Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate

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  • french frank
    Administrator/Moderator
    • Feb 2007
    • 30301

    Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View Post
    This is the NEW audience FF - the audience that The Trust says FoR3 does not represent
    Correct: it isn't.
    and that it is going to ignore you from now on!
    Also correct, as it happens: they have just told me that they have sent me ten letters since early 2011 and they will not send me any more if I continue to make the same point. I am just now writing to ask them what they believe that point to be
    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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    • Thropplenoggin
      Full Member
      • Mar 2013
      • 1587

      Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View Post


      I was called away while sipping my jasmine tea to listen to the "insipid" 3rd symphony. We will meet at dawn vinteuil and make sure your seconds are fully accoutred with handbags.
      Hors de prix.

      It loved to happen. -- Marcus Aurelius

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      • Bryn
        Banned
        • Mar 2007
        • 24688

        Browsing the Essential Classics schedule I note that they have omitted her major television role from the Maureen Lipman blurb:

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        • Nick Armstrong
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 26538

          Originally posted by Bryn View Post
          Browsing the Essential Classics schedule I note that they have omitted her major television role from the Maureen Lipman blurb:
          She talked about it quite amusingly the other day, though...
          "...the isle is full of noises,
          Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
          Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
          Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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          • teamsaint
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 25210

            I'll bet there isn't a soul on these boards who doesn't , when shopping for clothes,at least think "so you have ALL the sizes in ALL the colours".
            I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

            I am not a number, I am a free man.

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            • Nick Armstrong
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 26538

              Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
              I'll bet there isn't a soul on these boards who doesn't , when shopping for clothes,at least think "so you have ALL the sizes in ALL the colours".
              I don't. Is that a quote from the ads..? I only remember the "-ology" line...
              "...the isle is full of noises,
              Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
              Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
              Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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              • Bryn
                Banned
                • Mar 2007
                • 24688

                Actually it's the wrong way round. The quote should read "all the colours in all the sizes". I thought everybody knew that.

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                • Frances_iom
                  Full Member
                  • Mar 2007
                  • 2413

                  Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                  I'll bet there isn't a soul on these boards who doesn't , when shopping for clothes,at least think "so you have ALL the sizes in ALL the colours".
                  yes - never heard it before but then I've never owned a TV in the 50 so years since I left my parental home ( I assume the ref must be to a TV show or possibly R1 or R2?) - anyone shopping for clothes knows that the wanted but missing item is always the size 14.

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                  • Bryn
                    Banned
                    • Mar 2007
                    • 24688

                    Originally posted by Frances_iom View Post
                    yes - never heard it before but then I've never owned a TV in the 50 so years since I left my parental home ( I assume the ref must be to a TV show or possibly R1 or R2?) - anyone shopping for clothes knows that the wanted but missing item is always the size 14.
                    They were advertisements for what was then still (just) British Telecom. She played the role of Beattie Bellman.
                    Last edited by Bryn; 21-06-13, 19:41. Reason: Typo

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                    • teamsaint
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 25210

                      Originally posted by Bryn View Post
                      Actually it's the wrong way round. The quote should read "all the colours in all the sizes". I thought everybody knew that.


                      wrong again.
                      I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                      I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                      • Nick Armstrong
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26538

                        Originally posted by teamsaint View Post


                        wrong again.
                        "...the isle is full of noises,
                        Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                        Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                        Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                        • teamsaint
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 25210

                          can't find it on youtube.

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                          Edit: Found it !!
                          here it is for all of you who never had a telly !!

                          I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                          I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                          • Bryn
                            Banned
                            • Mar 2007
                            • 24688

                            Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                            can't find it on youtube.

                            more


                            Turns out we were both wrong. Her's is "both of the sizes" and his is "all sizes".

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                            • Richard Tarleton

                              Originally posted by french frank View Post
                              No, but you were listening ...
                              I was packing - had it on in the background. Just about to leave on holiday. Hardly paying attention. That's my story and I'm sticking to it . Just back Clue - where could your hotel balcony bird list include red kite, Egyptian vulture, booted eagle, Alpine and pallid swift, blue rock thrush, Scops owl....

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                              • Zucchini
                                Guest
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 917

                                Whipsnade Zoo?

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