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  • Nick Armstrong
    Host
    • Nov 2010
    • 26540

    Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
    Deeply so. Is it a Ruckers, or perhaps a Blanchet? Old Kenyon was banging on about similar things in BAL this morning.

    I'm warming up a W...
    It's an anonymous instrument... Great music

    Shall be listening to Kenyon in the morning re Goldbergs
    "...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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    • rubbernecker



      Which W, conceived in 1950, had a slack period between 1979 and 1981 before moving to a new home in 2008?

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      • ferneyhoughgeliebte
        Gone fishin'
        • Sep 2011
        • 30163

        Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
        Pang was the obvious clue leading one to Puccini's Turandot (Ping, Pang and Pong). The singer at the opera's 1926 premiere was one Emilio Venturini. The poet was Serge Venturini, a Frenchman, and there was an actor who was in Return of the Living Dead called Mark Venturini who died of Leukemia aged 35. All this was gleaned via Wikipedia, I confess, I had never heard of any of them.
        Genius!

        As for your W, I immediately thought of Welsh National Opera, but all the dates are two years out!
        [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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        • rubbernecker

          Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
          Genius!

          As for your W, I immediately thought of Welsh National Opera, but all the dates are two years out!
          You're on the right lines, Ferney!

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          • mercia
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 8920

            Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
            a slack period
            that being Adrian Slack
            sorry my V question didn't meet the required standard ............... if only the top table had answered the U question

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            • rubbernecker

              Originally posted by mercia View Post
              sorry my V question didn't meet the required standard ...............
              What noise is this that rouseth me from my slumbers at this ungodly hour? Why, 'tis our old friend Mercia. What ails thee, Mercs? Come, come now, let's have no more of this. These nuages gris that do so deface th'horizons of this fair game, why? They shall all be dipers'd in the twinkling of an eye; and all shall be well...

              Big clue from Mercs, there

              EDIT: I shall inspect matters further when I rise again on the morrow
              Last edited by Guest; 19-02-12, 04:41. Reason: Going back to bed where the Lady Rubbers is snoring

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26540

                There'll be more from AA after this message:



                ALPHABET ASSOCIATIONS IS SPONSORED BY INSOMNIACS ANONYMOUS


                HAS THE ANSWER DAWNED ON YOU YET?

                IT MAY BE THE
                WEE SMALL HOURS, BUT YOU CAN STILL HAVE BIG IDEAS!




                And.....

                ..we're back!

                "...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 mercia View Post
                  that being Adrian Slack
                  Ah! That rather gives it away, mercs. One doesn't need the detective skills of Ruth Rendell to get to the W now.

                  What annoys me is that I've been there!
                  [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                  • Nick Armstrong
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 26540

                    Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                    Ah! That rather gives it away




                    "...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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                    • Flay
                      Full Member
                      • Mar 2007
                      • 5795

                      "The isle is full of noises... Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not"
                      But not in the Rubbers mansion methinks...
                      Last edited by Flay; 19-02-12, 09:28. Reason: Not woken up yet...
                      Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                      • Nick Armstrong
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26540

                        Originally posted by Flay View Post
                        But not in the Rubbers mansion methinks...
                        I don't think it was Mercs wot woke him either!
                        "...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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                        • cloughie
                          Full Member
                          • Dec 2011
                          • 22127

                          Originally posted by Flay View Post
                          But not in the Rubbers mansion methinks...
                          Perhaps he recognised our Slack(-brained) Period! All wery wexatious!

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                          • amateur51

                            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                            There'll be more from AA after this message:



                            ALPHABET ASSOCIATIONS IS SPONSORED BY INSOMNIACS ANONYMOUS


                            HAS THE ANSWER DAWNED ON YOU YET?

                            IT MAY BE THE
                            WEE SMALL HOURS, BUT YOU CAN STILL HAVE BIG IDEAS!




                            And.....

                            ..we're back!

                            - Caliban you're tertally

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                            • Flay
                              Full Member
                              • Mar 2007
                              • 5795

                              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                              I don't think it was Mercs wot woke him either!
                              Last edited by rubbernecker; Today at 04:41. Reason: Going back to bed where the Lady Rubbers is snoring
                              I was more worried about poor Rubber's torments.

                              Does nobody want the poison chalice of the X?
                              Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                              • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                                Gone fishin'
                                • Sep 2011
                                • 30163

                                Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                                Perhaps he recognised our Slack(-brained) Period! All wery wexatious!
                                Careful, Cloughie: you might end up lumbered with the X!
                                [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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