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  • Norfolk Born

    Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
    Hadn't realised there was anything alphabetical still going on in this thread?
    Don't worry - I also have trouble keeping up! We seem to be on 'L', 'tho nobody seems to have had a crack at it yet.

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    • subcontrabass
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 2780

      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
      Well, you're looking for a saint whose name is associated with a building that sounds (and no doubt once was) rural... and for the musical Academician who is associated with the building...
      Academy of St Martin in the Fields ?

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      • Norfolk Born

        Lucie (Skeaping, Weidt)?

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        • Nick Armstrong
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          • Nov 2010
          • 26539

          Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
          Academy of St Martin in the Fields ?

          Sorry, folks .... had to find and order a new fridge for delivery before Xmas



          SCB: spot on. So now find the individual and that should lead you on to the L.

          Nothing to do with Lucie, NB, or with... Abban (whaaaaat???), Don.
          "...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

            Sorry, folks .... had to find and order a new fridge for delivery before Xmas



            SCB: spot on. So now find the individual and that should lead you on to the L.

            Nothing to do with Lucie, NB, or with... Abban (whaaaaat???), Don.


            Saint Abban - There were three of them, and you said a rural building? (A barn - geddit? )

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            • Nick Armstrong
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              • Nov 2010
              • 26539

              Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
              Saint Abban - There were three of them, and you said a rural building? (A barn - geddit? )
              There are some truly terrible puns on this forum today!



              Come on folks!

              Need a clue? Wonder when amateur's back from poking round a load of old mummies in Oxford? (That wasn't a clue, just wondering...)
              "...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
                There are some truly terrible puns on this forum today!



                Well I've just got back from hols (in Venice).

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                • vinteuil
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 12844

                  Originally posted by Anna View Post
                  Sorry, nor did I. It seems the question is

                  What is the connecting L between:

                  1) Isol de an d Brünhilde
                  2) A rural-sounding saintly Academician
                  3) A favourite musical radio presenter
                  I think I have two and three - my only stab at one is as above... (Great Scott! The man's an oxonian... )

                  EDIT - but on second thoughts - Callipers didn't do Greek, so probably didn't have the Dictionary on his shelves...
                  Last edited by vinteuil; 20-12-11, 20:56.

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                  • Norfolk Born

                    I have no idea at present - perhaps the Rev. Smallbone will inspire me!

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26539

                      Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                      I think I have two and three - my only stab at one is as above... (Great Scott! The man's an oxonian... )

                      EDIT - but on second thoughts - Callipers didn't do Greek, so probably didn't have the Dictionary on his shelves...
                      I don't understand your stab, vints.

                      Back after Rev !
                      "...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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                      • subcontrabass
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 2780

                        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                        SCB: spot on. So now find the individual and that should lead you on to the L.
                        Lincoln?

                        Jane Eaglen, Neville Marriner and Steve Race were all born there.

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                        • vinteuil
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 12844

                          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                          I don't understand your stab, vints.

                          Back after Rev !
                          Liddell - Dean Liddell, father of Lewis Carroll's Alice, author of Liddell & Scott
                          Nona Liddell
                          Alvar Liddell

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26539

                            Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
                            Lincoln?

                            Jane Eaglen, Neville Marriner and Steve Race were all born there.
                            Wow SCB! A hatrick

                            Sorry, vinrouge. But is this a contender for the double set of answers that fit perfectly? How does your first answer fit with Isolde and Brünhilde (apart from the word play you mentioned earlier)

                            Rev not quite so funny this time, but by heck, those writers really know how to end an episode, don't they! And some gem lines... ( and I guessed that the snow would mean that the Archdeacon turned up! )

                            "Eighteen hours in that departure lounge. On a bench. In front of Bagel Planet"

                            "...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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                            • subcontrabass
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 2780

                              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                              Wow SCB! A hatrick


                              Moving on:

                              an M to connect:

                              (1) a trumpeter who shot himself in the foot
                              (2) a pioneering harpsichordist
                              (3) the son of a coal merchant.

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                              • Don Petter

                                Malcolm?

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