The Not-the-Proms Digression

[MrGongGong]

I'm quite sure that we all know that! But that's a creditable perfomance tally indeed and I'm delighted for you!

Do you want to split the cost of asking Richard to be my agent?

[ahinton]

On once again consulting my much-loved and utterly priceless copy of the Oxford English Dictionary, regarding the definition of 'noise', I note the following:

A sound, especially one that is loud or unpleasant or that causes disturbance:
( such as) ... making a noise like a pig.

There's your incontrovertible, definitive answer, Mr GongGong!

Really?! If that's not selective quotation, I have no idea what might be! In the main part of my OED, the definition of "noise" occupies three entire columns, equivalent to an entire page, with a further 2+ columns in the supplementary volume; I'm not sure what edition of it that you have that makes it so "much-loved and utterly priceless" but, if the above is all that it gives as a definition of "noise", it sounds to me as though it could be a pocket one of abridged highlights from same...

[MrGongGong]

OT diversion RE: Dictionaries

Here's a selection of words that have been taken out of the Oxford Junior Dictionary ...
adder, beaver, boar, cygnet, doe, drake, heron, herring, kingfisher, lark,, lobster, magpie, minnow, mussel, newt, otter, oyster, plaice, raven, starling, stoat, stork, thrush, weasel, wren, acorn, ash, beech, blackberry, bloom, bluebell, bramble, brook, buttercup, carnation, catkin, chestnut, clover, conker, county, cowslip, dandelion, fern, fungus, gooseberry, gorse, hazel, hazelnut, heather, holly, horse chestnut, ivy, lavender, leek, minnow, mint, nectar, oats, pansy, pasture, poppy, primrose, sycamore, tulip, violet, walnut, willow.
Here's the campaign to have them put back ...

http://www.naturemusicpoetry.com/campaigns.html

[ahinton]

Do you want to split the cost of asking Richard to be my agent?

I must admit that the thought hadn't actually crossed my mind, but I can understand why you ask; much would presumably depend upon his willingness to take on that responsibility in addition to all his other commitments and, of course, how much he might charge if so!...

[ahinton]

OT diversion RE: Dictionaries

Here's a selection of words that have been taken out of the Oxford Junior Dictionary ...
adder, beaver, boar, cygnet, doe, drake, heron, herring, kingfisher, lark,, lobster, magpie, minnow, mussel, newt, otter, oyster, plaice, raven, starling, stoat, stork, thrush, weasel, wren, acorn, ash, beech, blackberry, bloom, bluebell, bramble, brook, buttercup, carnation, catkin, chestnut, clover, conker, county, cowslip, dandelion, fern, fungus, gooseberry, gorse, hazel, hazelnut, heather, holly, horse chestnut, ivy, lavender, leek, minnow, mint, nectar, oats, pansy, pasture, poppy, primrose, sycamore, tulip, violet, walnut, willow.
Here's the campaign to have them put back ...
http://www.naturemusicpoetry.com/campaigns.html

I'm buzzing for repetition; you cite "minnow" twice! The venerable Nicholas Parsons will now award me a point. And what do points mean?...

[MrGongGong]

I'm buzzing for repetition; you cite "minnow" twice! The venerable Nicholas Parsons will now award me a point. And what do points mean?...

A brace of minnows ?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I'm buzzing for repetition; you cite "minnow" twice! The venerable Nicholas Parsons will now award me a point. And what do points mean?...

I'm no longer allowed to drive.


Political Correctness gone stark raving!

[french frank]

BUT listening strategies and skills have often been neglected in favour of "all join in" activities (not that there's anything wrong with joining in)

I'll go with that as another way of expressing it

[MrGongGong]

I'll go with that as another way of expressing it

Listening has never been addressed very well in music education, even in the time that so many folks are nostalgic about.

[Bryn]

... Mr Tipps seems to labour under the delusion that the point of art is beauty.

I suggest he reconsiders his take on the works of Aeschylus, Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Goya, and Beethoven.

As Uncle Frank so succinctly put it, "'Beauty' is a French phonetic corruption for a short neck cloth ornament currently in resurgence."

[ahinton]

I'm no longer allowed to drive.

What? Just one more point takes you off the road? I'd no idea that you'd already collected so many points on your licence, fhg!

Anyway, it seems that our resident Tippster's gone all coy all of a sudden about his OED definition of noise; one doesn't get points on one's licence for sounding one's horn too often and inappropriately, does one?...

[ahinton]

As Uncle Frank so succinctly put it, "'Beauty' is a French phonetic corruption for a short neck cloth ornament currently in resurgence."

In a village not far from where I once lived, there was a restaurant called Beau Thai; unsurprisingly, it didn't last very long.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

In a village not far from where I once lived, there was a restaurant called Beau Thai; unsurprisingly, it didn't last very long.

Ooh! I'd've used it!

There's a local hairdresser called "Deb on Aire". Had I cause ...

[ahinton]

Ooh! I'd've used it!

There's a local hairdresser called "Deb on Aire". Had I cause ...

We've come a long way from David Matthews' 8th symphony I mean the thread topic (still, some digressions are more diverting than others, I guess)...

[MrGongGong]

In a village not far from where I once lived, there was a restaurant called Beau Thai; unsurprisingly, it didn't last very long.

http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowUserReviews-g609058-d1917423-r137078917-The_Gandhi-Sandy_Bedfordshire_England.html

not to mention Jane Hair in Heckmondwike