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  • Nick Armstrong
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    • Nov 2010
    • 26350

    Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
    ... take heart, brother Caliban - there are many on these Boards who take offence equally at "Oxford" or "Cambridge"!
    No class, some people...





    "...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 antongould View Post
      so who went to the cupboard then?
      oh I see - Eton & Balliol-educated Victor Hely-Hutchinson's Old Mother Hubbard

      they bally-all went to bally Balliol. So the answer must be Pembroke.

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      • Nick Armstrong
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        • Nov 2010
        • 26350

        Originally posted by mercia View Post
        they bally-all went to bally Balliol. So the answer must be Pembroke.
        "...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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        • antongould
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 8681

          Originally posted by mercia View Post
          oh I see - Eton & Balliol-educated Victor Hely-Hutchinson's Old Mother Hubbard

          they bally-all went to bally Balliol. So the answer must be Pembroke.
          He did indeed go to Balliol and died as he wouldn't switch the heating on ........

          Pembroke is indeed the best college .....

          Let's C what you can come up with mercs and avoid Cambridge as already advised.

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          • mercia
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 8920

            Originally posted by antongould View Post
            and died as he wouldn't switch the heating on ........
            oh yes, I remember that detail from previously
            pause for question thinking

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            • mercia
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 8920

              C please to connect

              getting louder, two days, and the wife of the mayor of Rava

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              • mercia
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 8920

                Originally posted by mercia View Post
                getting louder, two days, and the wife of the mayor of Rava
                three operas by C

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                • antongould
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                  • Nov 2010
                  • 8681

                  Originally posted by mercia View Post
                  three operas by C
                  Cherubini?

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                  • mercia
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 8920

                    Originally posted by antongould View Post
                    Cherubini?
                    that's very clever
                    can you say what the operas are called ?

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                    • antongould
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 8681

                      Faniska
                      Two Days

                      ????

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                      • mercia
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 8920

                        Originally posted by antongould View Post
                        Faniska
                        Two Days

                        ????
                        Les Deux Journees (1800)

                        "getting louder" as a musical term ?

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                        • antongould
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                          • Nov 2010
                          • 8681

                          Originally posted by mercia View Post
                          Deux journees

                          "getting louder" as a musical term ?
                          Le Crescendo?

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                          • mercia
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 8920

                            Originally posted by antongould View Post
                            Le Crescendo?
                            sounds good, well done, it must be your turn again

                            Operas by Cherubini - Le Crescendo, Les Deux Journees, Faniska

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                            • antongould
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 8681

                              A D to link

                              Our Mutual Friend
                              Matrices
                              I'm Nobody

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                              • Nick Armstrong
                                Host
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 26350

                                Originally posted by antongould View Post
                                D .... Our Mutual Friend
                                You are teasing us, Mr G, with your clins-d'oeil.... (Do we get the QI klaxon if we say the obvious? )
                                "...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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