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Lang may your lum reek! (Long may your chimney smoke)
This is an old Scottish wish that you always have fuel for the fire! It is clear that ShamrockBlue went totally tartan!
His Links are:
TARTAN Army
First FOOT(ING)
SWORD Dance
Auld REEKIE (aka Aberdeen)
As luck has it, I (crofter) was on exactly the same line of thought and clocking in at 9.03 made THREE first-time hits (scoring 3 points plus 3 bonus points). With 6 points to my credit for the round, the game was all but over when only 3 minutes old!
The Sally Army let me down (Salvation Army would have been equivalent) and a band of scallywags known as the Tartan Army won the day! It did not take long before slaney spotted the TARTAN Army and claimed the final bonus point.
A good point was raised by burgess that needs to be sorted. It concerns the rush of excellent guesses early in the proceedings when timings are close (if not equal). In this case, several entrants came on site with a timing of 9.03 precisely. They are presenting predictions which have been selected in isolation and I believe in these cases, they are also entitled to the bonus points for originality. This decision should only affect one or two of the early birds in any one round.
Therefore the winners for this round are crofter with 6 points, followed closely by burgess and Christiana both with 4 points.
FURTHER ANALYSIS TO FOLLOW