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Sidetracked, alas!!!Originally posted by mercia View PostI wonder if ammie or calabash are in question-setting mode ?
"...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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Belfast: Van MorrisonOriginally posted by Tapiola View Post
Do you Vant to expand upon this, cloughie?
Bonn: van Beethoven was born
Brabant: Can't find anything other than a Belgian journalist of that name.Comment
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Originally posted by cloughie View Post
... well, one could say there is an Elsa van Brabant in Lohengrin
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Indeed.Originally posted by vinteuil View Post... well, one could say there is an Elsa van Brabant in Lohengrin
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.Comment
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Originally posted by amateur51 View PostVincent van Gogh, it says here
ry ry Night... 
Full house.
I appear to have upset the rules again
Whose W is it? cloughie?Comment
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Cloughie by a country mile, I reckon - bravoOriginally posted by Tapiola View Postry ry Night...
Full house.
I appear to have upset the rules again
Whose W is it? cloughie?
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Originally posted by Tapiola View PostI 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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Don't worry Taps - I've just had my ear flicked again by SWMBOOriginally posted by Caliban View Post how so?
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Un*ucky!!Originally posted by amateur51 View PostDon't worry Taps - I've just had my ear flicked again by SWMBO
"...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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**** **** *** * **** ** coconuts!Comment
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Originally posted by vinteuil View Post 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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Sorry, gang no can do now as I'll be away from the net for a long while.Originally posted by amateur51 View PostCloughie by a country mile, I reckon - bravoComment
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