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  • amateur51

    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
    Is this something to do with syphillis?
    That wasn't very testing was it

    How so, Sirrah?

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    • Nick Armstrong
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 26539

      Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
      That wasn't very testing was it

      How so, Sirrah?
      Oh, awfully clever ams! I scoured wiki in vain...

      But with your expert guidance I find the the test for that sorry malady is named after a certain

      Wassermann....
      "...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 Caliban View Post
        Oh, awfully clever ams! I scoured wiki in vain...

        But with your expert guidance I find the the test for that sorry malady is named after a certain

        Wassermann....
        bravo Caliban! :porkpie:

        Now is it to be X (for breakfast) or Y (for runts)?

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        • Nick Armstrong
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 26539

          Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
          bravo Caliban! :porkpie:

          Now is it to be X (for breakfast) or Y (for runts)?
          So to comply with Anna's Law:

          The three pieces you mentioned were written by Schubert, Grieg and Joplin who all suffered (and died), it is alleged, from syphillis which could have been diagnosed by the Wassermann test...

          I take it I can go for X/Y/Z or A ad libitum?
          "...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

            I'll have a Z please, Bob!

            To link Daphnis & Chloë (no, not that one!) with Pierce Brosnan and the F.B.I.
            "...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 Caliban View Post
              I'll have a Z please, Bob!

              To link Daphnis & Chloë (no, not that one!) with Pierce Brosnan and the F.B.I.
              Zeus

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26539

                Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                Zeus
                Hi Cloughie

                Nope!
                "...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

                  Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                  Um... Sort of sums the game up, don't it Flay me old mucker?

                  (PS Mrs F out at karate this evening? You seem to be pretty freely strolling these mean streets )
                  Holby City was on the telly so I sneaked to the 'puter, pretending to be checking something important.
                  Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                  • Nick Armstrong
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 26539

                    Originally posted by Flay View Post
                    Holby City was on the telly so I sneaked to the 'puter, pretending to be checking something important.
                    Good move! Holby City...
                    "...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

                      Brosnan was brought up in a Roman Catholic family and educated in a local school run by the Christian Brothers while serving as an altar boy
                      Sounds a familiar scenario...
                      Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                      • Nick Armstrong
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26539

                        Originally posted by Flay View Post
                        Brosnan was brought up in a Roman Catholic family and educated in a local school run by the Christian Brothers while serving as an altar boy
                        ... not relevant here

                        You are looking for the connection in the early part of PB's career 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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                        • Flay
                          Full Member
                          • Mar 2007
                          • 5795

                          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                          ... not relevant here:
                          No, I was thinking about my own upbringing... I used to look so cute dressed as an altar boy
                          Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                          • Flay
                            Full Member
                            • Mar 2007
                            • 5795

                            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                            You are looking for the connection in the early part of PB's career though...
                            Franco Zeffirelli perhaps? (the only Z of note on the wiki page)
                            Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                            • Nick Armstrong
                              Host
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 26539

                              Originally posted by Flay View Post
                              No, I was thinking about my own upbringing... I used to look so cute dressed as an altar boy
                              I'm sure you did, Flay

                              *cue: rippling harp arpeggios*


                              Meanwhile, back at the quiz, I need to go and grab some of my own ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZs

                              Any last guesses for today?

                              .... other than this one which is incorrect:

                              Originally posted by Flay View Post
                              Franco Zeffirelli perhaps? (the only Z of note on the wiki page)
                              "...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

                                Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                                Any last guesses for today?
                                No! Goodnight all.
                                Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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