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  • mercia
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 8920

    Originally posted by Flay View Post
    Nellie? Butties? (can't stop myself)
    indeed, details ?

    you're obviously keen to set the next question

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    • Flay
      Full Member
      • Mar 2007
      • 5795

      Soorjo Alexander William Langobard Oliphant Chuckerbutty (1884–1960) (A.K.A. Wilson Oliphant) was an English composer and an organist of Anglo-Indian descent who played in both cinemas and churches

      Thomas Oliphant - Madrigal Soc

      The Song of Roland - He "leads the rear guard of the French forces; bursts his temples by blowing his oliphant-horn, wounds from which he eventually dies facing the enemy's land."
      Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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      • mercia
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 8920

        fulsome details

        your turn

        Last edited by mercia; 23-02-12, 07:00.

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        • Flay
          Full Member
          • Mar 2007
          • 5795

          Three Ps:

          George’s secret
          Charlie’s silent
          Ralph’s musical setting
          Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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          • Flay
            Full Member
            • Mar 2007
            • 5795

            Actually it is the one P three times. << Message to self - stop setting clues before 8am >>
            Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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            • Nick Armstrong
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 26540

              Originally posted by mercia View Post
              indeed, details ?

              you're obviously keen to set the next question

              Reeling at the overnight goings on here, and the arrival without warning of Soorjo Alexander William Langobard Oliphant Chuckerbutty (1884–1960) of whom I had never heard and whose name almost made me choke on my pre-breakfast gin His surname isn't so mad when you think of his Indian forebears and remember the Chakrabartis... but it still sounds like one of Ken Dodd's more eccentric creations... Right up there with Fredegond Shove


              Fertile nocturnal exchanges in any case!

              Re P one thinks instantly of Handel but I can't make it fit with anything secret...
              "...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

                No you don't have the handle yet
                Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                • Flay
                  Full Member
                  • Mar 2007
                  • 5795

                  Originally posted by Caliban View Post
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                  Reeling at the overnight goings on here, and the arrival without warning of Soorjo Alexander William Langobard Oliphant Chuckerbutty (1884–1960) of whom I had never heard and whose name almost made me choke on my pre-breakfast gin
                  Do you mind, this is a serious message board with serious business to do. We have poor Roland splitting his temples playing his olifant (a cautionary tale for any brass musician ), and you sir are mocking poor Soorjo...
                  Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                  • Nick Armstrong
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 26540

                    Originally posted by Flay View Post
                    Do you mind, this is a serious message board with serious business to do. We have poor Roland splitting his temples playing his olifant (a cautionary tale for any brass musician ), and you sir are mocking poor Soorjo...

                    I'm thinking of starting a thread for strange and funny names.

                    I came across one Arsenio Macadangdang in the US 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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                    • cloughie
                      Full Member
                      • Dec 2011
                      • 22127

                      Originally posted by Flay View Post
                      Three Ps:

                      George’s secret
                      Charlie’s silent
                      Ralph’s musical setting
                      Am I in the picture -is it Portraits?

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                      • vinteuil
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 12844

                        Originally posted by Caliban View Post

                        I'm thinking of starting a thread for strange and funny names.

                        I came across one Arsenio Macadangdang in the US the other day

                        You need the book "Remarkable Names of Real People" -

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                        • Flay
                          Full Member
                          • Mar 2007
                          • 5795

                          Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                          Am I in the picture -is it Portraits?
                          No it isn't I'm afraid
                          Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26540

                            Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                            You need the book "Remarkable Names of Real People" -

                            http://f2.org/humour/language/oddnames.html
                            Excellent. No need for that new thread then!
                            "...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 Flay View Post
                              Three Ps:

                              George’s secret
                              Charlie’s silent
                              Ralph’s musical setting
                              Pilgrim?

                              George in Le Carré's The Secret P
                              Chaplin's silent film The Pilgrim ( ... as in bath? )
                              RVW's Bunyan.
                              [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                              • Flay
                                Full Member
                                • Mar 2007
                                • 5795

                                Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                                Pilgrim?

                                George in Le Carré's The Secret P
                                Chaplin's silent film The Pilgrim ( ... as in bath? )
                                RVW's Bunyan.
                                Quite right You are next in the Queue
                                Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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