviemania 02-23-18 09:56 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
No. medical research.

hint. To do with cows.

Stirchley 02-23-18 10:16 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
Haven’t a clue & am off for the night now. Pasteurized milk? But that was Pasteur.

spookiemoviemania 02-23-18 10:45 PM

Originally Posted by Stirchley (Post 1871827)
Haven’t a clue & am off for the night now. Pasteurized milk? But that was Pasteur.
pretty close. Think of a virulent disease of the 18th century.
https://images.theconversation.com/f...h=668&fit=crop

Stirchley 02-26-18 01:39 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
Edward Jenner

Stirchley 02-26-18 01:40 PM

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spookiemoviemania 02-27-18 07:11 PM

Originally Posted by Stirchley (Post 1872814)
Edward Jenner
well done. You can then name the disease he cured and how?

spookiemoviemania 02-27-18 07:13 PM

Originally Posted by Stirchley (Post 1872817)
I have two in mind.. Cook or Phillip?

Stirchley 02-28-18 04:35 PM

Originally Posted by spookiemoviemania (Post 1873446)
well done. You can then name the disease he cured and how?
Smallpox. He noticed that milkmaids were immune.

Originally Posted by spookiemoviemania (Post 1873448)
I have two in mind.. Cook or Phillip?
Neither. A pair of footwear is named for him.

spookiemoviemania 02-28-18 07:43 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
Arthur Wellesley. Duke of Wellington.

Stirchley 02-28-18 09:03 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
Bada Bing!

spookiemoviemania 02-28-18 10:20 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/prof...ingstone-3.jpg
hint. A man of religion and medicine.

David Livingstone.

Stirchley 03-02-18 04:32 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
No clue

spookiemoviemania 03-03-18 06:08 PM

Originally Posted by Stirchley (Post 1874348)
No clue
You have never heard of the famous statement "Dr Livingstone I presume" uttered by journalist Henry Stanley when he found the lost missionary/explorer/doctor/ in Africa in 1871 after he went missing while trying to find the source of the Nile. Pic of Stanley
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...anley_1890.jpg

spookiemoviemania 03-04-18 07:28 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
https://www.biography.com/.image/ar_...5497-2-402.jpg

Not sure if we have had him before.
hint. communication was his game.

Stirchley 03-05-18 05:04 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
Graham Bell?

spookiemoviemania 03-08-18 07:33 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
Sorry I have not been back on earlier. You knew answer so why did you not post?

Stirchley 03-09-18 03:08 PM

Originally Posted by spookiemoviemania (Post 1876770)
Sorry I have not been back on earlier. You knew answer so why did you not post?
Had no clue if that was correct.

Stirchley 03-09-18 03:10 PM

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spookiemoviemania 03-10-18 05:42 AM

Originally Posted by Stirchley (Post 1877094)
Familiar. help us out.

Stirchley 03-12-18 04:01 PM

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Originally Posted by spookiemoviemania (Post 1877272)
Familiar. help us out.
Thought you’d get this one right away. Same guy when younger.


spookiemoviemania 03-12-18 08:38 PM

Originally Posted by Stirchley (Post 1877997)
Thought you’d get this one right away. Same guy when younger.

https://www.movieforums.com/communit...chmentid=42760
Colin Cowdrey?

spookiemoviemania 03-12-18 08:42 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
Another sportsman.
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon....14,317_AL_.jpg

Stirchley 03-12-18 08:45 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
Sebastian Coe?

spookiemoviemania 03-12-18 10:09 PM

Originally Posted by Stirchley (Post 1878204)
Sebastian Coe?
No not Seb.
He is regarded as the best in history in his sport.. hint. He sits or rather he sat while doing what he did.

Stirchley 03-14-18 05:55 PM

Originally Posted by spookiemoviemania (Post 1878216)
No not Seb.
He is regarded as the best in history in his sport.. hint. He sits or rather he sat while doing what he did.
Haven’t the slightest idea.

spookiemoviemania 03-14-18 10:01 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
What sports people sit? It is not on a bike. Deduction.

spookiemoviemania 03-15-18 09:14 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
Steve Redgrave won five consecutive Olympic rowing gold medals.

spookiemoviemania 03-15-18 09:16 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/prof...ttenberg-1.jpg

Stirchley 03-16-18 03:01 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
Looks like QEII’s late mother-in-law Princess Alice.

Stirchley 03-16-18 03:02 PM

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spookiemoviemania 03-17-18 08:22 PM

Originally Posted by Stirchley (Post 1879481)
Looks like QEII’s late mother-in-law Princess Alice.
Yep Phillip's mother.

spookiemoviemania 03-17-18 08:24 PM

Originally Posted by Stirchley (Post 1879482)
Please. Not another kid pic. Churchill?

Stirchley 03-19-18 04:23 PM

Originally Posted by spookiemoviemania (Post 1879940)
Please. Not another kid pic. Churchill?
Very famous Brit who died last week.

spookiemoviemania 03-19-18 08:57 PM

Originally Posted by Stirchley (Post 1880703)
Very famous Brit who died last week.
I dont read the obituary pages. Clues please.

Stirchley 03-19-18 09:37 PM

Originally Posted by spookiemoviemania (Post 1880797)
I dont read the obituary pages. Clues please.
You get world news I presume in Sydney? Can’t imagine not having heard of his death.

spookiemoviemania 03-19-18 10:37 PM

Originally Posted by Stirchley (Post 1880810)
You get world news I presume in Sydney? Can’t imagine not having heard of his death.
Why are you so reluctant to give clues?

spookiemoviemania 03-20-18 01:03 AM

Re: Famous Brits
 
I will take a wild guess Roger Bannister. Please no more baby pics.

spookiemoviemania 03-20-18 07:03 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
Stephen Hawking also died last week. He is my second option.

