Geoffrey Mason, barrister, of course. Need one of those two-column foreign language exercises. Match the name up with the profession.
― Fizzles the Chimp (GamalielRatsey), Friday, 11 November 2011 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
those late ones were written in the 21st century which kinda undermines the verisimilitude of the names i think
― Ridin' Skyrims (Noodle Vague), Friday, 11 November 2011 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
You could be right. You can see the influence of his son there as well.
― Fizzles the Chimp (GamalielRatsey), Friday, 11 November 2011 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
Felix is probably just recycling stuff from his dad's early books and Dick doesn't remember them
― Ridin' Skyrims (Noodle Vague), Friday, 11 November 2011 15:52 (twelve years ago) link
Andrew Douglas, anti-kidnapping consultant
― free banana man! free banana man! (remy bean), Friday, 11 November 2011 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
Pretty sure Perry Stuart, meteorologist, would work for Positive Weather Solutions.
― Stevie T, Friday, 11 November 2011 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
Jonathan Derry, teacherWilliam Derry, jockey & later racing manager
Anyone know what happened there?
― Fizzles the Chimp (GamalielRatsey), Friday, 11 November 2011 15:58 (twelve years ago) link
Max Moreton, chef.
ffs.
I seem to remember Dick Francis justified that anti-kidnapping consultant role wrt kidnapping being an international industry so it's not unreasonable to have a one-man freelance advisor on it.
― Fizzles the Chimp (GamalielRatsey), Friday, 11 November 2011 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
Steven Scott, toy inventor
^ would love to know how this guy got tangled up in the murky world of race fixing
― Lars and the Lulu Girl (NickB), Friday, 11 November 2011 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
Read High Stakes and find out!
― Fizzles the Chimp (GamalielRatsey), Friday, 11 November 2011 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
apparently jonathan narrates the first section and his younger brother william narrates the second section but i don't think i'll be reading it to find out wha'appen. could ask my dad but he's just as likely to not remember.
― Ridin' Skyrims (Noodle Vague), Friday, 11 November 2011 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
Steven Scott
At age fifteen he invented and patented a revolutionary toy, the licensing of which has made him very rich. In his early thirties became interested in owning racehorses and used the services of the trainer, Jody Leeds, for his expanding string of both flat and jump horses who currently has nine of them in his stable. He meets Alexandra Ward, an American on holiday in London, with whom he forms a romantic attachment.
^ okay I hate this bastard
― Lars and the Lulu Girl (NickB), Friday, 11 November 2011 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
Toy was My Little Pony
― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Friday, 11 November 2011 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
Neil Griffon: Derek my good man, i used to buy and sell antiques. maybe I can offer you some expert business advice.
Derek Franklin: Nah, sokay, i learnt all i needed to know about jewellery when i was riding horses.
Randall Drew: Now look here chaps, i'm a gentleman, what.
Derek Franklin: Shut it you clown.
Randall Drew: The outrage! we will settle this...by racing horses. Neil, I will need your able assistance with this.
Neil Griffon: Well, my dad is in the hospital again so i've got some time on my hands.
Derek Franklin: Aw fuck you Griffon. You two are dead.
John Kendall: Well, not necessarily. Here's my book.
Derek Franklin: Kendall!
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 11 November 2011 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
Tony Beach
Grandson of a Colonel who won the Victoria Cross in the First World War and, as an amateur rider, came second in the Grand National; son of a Colonel who won the Distinguished Service Order in the Second World War, was a renowned amateur rider and was killed in a fall at Sandown Park in a steeplechase, watched by his son. Went to Wellington but not on to Sandhurst. Believed not to have inherited the family courage. He is a wine merchant who is in mourning for his wife Emma. She died in childbirth six months before. He misses her deeply, and is lonely and depressed. He has a talent for telling one wine or whisky from another simply by smelling and tasting them. His talent comes in very useful when a local restaurant owner appears to be passing off cheap wine and Scotch as expensive brands.
― Lars and the Lulu Girl (NickB), Friday, 11 November 2011 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
Freddie Croft, trucking company ownerAlexander Kinloch, painter
― Fizzles the Chimp (GamalielRatsey), Friday, 11 November 2011 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
I can identify with this Tony Beach guy:
Believed not to have inherited the family courage - checkis lonely and depressed - checkhas a talent for telling one wine or whisky from another each other simply by smelling and tasting them - check
― Lars and the Lulu Girl (NickB), Friday, 11 November 2011 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
Randall Drew
Trial Run jacketA highly successful amateur steeplechase jockey who has recently retired from racing to his farm in Warwickshire. He is no longer able to race due to his poor eyesight and the rules which preclude his wearing glasses while he races. Unable to wear contact lenses, he gives up racing to run his farm. He also has chronic respiratory problems which make him prey to bronchial infections. Most of the time, however, he is able to control these problems with medication. Because of his aristocratic connections and his knowledge of the racing world, he is selected to carry out a sensitive mission in Russia involving the fate of a young British aristocrat who hopes to make the British Olympic team for the Moscow Games in 1980.
