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  • Flay
    Full Member
    • Mar 2007
    • 5795

    Coleslaw ready prepared in the cross-posting!
    Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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    • Flay
      Full Member
      • Mar 2007
      • 5795

      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
      Oi !!

      Gerrof!
      Great minds, Calibs, great minds....
      Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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      • Nick Armstrong
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 26539

        Originally posted by Flay View Post
        Great minds, Calibs, great minds....
        Quite so

        I would propose to perform a classic "Mercia's Excuse-Me" and skip backwards to supply the missing J - whoever gets it will then proceed to L.

        Sound ok? I have a J all 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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        • Flay
          Full Member
          • Mar 2007
          • 5795

          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
          Curse you to blazes Flay, you disappear for ages and then pop up with a casual solution while I'm labouring to prepare a careful bowl of coleslaw



          Mrs Flay has allowed you out from under her thumb, then?
          Poor Mrs Flay - I was roasting some nuts last night (don't ask) and she managed to pick the oven dish up in her bare hand. So her poor thumb is blistered, allowing me to escape.
          Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26539

            Originally posted by Flay View Post
            Poor Mrs Flay - I was roasting some nuts last night (don't ask) and she managed to pick the oven dish up in her bare hand. So her poor thumb is blistered, allowing me to escape.
            And that is the case for the Defence, your Honour.
            "...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
              Quite so

              I would propose to perform a classic "Mercia's Excuse-Me" and skip backwards to supply the missing J - whoever gets it will then proceed to L.

              Sound ok? I have a J all ready...
              Are we playing leap-frog? By all means, Calibs, your turn to Jump!
              Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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              • amateur51

                Originally posted by Flay View Post
                Josef Krips

                From 1951-1954 Principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra.
                1954-1963 - Music Director to the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.
                1963-1970 - Music Director to the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.
                1970-1973 - Principal conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra.
                Josef Krips' younger brother Henry Krips was the chief conductor of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra in Australia for 23 seasons, 1949-1972.

                Strange bloke Josef Krips innit - time & again one reads about how loathed he was by orchestral players & soloists alike who found him bad tempered and foul-mouthed and generally vile. But he persuaded them to give some wonderful performances recorded for posterity - why would they do that for a man who was so apparently loathsome?

                Praps our orchestral colleagues can provide an insight or two

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                • Flay
                  Full Member
                  • Mar 2007
                  • 5795

                  And I shall Jump into bed. Goodnight.
                  Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                  • Flay
                    Full Member
                    • Mar 2007
                    • 5795

                    Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                    Strange bloke Josef Krips innit - time & again one reads about how loathed he was by orchestral players & soloists alike who found him bad tempered and foul-mouthed and generally vile. But he persuaded them to give some wonderful performances recorded for posterity - why would they do that for a man who was so apparently loathsome?

                    Praps our orchestral colleagues can provide an insight or two


                    Arriving in San Francisco for his first concert on November 29, 1963, Krips did not follow the pattern of sacking half the orchestra with the objective of improvement. However, with each new hire, he sought that "...each new hire should show himself at least twice as good as whom he replaced"
                    Perhaps they were grateful for still having a job?
                    Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26539

                      Originally posted by Flay View Post
                      Are we playing leap-frog? By all means, Calibs, your turn to Jump!
                      Yes because J eluded Mercia (see #26364)... So perhaps it was Mercia who performed the Excuse-Me, leaving me with a Caliban-Flip.

                      So J then. She links Jonas, Judith, Esther and a sleepy Odysseus
                      "...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

                        Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                        Strange bloke Josef Krips innit - time & again one reads about how loathed he was by orchestral players & soloists alike who found him bad tempered and foul-mouthed and generally vile. But he persuaded them to give some wonderful performances recorded for posterity - why would they do that for a man who was so apparently loathsome?

                        Praps our orchestral colleagues can provide an insight or two
                        Good point, Ammy - I didn't know that. I just know that his Moart Symphonies with the Concertgebouw are about as good as it gets, and it all sounds so sunny and laid-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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                        • Flay
                          Full Member
                          • Mar 2007
                          • 5795

                          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                          Good point, Ammy - I didn't know that. I just know that his Moart Symphonies with the Concertgebouw are about as good as it gets, and it all sounds so sunny and laid-back.
                          It must have been the the Moët Symphonies!
                          Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                          • amateur51

                            Originally posted by Flay View Post
                            It must have been the the Moët Symphonies!
                            Tee hee!

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                            • Nick Armstrong
                              Host
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 26539

                              Originally posted by Flay View Post
                              It must have been the the Moët Symphonies!
                              Thought you'd gone to bed! You're getting as bad as Anna! I'm off! Here I go! I'm off now!.... Then 10 minutes later: an acerbic quip...

                              "...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
                                Thought you'd gone to bed! You're getting as bad as Anna! I'm off! Here I go! I'm off now!.... Then 10 minutes later: an acerbic quip...

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