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  • Nick Armstrong
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    • Nov 2010
    • 26514

    Originally posted by Anna View Post
    I cannot be arsed


    Is that a distant tuk-tuk-tuk I hear, as frenchie's robot coughs into life again...?
    "...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


      Is that a distant tuk-tuk-tuk I hear, as frenchie's robot coughs into life again...?


      I think it's had just the one outing - praps frenchie's having problems finding the replacement batteries ... or has it been requisitioned for Jubbly duties?

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      • Nick Armstrong
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 26514

        Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
        No, try someone more famoussssss - film star, courtroom adversary of Charles Laughton in Witness For The Prosecution
        Well.... Marlene Dietrich, of course... but I've been scrabbling around for an N without success.

        Got to attend to some practical things, and nip out for a bit now...

        It's a real tickler, ammy!
        "...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
          Well.... Marlene Dietrich, of course... but I've been scrabbling around for an N without success.

          Got to attend to some practical things, and nip out for a bit now...

          It's a real tickler, ammy!
          Good man yourself, Caliban ... and one of Marlene's most famous songs (from WWI)? We're looking for the composer who is one of the Ns

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          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
            Gone fishin'
            • Sep 2011
            • 30163

            Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
            one of Marlene's most famous songs (from WWI)? We're looking for the composer who is one of the Ns
            Yeah but no but Norbert

            ?
            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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            • cloughie
              Full Member
              • Dec 2011
              • 22110

              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
              Cloughie and Ammy - get a room, guys!
              ammy and cali - get a life guys!

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              • amateur51

                Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                Yeah but no but Norbert

                ?
                Spiffy ferney - composed by Norbert Schultze

                So ... on with the Norberts

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                • amateur51

                  Originally posted by Anna
                  No, frankly, it's not that, it's blokes sticking together; and cutting out any femalesl Goodnight
                  Oh dear!

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                  • Nick Armstrong
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 26514

                    Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                    So ... on with the Norberts
                    O Lord - you're not dragging Mr Dentressangle in here again are you!?

                    Could the wobbly first be Herr Brainin - first violin of the Amadeus... Did he have a pronounced vibrato?
                    "...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
                      O Lord - you're not dragging Mr Dentressangle in here again are you!?

                      Could the wobbly first be Herr Brainin - first violin of the Amadeus... Did he have a pronounced vibrato?
                      That's the kiddie, that's rthe boy, Caliban!

                      Now - you and fhg in a life or death struggle for Norbert no 3

                      Mr Dentressangle is too busy to play tonight!
                      Last edited by Guest; 02-06-12, 20:24. Reason: trypo

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                      • Nick Armstrong
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26514

                        Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                        Now - you and fhg in a life or death struggle for Nobert no 3
                        Forgotten the flippin' question... Hang on...

                        Ah! Ahem... yes... Schumann's mate...

                        Well it's this cove I suspect:

                        Robert Schumann, who arranged for the posthumous publication of Burgmüller's two symphonies, and completed the orchestration of the scherzo of the unfinished Symphony No. 2, wrote in a memorial notice that no death was more deplorable than that of Norbert Burgmüller since the early death of Franz Schubert.
                        Last edited by Nick Armstrong; 02-06-12, 20:28.
                        "...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
                          Forgotten the flippin' question... Hang on...

                          Ah! Ahem... yes... Schumann's mate...

                          Well it's this cove I suspect:

                          Robert Schumann, who arranged for the posthumous publication of Burgmüller's two symphonies, and completed the orchestration of the scherzo of the unfinished Symphony No. 2, wrote in a memorial notice that no death was more deplorable than that of Norbert Burgmüller since the early death of Franz Schubert.
                          One Hundred and EIGHTY!!!

                          Bravo Caliban!

                          Over to you for an exceptional O, svp

                          Or shall we have a break?

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                          • amateur51

                            On reflection, I am going to take the bulk of today's Guardian to bed & have an early night

                            Nighty night

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                            • Nick Armstrong
                              Host
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 26514

                              So for Anna's Law purposes:

                              - a wobbly first: Norbert Brainin, first violin of the Amadeus Quartet
                              - a composer much-admired by Robert Schumann: Norbert Bergmüller
                              - and a song sung by Connie and Amanda and some husky Cherman voman: Norbert Schultze's "Lili Marleen"

                              I shall be back by and by with an O for the night shift.

                              "...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
                                • 26514

                                Ten percussionists, spoken word performers and doubtless some garbagemen were Knaackered by this O
                                "...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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