TYTD 03-20-18 08:27 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
Ken Dodd!? Surely not!

Stirchley 03-21-18 06:18 PM

Originally Posted by spookiemoviemania (Post 1881063)
Stephen Hawking also died last week. He is my second option.
Bada Bing!

spookiemoviemania 03-21-18 08:52 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ll%2C_1861.jpg

Stirchley 03-21-18 09:41 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
Haven’t a clue & I have to leave now. You poor Aussies having to learn all this British history at school. Tiresome.

spookiemoviemania 03-22-18 12:44 AM

Originally Posted by Stirchley (Post 1881360)
Haven’t a clue & I have to leave now. You poor Aussies having to learn all this British history at school. Tiresome.
Made sense as Aussie history has been so short you could learn it all in one school year. hint my sombre face was a politician.

spookiemoviemania 03-22-18 10:37 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
A big hint.
http://www.artnet.com/WebServices/im...r-clothes).jpg

Stirchley 03-23-18 04:41 PM

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spookiemoviemania 03-24-18 12:05 AM

Originally Posted by Stirchley (Post 1881848)
Yes. Easy with those hints.

Stirchley 03-26-18 04:23 PM

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Brilliant photo. Very famous football player & his mother.

spookiemoviemania 03-26-18 09:40 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
No idea. Wild guess Bobby Moore.

Stirchley 03-28-18 03:22 PM

Originally Posted by spookiemoviemania (Post 1882860)
No idea. Wild guess Bobby Moore.
Almost there. Same 1st name, different last name.

spookiemoviemania 03-28-18 07:15 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
Bobby Charlton, Bobby Flavell? Go with Charlton as he was more famous.

Stirchley 03-28-18 07:37 PM

Originally Posted by spookiemoviemania (Post 1883445)
Bobby Charlton, Bobby Flavell? Go with Charlton as he was more famous.
Bada Bing!

spookiemoviemania 03-29-18 09:02 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/prof...d-pinter-1.jpg
He writes. Why do you continue to not ask questions?

Stirchley 03-30-18 02:18 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
No idea

spookiemoviemania 03-30-18 11:24 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
In the arts.

Stirchley 04-02-18 04:54 PM

Originally Posted by spookiemoviemania (Post 1884323)
In the arts.
Need more. Could be anybody.

spookiemoviemania 04-02-18 10:20 PM

[quote=spookiemoviemania;1883913]https://www.thefamouspeople.com/prof...d-pinter-1.jpg
He writes. Why do you continue to not ask questions? Everyone else does.

Stirchley 04-02-18 10:24 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
It’s Harold Pinter

Stirchley 04-02-18 10:27 PM

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With his wife & new baby


spookiemoviemania 04-02-18 10:52 PM

Originally Posted by Stirchley (Post 1885269)
A sportsman? Is familiar.

Stirchley 04-04-18 01:18 PM

Originally Posted by spookiemoviemania (Post 1885314)
A sportsman? Is familiar.
A sport of speed, you might say. One of the most famous Brits in his league. Unusual Christian name.

spookiemoviemania 04-05-18 11:26 AM

Re: Famous Brits
 
Sterling Moss?

Stirchley 04-06-18 02:25 PM

Originally Posted by spookiemoviemania (Post 1886106)
Sterling Moss?
Stirling. You’re up

spookiemoviemania 04-07-18 04:01 AM

Re: Famous Brits
 
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/prof...n-turing-1.jpg

Stirchley 04-09-18 04:45 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
No idea

spookiemoviemania 04-09-18 08:50 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
Then ask questions.

Stirchley 04-09-18 08:55 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
Alan Turing?

spookiemoviemania 04-11-18 08:08 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
Yes.

Stirchley 04-11-18 08:38 PM

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spookiemoviemania 04-11-18 11:33 PM

Originally Posted by Stirchley (Post 1888451)
Typical dour faced female pic of the 19th century. Didnt their husbands allow them to smile? Clues.

Stirchley 04-13-18 02:40 PM

Originally Posted by spookiemoviemania (Post 1888510)
Clues.
Women’s lib

Stirchley 04-16-18 03:22 PM

Originally Posted by Stirchley (Post 1889072)
Women’s lib
Bump

spookiemoviemania 04-16-18 10:35 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
Pankhurst?

spookiemoviemania 04-17-18 01:40 AM

Re: Famous Brits
 
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/prof...aithfull-1.jpg
In the arts.

Stirchley 04-18-18 03:23 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
Pankhurst is right. Yours is Marianne Faithfull

Stirchley 04-18-18 03:25 PM

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spookiemoviemania 04-18-18 08:45 PM

Originally Posted by Stirchley (Post 1890913)
A 60s pop singer. Dusty Springfield?

Stirchley 04-18-18 08:54 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
No

spookiemoviemania 04-18-18 09:47 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
clues.

Stirchley 04-20-18 03:31 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
Married & divorced 2 of the most famous rock musicians ever.

spookiemoviemania 04-21-18 11:39 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
not into rock musicians. Huge fan of the Mersey Sound. Her husband from one of those groups?

Stirchley 04-23-18 02:29 PM

Re: Famous Brits
 
Yes, her first husband was in the band that launched the Mersey sound.


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