Aubrey/Maturin Word Association Game

A few other groups have running word association games tied to their favorite book series and if any of you are playfully minded please give it a try. For instance if I said

Molly Harte

you might say...

"Heart of Oak"?

Port Mahon

"Minorca", "Mediterranean", "The first meeting"

Sophie.

The Cacafuego

"Unofficial"

Damn'd neutrals - £11,000! (going from memory on the amount)

Spanish

Catalonian independence movement

Estelada Flag

Dr. Maturin's secret political passions

As well as his known passion for Natural History

"There's not a moment to lose!"

//No, I don't know why that came to my mind either!//

He had so many creatures I can't remember which one that was, but my favorite was...

Stephen's sloth

You have debauched my sloth

a sloth with a taste for sacramental wine

In fact 'a most discriminating' creature.

Maturin had many 'Passions'! - apart from Catalonia, Politics and Natural History and his "Discriminating Sloth", there was 'Diana Villiers'.

poor Joseph Canning

The pistol-duel

Stephen's heart surgery

Galapagos?

Actually, he removed Canning's bullet from his own chest, but maybe he was excising Diana instead. :)

Tortoise racing

Transport ship (escorted to Trieste - 'The Tortoise')

Polychrest

missing stays

Diana Villiers!!

Oh, she does keep turning up.

The Williams sisters

(Sorry about that, but I couldn't resist)

Sophie

the twins

>29 varielle: Cecilia & Frances

I think it was Charlotte and Frances, no?

Ashgrove Cottage

>33 varielle:

That'll teach me for not checking - my only defence is my age!

The Observatory

Stephen's honey vultures

The elderly female orang utan...

telling the gender of an orangutan from its shrivelled head

A *very* young gentleman

Babbington, whose proclivities appear to have caused stunted growth.

Spotted Dick

...and Lobscouse

salted penguin for Christmas dinner

"How much better a man feels when he is mixed with halibut and leg of mutton and roebuck"

Soused Hog's Face

ship rats *yummy*

'What are millers?' asked Stephen.
'Rats saving your presence,' said Jack. 'Only we call 'em millers to
make 'em eat better; and perhaps because they are dusty,too, from getting into the flour and peas.'

Millers in Onion Sauce

medicinal puffins

>Best one yet - I'll come back with a phrase when I've stopped laughing!

The raw croak that was Stephen's laugh.

and Aubrey who barks like a seal

Oakland

shattered masts

H.M.S. Leopard

Iceberg!

Desolation Island

Capt. Bligh

breadfruit

Mutiny!

transported

Australia

purple dromedaries

Stephen's diving bell (transported in HMS Dromedary)

Stephen's inability to board a ship without falling overboard

'drowned baby'

The Ionian Mission

blockade

Exhausted quail.

albatross

Blue faced boobies.

Boiled shit

Hat eating wombat

Muong - the 'well educated' and 'well-socialised' Buddhist Orangutang

van Buren

The Dutch East Indies

nutmeg

Jack's coffee

toasted cheese

Which it will be ready when it's ready.

Killick

Best bower.

(a killick is also an anchor!)

Run out the guns

Jumping Billy

Wilful Murder

Jill Sadler

William Sadler

Ship's Mate

The loblolly boy

Herapeth

Litarary Chinese.

Louisa Wogan

Transported!

the Waakzaamheid

Antarctic cabbages

Those cabbages apparently killed the thread. How about

American whalers

That was quite a bit of a break, wasn't it?

Toothache

Padeen's addiction

laudanum

Opium

coca leaves

Stephen's specimens

Bees!

exhausted quail landing on deck

cryptoGAMS

Maturin the spy

Blue Peter

Peter Heyward scalded in jam sauce by Killick

M Pepin's Digestor

Babbington's Tartarus

Lesbians

Mercedes

The Crown Inn

the diamond necklace

Darn that thread killer, how about

Stephen's ransom

The French Intelligence Services

Duhamel

The 'Blue Peter' Diamond

that naughty Mr. Johnson

Boston

Love ALL the above.

I now know which next series (only own 4 so far, but have read 15 or so),
I will satisfy my "completist" urges on.

Image of the "Surgery" painted red, and the "lobblolley" man, being recruited from
men with "slaughter house experience"

Hm, not sure if the surgery was "red" in the novels, that might have come from my other reading of the times.
Would a more authorative member please correct me?

ETA. I really can't spell, or at least words from that era, so I keep fiddling...

Kane and Abel

Warrant Officer (Kane - HMS Surprise)

"Hm, not sure if the surgery was "red" in the novels, that might have come from my other reading of the times.
Would a more authorative member please correct me?"

i also don't remember if that was mentioned in the O'Brian series, but it certainly was in the Hornblower books.

the Surprises' embroidered hat ribbons

Shore leave

Shelmerston.

H.M.S. Surprise as a letter-of-marque

Abel

Seth

Nathaniel Martin

House Martins

hoopoe

Master & Commander

Voyage

'A voyage whose two ends were out of sight – a voyage sufficient in itself'

Cape Horn

Peril!

Stephen tortured in Spain