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well that's exhausted all the E's I can find connected to a canopied penny-farthing so I'm stumped now. I expect everyone else is waiting patiently in the wings.
The canopied Penny-Farthing was the symbol of The Village in McGoohan's cult TV series The Prisoner... That had a Welsh setting, but I'm damned if I can find any E connection... let alone involving lager or butter...
Last edited by Nick Armstrong; 25-01-11, 15:26.
Reason: Attempting unsuccessfully to iron out the bug that seems to have included the word 'setting' twice in my message...
"...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..."
The canopied Penny-Farthing was the symbol of The Village in McGoohan's cult TV series The Prisoner... That had a Welsh setting, but I'm damned if I can find any E connection... let alone involving lager or butter...
Well, "The Prisoner" was filmed at Port-Meirion, designed and built by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis...
Well, "The Prisoner" was filmed at Port-Meirion, designed and built by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis...
Yes and I saw a Mr Elms wrote the music, hence an earlier suggestion above I presume.
I'm also thinking McEwan's lager.. (not something I try to do very often...).. but then the train of my thought plunges off the viaduct.
"...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..."
Well, "The Prisoner" was filmed at Port-Meirion, designed and built by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis...
Exactly the connection I was looking for.
I presume from his last post that Hercule has solved the other two Ellises so I will wait to let him explain those and then invite him to set the next question.
That is a Scottish brew, is it not? Wrong mainland.
Good Lord, I have just looked it up... it seems that for a number of decades I have wrongly associated the word "Hibernian" with Scotland. Due to the football club I suppose.
Tonight, thanks to the Alphabet Associations thread, I shall end the day somewhat better informed, even though (to paraphrase F. E. Smith, later Lord Birkenhead L.C.) none the wiser.
"...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..."
Good Lord, I have just looked it up... it seems that for a number of decades I have wrongly associated the word "Hibernian" with Scotland. Due to the football club I suppose.
Don't fret, o ugly one, I did exactly the same on the old message boards during a heated discussion on Tippett's use of folksong...
(Mona Lisa, the animated ostriches in Fantasia dance to Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours from La Gioconda and Gioconda de Vito played violin for Pope Pius XII).
(Mona Lisa, the animated ostriches in Fantasia dance to Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours from La Gioconda and Gioconda de Vito played violin for Pope Pius XII).
Easy, wasn't it? Although the last was actually a reference to a letter an audience member wrote to her saying he was no longer an atheist.
I think we're now ready for another slightly more cryptic offering for H?
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