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  • mercia
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 8920

    the internet tells me that L'enfance du Christ was mostly written at the Bofinger restaurant

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    • Nick Armstrong
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      • Nov 2010
      • 26506

      Originally posted by mercia View Post
      the internet tells me that L'enfance du Christ was mostly written at the Bofinger restaurant

      Good heavens!

      Been wracking my brains about this - annoyed I didn't think of Eggs Benedict (even though it's wrong )
      "...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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      • Resurrection Man

        Yes, a very nice bon bouche. There's a clue.

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        • amateur51

          Originally posted by Caliban View Post

          Under the Olympic Symbol etc. (Protection) Act 1995 section 18 (2), the word delineated in red hereabove is a protected word (to wit, For the purposes of this Act each of the following is a protected word, namely, “Olympiad”, “Olympiads”, “Olympian”, “Olympians”, “Olympic” and “Olympics”).

          Accordingly: Norman Stanley Amateur, you will go to prison for five years.



          If I spell it lower case, do I get a reduced sentence, m'Lud?

          And can I take my own choice of dessert please?

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          • vinteuil
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 12761

            Originally posted by Caliban View Post

            Under the O****ic Symbol etc. (Protection) Act 1995 section 18 (2), the word delineated in red hereabove is a protected word (to wit, For the purposes of this Act each of the following is a protected word, namely, “O****iad”, “O****iads”, “O****ian”, “O***ians”, “O****ic” and “O****ics”).

            Accordingly: Norman Stanley Amateur, you will go to prison for five years.
            as maître Caliban has chosen to use the above forbidden terms for the o*****cs, he too will be joining our confrère Amms in chokey...

            Originally posted by Caliban View Post

            Good heavens!

            Been wracking my brains about this - annoyed I didn't think of Eggs Benedict (even though it's wrong )
            I think if you've been doing anything to your brains, you've been racking them. Unless you've been wrecking them??

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            • Nick Armstrong
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 26506

              Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
              as maître Caliban has chosen to use the above forbidden terms for the o*****cs, he too will be joining our confrère Amms in chokey...

              I think if you've been doing anything to your brains, you've been racking them. Unless you've been wrecking them??


              Matthias: Look, I don't think it should be a sin, just for saying "Jehovah".

              [Everyone gasps]

              Jewish Official: You're only making it worse for yourself!

              Matthias: Making it worse? How can it be worse? Jehovah! Jehovah! Jehovah!

              Jewish Official: I'm warning you! If you say "Jehovah" one more time (gets hit with rock) RIGHT! Who did that? Come on, who did it?

              Stoners: She did! She did! (suddenly speaking as men) He! He did! He!

              Jewish Official: Was it you?

              Stoner: Yes.

              Jewish Official: Right...

              Stoner: Well you did say "Jehovah. "

              [Crowd throws rocks at the stoner]

              Jewish Official: STOP IT! STOP IT! STOP IT RIGHT NOW! STOP IT! All right, no one is to stone - anyone - until I blow this whistle. Even... and I want to make this absolutely clear... even if they do say, "Jehovah. "

              [Crowd stones the Jewish Official to death]


              PS:
              (Methinks Madame Vinrouge needs to give Monsieur Vinrouge some domestic tasks as he plainly has nothing better to do than tweak the blameless Caliban about his foibles... )
              "...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


                [I][B]Matthias: Look, I don't think it should be a sin, just for saying "Jehovah".

                [Everyone gasps]


                PS:
                (Methinks Madame Vinrouge needs to give Monsieur Vinrouge some domestic tasks as he plainly has nothing better to do than tweak the blameless Caliban about his foibles... )
                Great script!

                We could club together & buy Mme Vinrouge a 5kg bag of peas for Monsieur to shell before lunch

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26506

                  Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                  Great script!

                  We could club together & buy Mme Vinrouge a 5kg bag of peas for Monsieur to shell before lunch
                  I'm in!

                  "...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
                    • 26506

                    Originally posted by Resurrection Man View Post
                    Yes, a very nice bon bouche. There's a clue.
                    Pour revenir à nos moutons, this is a very puzzling puzzle indeed

                    Is the food reference buried in one of Berlioz's operatic works?

                    Talking of moutons, I was thinking of lamb and shepherds singing farewell... Warm? Or trop saignant?
                    "...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
                      • 12761

                      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                      :
                      PS:
                      (Methinks Madame Vinrouge needs to give Monsieur Vinrouge some domestic tasks as he plainly has nothing better to do than tweak the blameless Caliban about his foibles... )
                      ... harrumph

                      Mme V, being younger than I am, is at work today; so, yes, I'm at home alone.

                      What are "domestic tasks"??

                      PS - am completely lorst with this Berlioz / food / conductor malarkey

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                      • Lateralthinking1

                        Beecham?

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                        • mercia
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 8920

                          Originally posted by Resurrection Man View Post
                          bon bouche
                          my computer asks if I mean bonne bouche
                          I don't know. Do I?
                          apparently that's a goats cheese

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                          • Resurrection Man

                            Think of what his countrymen also eat and that's not a chicken drumstick....there's two clues embedded there

                            And while Berlioz may well have eaten B he is most particular about it's use in his music.

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                            • Flay
                              Full Member
                              • Mar 2007
                              • 5795

                              Frog's legs?


                              I'm still clueless, but thought you'd like this




                              Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                              • vinteuil
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 12761

                                Originally posted by Resurrection Man View Post

                                ... he is most particular about its use in his music.
                                bibrato? bophicleides?? batterie de cuisine???

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