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  • Don Petter

    This must be it:

    Arthur Marshall, well known broadcaster, was a master at Oundle School

    The Saturn V rocket was designed at the Marshall Space Fight Center, in Alabama

    The Hermit Crab, Dardanus Megistos, is found in the Marshall Islands


    Please send my prize ...

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    • Nick Armstrong
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 26540

      Originally posted by Flay View Post
      I was thinking minke as in wales, and Marc Minkowski who recorded Dardanus
      Cold....

      What's the 'minke' - 'Wales' thing?

      Ah! Just looked it up... whales?
      "...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
        • 26540

        Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
        This must be it:

        Arthur Marshall, well known broadcaster, was a master at Oundle School

        The Saturn V rocket was designed at the Marshall Space Fight Center, in Alabama

        The Hermit Crab, Dardanus Megistos, is found in the Marshall Islands


        Please send my prize ...
        PHENOMENAL, Don!

        Wrong, but PHENOMENAL!!

        Well - it sounds like a set of parallel answers.... but not in the least musical, and not what I have on the card!
        "...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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        • Don Petter

          Originally posted by Caliban View Post

          Well - it sounds like a set of parallel answers.... but not in the least musical!
          I could sing them for you?

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          • Flay
            Full Member
            • Mar 2007
            • 5795

            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
            Cold....

            What's the 'minke' - 'Wales' thing?

            Ah! Just looked it up... whales?
            I am using my Xmas present iPad and it keeps trying to "correct" what I write!
            Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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            • ferneyhoughgeliebte
              Gone fishin'
              • Sep 2011
              • 30163

              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
              Alright then

              Very kind. I've wanted to set M for a few rounds, in fact.


              What links a school, the Saturn V for example, and Dardanus?
              Mannheim?
              ... school
              ... rocket
              ... the other opera called Dardanus


              EDIT: by Stamitz of said parish!
              [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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              • Flay
                Full Member
                • Mar 2007
                • 5795

                Monster?

                Dardanus attacks a monster ravaging Teucer's kingdom, saving the life of Anténor who is attempting, unsuccessfully, to kill it. Teucer and Dardanus make peace, the latter marrying Iphise.

                A whale is referred to as a "monster" in the bible (Lamentations 4:3 Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.)

                And a Saturn 5 is a monster of a rocket!
                Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                  Gone fishin'
                  • Sep 2011
                  • 30163

                  Originally posted by Flay View Post
                  I am using my Xmas present iPad and it keeps trying to "correct" what I write!
                  You should see what my spell-check keeps suggesting for "Dardanus"!
                  [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                  • Flay
                    Full Member
                    • Mar 2007
                    • 5795

                    Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26540

                      Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                      Mannheim?
                      ... school
                      ... rocket
                      ... the other opera called Dardanus
                      ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY!!

                      Well done, ferney - you got yourself 'n N !

                      Which bit did you get first? The Mannheim "Rocket" reference?

                      For completeness, the 'Dardanus' is the opera by Carl Stamitz, one of the Mannheim school.

                      "...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
                        • 26540

                        Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                        You should see what my spell-check keeps suggesting for "Dardanus"!


                        It works even better in French. I once went to see Rameau's (cond: Minkowski) in Rennes.... We were giggling far too much. "D'art... d'anus..."

                        Next !!
                        "...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
                          • 26540

                          Originally posted by Flay View Post
                          Monster?

                          Dardanus attacks a monster ravaging Teucer's kingdom, saving the life of Anténor who is attempting, unsuccessfully, to kill it. Teucer and Dardanus make peace, the latter marrying Iphise.

                          A whale is referred to as a "monster" in the bible (Lamentations 4:3 Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.)

                          And a Saturn 5 is a monster of a rocket!
                          Whoops.... too late, mate! Nice try!

                          Thanks for calling!

                          Good luck with your iPad!
                          "...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

                            Now then, now then; how's about this guys and gals:

                            An N to link:

                            Casanova
                            Helmut Lachenmann
                            A cat duet.
                            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                            • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                              Gone fishin'
                              • Sep 2011
                              • 30163

                              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                              Which bit did you get first? The Mannheim "Rocket" reference?
                              Yes: your use of "sort of" put me on the right road.
                              [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                              • subcontrabass
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 2780

                                Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                                Now then, now then; how's about this guys and gals:

                                An N to link:

                                Casanova
                                Helmut Lachenmann
                                A cat duet.
                                Nun?

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