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  • Anna

    Originally posted by Flay View Post
    I thought everyone knew that?
    Well, thee and me might have known but it's not the answer, although a nice bit of trivia. Talking of which, for the C linking Croatia and Rome, did you know James Joyce spent the Winter of 1904 at Pula, which is on the Croatian coast? It was, supposedly, the inspiration for Ulysesses and there is a statue of him there.

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    • Flay
      Full Member
      • Mar 2007
      • 5795

      Originally Posted by Flay
      How many times has the Alphabet been Associated?
      Originally Posted by mercia
      on a rough count-up this is its fifty-first round
      Originally posted by Flay View Post
      All that wasted time...
      I retract my comment. I should have said: "so much discovered!"

      My brain is swelling with what I have learned on AA
      Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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      • cloughie
        Full Member
        • Dec 2011
        • 22127

        Originally posted by Flay View Post
        Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, was one of the founders of English Renaissance poetry. He and his friend Sir Thomas Wyatt were the first English poets to write in the sonnet form that Shakespeare later used, and Surrey was the first English poet to publish blank verse in his translation of the second and fourth books of Virgil's Aeneid.

        I thought everyone knew that?
        The very same - and I thought perhaps the Cow-fancier was Howard Keel though I must admit to having difficulty in pinning him down to a particular herd!

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        • Anna

          Originally posted by cloughie View Post
          The very same - and I thought perhaps the Cow-fancier was Howard Keel though I must admit to having difficulty in pinning him down to a particular herd!
          Oh, you lot are just teasing me aren't you? You all know but won't say the answer but I'm offline for half an hour or so.

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          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
            Gone fishin'
            • Sep 2011
            • 30163

            Is the "aristocratic poet" actually an aristocrat (like Byron) or just have a (nick) name like "Earl" (or "Duke" etc)?
            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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            • mercia
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 8920

              Originally posted by Anna View Post
              a child could solve it!
              or even a childe ?

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              • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                Gone fishin'
                • Sep 2011
                • 30163

                Originally posted by mercia View Post
                or even a childe ?
                <doh>
                [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                • Anna

                  Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                  <doh>
                  Oh, come on someone, even your granny knows the answer to this!

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                  • cloughie
                    Full Member
                    • Dec 2011
                    • 22127

                    Originally posted by Anna View Post
                    Oh, come on someone, even your granny knows the answer to this!
                    MAYBE, BUT i can hardly ask her - she's long gone! But is the Childe the Poet or the Cattle-fancier?

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                    • Anna

                      Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                      MAYBE, BUT i can hardly ask her - she's long gone! But is the Childe the Poet or the Cattle-fancier?
                      Childe is the Poet, the cattle fancier's muse is rather shorter and the chap on holiday, well, he probably lives in a fantasy!

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                      • Nick Armstrong
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26540

                        Originally posted by Anna View Post
                        Childe is the Poet, the cattle fancier's muse is rather shorter and the chap on holiday, well, he probably lives in a fantasy!
                        You've got me well stumped with your puzzler, Anna, although I haven't got many functioning brain cells left after a busy day... Just thought I'd let you know I've been trying !
                        "...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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                        • Anna

                          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                          You've got me well stumped with your puzzler, Anna
                          Oh, mercs knows it, the penny has dropped with ferney and I think cloughie is on the case! Will none of you gentlemen oblige me tonight?

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                          • Don Petter

                            Originally posted by Anna View Post
                            Oh, mercs knows it, the penny has dropped with ferney and I think cloughie is on the case! Will none of you gentlemen oblige me tonight?
                            I've got a bit of a headache ...

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                            • Anna

                              Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
                              I've got a bit of a headache ...

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                              • Nick Armstrong
                                Host
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 26540

                                Originally posted by Anna View Post
                                Oh, mercs knows it, the penny has dropped with ferney and I think cloughie is on the case! Will none of you gentlemen oblige me tonight?


                                "...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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