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  • Nick Armstrong
    Host
    • Nov 2010
    • 26522

    Originally posted by Anna View Post
    Oh. Well you know full well that I am not a Wodehouse fan, but was this casting bad or the adaptation or has it, hate to use the expression, been dumbed down for cheap laughs?
    Certainly casting and adaptation, for starters.
    "...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
      You missed nothing, I switched off - it's embarrassingly bad.
      Ditto chez Ferney. Turning Wodehouse's foxtrotting prose into screen images was alwys going to be difficult, but to give up before the first hurdle and turn it into some sub-Viz slapstick - unforgivable!
      [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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      • Anna

        Oh well, ferney and Cali, I will not search it out on iplayer. Shame. Although, if it's that bad and like Viz, I very well might! Have they turned it into some Tom Sharpe thingy?
        Edit: Having sorted the Naan bread, I am off now.
        Last edited by Guest; 13-01-13, 19:18. Reason: just saying goodbye for a while

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        • Flay
          Full Member
          • Mar 2007
          • 5795

          Having ordered a new pump for the Bissell, I am now primed and ready for you all to seek a Q for me.

          This versatile Q had a Voice in spite of disability, he believed with Penderecki, jazzed it up, then stopped.
          Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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          • mangerton
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 3346

            Originally posted by Anna View Post
            Oh well, ferney and Cali, I will not search it out on iplayer. Shame. Although, if it's that bad and like Viz, I very well might! Have they turned it into some Tom Sharpe thingy?
            Edit: Having sorted the Naan bread, I am off now.
            I must agree with Mine Host and with ferney. I have long been a great fan of PGW, but that travesty was a disgrace. I stuck it for about ten minutes. I wonder whether anyone involved with that alleged "adaptation" has ever read any of the Blandings books. Lord Emsworth and Beach have been seriously miscast, and I'm not convinced about Freddie and Connie either.

            Oh dear. I am far from being gruntled - in fact, I am actually disgruntled.

            (Naan bread, Anna? Were you having curry?)

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            • Beef Oven

              My last concert was a very poor jazz band in a Walthamstow pub 3 hours ago

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26522

                Originally posted by Beef Oven View Post
                My last concert was a very poor jazz band in a Walthamstow pub 3 hours ago

                Have you tottered onto the wrong thread, Beefy?

                Either that, or it's a VERY cryptic stab at Flay's Q...

                On second thoughts it could refer to the "jazzed it up and then stopped" part of the puzzle, I suppose....
                Last edited by Nick Armstrong; 13-01-13, 22:32. Reason: Second thoughts...
                "...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
                  • 26522

                  Originally posted by Flay View Post
                  This versatile Q had a Voice in spite of disability, he believed with Penderecki, jazzed it up, then stopped.
                  Is it not Mr Quasthoff? A thalidomide victim, he did some jazz recordings near the end of his career, and now teaches... Not sure about the Pender connection: presumably had a work written for him?
                  "...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
                    Is it not Mr Quasthoff? A thalidomide victim, he did some jazz recordings near the end of his career, and now teaches... Not sure about the Pender connection: presumably had a work written for him?
                    Well done, Mein Host! He gave up singing a year ago. As it's late shall I tell you the Penderecki connnection? He performed at the world premiere of Credo (believed )

                    Roll it on please...
                    Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                    • Flay
                      Full Member
                      • Mar 2007
                      • 5795

                      I should have said "first believed" to make it less unclear. I'm still an amateur at this...
                      Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                      • Nick Armstrong
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26522

                        Originally posted by Flay View Post
                        Roll it on please...
                        An R ladies and gentlemen to connect Thomas, Agatha and Francis Scott.
                        "...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
                          ?..and Francis Scott.
                          Is this in a certain Key?
                          Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                          • Quarky
                            Full Member
                            • Dec 2010
                            • 2656

                            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                            An R ladies and gentlemen to connect Thomas, Agatha and Francis Scott.
                            A wild guess - Roaring Twenties?

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                            • cloughie
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2011
                              • 22113

                              Originally posted by Flay View Post
                              Is this in a certain Key?
                              ...or is it his second cousin?

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                              • cloughie
                                Full Member
                                • Dec 2011
                                • 22113

                                Thomas Edison, Agathie Christie and F Scott Fitzgerald were all dyslexic - R eading difficulties?

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