A mistimed hop ruined R.B.'s preflight mantra 11 years on. But still, nobody died so no worries. Where?

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Just a little too twisted and lacking in specific clues I'm afraid.

R.B is not Sir Richard Branson but Raymond Babbitt, and the mantra Qantas, Qantas never crashed.

Qantas has never lost a passenger in the jet era but it has crashed. Eleven years after Rainman was filmed the flagship QF1 on the London - Sydney kangaroo run was having it's hop at Bangkok when it came off the runway. But nobody was killed, so no worries, right?

The images are a bit mixed up. I'm looking for six teams and one geographic link.

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The key point was to see professors rather than wizards, they were all professors but Sprout and McGonagall were witches. The dude in the dark glasses is a modern day pirate not a Tamil Tiger. The Tiger tank was the best tank on the western front in World War II, the Soviets had a tank to better it in the East but the allies made up the difference in the West with quantity rather than quality.

Alan claims the yellow image shows the hanging of pirate "Major" Stede Bonnet in Charlestown, North Carolina, 10 December 1718.

Where might you find an overt egress, a saintly blob, a New Year cub, a tank clerk, and an R-trap keeper?

Alan

In comic books. They're anagrams of the "real" names of various superheroes:
Clark Kent (Superman), Billy Batson (Capt. Marvel), Steve Rogers (Capt. America), Peter Parker (Spider-Man), and Bruce Wayne (Batman).

What lesson is this?

“Racial theory”.

But Alan's answer is too good to mark wrong, especially after revealing “Out of nowhere, I realised what I think is the keyword for your cartoon while sitting on the tube, and embarrassed myself by uttering it out loud...”

I asked him to clarify his answer:

Who is this?

I think technically it's a patronymic rather than a family name.

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Corvus corax is the species. What's the N word?

Quoth is also a character in the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett. He's a raven, obviously, he hangs around translating for the Death of Rats whose utterances seem to consist entirely of the word SQUEAK, sometimes repeated. He also works as transport for his bony master. He claims he's only in it for the eyeballs (it's a raven thing) but he doesn't do the N word.

What is the song, the adjective that didn't quite take off and where does the flower fit in?

I like carnabetian. What other words could you use for those dandies in that picture? Oh yeah, pratts would cover it too.

If you need to buy man-sized frilly pink panties there are suppliers out there, and with matching bras in man sizes too. Happy shopping.

What's the next letter in this "Rocky" sequence?

U  S  F  M  F  I  S  C  B  C  M  A  G  T  S  L  I  P  E  L  T  A  M

S for Spain (again).

Starting with U for United Kingdom at Gibraltar and touring clockwise around the Mediterranean coastline.

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My dictionary falls open, between an unpleasant thick liquid substance and a colloquial currency unit I find a minimalist shoe; a dockyard feature; a single-masted ship; an arboreal mammal who epitomizes a green lifestyle; a despondent depression that demands Betjemanesque aerial attack; a pellet that risks being lead to its own doom and a rather impure form of diacetylmorphine hydrochloride.

As a tie breaker suggest two alternative ways to pass the day, one for a friend and one for an enemy, using as many words from these two pages as you think is advisable.

Slingback was what I was looking for but slipper also fits. Doesn't it Cinders?

Slough comes from the Slough of Despond, according to Wikipedia “The Slough of Despond is a deep bog in John Bunyan's novel Pilgrim's Progress, into which the character Christian sinks under the weight of his sins and his sense of guilt.” The other reference is to Sir John Betjeman's poem:

Slough

Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!
It isn't fit for humans now,
There isn't grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, Death!

Come, bombs and blow to smithereens
Those air -conditioned, bright canteens,
Tinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned milk, tinned beans,
Tinned minds, tinned breath.

Mess up the mess they call a town-
A house for ninety-seven down
And once a week a half a crown
For twenty years.

And get that man with double chin
Who'll always cheat and always win,
Who washes his repulsive skin
In women's tears:

And smash his desk of polished oak
And smash his hands so used to stroke
And stop his boring dirty joke
And make him yell.

But spare the bald young clerks who add
The profits of the stinking cad;
It's not their fault that they are mad,
They've tasted Hell.

It's not their fault they do not know
The birdsong from the radio,
It's not their fault they often go
To Maidenhead

And talk of sport and makes of cars
In various bogus-Tudor bars
And daren't look up and see the stars
But belch instead.

Slug is a bit twisted. A slug pellet is bait for slugs to eat which contains poison. But there's more, a lead pellet, such as ammunition for an airgun, is also known as a slug.

A sloth epitomizes a green lifestyle by extreme conservation of energy because it hangs upside-down from trees by its hook-like claws requiring no muscle tension at all. Which is just as well. If a hungry hunter shoots an arrow at a sloth it continues to hang there, as it doesn't use any energy to stay put killing it doesn't cause it to fall down. It moves extremely slowly and allows algae to grow in its fur turning it green, no mammal has green pigment for a reason which awaits scientific discovery. Its method of self preservation can best be described as eating leaves of such low nutritive value that it has no competitors and conserving its own limited energy (limited by its poor diet) so much that its potential predators don't even realize that it's made of meat.

What is missing - albeit with a slight change of personnel?

Sergeant Dudfoot

It was Singapore noodles actually.

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