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Uncle Rupert

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  Posted by Alison Moore (U2927466) on Tuesday, 15th May 2007

  I've somehow managed to miss pretty much the whole of the Uncle Rupert plotline. Can anyone fill me in? Or is he like the elephant in the drawing room - evryone knows he's there but nobody actually talks about him?

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  Posted by Polly Tunnel (U1530077) on Tuesday, 15th May 2007

  Tue, 15 May 2007 19:28 GMT, in reply to petalmoore in message 1
  
  Tue, 15 May 2007 19:15 GMT, in reply to petalmoore in message 1
  
  I think we first heard of Uncle Rupert when Dim-but-Boring Nigel found some paintings in the attic which were signed but Uncle Rup. They were apparently very poor but somehow it was discovered that he had painted over a quite valuable one - thus proving he was indeed a relative of Nigel and that he also suffered from the family birth defect of only having one working brain cell.
  
  I can't quite recall exactly why he came back to our attention but I know that Nigel wrote to Cousin Loocell in Canada for the low down. Turns out Rupert had been disowned by the Pagetters after running off to Paris to try his luck as an artist but had to return due to lack of funds. He lived in a woodman's hut on the estate whiling away the hours growing a beard for a bit then joined the Medical Corp in WWI. He shaved of the beard but this didn't stop him being killed at the 3rd (?) battle of Ypres.
  
  Apparently whilst he lived in the woodman's hut he was an early eco-warrior and is now Nigel's hero.
  
  Er that's all I can remember.

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  Posted by cath (U2234232) on Tuesday, 15th May 2007

  Blimey Polly. Respeck.
  
  The thing I find dead irritating about this SL is that when you get an irritating character you can at least call for him/her to be dedded, shovelled out of the way etc. But with GUR dead already there's nothing to be done. He just is - an almighty bore - and no indication of how he might be despatched as a character.

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  Posted by Alison Moore (U2927466) on Tuesday, 15th May 2007

  Thanks folks - I suppose I'd rather hoped he'd turn out to be Walter Gabriel, or perhaps Snatch Foster's granddad.

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  Posted by ExTAlistener (U3058291) on Wednesday, 16th May 2007

  
  
  Ah, but Rupert was befriended ny a sister who made an "unsuitable marriage" - so he may be Snatch Foster's great uncle as well as Nigel's.
  
  The 1880's seems a bit early for Nigel's great uncle to be born, mind - I'd have thought that was more the stage that someone Phil's age would have a great uncle. Although I suppose it is possible.....

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  Posted by RosieT (U2224719) on Wednesday, 16th May 2007

  What about Great Uncle Cedric?

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  Posted by mike (U2254029) on Wednesday, 16th May 2007

  Wed, 16 May 2007 09:43 GMT, in reply to Rick-ap-Yard in message 5
  
  Nigel's father was born around 1920 so the 1880s for the next generation up is quite reasonable.

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  Posted by ExTAlistener (U3058291) on Wednesday, 16th May 2007

  
  
  Reasonable, but a bit on the late side for fatherhood in two generations. I was born the same year as Nigel, and my great-grandparents had siblings born well after the 1880's....

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  Posted by bob larkin (U2297537) on Wednesday, 16th May 2007

  
  
  You are very fortunate.
  
  bob

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