Talk:Rumpole of the Bailey

message: The Daily Mail have just finished publishing a 3-part Rumpole Christmas story in which they describe Rumpole as a QC. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.36.209.181 (talk) 13:11, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Can anyone shed light on this? Wulfilia 03:47, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Unless Rumpole "takes silk" becomes a Q.C. in the story itself, which seems unlikely, it sounds like a mistake. Is the story available on the Daily Mail website or elsewhere? Newyorkbrad 03:55, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rumpole, Q.C.? 

message: One book (Rumpole's return I think) states Rumpole's degree as a Fourth; a classification that has not been available from Oxford for many years.  Contrary to the previous text, an Oxford Third was not equivalent to a 2:2 - the second class was undivided, so both 2:1s and 2:2s were in that class.  Sjoh0050 16:21, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: When did he attend a university ? He mentions attending a 'crammer' which is a private study tutoring passage to the bar exams.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:44B8:3102:BB00:DD49:9152:6CB3:2ACA (talk) 10:16, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Class of Rumpole's degree

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message: In "Rumpole's Last Case" both Dennis and Cyril Timson plead guilty to theft, though, I'll admit, not in exchange for lesser punishment on the gun charge.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.48.123.234 (talk) 20:58, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Exception to the rule "Never Plead Guilty"?

message: Many other TV shows have an expanded section detailing DVD releases (e.g. series, region, and date of release). Does anyone know those details for Rumpole? I'm happy to add the information if someone can point me at it (or send it to me).  HWV 258  02:58, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  DVD releases? 

message: I added in brackets that Rumpole is known to drink gin at home (made clear in series 1) however this seems to have been promptly removed.  Why? 199.127.252.195 (talk) 20:02, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gin 

message: << Never ask a Question, the Answer to which you do not know. >>   This cross-examination prudence deserves due mention.  Rumpole gem. 180.200.139.207 (talk) 10:17, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: You'll also find the precept in 'To Kill A Mockingbird'. Scout says that, as a lawyer's daughter, she absorbed the idea with her mother's milk, or some such.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:44B8:3102:BB00:DD49:9152:6CB3:2ACA (talk) 10:20, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  And the concept that a literary genius (he got paid ; he may even have turned a profit on writing!) like legal professional Mortimer had read "Mockingbird" and deliberately or unconsciously referenced it ... is not exactly hard to conceive. Actually, there may well be previous uses which both Mortimer and Lee knew of. Which would be an interesting facet for literary lawyers or legalistic writers to follow. AKarley (talk) 01:10, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: It is a very common saying, and probably old. It is not necessarily true though. Do you agree?--Jack Upland (talk) 10:49, 15 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Never ask a Question, the Answer to which you do not know. 

message: As the article is written at this time, "Erskine-Brown [...] He particularly loves the operas of Wagner, and his (and Phyllida's) children are named Tristan and Isolde."
: That sounds to me like an in-joke on the series of books popular at the time (early 1970s) in Britain known as "the Vet Books" - pseudonymous author James Heriott, protagonists including Siegfried & Tristan, whose father was a Wagner fan ... or it could be something that Mortimer "retconned" into the story. It's unlikely that the real motivations would ever appear, but it feels like the sort of joke that Mortimer would include. Speaking as a casual fan. AKarley (talk) 01:10, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: See Tristan and Isolde: more likely they both used the same source or sources!--Jack Upland (talk) 10:47, 15 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  In-joke? 

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