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  • Flay
    Full Member
    • Mar 2007
    • 5795

    Originally posted by Oddball View Post
    I'm thinking of an object with more animate characteristics.
    You mean an animal, rather than vegetable or mineral?
    Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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    • Quarky
      Full Member
      • Dec 2010
      • 2658

      Yes essentially an animal.

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      • ferneyhoughgeliebte
        Gone fishin'
        • Sep 2011
        • 30163

        Orang - Utan?

        Laurent Petitgrand: l'orang - Utan amere
        Michael Torke: Ecstatic Orang - Utan

        ... err ...


        .... ummm ...

        Rodrigo's most famous concerto???
        [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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        • Flay
          Full Member
          • Mar 2007
          • 5795

          Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
          Orang - Utan?
          Laurent Petitgrand: l'orang - Utan amere
          Michael Torke: Ecstatic Orang - Utan
          ... err ...
          .... ummm ...
          Rodrigo's most famous concerto???
          Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26536

            Originally posted by Oddball View Post
            Compositions by French, American and Spanish composers concerning an object of the natural world.

            Fascinating puzzle...

            One assumes from 'composers' that we're talking classical (always worth checking, on the AA thread... )

            I've been thinking in terms of Orpheus or Odysseus on the basis that everyone wrote about them at some point, but I guess mythic figures aren't animals...

            Must hunt out that second thinking cap...
            "...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
              • 26536

              Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
              Orang - Utan?


              Occurred to me too... just didn't have the to post it!
              "...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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              • Quarky
                Full Member
                • Dec 2010
                • 2658

                Not sure how many clues I can give without giving too much away.

                But I'm thinking of an object that has different names in the various languages .

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26536

                  Hmmm...

                  Originally posted by Oddball View Post
                  essentially an animal
                  but also

                  Originally posted by Oddball View Post
                  an object
                  ... don't worry, not begging for clues, just thinking out loud...
                  "...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

                    "Essentially an animal" has me intrigued. Is Ox too prosaic an approach to the clue?
                    [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                    • Anna

                      Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                      "Essentially an animal" has me intrigued. Is Ox too prosaic an approach to the clue?
                      I think I have a glimmer of where you are heading ferney ... but then I saw "in different languages" so now I'm not so sure.

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                      • cloughie
                        Full Member
                        • Dec 2011
                        • 22120

                        Originally posted by Anna View Post
                        I think I have a glimmer of where you are heading ferney ... but then I saw "in different languages" so now I'm not so sure.
                        Should we look on the roof?

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                        • Anna

                          Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                          Should we look on the roof?
                          Dunno. I was thinking, briefly, Offenbach, Jules Verne, Gavin Bryars re Ox. Milhaud would fit, of course, but who else? I'll probably leave it for now and tend to my curry.

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                          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                            Gone fishin'
                            • Sep 2011
                            • 30163

                            Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                            Should we look on the roof?
                            - or ask Beef Oven for help?

                            But American Oxen? The Plow that Broke the Plains?
                            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                            • cloughie
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2011
                              • 22120

                              Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                              - or ask Beef Oven for help?

                              But American Oxen? The Plow that Broke the Plains?
                              Then there was that Spanish guy who sounds like an Italian city a.

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                              • Nick Armstrong
                                Host
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 26536

                                Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                                Should we look on the roof?
                                Been pondering this all afternoon and the same thought occurred to me - and plows breaking plains too...

                                Great puzzle, this.

                                Which Spanish guy, cloughie?
                                "...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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