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  • amateur51

    Originally posted by mercia View Post
    ooh thanks, I haven't heard that for a long time

    reminds me of that excitable American radio reporter getting tongue-tied over his report of the fire at the Firestone tyre factory
    Typical excitable Ozzie ...



    what you need is a calm authoritative Englishman at a time like that ....

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    • mercia
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 8920

      Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
      oops, did I say American ? <doh>

      thanks very much

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      • Nick Armstrong
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 26540

        Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
        Typical excitable Ozzie ...



        what you need is a calm authoritative Englishman at a time like that ....

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQxS58aSIss

        Or what about the stiff upper lip of Lt Cdr Tommy Woodroffe? (better hide the bottle of rum though )

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WpiTa7azQs
        "...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

          Or what about the stiff upper lip of Lt Cdr Tommy Woodroffe? (better hide the bottle of rum though )

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WpiTa7azQs
          good ol' Tommy

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26540

            Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
            good ol' Tommy
            You'd heard it before, of course?

            Meanwhile, back at the question: I just can't crack part 3...
            "...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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            • Flay
              Full Member
              • Mar 2007
              • 5795

              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
              Meanwhile, back at the question: I just can't crack part 3...
              I was starting to wonder...

              So we have: Flower, a piano, a song, but what is it about the drumming??? And why are lids involved? And what's this about railings?

              I just need the singular F now

              Got to hurry you....
              Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26540

                Originally posted by Flay View Post
                Got to hurry you....
                Alright, flower...

                I'm not sure which part of the clue Flower Drum Song answers? The Broadly bit or the first bit? The first bit I suppose, from your prompt - if Broadly = Broadway = musical = Flower Drum Song.

                Drumming... lids... railings...
                "...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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                • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                  Gone fishin'
                  • Sep 2011
                  • 30163

                  Fleur-de-lis?

                  (On the railings of Buck Hice?)
                  [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                  • Flay
                    Full Member
                    • Mar 2007
                    • 5795

                    No. What uses railings, a cube-like structure? This is the first flower, Calibs
                    Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26540

                      That's yer akshul French!

                      Beats my utterly irrelevant Flower of Scotland into a cocked hat...
                      "...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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                      • Nick Armstrong
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26540

                        Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                        Fleur-de-lis?

                        (On the railings of Buck Hice?)
                        That's yer akshul French!

                        Beats my utterly irrelevant Flower of Scotland into a cocked hat...
                        "...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 Flay View Post
                          No. What uses railings, a cube-like structure? This is the first flower, Calibs
                          That's a square, or could it possibly be a Cage? Something of John Cage perhaps? A Flower? Edit: crossed with Norfy - Great Minds and all that! Norfy gets the point, mine was merely a guess, never heard of it.

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                          • Norfolk Born

                            A Flower - a song for voice and closed piano by John Cage.
                            The Welsh Kitchen Wizard strikes again!

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                            • cloughie
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2011
                              • 22127

                              Originally posted by Norfolk Born View Post
                              A Flower - a song for voice and closed piano by John Cage.
                              The Welsh Kitchen Wizard strikes again!
                              Yes but is there anything in the Cage!

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                              • Anna

                                Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                                Yes but is there anything in the Cage!
                                Couple of lobsters perhaps? Or, some octopusses? Did anyone see that documentary last night about Billingsgate Fish Market and how, after 400 years, they've done away with licensed fish porters? I thought cloughie might have been interested, being in Cornwall by the sea, with fishermen all around him.
                                Originally posted by Norfolk Born View Post
                                The Welsh Kitchen Wizard strikes again!
                                Not much of a Kitchen Wizard in this weather, more like salads and perhaps a home made potato salad is the extent of any cooking when it's so hot.

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