― Lars and the Lulu Girl (NickB), Friday, 11 November 2011 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
Robert Finn
Robert Finn watches a fellow jockey blow his brains out soon after a race. As Finn and the other jockeys cope with the stress of their jobs, other incidents lead Finn to conclude that someone is trying to destroy the lives of jockeys all over England. Finn is not your average jockey, though. The only child of famous virtuoso musicians, in a family of virtuosos, he has not followed the family traditions. But he inherited other skills that now give him the skills to follow a sad and warped trail.
― Ridin' Skyrims (Noodle Vague), Friday, 11 November 2011 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
But he inherited other skills that now give him the skills to follow a sad and warped trail.
:O
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Friday, 11 November 2011 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
Main character in the novel Blood Sausage iirc
― Lars and the Lulu Girl (NickB), Friday, 11 November 2011 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
surely wd be titled Blind Pudding in the UK
― Ridin' Skyrims (Noodle Vague), Friday, 11 November 2011 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
Album not helped at the time by having the worst title for a Fall release to date
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Friday, 11 November 2011 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
Oops wrong thread. "Wrong Thread", a dark thriller set in the world internet forums.
Tom. D inherited other skills that now give him the skills to follow a sad and warped trail.
― Fizzles the Chimp (GamalielRatsey), Friday, 11 November 2011 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
Excessive use of the whip perhaps?
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Friday, 11 November 2011 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
Dunno if Mark E Smith's a racing fan, but I saw him going into a bookies in Salford once. And that was in the days before you could put a bet on the half-time score between Blyth Spartans and Stalybridge Celtic and all that nonsense.
― Lars and the Lulu Girl (NickB), Friday, 11 November 2011 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
I think he's got enough vices to be going on with
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Friday, 11 November 2011 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
Silk Cut Ah
Mark Smith – Singer
Mark Smith, grandson of Charles I and the Great God Pan, is a singer who loses his voice in a freak accident with a tune and finds himself earning a living making very minute lolly on the racecourse cabaret circuit. After a badly received show at Lingfield he meets a glamorous blonde American named Brix and gets drawn into a shadowy world of racing silk manufacture and meets the sinister underworld nobbler Gok Wan. Smith solves the crime by sacking everyone in the racing industry and ends up marrying a sweet violinist from Ffos Las called Nigel.
― Fizzles the Chimp (GamalielRatsey), Friday, 11 November 2011 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
Lester Piggott. Being unattached to an occupation, profession or honorific title, he embodies a world of possibility I can only dream about.
― Aimless, Friday, 11 November 2011 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
Got there via tax evasion iirc.
― Fizzles the Chimp (GamalielRatsey), Friday, 11 November 2011 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
I know a dude named Dave Cleveland
― moo-town slackers (Pillbox), Friday, 11 November 2011 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
don't know what a bloodstock agent is, sounds pretty \m/, rly.
― sunn :o))) (Merdeyeux), Friday, 11 November 2011 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
Bloodstock is the annual Bad Manners reunion gig.
― Lars and the Lulu Girl (NickB), Friday, 11 November 2011 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
Steven Scott, toy inventor 0
shame
― you don't exist in the database (woof), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 13:33 (twelve years ago) link
ok reading this thread actually IS like the simpsons jockeys-are-elves sequence :0
― mark s, Sunday, 28 May 2017 22:18 (six years ago) link
Edward Lincoln would've gotten a vote as plain "Ed Lincoln" imo
― El Tomboto, Monday, 29 May 2017 03:52 (six years ago) link
A name and an occupation do not constitute "a character".
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 29 May 2017 05:25 (six years ago) link
These should be added to the list:
Captain Tom Forsyth, military officerNicholas "Foxy" Foxton, financial adviserMark Shillington, racing commentatorJeff Hinkley, BHA investigator
Also, apparently Sid Halley is a former private investigator now.
― Tuomas, Monday, 29 May 2017 12:00 (six years ago) link
i should poll the revised list
― The Remoans of the May (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 May 2017 12:05 (six years ago) link