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  • Don Petter

    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
    W-w-w-what's going on?!
    I think maybe you need a not a !

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    • Don Petter

      Originally posted by Flay View Post
      This H is not in English
      Old French proverb - 'H - c'est plumes dans les dents'?

      (Well, they have funny habits over there.)

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      • Nick Armstrong
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 26506

        I still don't understand many of the contributions on this h - but Don yours makes me think it might be:

        Hen?
        "...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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        • Don Petter

          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
          I still don't understand many of the contributions on this h - but Don yours makes me think it might be:

          Hen?
          Well, I think it used to be egg-shaped!

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          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
            Gone fishin'
            • Sep 2011
            • 30163

            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
            I don't understand any of that, bar an oblique Beatles reference in the mentions of Liverpool & the tax man...

            W-w-w-what's going on?!

            I think I am off the pace today....
            How tickled hi ham to read that, Cali!
            Not the greatest thing that you possess?
            Well, as you might say on another Thread, "What a beautiful day painting your face red, puring toffee on your hair, standing on one leg and saying 'How's that for a Toffeee Apple, missus?'"





            Oh, no; my glass eye's dropped out.
            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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            • Nick Armstrong
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 26506

              Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
              Well, I think it used to be egg-shaped!
              I feel to be trapped in a world where everyone talks in riddles!

              And where everyone knows something I don't!

              Why do i get the impression everyone's got the answer but me, but no-one's prepared to stump up?!?
              "...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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              • Don Petter

                Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                I feel to be trapped in a world where everyone talks in riddles!


                Indeed. I gather it's what you have in Slavery. (Though it's not really my field.)

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                • mercia
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 8920

                  Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                  Liverpool & the tax man...
                  I thought I'd left enough hints
                  Ken Dodd (from Liverpool) song
                  Inn of the Sixth ....................
                  I still don't know what the magic part is though

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                  • Don Petter

                    Originally posted by mercia View Post
                    I thought I'd left enough hints
                    Ken Dodd (from Liverpool) song
                    Inn of the Sixth ....................
                    I still don't know what the magic part is though
                    Caliban is, of course, a creature fully versed in magic. Perhaps he will know, as soon as he sees the light?

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                    • mercia
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 8920

                      doesn't Don Petter want to answer the question?

                      or FHG ?

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                      • mercia
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 8920

                        oh bother

                        so, the answer is Happiness

                        so what's the magic bit then ?

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                        • Don Petter

                          Originally posted by mercia View Post
                          doesn't Don Petter want to answer the question?

                          or FHG ?
                          Not me! You got it first, in #17139. (And we might yet be able to offload it on whoever gets the third reference. )

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                          • Flay
                            Full Member
                            • Mar 2007
                            • 5795

                            I thought I'd left enough hints
                            Indeed, mercs. Poor Caliban must have missed out on that part of childhood

                            The song is "Happiness." The tax reference was to his evasion case (he was acquitted). His barrister quipped: "Some accountants are comedians, but comedians are never accountants."

                            Wiki goes on: When asked by the judge, "What does a hundred thousand pounds in a suitcase feel like?", Dodd made his now famous reply, "The notes are very light, M'Lord."

                            I still don't know what the magic part is though
                            I'm going to have to confess to having set that clue after a couple of very nice glasses of Bowmore last night. The quote from the Magic Flute ("Tamino mein, o welch ein Glück!") is not an aria which I thought was the case last night.

                            Can't win em all, Mrs...

                            oh bother
                            Bother indeed
                            Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                            • mercia
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 8920

                              is it me then ?


                              I connecting

                              Casella, Lyapunov and Scriabin's right hand

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                              • Flay
                                Full Member
                                • Mar 2007
                                • 5795

                                Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                                "What a beautiful day painting your face red, puring toffee on your hair, standing on one leg and saying 'How's that for a Toffeee Apple, missus?'"
                                Excellent, ferney
                                Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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