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  • Flay
    Full Member
    • Mar 2007
    • 5795

    Originally posted by Flay View Post
    No



    (Cloughie style answer)




    <doh> <doh> <doh> <doh> <doh> <doh> <doh> <doh> <doh> <doh> <doh> <doh> <doh> <doh> <doh> <doh> <doh> <doh> <doh>

    I mean Yes!!! And for his thirty-sixth birthday! (Gerichtsherr Carl Heinrich von Dieskau's I assume from the badly written Wicki entry)

    I am too distracted today. A near neighbour who is a joiner came around to give us an estimate on putting on a new bannister and has now dismantled half the staircase, plasterboard everywhere!
    Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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    • Nick Armstrong
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 26574

      Originally posted by Flay View Post


      <doh> <doh> <doh> <doh> <doh> <doh> <doh> <doh> <doh> <doh> <doh> <doh> <doh> <doh> <doh> <doh> <doh> <doh> <doh>

      I mean Yes!!! And for his thirty-sixth birthday! (Gerichtsherr Carl Heinrich von Dieskau's I assume from the badly written Wicki entry)

      I am too distracted today. A near neighbour who is a joiner came around to give us an estimate on putting on a new bannister and has now dismantled half the staircase, plasterboard everywhere!


      They're quite tall, gumtrees, but plenty of places up there to perch - you should be able to make yourself quite comfortable...







      Cool question actually. Just a pity about the subsequent 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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      • Anna

        Originally posted by Caliban View Post

        Cool question actually. Just a pity about the subsequent clues
        Don't be too hard on him, he not only has an unstable staircase, Mrs. Flay breathing down his neck and also a joiner for whom he has to make endless cups of tea!! Mercia takes the honours I think having first identified Peasant

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        • mercia
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 8920

          oh please not me

          1 - I set the O question
          2 - without spinach I didn't know where to go

          [and 3- the next letter is Q]

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          • Flay
            Full Member
            • Mar 2007
            • 5795

            Originally posted by Caliban View Post


            They're quite tall, gumtrees, but plenty of places up there to perch - you should be able to make yourself quite comfortable...

            Cool question actually. Just a pity about the subsequent clues

            And plenty to hang myself from.

            Mrs Flay will not be impressed when she comes home to find no bannister and gaping holes. She has some old friends coming to stay while I am skiing next week.

            I am worried she might fall off the edge...


            Looks like the P is taken.

            Coleslaw:

            Béla Bartók: Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs, a collection of short folk melodies arranged for piano. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE7Naw7AqtY

            Mer hahn en neue Oberkeet (We have a new governor), BWV 212, by JSB. It was entitled the "Cantate burlesque" by Bach himself, but is now popularly known as the Peasant Cantata.

            And Suppé's Poet and Peasant - Overture which was turned from this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3_aM_s0R1U

            ... into this!!!

            Popeye - The Spinach Overture



            Please watch it through. Brilliant for 1935. I never knew Bluto was such an accomplished violinist!
            Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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            • Anna

              Originally posted by mercia View Post
              oh please not me
              1 - I set the O question
              2 - without spinach I didn't know where to go
              [and 3- the next letter is Q]
              If ferney doesn't want to take it (as he got one element as well) I don't mind obliging but only if I can miss out Q and go to R.

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              • Flay
                Full Member
                • Mar 2007
                • 5795

                Originally posted by Anna View Post
                ...I can miss out Q and go to R.
                That's Queue-jumping!
                Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                • Anna

                  Originally posted by Flay View Post
                  That's Queue-jumping!
                  I know! Well it's down to ferney then to to Quiz us!!

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                  • Flay
                    Full Member
                    • Mar 2007
                    • 5795

                    So did you all enjoy Popeye? With apologies to Calibs for the trombone abuse!
                    Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26574

                      Originally posted by Flay View Post
                      That's Queue-jumping!

                      I think taking into account the Mercia Excuse-Me Rule, and R from Anna would be perfectly in order...
                      "...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

                        I think taking into account the Mercia Excuse-Me Rule, and R from Anna would be perfectly in order...
                        I agree. Roll it on!
                        Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                        • Anna

                          Originally posted by Caliban View Post

                          I think taking into account the Mercia Excuse-Me Rule, and R from Anna would be perfectly in order...
                          Well, ferney hasn't indicated if he wants to set a Q and I have to depart now until just after 2.00 - if he declines then I'll be back then with an R. I think that's fair.

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26574

                            Originally posted by Anna View Post
                            Well, ferney hasn't indicated if he wants to set a Q and I have to depart now until just after 2.00 - if he declines then I'll be back then with an R. I think that's fair.



                            There are some amusing bits in that Popeye cartoon (I thought Roger Norrington wouldn't be out of place in it ) but overall I've always found them pretty grotesque and slightly nightmarish.

                            Loved the percussionist cooking his steak on a cymbal 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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                            • mercia
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 8920

                              Originally posted by Flay View Post
                              So did you all enjoy Popeye?
                              yep, excellent - I liked Olive being tickled under the chin with the bow
                              an excellent P question with plenty of flayvour

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                              • Flay
                                Full Member
                                • Mar 2007
                                • 5795

                                Originally posted by mercia View Post
                                yep, excellent - I liked Olive being tickled under the chin with the bow
                                an excellent P question with plenty of flayvour
                                Thank you, although there were some flaygrant violations
                                Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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