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  • ferneyhoughgeliebte
    Gone fishin'
    • Sep 2011
    • 30163

    Avoiding the Lang Lang trap:

    Louis Lourtie
    [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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    • Nick Armstrong
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 26539

      Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
      Avoiding the Lang Lang trap:

      Louis Lourtie
      Bravo, fhg (bar a spare "u" in the surname )!

      R u ready ?
      "...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

        I would never have got anywhere close without merc's finding Oscar Peterson - or, for that matter your L.L. "prompt".

        If merc and/or subby pass, can I "pause" to work an R out? Borgen is imminent!
        [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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        • Nick Armstrong
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 26539

          Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
          I would never have got anywhere close without merc's finding Oscar Peterson - or, for that matter your L.L. "prompt".

          If merc and/or subby pass, can I "pause" to work an R out? Borgen is imminent!
          I think it's yours by rights, as you chipped away and got a pianist, and grabbed the Q-word along the way. But a Saturday evening pause is a great idea, the pace has seemed quite hectic today! I'm off out shortly anyway. Do report on Borgen: I'm recording the episodes
          "...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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          • Norfolk Born

            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
            I think it's yours by rights, as you chipped away and got a pianist, and grabbed the Q-word along the way. But a Saturday evening pause is a great idea, the pace has seemed quite hectic today! I'm off out shortly anyway. Do report on Borgen: I'm recording the episodes
            Watched the first episode this evening, recorded the second. Who would have thought that an hour devoted to Danish politics could be so gripping? (Seriously).

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            • Nick Armstrong
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 26539

              Originally posted by Norfolk Born View Post
              Watched the first episode this evening, recorded the second. Who would have thought that an hour devoted to Danish politics could be so gripping? (Seriously).
              I'll give it a whirl later. You didn't miss the gruesomely-murdered corpses? Any chunky knitwear on view? I suspect not...

              Wot, no ferne R ??
              "...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

                I greatly enjoyed it - once I'd worked out that Ole Dahl's death was a heart attack and not a murder! Quite cheeky wit, throughout, too.

                But back to my Rs:

                Toru's piece which should begin again
                Michael's profoundly childish excerpt
                and a crumby temporal piece emporal piece ral piece

                A posy linked by which common R?
                [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                • amateur51

                  Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                  I greatly enjoyed it - once I'd worked out that Ole Dahl's death was a heart attack and not a murder! Quite cheeky wit, throughout, too.

                  But back to my Rs:

                  Toru's piece which should begin again
                  Michael's profoundly childish excerpt
                  and a crumby temporal piece emporal piece ral piece

                  A posy linked by which common R?
                  Elegant puzzle, ferney!

                  What about a clue?

                  Cheeky!

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                  • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                    Gone fishin'
                    • Sep 2011
                    • 30163

                    Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                    What about a clue?
                    OK, flower.

                    Cheeky!
                    [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                    • mercia
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 8920

                      Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                      and a crumby temporal piece emporal piece ral piece
                      George Crumb - Echoes of Time and the .... ??

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                      • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                        Gone fishin'
                        • Sep 2011
                        • 30163

                        [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                        • Nick Armstrong
                          Host
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 26539

                          Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                          I greatly enjoyed it - once I'd worked out that Ole Dahl's death was a heart attack and not a murder! Quite cheeky wit, throughout, too.

                          But back to my Rs:

                          Toru's piece which should begin again
                          Michael's profoundly childish excerpt
                          and a crumby temporal piece emporal piece ral piece

                          A posy linked by which common R?

                          Not sure about the posy reference (is that just a flowery figure of speech?) but is the R

                          River?

                          Michael - profoundly childish = 'Deep River' from "Child of our Time" by Sir M Tippett
                          Toru Takemitsu wrote a piece called 'riverrun' = begin again because he forgot the
                          capital letter?
                          And mercia self-effacingly left the word River from the title of the Crumb piece...
                          "...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 Caliban View Post

                            Not sure about the posy reference (is that just a flowery figure of speech?) but is the R

                            River?

                            Michael - profoundly childish = 'Deep River' from "Child of our Time" by Sir M Tippett
                            Toru Takemitsu wrote a piece called 'riverrun' = begin again because he forgot the
                            capital letter?
                            And mercia self-effacingly left the word River from the title of the Crumb piece...



                            ... you even got the "posy"/"flower"/"flow-er" pun.

                            The "riverrun" is so called (and so lower-cased) because it's a reference to Joyce's finnegans wake: the first (or last, or middle, depending which way round you read it!) word in that novel. (Finnegan/begin again).

                            No question, you get the S!
                            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                            • Nick Armstrong
                              Host
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 26539

                              Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post

                              ... you even got the "posy"/"flower"/"flow-er" pun.
                              No I didn't !!!

                              OK will attempt a Sunday S...
                              "...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
                                • 26539

                                This question is a little clin d'oeil to our dear amateur51 as a belated round-number birthday hommage (see his question earlier in this round):

                                What S is a member of a tribute to Devon’s famous Elizabethan miniature scion, might be seen racing up & down the motorways of England and directs famous marches in a brassy style?


                                (Just popping out for 40 minutes...)
                                "...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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