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  • Nick Armstrong
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    • Nov 2010
    • 26574

    Originally posted by Daniel View Post
    Britten: I like apples too.
    ... it took me a couple of minutes!
    "...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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    • EdgeleyRob
      Guest
      • Nov 2010
      • 12180

      George Lloyd - Didn't know my father

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      • Beef Oven!
        Ex-member
        • Sep 2013
        • 18147

        Originally posted by Daniel View Post
        Bridge: On the River Kwai

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        • Beef Oven!
          Ex-member
          • Sep 2013
          • 18147

          Originally posted by Daniel View Post
          Britten: I like apples too.

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          • Daniel
            Full Member
            • Jun 2012
            • 418

            Originally posted by EdgeleyRob View Post
            George Lloyd - Didn't know my father
            He he, excellent.

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            • Beef Oven!
              Ex-member
              • Sep 2013
              • 18147

              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
              ... it took me a couple of minutes!
              Cockney rhyming slang often gives one an advantage

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              • Daniel
                Full Member
                • Jun 2012
                • 418

                Vivaldi: Man for all seasons.

                Sibelius: Finnish on a high.

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                • Serial_Apologist
                  Full Member
                  • Dec 2010
                  • 37820

                  Richard Rodney Bennett: Wretched Rodney, bin it.

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                  • ahinton
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 16123

                    Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                    Richard Rodney Bennett: Wretched Rodney, bin it.
                    Tonic sulphur; what?

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                    • Serial_Apologist
                      Full Member
                      • Dec 2010
                      • 37820

                      Elgar: not the Spanish Lady, but the Spanish railway station.

                      (Apols if already used!)

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                      • ahinton
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 16123

                        Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                        Elgar: not the Spanish Lady, but the Spanish railway station.

                        (Apols if already used!)
                        It's been used but not on this thread, methinks! I'd always thought that it was a Catalan train station, but maybe I got that wrong.

                        Delius: Paris? Cloud cuckoo land!

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                        • Serial_Apologist
                          Full Member
                          • Dec 2010
                          • 37820

                          Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
                          Cockney rhyming slang often gives one an advantage
                          I only just got it!

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26574

                            Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                            I only just got it!
                            "...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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                            • ahinton
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 16123

                              Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                              I only just got it!
                              Probably because it's more spelling (or "speling", as Britten would have written it) than rhyming...

                              Stevenson: Motors perpetuate temporal fatalities

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                              • ardcarp
                                Late member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 11102

                                Delius - writes using an amen...an aman....an amanunsnis.... Oh sod it, Eric Fenby

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