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  • Norfolk Born

    Was SS actually the answer?

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    • mercia
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 8920

      Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
      Now, mercia
      I really don't think it should be me - everyone else did the hard work
      we haven't had so many joining in for a long time!
      I bet Mr Norfolk has a lovely T waiting to be unleashed

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      • vinteuil
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 12938

        Originally posted by Norfolk Born View Post
        Was SS actually the answer?
        I remain completely lorst...

        Was there any musical elephant in this clue or answer, or am I (probably) missing something?

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        • Norfolk Born

          Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
          I remain completely lorst...

          Was there any musical elephant in this clue or answer, or am I (probably) missing something?
          There was a reference somewhere along the way to an opera by Eotvos (yes, him).
          'T' will be served shortly!

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          • Anna

            If it was Six Sisters - then going back to Margaret Drabble - she wrote a book The Seven Sisters Edit: Did Star Trek have a Sister Ship?

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            • Norfolk Born

              Which 'T' links the following: Paris (1737), Vienna (1786) and London (1889)?
              All elements are musical!

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              • Don Petter

                Originally posted by mercia View Post
                apologies for going after the Sewells
                Don't be sorry - The most lasting impression from this one has been Brian Sewell dressed as a nun.

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                • Don Petter

                  Originally posted by Norfolk Born View Post
                  There's a character called Pavel Chekov in Star Trek. Anton Chekhov's father was Pavel Chekhov. Does this mean that I've misunderstood the Star Trek reference?
                  I think you've seen a fundamental flaw in the whole integrity of the question, which no-one has chosen to notice.

                  But no matter, it was good fun. I felt we were all stamping around the area until eventually we had to have killed the thing whatever it was and whereever it was.

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                  • Don Petter

                    Originally posted by Norfolk Born View Post
                    Which 'T' links the following: Paris (1737), Vienna (1786) and London (1889)?
                    All elements are musical!
                    Easy then, having looked on a map. A triangle!

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                    • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                      Gone fishin'
                      • Sep 2011
                      • 30163

                      Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
                      I think you've seen a fundamental flaw in the whole integrity of the question, which no-one has chosen to notice.

                      But no matter, it was good fun. I felt we were all stamping around the area until eventually we had to have killed the thing whatever it was and whereever it was.
                      Many thanks, DP, but in defence of the spelling of Chekhov (as opposed to Chekov), I have an early 20th C edition of his plays translated into English which gives his name as "Tschekow". Just as "Tschjaikowski" has gradually settled into "Tchaikovsky", I presume that, in future in which Star Trek is set, "Chekhov" will have lost the second "h".

                      (That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

                      Best Wises.
                      [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                      • Don Petter

                        Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                        Many thanks, DP, but in defence of the spelling of Chekhov (as opposed to Chekov), I have an early 20th C edition of his plays translated into English which gives his name as "Tschekow". Just as "Tschjaikowski" has gradually settled into "Tchaikovsky", I presume that, in future in which Star Trek is set, "Chekhov" will have lost the second "h".

                        (That's my story and I'm sticking to it!)

                        Best Wishes.
                        And to you!

                        This useful device could henceforth become know as 'Ferney's Gambit' or 'The Star Trek Escape', in which anything could have transmuted into anything else.

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                        • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                          Gone fishin'
                          • Sep 2011
                          • 30163

                          Fame at last!
                          [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                          • Norfolk Born

                            Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
                            Easy then, having looked on a map. A triangle!
                            Certainly AN answer, but not quite the one I had in mind!
                            I'll wait awhile before offering any clues....

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                            • mercia
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 8920

                              Originally posted by Norfolk Born View Post
                              Paris (1737)
                              not too proud to show my ignorance, anything to do with Rameau?

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                              • Norfolk Born

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