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  • antongould
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    • Nov 2010
    • 8782

    Originally posted by french frank View Post
    ..... as businesses say: "Customers don't complain: they just don't come back."
    Not sure if this was ever true but, IMVVHO, it isn’t true now. With this Forum as a reasonable example people leave for a period of contemplation or whatever but do return.
    Also Skellers says more people than ever are listening to Essential Classics ..... so it must be true

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    • french frank
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      • Feb 2007
      • 30282

      Originally posted by antongould View Post
      Not sure if this was ever true

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      It's just a well-known quote. If I were to say, I no longer 'complain', I wouldn't mean not complaining here, or on my private blog, or by setting up a Facebook page. I mean not complaining to the source of the dissatisfaction; and as the business men say, I don't come back.

      There has never been any argument that there is AN audience for what Radio 3 does more of now, just as there is AN audience for Classic FM. It will (or logically should be) a larger audience than listened to the old Third Programme-type Radio 3. But there isn't a larger audience, just a different audience replacing the dear departed - I hope you enjoy many hours of happy listening, if I may say that without any sarcasm or ill-will. Radio 3 was then, I've grown away from it.
      It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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      • kernelbogey
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        • Nov 2010
        • 5745

        Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
        This animal tends to get sleepy rather than sad, however I'm operating in ignorant guesswork here as I don't have Latin apart from masses etc, and google returned this "It looks like there aren't any great matches for your search". Huh, at least I own my ignorance...
        It's a bit of dog-Latin I concocted, Oddie, from the well-worn Post coitum omnia animali tristia sunt - something like After sex all creatures feel sad. (The grammar is atrocious, I admit.) I doubt this appears in the text of the Tridentine Mass - but I thought by substituting a 'breakfast' for 'sex', I might raise a wan smile for some.

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        • oddoneout
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          • Nov 2015
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          Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
          It's a bit of dog-Latin I concocted, Oddie, from the well-worn Post coitum omnia animali tristia sunt - something like After sex all creatures feel sad. (The grammar is atrocious, I admit.) I doubt this appears in the text of the Tridentine Mass - but I thought by substituting a 'breakfast' for 'sex', I might raise a wan smile for some.
          I took prandium in the general meal sense rather than breakfast, which only occurred to me later. It's rather satisfying though to find that otherwise my guesswork was OK, and as good a way as any to exercise the brain cells. My 'Huh' remark was directed at google btw.
          Presumably post meridian might be less tristia as that's when the proper R3 schedule starts?

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          • Ein Heldenleben
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            • Apr 2014
            • 6779

            Ientaculum is Latin for breakfast it Appears

            Translation website :

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            “jentaculum was the breakfast: some bread and cheese after waking up; The prandium was a simple collation (merenda), eaten on the go around midday; The cena was the real meal: it began from the middle of the afternoon and generally ended at nightfall.“

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            • antongould
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              • Nov 2010
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              For various reasons I haven’t listened to Breakfast for a while ..... this morning #TheSquire gave a punter a “shout out” ... good man indeed ....

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              • oddoneout
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                • Nov 2015
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                Originally posted by antongould View Post
                For various reasons I haven’t listened to Breakfast for a while ..... this morning #TheSquire gave a punter a “shout out” ... good man indeed ....
                Red rag to some forum bulls Anton...

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                • french frank
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                  • Feb 2007
                  • 30282

                  Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
                  Red rag to some forum bulls Anton...
                  That's why he waves it!
                  It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                  • cloughie
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                    • Dec 2011
                    • 22119

                    Originally posted by french frank View Post
                    That's why he waves it!
                    ...and there was I thinking he only waves the St Piran Flag!

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                    • antongould
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                      • Nov 2010
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                      Originally posted by french frank View Post
                      That's why he waves it!
                      Indeed ........ pretty tame response I think ........ cloughers neighbour did rather well with a, IMVVHO, wonderful last half hour of Herbert Howells and Geoffrey Bush with only a minute of some Johnny Foreigner ...... and of course that will disappear on 01/01/2021 ......

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                      • antongould
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                        • Nov 2010
                        • 8782

                        Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                        ...and there was I thinking he only waves the St Piran Flag!
                        It seems Saint Hilda of Whitby is the nearest thing Hartlepool has to a patron saint .....

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                        • vinteuil
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                          • Nov 2010
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                          Originally posted by antongould View Post
                          It seems Saint Hilda of Whitby is the nearest thing Hartlepool has to a patron saint .....
                          ... o, I think you can probably pray in aid St Aidan as well


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                          • antongould
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                            • Nov 2010
                            • 8782

                            Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
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                            ... o, I think you can probably pray in aid St Aidan as well


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                            Many thanks vints I will ........

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                            • Serial_Apologist
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                              • Dec 2010
                              • 37676

                              I just managed to catch the start of this morning's programme, in time to hear the Petroc advise us, in that strangest of somehow condescending tones he uses, that Peter Donohoe [of all people?] would be playing today's Lunchtime Concert, before leaping out of bed to switch over to Radio 4, and then saying to myself, "Oh really? Fancy that! Peter Donohoe - Well well, who would have thought it possible? How very interesting". Etc, etc.

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                              • oddoneout
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                                • Nov 2015
                                • 9184

                                Originally posted by antongould View Post
                                Indeed ........ pretty tame response I think ........ cloughers neighbour did rather well with a, IMVVHO, wonderful last half hour of Herbert Howells and Geoffrey Bush with only a minute of some Johnny Foreigner ...... and of course that will disappear on 01/01/2021 ......
                                There was a similarly enjoyable(to my ears at least) result of a listener intervention on Monday. A follow-up comment (to a short item last week by the curator about a ship's biscuit in the museum collection) about Gt Yarmouth's Time and Tide museum led to a sequence beginning with Herbert Sumsion's 'They that go down to the sea in ships' with the wonderful "stagger like a drunken man" word painting.

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