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  • Flay
    Full Member
    • Mar 2007
    • 5795

    Perhaps it's Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling? I can't see the link yet, but I just hope it is...
    Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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    • Roslynmuse
      Full Member
      • Jun 2011
      • 1239

      Originally posted by Flay View Post
      Perhaps it's Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling? I can't see the link yet, but I just hope it is...

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      • Nick Armstrong
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 26539

        Originally posted by Roslynmuse View Post
        Conan Doyle, Quiller-Couch...
        I'm afraid not!! They are all musicians in the puzzle.

        This chap is often overlooked, student of Stanford...
        "...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 Flay View Post
          Perhaps it's Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling? I can't see the link yet, but I just hope it is...
          After all, he was interviewed on Radio 3: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Bother%3F
          Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26539

            Originally posted by Flay View Post
            Perhaps it's Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling? I can't see the link yet, but I just hope it is...



            DM: Good evening. We're talking this evening to Sir Arthur Greeb-Streebling.
            PC: Streeb-Greebling.
            DM: Oh, I'm terribly sorry, I thought it was Greeb-Streebling.
            PC: No, Streeb-Greebling. You're thinking of Greeb-Streebling. The "T" is silent, as in "fox".
            "...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 Roslynmuse View Post
              Conan Doyle, Quiller-Couch...
              Don't forget Sir Arthur C Clarke!
              Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26539

                Originally posted by Flay View Post
                Don't forget Sir Arthur C Clarke!
                You just lurched out of a medication-induced haze, Flay old sport?
                "...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
                  You just lurched out of a medication-induced haze, Flay old sport?
                  No, but I am finding that when I am busy I can find more time for AA - I don't have an excuse to get away from the eagle eye of Mrs Flay... who thinks I should have done all the Christmas cards by now today

                  But I'm getting there with the conundrum. How about Sir Arthur Somervell?
                  Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                  • Flay
                    Full Member
                    • Mar 2007
                    • 5795

                    Got it! Uppingham School:

                    Ernest John Moeran

                    Cecil Sharp

                    Can ve wait for the V until I have a Very nice rest please...?
                    Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26539

                      Originally posted by Flay View Post
                      No, but I am finding that when I am busy I can find more time for AA - I don't have an excuse to get away from the eagle eye of Mrs Flay... who thinks I should have done all the Christmas cards by now today

                      But I'm getting there with the conundrum. How about Sir Arthur Somervell?
                      "...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 Flay View Post
                        Got it! Uppingham School:

                        Ernest John Moeran

                        Cecil Sharp

                        Can ve wait for the V until I have a Very nice rest please...?


                        The co-codamol clouds clear and the sunshine of lucidity gilds the solution to the puzzle.

                        In other words: too right mate! Somervell, Sharp and Moeran were all pupils at Uppingham.

                        Well done Flay. Come back with a V ven you are 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
                          Somervell, Sharp and Moeran were all pupils at Uppingham.

                          Well done Flay. Come back with a V ven you are ready
                          Vorking on it...

                          We had Uppingham once before, but only with Moeran in common. Strangely it was part of a double-barrelled question that caused some confusion:

                          Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                          • Flay
                            Full Member
                            • Mar 2007
                            • 5795

                            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                            Somervell, Sharp and Moeran were all pupils at Uppingham.

                            Well done Flay. Come back with a V ven you are ready
                            Vorking on it...

                            We had Uppingham once before, but only with Moeran in common. Strangely it was part of a double-barrelled question that caused some confusion:

                            Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                            • Flay
                              Full Member
                              • Mar 2007
                              • 5795

                              Duplicated post for some reason but it refuses to let me delete one of them
                              Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                              • Nick Armstrong
                                Host
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 26539

                                Originally posted by Flay View Post
                                Duplicated post for some reason but it refuses to let me delete one of them
                                Doubledecker-itis: highly contagious. Interesting twofer puzzle from Lats back then - I remember it now I read it.

                                Oh well.
                                "...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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