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  • Flay
    Full Member
    • Mar 2007
    • 5795

    So let's have some Metonyms from Caliban
    Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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    • Nick Armstrong
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 26539

      Not a million miles away from your L, this M.... rapidly uniting a wanderer, apparently, with three versions of an Anglo-German sounding dance....
      "...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
        • 26539

        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
        Not a million miles away from your L, this M.... rapidly uniting a wanderer, apparently, with three versions of an Anglo-German sounding dance....
        Summer doldrums... or general puzzlement... ?

        A little late-night clue. The link between this M and Flay's L for Lasses can be summed up as: all Ms are Lasses, but not all Lasses are Ms.
        "...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
          Not a million miles away from your L, this M.... rapidly uniting a wanderer, apparently, with three versions of an Anglo-German sounding dance....
          This looks like great fun! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocCLDCTvG_A

          But that's as far as I can get. Any chance of a little clue please (or shall we await the mercia morning call?)
          Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26539

            Originally posted by Flay View Post
            Any chance of a little clue please (or shall we await the mercia morning call?)
            Your wish was my command even before you posted.

            "...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

              My goodness, all those hours of nothing, then we clash!!!
              Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26539

                Other clues are available!
                "...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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                • Northender

                  Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                  Other clues are available!
                  Yes please!

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                  • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                    Gone fishin'
                    • Sep 2011
                    • 30163

                    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                    A little late-night clue. The link between this M and Flay's L for Lasses can be summed up as: all Ms are Lasses, but not all Lasses are Ms.
                    A lass's (?lass'? - ??las's???) name perhaps?
                    An Anglo-German Dance in 3/4 perchance?
                    One with antipodean connections, mayhap?
                    [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26539

                      Originally posted by Northender View Post
                      Yes please!
                      Sorry Northo - the clues were available but I wasn't !
                      "...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
                        • 26539

                        No ferney, the 'lass' means straightforwardly the female of the species...

                        A clue... well the wanderer is perhaps... roaming

                        And the word 'rapidly' is a direct clue to one of the elements. Find a synonym.

                        "...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

                          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                          No ferney, the 'lass' means straightforwardly the female of the species...

                          A clue... well the wanderer is perhaps... roaming

                          And the word 'rapidly' is a direct clue to one of the elements. Find a synonym.

                          ... so, not "Mathilda", then?

                          ("Waltz" the Anglo for the Germanic "Walzer"; the "jolly swagman" was a "wanderer" ...)
                          [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                          • Northender

                            I was going to suggest the Oberkirchen Children's Choir ('I Love to Go a Wandering / Along the Mountain Track'), but sadly that doesn't have an 'M' in it (except the one in 'Mountain')
                            Synonyms: you want synonyms? In English:
                            Quickly, promptly, speedily, promptly.
                            Other languages are available:
                            Schnell, vite, presto...
                            (What makes you think I'm struggling? )
                            Sudden thought: Maid?

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                            • Nick Armstrong
                              Host
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 26539

                              Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                              ... so, not "Mathilda", then?

                              ("Waltz" the Anglo for the Germanic "Walzer"; the "jolly swagman" was a "wanderer" ...)

                              Not Mathilda, no... You're not after a name...

                              The dance is older than the waltz. It 'sounds' German because that's what its name means...
                              "...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
                                • 26539

                                Originally posted by Northender View Post

                                Synonyms: you want synonyms? In English:
                                Quickly, promptly, speedily, promptly.
                                The key to the answer lies therein

                                Think of what you're going to be up to from Friday onwards...
                                "...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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