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[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Some sort of standing stones?

I did consider Macca's earlier Maxwell's Silver Hammer before deciding against.

Here "stones" is a synonym.

[Don Petter]

It could be a missal, Flay minor, but if it were a set of petitioning prayers it would be a ...

A permissal?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

<shifts uneasily on chair> Intercession, sir?

Pay attention, Flay minor!

(See mercia # 10017)

[Don Petter]

I did consider Macca's earlier Maxwell's Silver Hammer before deciding against.

Here "stones" is a synonym.

Did Maxwell, the scientist, perhaps have stones in the way that Napier had his bones?

[mercia]

wiki says there's an Australian geologist called Douglas Maxwell Stone

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

A permissal?

We'll have none of that behaviour in this class, thank you.

And nobody's going home until I know who put the drawing pin on my seat!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

wiki says there's an Australian geologist called Douglas Maxwell Stone

Closer to home. Temperature's rising?

[Flay]

Please sir, There's a Scottish composer John Maxwell Geddes.

But stones/rocks?? Can't see it

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Please sir, There's a Scottish composer John Maxwell Geddes.

Not him. (We're looking for a writer for the last element).

But stones/rocks?? Can't see it

Concentrate on the rocks.

[mercia]

Gavin Maxwell wrote The Rocks Remain ???

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Gavin Maxwell wrote The Rocks Remain ???

... which makes three!

Melinda Maxwell the oboist and composer who wrote Pibroch for solo oboe.
Peter Maxwell Davies, who wrote Stone Litany
Gavin Maxwell the writer and naturalist who wrote The Rocks Remain (a title that always comes to mind when I see the CD shelves in my local HMV shop).

By the way, I was going to use Steve Race's music for the old Maxwell House coffee adverts, but I couldn't find any reference to his having written the jingle - just lots of peas going pop. I'm sure I saw him demonstrate how he'd matched the visual of coffee beans falling onto the jar lid with a pencil on a bongo: does this ring any bells with anyone elsre?

Anyway: an N from mercia who got Stone Litany and The Rocks Remain?

[mercia]

does this ring any bells with anyone elsre?

'fraid not. All I remember Steve Race doing was tapping rhythms out on a box on My Music.
how did temperature rising come into that last question, please?

I think whoever mentioned Maxwell first should have a go next - I was nowhere before that
(besides the fact that I'm an abysmal question-setter)

[Flay]

Phew, glad that's over with, Ferney. Nice one. I don't think we would have managed without your assistance

It was Subcontrabass who got there first with Maxwell.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

(besides the fact that I'm an abysmal question-setter)

Never stops me!

As for the temperature rising, then you'd get 'otter.

Shameless.

[mercia]

Subcontrabass.