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  • greenilex
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    • Nov 2010
    • 1626

    I have to reply in the negative.

    Therein it lies...

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    • Anna

      Originally posted by greenilex View Post
      I have to reply in the negative.

      Therein it lies...
      Negative? No? So, that's a No then!

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      • greenilex
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 1626

        Wrap it up then, Anna.

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        • Anna

          Originally posted by greenilex View Post
          Wrap it up then, Anna.
          I don't know it greenilex! I had a thought but it doesn't fit the clues and I'm offline now and will leave it to the others.

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          • Norfolk Born

            The sun has risen, as usual, in Suffolk...but I'm still totally in the dark as far as this question is concerned. Any chance, please, of a recapitulation of wherever it is we are?

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            • Norfolk Born

              Like Anna, I'm going offline now...let's hope I understand the answer when it finally arrives!

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              • antongould
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 8774

                Are we talking No?

                Like Rumpole's fixation on Nod(dy) I now cannot get No Regrets by the Walker Brothers (a trio) out of my stupid head....................

                We the clueless await a clue............................

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                • Norfolk Born

                  antongould: thank you for the 'we'...I feel a little less stupid now! Where on Earth IS greenilex?

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                  • greenilex
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                    • Nov 2010
                    • 1626

                    In Southampton.


                    Working backwards from the answer:

                    No, No, Nan etc is a musical.

                    "On yonder hill there stands a maiden" is an eighteenth century song.

                    The worst one first - Nessun Dorma means No body...

                    I too feel like a ghoul with no body, but I think that's just the MB speaking.

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                    • Norfolk Born

                      I don't really understand the link between the question and the answers (despite having a degree from the University of Southampton ).
                      I suppose the wandering eye refers to 'Oh No John, No John No'...but does the 'trio' refer to the three words in the name of the musical or to the original Three Tenors Concert at the Baths of Calacalla?
                      Just a mo....I suppose a trio member's breakthrough could refer to the change from 'No, No' to 'Nanette'...which leaves us with ....(sorry, my brain's seized up).
                      (The customary English translation of 'Nessun Dorma' is 'None shall sleep' by the way).

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                      • Don Petter

                        I see no gestures in those answers (except ones from frustrated solvers)?

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                        • greenilex
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                          • Nov 2010
                          • 1626

                          Well, parsing the word No is a trifle otiose and as a gesture I find it clearer.

                          Yes, I'm way too loose-linking for the game, but it was fun. Well done all. I think A

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                          • greenilex
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 1626

                            .....Anna should have the next conundrum-setting privileges.

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                            • amateur51

                              Originally posted by Anna View Post
                              I don't know it greenilex! I had a thought but it doesn't fit the clues and I'm offline now and will leave it to the others.
                              I dunno - what a shower! Mercia won't set them, Anna won't finish them, and I don't understand any of it ...

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                              • Anna

                                Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                                I dunno - what a shower! Mercia won't set them, Anna won't finish them, and I don't understand any of it ...
                                Well, my thought about the 'No' was that it was to do with Luigi Nono, but obviously it wasn't him. Norfy got the No No Nanette so perhaps he should set it as I'm not going to be around (and I still don't understand about the maiden on yonder hill)

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