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  • Tapiola
    Full Member
    • Jan 2011
    • 1688

    Originally posted by cloughie View Post
    Van


    Do you Vant to expand upon this, cloughie?

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    • Nick Armstrong
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 26524

      Originally posted by mercia View Post
      I wonder if ammie or calabash are in question-setting mode ?
      Sidetracked, alas!!!
      "...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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      • cloughie
        Full Member
        • Dec 2011
        • 22115

        Originally posted by Tapiola View Post


        Do you Vant to expand upon this, cloughie?
        Belfast: Van Morrison

        Bonn: van Beethoven was born

        Brabant: Can't find anything other than a Belgian journalist of that name.

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        • vinteuil
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 12797

          Originally posted by cloughie View Post

          Brabant: Can't find anything ....

          ... well, one could say there is an Elsa van Brabant in Lohengrin

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          • Tapiola
            Full Member
            • Jan 2011
            • 1688

            Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
            ... well, one could say there is an Elsa van Brabant in Lohengrin
            Indeed.

            Brabant, or more strictly North Brabant, is the region where this person was born, the town of Groot-Zundert being the precise birthplace.

            His indirect musical link is with a song which bears the title of his Christian name, though he himself was a proponent of another creative art. Although he died well over a century ago, a recently deceased eye-witness to his existence recalls his surly nature and his alcohol-tinged aroma.

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            • amateur51

              Originally posted by Tapiola View Post
              Indeed.

              Brabant, or more strictly North Brabant, is the region where this person was born, the town of Groot-Zundert being the precise birthplace.

              His indirect musical link is with a song which bears the title of his Christian name, though he himself was a proponent of another creative art. Although he died well over a century ago, a recently deceased eye-witness to his existence recalls his surly nature and his alcohol-tinged aroma.
              Vincent van Gogh, it says here

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              • Tapiola
                Full Member
                • Jan 2011
                • 1688

                Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                Vincent van Gogh, it says here
                ry ry Night...

                Full house.

                I appear to have upset the rules again

                Whose W is it? cloughie?

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                • amateur51

                  Originally posted by Tapiola View Post
                  ry ry Night...

                  Full house.

                  I appear to have upset the rules again

                  Whose W is it? cloughie?
                  Cloughie by a country mile, I reckon - bravo

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                  • Nick Armstrong
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 26524

                    Originally posted by Tapiola View Post
                    I appear to have upset the rules again
                    how so?
                    "...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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                    • amateur51

                      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                      how so?
                      Don't worry Taps - I've just had my ear flicked again by SWMBO

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                      • Nick Armstrong
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26524

                        Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                        Don't worry Taps - I've just had my ear flicked again by SWMBO
                        Un*ucky!!
                        "...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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                        • vinteuil
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 12797

                          **** **** *** * **** ** coconuts!

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26524

                            Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                            **** **** *** * **** ** coconuts!
                            Extra glass of Sauternes after luncheon, vinliquoreux?
                            "...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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                            • cloughie
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2011
                              • 22115

                              Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                              Cloughie by a country mile, I reckon - bravo
                              Sorry, gang no can do now as I'll be away from the net for a long while.

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                              • amateur51

                                Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                                Un*ucky!!

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