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  • amateur51

    Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
    naughty boy - no.

    the von is perhaps in part a clue? - even more so had his name been von Blank ??
    Les Dawson?

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    • Norfolk Born

      Sorry: http://dennisviollet.com

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      • mercia
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 8920

        Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
        the von is perhaps in part a clue? - even more so had his name been von Blank ??
        not too sure what this means, there are people apparently called von Blank, would you recommend us investigating any of them?

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        • mercia
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 8920

          anything to do with quartets by Verdi, Boccherini and/or Puccini?

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          • mercia
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 8920

            anything to do with Quartetto Italiano?

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            • mercia
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 8920

              anything to do with other people called Gordon and/or Woodhouse?

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26344

                Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                that was anton, Calibs - I mentioned Violet and anton came back as quick as u like with Dennis - Dennis Viollet, a footballer, one of the Busby Babes innit - did he perish in Munich?

                Baillie Vass is Private Eye's other name for Sir Alec Douglas-Home, former PM

                Do I get any points for these tutorials?
                Merely eternal gratitude...
                "...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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                • vinteuil
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 12471

                  Originally posted by mercia View Post
                  , there are people apparently called von Blank, would you recommend us investigating any of them?

                  no... The clue is probably no help, just adds obscurity - which is the reverse of what is needed here. But some language translations might help...

                  Originally posted by mercia View Post
                  anything to do with Quartetto Italiano?

                  no...


                  Originally posted by mercia View Post
                  anything to do with other people called Gordon and/or Woodhouse?

                  no...

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                  • Anna

                    Well I've been all round the houses with Violet and so far the only F is Folkington, which doesn't lead anywhere but my Mother lived not far from there. So are we looking for a musical answer rather than a name?

                    While we are cogitating did anyone see the conclusion of Edward Drood last night? I thought it was terrific, very Gothic and Matthew Rhys was brilliant and quite frightening in his madness.

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                    • vinteuil
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 12471

                      the F answer is not musical, but is something common to the three sub-answers.

                      As my von Trapp clue seems just to have obscured things - why not just think of what he sang?

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                      • Nick Armstrong
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26344

                        Originally posted by Anna View Post
                        While we are cogitating did anyone see the conclusion of Edward Drood last night? I thought it was terrific, very Gothic and Matthew Rhys was brilliant and quite frightening in his madness.
                        Saving both up for the weekend! Good to know that you as well as various reviewers think highly of it!

                        I am getting nowhere with the F 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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                        • amateur51

                          Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                          the F answer is not musical, but is something common to the three sub-answers.

                          As my von Trapp clue seems just to have obscured things - why not just think of what he sang?
                          Lordy this can only mean one thing: - vints spent part of Crimbo watching the fillum, the poor devil

                          How in the name of Christopher Plummer am I supposed to remember the title of a song from a fillum that I haven't seen for 40+ years?

                          Edelweiss? How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? I Am Sixteen Going On Seventeen? Tomorrow Belongs to Me (or was that Cabaret?) - zounds!

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                          • mercia
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 8920

                            ah, I see, a horticultural question with Puccini's quartet, Mrs V and Georg Ludwig's song

                            thanks for all the clues, I was too lazy to work it out

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                            • vinteuil
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 12471

                              we have established "Violet Gordon Woodhouse"
                              I have agreed that we are not interested in "Gordon" or "Woodhouse" ...

                              What F are we talking about?

                              What other F is in the titles in ammy's #12088?

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                              • Anna

                                And I claim the prize for Never, Ever, Ever, Having Seen The Sound of Music!! It seems the Priest who set them on their real-life singing career was called Franz. That's the only other repeatable F-word I've come up with so far in this puzzle!

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