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  • antongould
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 8833

    Originally posted by mercia View Post
    the high V is one of the three parts that lead to my V (a different V to the high V )

    sounds like you have another exhausting day ahead - you are excused AA work
    Many thanks I shall return this evening to find you setting an X..........

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    • teamsaint
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 25226

      Originally posted by antongould View Post
      Which JC

      mercs should I stop climbing that very steep hill in Prague?
      johnny Cash
      I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

      I am not a number, I am a free man.

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      • Nick Armstrong
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 26574

        I'm lost.

        I wish someone - teamsaint? - would come up with the 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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        • Anna

          Only just looked at puzzle, various stuff springs to mind re Prague. Are we dancing?

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          • Resurrection Man

            Valhalla? Long shot, I know, and couldn't explain why.

            No...Ma Vlast.

            Vyšehrad first movement ties into where Dvorak's ashes were scattered

            Tabor another movement. Traditional location for the Mount of Transfiguration ...

            And Blanik....rumoured to be the Czech equivalent of Tintagel....where Wenceslas sleeping army is waiting.





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            • Nick Armstrong
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 26574

              Originally posted by mercia View Post
              V connecting

              Wenceslas's sleeping quarters, Dvorak's ashes, the Mount of the Transfiguration
              V for Vyšehrad ?

              Dvořák's remains are interred there, and it is associated in legend with the transfiguration of Christ... and...

              There is a hotel of that name (sleeping quarters) near Wenceslas Square in Prague:


              EDIT: Cross posted with Rezza and with mercia's clues...
              "...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

                Originally posted by Resurrection Man View Post
                No...Ma Vlast.

                Vyšehrad first movement ties into where Dvorak's ashes were scattered

                Tabor another movement. Traditional location for the Mount of Transfiguration ...

                And Blanik....rumoured to be the Czech equivalent of Tintagel....where Wenceslas sleeping army is waiting.

                crossposted - well done RM - vlast, as in Ma Vlast
                Vysehrad, Tabor and Blanik, three of the movements
                your turn



                [I assume Vysehrad was what anton was on about with his steep walk up a V]



                Last edited by mercia; 04-11-12, 06:44.

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                • Anna

                  Well, I'd gone off dancing with St. Vitus ................

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                  • teamsaint
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 25226

                    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                    I'm lost.

                    I wish someone - teamsaint? - would come up with the answer!
                    answer to what? sorry, accidentally popped onto the thread and thought there was a Johnny Cash chat going on. I already promised to leave!
                    Incidentally, I am quite good at finishing off crosswords, though lousy at actually doing them....if that helps, which I don't expect it will.
                    I thought Athletico Spizz 80 might have been the connection with Central Park...and then i thought ...probably not !
                    Off to the fireworks now.

                    Incidentally, the conversation about "Big River " between AG and me was part of the thread, just a misunderstood, bad bit, on my part. Sorry.
                    I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                    I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26574

                      Originally posted by mercia View Post
                      crossposted - well done RS - vlast, as in Ma Vlast

                      Vysehrad, Tabor and Blanik, three of the movements

                      your turn




                      [I assume Vysehrad was what anton was on about with his steep walk up a V]
                      Yes nice one Rezza! I stumbled part way there... (Quite like my hotel answer though... )
                      "...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
                        • 26574

                        Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                        Incidentally, I am quite good at finishing off crosswords, though lousy at actually doing them....
                        I have often said it about myself but never met anyone with the same tendency. I'm a goal-poacher too ... can't be a***d with all the dribbling and passing from the far end of the pitch
                        "...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
                          • 26574

                          Originally posted by Anna View Post
                          Well, I'd gone off dancing with St. Vitus ................
                          Too many Arbroath Smokies, Anna....? You're meant to eat them, you know.....! )

                          Incidentally, now there's a pause: did you go and see 'Skyfall'? I did - immensely enjoyable. What a romp! Bardem's villain quite brilliant I thought... and some magnificent settings. Plus lots for Dame Judi to do - inc the climax with another acting legend! (not Craig!).
                          "...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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                          • teamsaint
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 25226

                            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                            I have often said it about myself but never met anyone with the same tendency. I'm a goal-poacher too ... can't be a***d with all the dribbling and passing from the far end of the pitch
                            well, like with sodoku, I tend to hit a minor barrier early on, look at the upcoming 92 questions, and think...."where is that Arnold(or whatever) Symphony I was going to listen to" !

                            anyway, every team needs a Rush or a Lineker.... love the analogy. (sounds like an 80's album title).
                            I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                            I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                            • Anna

                              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                              Too many Arbroath Smokies, Anna....? You're meant to eat them, you know.....! )

                              Incidentally, now there's a pause: did you go and see 'Skyfall'? I did - immensely enjoyable. What a romp! Bardem's villain quite brilliant I thought... and some magnificent settings. Plus lots for Dame Judi to do - inc the climax with another acting legend! (not Craig!).
                              No, not so far I have seen Skyfall. I dislike Boys Romping and being Macho. Reminds me of Jeremy Clarkson at his worst. But it is playing here until Nov 8th. We shall see.

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                              • Nick Armstrong
                                Host
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 26574

                                Originally posted by Anna View Post
                                No, not so far I have seen Skyfall. I dislike Boys Romping and being Macho. Reminds me of Jeremy Clarkson at his worst. But it is playing here until Nov 8th. We shall see.

                                ... but Bardem's baddie is anything but macho ... the first whiff of homoeroticism in a Bond fillum... and as I say, the movie's almost more about Dame JD's "M" and her... difficulties... than it is about Bond. I'd urge you to see it!
                                "...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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