It's just a little game....

[Fear 'n boozin]

A few of us have a game on Flickr called Guess Where East Dulwich, a slower moving, and pretty basic rip-off of Guess Where London (1230-ish more members and we'll have caught them up!). Anyway. Poor Bagpuss has put the following picture up, but nobody's gotten where it is - anybody got any ideas?

 

[Mark]

The Magdela?

[Nero]

Gotten? Nero

[dulwichmum]

Is it the view in between the roof tiles that my au pair sees each night as she sleeps over the garage?

[Michael Palaeologus]

No - nothing like it

[mockney piers]

Is it the building opposite the CPT that used to have crazy-half-naked-coke-snorting-elvis-man in it?

[Jah Lush]

66 Sylvester Road, the old bakery part of the building which is in Landells?

[bagpuss78]

Oh how i miss sitting outside the CPT watching the 'crazy-half-naked-coke-snorting-elvis-man' of a saturday afternoon whilst supping my beer ;-)

[citizenED]

It's the sky above East Dulwich

citizen

[bagpuss78]

*chuckles*

[Ko]

is the corner of the building on the left the old fish factory??:-S

[Jah Lush]

Old Fish factory? Where?

[Fear 'n boozin]

Mr Mockney Piers got it (I guess he must have spent many an hour looking at the drunken naked man - I know I did...you know, I mean, he was entertaining and all that).

Gotten is the past participle (not that I know what that means!).

[Asset]

it is not Fear N Boozin! Got is the past participle of get. Gotten does not appear in the dictionary.

Anyway I'll assume you were joking and new that anyway.:))

[Asset]

actually - you know what I just checked and gotten IS in the dictionary, although stated as US slang

[Fear 'n boozin]

I just did a google for gotten asset, so maybe the not the most reliable of research. I thought it might be an americanism, but decided to ignore that aspect of it......

[Brendan]

If something can be forgotten surely it stands to reason that it can also be gotten? As in, ?I have gotten drunk and forgotten my trousers.?

[Asset]

only if you are american

[Brendan]

No no. In american it would be "pants" instead of "trousers". Keep up here man.

[Asset]

true enough - and then you'd be showing your fanny (bum)

[Jah Lush]

Damned Americanisms. What about ill-gotten gains. Does that count?

[mockney piers]

Actually can you new something? Perhaps neologise(d) would have been more appropriate linguistically speaking. Otherwise invent(ed) would do.

*god I'm a pedantic shit*

[Asset]

To what do you refer MP?

[mockney piers]

>> Anyway I'll assume you were joking and new that anyway.

I took new here to mean that he created the word gotten out of his fertile imagination.

[Brendan]

~I see what you mean MP. I'm sure it was just a typo and they meant to use the correct form of the word that would have been newed.