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  • vinteuil
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 12798

    #31
    Originally posted by mangerton View Post
    Was "posh" or "class" or something not once defined as being able to hear "William Tell" without thinking of the Lone Ranger?
    ... and there was some definition predicated on - "if left alone in a room with a tea-cozy in it, - would not put it on his head."

    - but - dagnabbit! - I can't recall what this was supposed to define...

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    • salymap
      Late member
      • Nov 2010
      • 5969

      #32
      Originally posted by PatrickOD View Post
      My favourite overture, The Lone Ranger, is always spoiled for me when I recall that naughty little doggerel - 'diddy bum diddy bum diddy bum bum bum'
      Ah those eight chorus girls. Always reminds me of Clem Relf, the Philharmonia Librarian,who told us the correct version.

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      • mangerton
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 3346

        #33
        Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
        ... and there was some definition predicated on - "if left alone in a room with a tea-cozy in it, - would not put it on his head."

        - but - dagnabbit! - I can't recall what this was supposed to define...
        Something along the lines of ' "a man who, left alone......on his head", is not to be trusted.'

        And thank you - it was of course intellectual.

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        • mercia
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 8920

          #34
          google credits Billy Connolly with "Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cozy, doesn't try it on"

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          • vinteuil
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 12798

            #35
            Originally posted by mercia View Post
            google credits Billy Connolly with "Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cozy, doesn't try it on"
            ... many thanks, mercia - "doesn't try it on", of course!

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            • Serial_Apologist
              Full Member
              • Dec 2010
              • 37628

              #36
              The melody to the finale of Mahler 9 with "Abide with me".

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26524

                #37
                Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                The melody to the finale of Mahler 9 with "Abide with me"....
                .... segueing into 75% of the phrase "I'm dreaming of a White [Christmas]". Such a shame! (see my #13 above)
                "...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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                • Biffo

                  #38
                  I had a friend who used to go ballistic when anyone mentioned 'Torvill & Dean's Bolero' and he didn't really like Ravel all that much.

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                  • Serial_Apologist
                    Full Member
                    • Dec 2010
                    • 37628

                    #39
                    Originally posted by Biffo View Post
                    I had a friend who used to go ballistic when anyone mentioned 'Torvill & Dean's Bolero' and he didn't really like Ravel all that much.
                    The jazz musician Iain Ballamy recounted a funny remark from a punter at the end of one particular gig in Essex, who came over and said words to this effect: "Great. Loved ya playing. As happens our nipper's in the school orchestra. Clarinet. Went and saw them rehearse the other night. What was it now?? Oh yeah: that Holst bloke... erm... "Planet of the Apes Suite"!

                    Having lived in Essex and become well acquainted with locals' verbal shorthand, I could well picture that scene!

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                    • 3rd Viennese School

                      #40
                      Mrs.3rd Viennese School doesnt like Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet Dance of the Knights.
                      Reminds her of the Apprentice and Alan Sugar.

                      I tell her "Its the scene in Romeo and Juliet ballroom where its the men's turn to dance"

                      She says "Its still the apprentice theme, though!"

                      3VS

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                      • Nick Armstrong
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26524

                        #41
                        Originally posted by 3rd Viennese School View Post
                        Mrs.3rd Viennese School doesnt like Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet Dance of the Knights.
                        Reminds her of the Apprentice and Alan Sugar.

                        I tell her "Its the scene in Romeo and Juliet ballroom where its the men's turn to dance"

                        She says "Its still the apprentice theme, though!"

                        3VS



                        "...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
                          • 25200

                          #42
                          Luckily, I happened to decide what the worst piece of music ever made was, and i decided this just the other day.

                          It wasn't by Supertramp.
                          it wasn't something by the 2 year old Mozart.
                          It wasn't even by The thompson Twins.

                          its " Anyone can fall in love", the Eastenders theme.

                          Not classical. But quite ,quite awful, in a "no redeeming features at all " way.

                          So by deciding this, i feel I have saved everybody else a bit of work. No need to thank me.
                          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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                          • teamsaint
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 25200

                            #43
                            I also wish I had never heard, or heard of Alan sugar.

                            Wish I had never bought that amp in 1979.
                            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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                            • EdgeleyRob
                              Guest
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 12180

                              #44
                              Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                              Luckily, I happened to decide what the worst piece of music ever made was, and i decided this just the other day.

                              It wasn't by Supertramp.
                              it wasn't something by the 2 year old Mozart.
                              It wasn't even by The thompson Twins.

                              its " Anyone can fall in love", the Eastenders theme.

                              Not classical. But quite ,quite awful, in a "no redeeming features at all " way.

                              So by deciding this, i feel I have saved everybody else a bit of work. No need to thank me.
                              'Nuff said.
                              Fin.

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                              • barber olly

                                #45
                                Originally posted by Biffo View Post
                                I had a friend who used to go ballistic when anyone mentioned 'Torvill & Dean's Bolero' and he didn't really like Ravel all that much.
                                I just go ballistic when I hear Bolero, that's because I love Ravel!

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