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  • Don Petter

    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
    You're right... is that what Pan & Syrinx is about? Not a piece I know.

    That's enough Neilsen (Ed.)

    The alphabetical funsters await with baited breath...
    It's no good fishing for an answer yet! (ITYM bated?)
    Last edited by Guest; 15-01-11, 16:00. Reason: Typo

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    • rubbernecker

      Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
      I still think Pan and Syrinx (flute and reed) were as good an answer for doubly-windy as the real one.
      I would say better, Don

      Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
      so wait a moment or two while I compose for your communal delectation ...
      Just remember, we've had Orff and Ondine...

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      • Nick Armstrong
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        • Nov 2010
        • 26539

        Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
        I'ts no good fishing for an answer yet! (ITYM bated?)
        Good Lord, you're right - 'bated' as in 'abated'... I don't know that I've ever used that phrase in writing before - I lazily assumed it was 'baited' i.e. prepared, eager for a bite.. But 'bated' makes more sense, for shallow, tense breathing.

        I'm sure that (unlike my substantive error), your " i'ts " was a mere typo...
        "...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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        • Don Petter

          Here we go - Here's your O!

          What early songster emerges once a conservatory feline is chased by noisy mischief-makers?

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          • Norfolk Born

            Originally posted by Caliban View Post

            That's enough Neilsen (Ed.)
            OK, how about some Nielsen, then?

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            • Don Petter

              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
              I'm sure that (unlike my substantive error), " i'ts " was a mere typo...
              Damn! Didn't think you'd seen that before I fixed it. The biter bit, indeed!

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              • Don Petter

                Originally posted by OFCACHAP View Post
                OK, how about some Nielsen, then?
                Guilty as charged, as well.

                (I was just copying 'im, 'onest, Guv.)

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26539

                  Originally posted by OFCACHAP View Post
                  OK, how about some Nielsen, then?
                  DOH! Whoops... Serves me right for being too busy correcting others.

                  Time to move on, I think!!!
                  "...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 rubbernecker View Post

                    Originally Posted by Don Petter
                    I still think Pan and Syrinx (flute and reed) were as good an answer for doubly-windy as the real one


                    I would say better, Don

                    I am wounded, rubbers....
                    "...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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                    • rubbernecker

                      Originally posted by Caliban View Post

                      I am wounded, rubbers....
                      I am still smarting from your (possibly defamatory) suggestion that I spend my time pleasuring myself with Edward German and Arthur Sullivan, so let's just call it quits

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                      • Nick Armstrong
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                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26539

                        Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
                        I am still smarting from your (possibly defamatory) suggestion that I spend my time pleasuring myself with Edward German and Arthur Sullivan, so let's just call it quits
                        Well, seeing that what you might get up to with Aribert defies even my imagination ... ok then...
                        "...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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                        • Don Petter

                          Come, now, you two. We've all been to some dodgy G & S evenings in our youth?

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26539

                            Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
                            Come, now, you two. We've all been to some dodgy G & S evenings in our youth?

                            My dad used to direct them Sitting through rehearsals of Ruddigore and Princess Ida features among my earliest musical memories! Quite good pieces, acually...

                            We digress. ".. conservatory feline... " ???
                            "...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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                            • rubbernecker

                              Originally posted by Caliban View Post

                              We digress. ".. conservatory feline... " ???
                              I was thinking 'Lyon'

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                              • Don Petter

                                Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
                                I was thinking 'Lyon'
                                No, afraid not. I'm going out for a meal with some friends shortly. When I return I shall probably be mellow enough to give some slight clue, should it be required.

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