How I wish I'd never heard..........

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  • Norfolk Born

    #16
    Well, Radio 3 is more downtown than Downton these days.

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    • Nick Armstrong
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 26524

      #17
      Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
      And both of you Radio Times readers ... hmmmmm
      Moi aussi. But only once Carstairs has ironed it, natch...
      "...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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      • Stillhomewardbound
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 1109

        #18
        Do they have the leathere covers??!!

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        • salymap
          Late member
          • Nov 2010
          • 5969

          #19
          If you lot think the RTs 'posh' you should get out more. How else would I know what to avoid?

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          • mangerton
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 3346

            #20
            Was "posh" or "class" or something not once defined as being able to hear "William Tell" without thinking of the Lone Ranger?

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            • vinteuil
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 12798

              #21
              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?
              ... the way I was told it - it was the definition of an intellectual, "being able to hear 'William Tell' without thinking of 'The Lone Ranger'."...

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              • ahinton
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 16122

                #22
                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?
                As best I recall it, it was in fact defined as not being able to hear the William Tell overture without thinking of the first movement of Shostakovich's Fifteenth Symphony, but then that may have arisen as a mere consequence of my underprivileged background, I suppose.

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26524

                  #23
                  Originally posted by Stillhomewardbound View Post
                  Do they have the leathere covers??!!
                  Haha my granny used to have those. Like putting a frilly toutou-clad doll on the spare loo-roll: all those funny bourgeois touches!
                  "...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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                  • Ferretfancy
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 3487

                    #24
                    Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                    ... the way I was told it - it was the definition of an intellectual, "being able to hear 'William Tell' without thinking of 'The Lone Ranger'."...
                    " The word intellectual suggests straight away a man who's untrue to his wife" WH Auden

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                    • Bryn
                      Banned
                      • Mar 2007
                      • 24688

                      #25
                      Country, the country, we're going to see the cows ...

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                      • PatrickOD

                        #26
                        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'

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                        • Mahlerei

                          #27
                          Speaking of 'posh', when my son was little he was convinced the lyrics to that Oz series were: 'Skippy, the posh kangaroo'....

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                          • amateur51

                            #28
                            Originally posted by Mahlerei View Post
                            Speaking of 'posh', when my son was little he was convinced the lyrics to that Oz series were: 'Skippy, the posh kangaroo'....
                            bless!

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                            • amateur51

                              #29
                              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                              Moi aussi. But only once Carstairs has ironed it, natch...
                              Good man, that Carstairs!

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                              • Mahlerei

                                #30
                                ... Mahler's Adagietto - Death in Venice.

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