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  • Nick Armstrong
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    • Nov 2010
    • 26540

    Originally posted by mercia View Post
    I tink that would be a Thunderbolt P-47

    if that helps anyone
    You are correct, mercia. I infer you are reluctant to continue... I'm sure others will take up the baton!

    Meantime, here are three P-47s... I always thought they were impressive, pugnacious machines, and made quite a few Airfix models of them when I was a nipper! Loved seeing one going through its paces at Duxford - what a wonderful, low rumbling growl they emit (no, Ammy - I wasn't hungry...)


    "...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
      You are correct, mercia. I infer you are reluctant to continue... I'm sure others will take up the baton!

      Meantime, here are three P-47s... I always thought they were impressive, pugnacious machines, and made quite a few Airfix models of them when I was a nipper! Loved seeing one going through its paces at Duxford - what a wonderful, low rumbling growl they emit (no, Ammy - I wasn't hungry...)
      Just as well, your tummy's more like Concorde on take-off I'd heard

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      • Nick Armstrong
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        • Nov 2010
        • 26540

        Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
        Just as well, your tummy's more like Concorde on take-off I'd heard
        Beware the sonic boom !!





        (Any chance of an answer....? )
        "...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

          Are we looking at Thunderbolt as in Georgia or as in a rather refined cuppa char, Caliban?

          Or neither

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          • Nick Armstrong
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            • Nov 2010
            • 26540

            Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
            Are we looking at Thunderbolt as in Georgia or as in a rather refined cuppa char, Caliban?

            Or neither
            Neither. Much more direct than that!

            (By the way - what's the Thunderbolt-Georgia connection? Just out of curiosity)
            "...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
              Neither. Much more direct than that!

              (By the way - what's the Thunderbolt-Georgia connection? Just out of curiosity)
              http://www.superpages.com/yellowpage...T-Thunderbolt/

              So much for helpful subclues

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              • amateur51

                I feel a bit adrift here (no change there then ) - is Zeus the subject of this painting, chucking his thunderbolts?

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                • Nick Armstrong
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                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26540

                  Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                  I feel a bit adrift here (no change there then ) - is Zeus the subject of this painting, chucking his thunderbolts?
                  No, not at all.

                  The three elements of the puzzle (culinary, painter, P-47) refer to works by a certain M...

                  "...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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                  • mercia
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 8920

                    here's yer painter ammsie

                    [and the composer's name is there too]

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                    • Flay
                      Full Member
                      • Mar 2007
                      • 5795

                      Is this the chap who wrote a programme called Špalíček designed for illiterates using word processors. For some reason it didn't sell!

                      How on earth are we supposed to arrive at the answer from those clues?
                      Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                      • Flay
                        Full Member
                        • Mar 2007
                        • 5795

                        Originally posted by Flay View Post
                        How on earth are we supposed to arrive at the answer from those clues?
                        I can't cope with a dose of my own medicine!
                        Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                        • Nick Armstrong
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                          • Nov 2010
                          • 26540

                          Not sure what's going on... Mercia's giving it away!

                          I'll just leave it out there till someone who feels like doing an N picks up the baton... I'll czech back later.
                          "...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 Flay View Post
                            I can't cope with a dose of my own medicine!
                            Can I have some please? Make it a half, I have to cycle...
                            "...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
                              Not sure what's going on... Mercia's giving it away!

                              I'll just leave it out there till someone who feels like doing an N picks up the baton... I'll czech back later.
                              Doh! Martinu? Thunderbolt P-47...Della Francesca....

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                              • Northender

                                ...and the Revue de Cuisine, to go with the Frescoes of PdF and the scherzo for orchestra called Thunderbolt P-47.
                                What a clever question!

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