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Sorry, Mercia, still coming to grips with this smartphone. Seems to have a mind of its own. Or I have fat fingers !Originally posted by mercia View Postare you in a hurry, risenman ??
that's the third time you've asked thatComment
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It most certainly was.Originally posted by Caliban View PostI think you have a computer glitch RM - repeat messages....
The was a Drury Lane pantomime in the 18th Century called "Harlequin Doctor Faustus"... http://www.abebooks.com/Harlequin-Do...on/29380778/bd
I suspect that's not what's on the card though
So last one is the presence in a long title of an opera. Think Hot Gabriel .....Comment
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don't apologise, I'm sure I wouldn't know one end of a smartphone from the otherOriginally posted by Resurrection Man View PostComment
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Good lord.Originally posted by Resurrection Man View Post
Sorry, been off-line and otherwise engaged. "The angel Gabriel from heaven came, his wings as drifted snow, his eyes as flame"... Incendiary archangels... Can't get this at all...
And about to embark on the homeward journey now..."...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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Should I give that last piece out?
Who's turn is it anyway?
BTW, Caliban, 'angel' is good.Comment
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Nah.... I should wait for the workers to get home and settle down to some solving...Originally posted by Resurrection Man View Post
"...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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"Hot Gabriel"; "angel is good". ? = "Hell's Angel"?[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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A good idea but not what I had in mind. Is there a Hells Angel opera?Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostComment
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Anyone there ? I'm feeling a bit like Cinderella here !Comment
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Here's two more clues.
Citrus fruit.
West Side Story.
That's three clues in total since 18.30
Off to the land of nod now....Comment
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I've been trying various Doctors (they all say I should cut down on AA: what do they know?!) Dr Atomic, Dr Miracle - but the only "long title" with a Doctor in it I can think of is Dr Strangelove; or How I Learnt to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - the angel of Death??? - which isn't an Opera AFAIK (unless Bernstein wrote it and the Manuscript was lost whilst researching Delius' orange gr ...[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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Just a minute ...[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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No; as you were. "Citrus Fruit" = orange groves; "West Side Story" based on R & J; "opera with long name" - it all seemed to be holding together ...Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
... but there's no Ryddu "Doctor" in A Village Romeo and Juliet!
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