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  • mercia
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 8920

    Wild Honey Pie (1968) - The Beatles ????

    The Schizophrenic Steak & Kidney Pie Song by Billy & The Straitjackets ?? (1967)

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    • Flay
      Full Member
      • Mar 2007
      • 5795

      Yes, Honey Pie:

      Honey pie you are making me crazy / I'm in love but I'm lazy / So won't you please come home.

      Over to you. Next "Q"uestion?
      Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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      • Flay
        Full Member
        • Mar 2007
        • 5795

        The Schizophrenic Steak & Kidney Pie Song by Billy & The Straitjackets

        What?
        Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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        • mercia
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 8920

          Originally posted by Flay View Post
          What?
          well it fits the clues, which I think is the most important thing

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          • Flay
            Full Member
            • Mar 2007
            • 5795

            My mind boggled at the thought of a schizophrenic S&K pie. Sorry, I think my set of P "clues" were a little too obscure this time. But we got there in the end.
            Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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            • mercia
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 8920

              Originally posted by Flay View Post
              a little too obscure
              my questions are always very obscure so I've no right to complain

              how did morbidly and cheerfully come into that question?

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26523

                Originally posted by mercia View Post

                The Schizophrenic Steak & Kidney Pie Song by Billy & The Straitjackets ?? (1967)

                Did you make that up, mercs?

                Testing question, Flay! Fauré is one of my favourite composers and I never knew that was his middle name, nor did I think to look! Bye bye Miss American Pie... so the 'buddy' was female..! Didn't think of that either. And I'd never heard of that Beatles song, shame on me

                But as mercia asks, what was the morbidly/cheerfully aspect?
                "...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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                • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                  Gone fishin'
                  • Sep 2011
                  • 30163

                  Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                  Bye bye Miss American Pie... so the 'buddy' was female..!
                  Wasn't it Buddy Holly (also [nearly] Seasonal?) and the others who died in the 'plane crash of 2/2/59? ("The day the Music died").
                  [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                  • mercia
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 8920

                    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                    Did you make that up, mercs?
                    'fraid so (you haven't been googling it have you?) .............. sorry ........
                    moving on, speaking of obscure


                    Q

                    a one-off James Bond character, an 1890 theatrical disagreement and an early 1750's Parisian operatic battle

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26523

                      Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                      Wasn't it Buddy Holly (also [nearly] Seasonal?) and the others who died in the 'plane crash of 2/2/59? ("The day the Music died").

                      AH! Good point! Well I was way outside my comfort zone with that question, so I'll just shut up and eat another mince pie.

                      "...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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                      • Nick Armstrong
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26523

                        Originally posted by mercia View Post
                        'fraid so (you haven't been googling it have you?) .............. sorry ........
                        moving on, speaking of obscure


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                        a one-off James Bond character, an 1890 theatrical disagreement and an early 1750's Parisian operatic battle
                        I almost did!!!

                        Quarrel!

                        Damn... 4 minutes! I was trying to beat the 3 minute answer the other day
                        "...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 Caliban View Post
                          Quarrel!

                          details required though please

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26523

                            Originally posted by mercia View Post
                            lots of details required though please
                            I just know that Quarrel is the boatman in the Bond book/film set in the Caribbean (Thunderball? I always get confused, can't be bothered to google!!) and it means disagreement and also fits the battle clue in general terms...

                            OK I've stopped being lazy

                            La Querelle des Bouffons was the theatrical / operatic disagreement (otherwise called La Guerre des Bouffons - the 'battle' reference) in the 1750s about whether French or Italian opera was best.

                            Not sure bout the 1890 thing 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 Caliban View Post
                              Not sure bout the 1890 thing though...
                              G & S floorcoverings

                              Dr No was the Bond

                              then R is yours

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                              • vinteuil
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 12782

                                Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                                Not sure bout the 1890 thing though...


                                ]
                                ... not the ghastly Konstantin Savitsky painting, "Family Quarrel" of 1890, I hope
                                "

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