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  • rubbernecker

    Originally posted by Ofcachap View Post
    Which adjective beginning with N connects performers associated with (a) a repeated colour, (b) an unhappy start to the working week and (c) a group of teenagers on top of a hill?
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    New Vaudeville Band: Green Street Green (whose 'Winchester Cathedral' has featured on AA before)
    New Order: Blue Monday
    New Seekers: I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (as used in the famous Coke commercial)

    I'm disappointed "a Sat-Nav misdirection" didn't figure in the clues
    Last edited by Guest; 21-05-11, 05:43.

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    • amateur51

      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
      Almost irresistible to use the old line: "last time I saw a sample like that, the whole herd had to be put down"....

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      • Nick Armstrong
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 26540

        Originally posted by amateur51 View Post


        Now - looking forward to the BAL on Schubert's D898 trio Over and out till later!
        "...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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        • Norfolk Born

          Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
          New

          New Vaudeville Band: Green Street Green (whose 'Winchester Cathedral' has featured on AA before)
          New Order: Blue Monday
          New Seekers: I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (as used in the famous Coke commercial)

          I'm disappointed "a Sat-Nav misdirection" didn't figure in the clues
          Two out of three - or, put another way, four out of four. To paraphrase an earlier message to one contributor - possibly me - from another - possibly you : 'You didn't expect me to make it that easy (i.e. by including the New Vaudeville Band again) did you?'
          Had I known you wanted more elements, I could of course have also referred to 'recently arrived youngsters in the neighbourhood'.
          Your first answer, while wrong in both respects, is almost right in one.

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          • rubbernecker

            Originally posted by Ofcachap View Post
            Two out of three - or, put another way, four out of four. To paraphrase an earlier message to one contributor - possibly me - from another - possibly you : 'You didn't expect me to make it that easy (i.e. by including the New Vaudeville Band again) did you?'
            Had I known you wanted more elements, I could of course have also referred to 'recently arrived youngsters in the neighbourhood'.
            Your first answer, while wrong in both respects, is almost right in one.
            Having now established that New Kids on the Block have not covered The Green Green Grass of Home, I'm going to have to pass...

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            • Norfolk Born

              A member of the group you're still looking for went on to have a hit single in his own right despite the record in question being placed on a restricted playlist, and even banned for a time, by Auntie.

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              • Norfolk Born

                'The Eastern world, it is exploding....'

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                • rubbernecker

                  Green Green by the New Christy Minstrels. You dragged it out of me in the end

                  Without further ado,

                  What O connects a work by a Bach offshoot set in the wild west, a work in a language not dead but petrified, and a song from a wasted evening?

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                  • Nick Armstrong
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                    • Nov 2010
                    • 26540

                    Originally posted by Anna View Post

                    Edit: Does Colin Fishwick meet a sticky end tonight?
                    It's a Corrie omnibus end to the afternoon... I'll know soon. No spoilers Ofca! But Tchaikovsky 6 has just made an appearance... in the rather good scene in the basement of their house when Charlotte's parents confront him with his lies.. and now high tension about what happened to the old folks... (Heavy hint in his slightly psychotic chopping of a cucumber in following scene....
                    "...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
                      • 26540

                      Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
                      Green Green by the New Christy Minstrels. You dragged it out of me in the end

                      Without further ado,

                      What O connects a work by a Bach offshoot set in the wild west, a work in a language not dead but petrified, and a song from a wasted evening?
                      Rubbers I'm turning that nice little twister over in the brain... Looks like one of your un-googlable specials!
                      "...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
                        Rubbers I'm turning that nice little twister over in the brain... Looks like one of your un-googlable specials!
                        Not entirely... and I'm quite surprised you haven't already got the third clue

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                        • Norfolk Born

                          Oedipus Rex (track on a Tom Lehrer album), Oedipus Marshall (film by Javier Tellez)?

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                          • rubbernecker

                            Originally posted by Ofcachap View Post
                            Oedipus Rex (track on a Tom Lehrer album)
                            That's the one I thought Caliban would get...

                            Gooo ooonn Ofcaaa, gooo oonnn my soonn!

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                            • Anna

                              Well done Ofca! Would the first one be PDQ Bach (Peter Schickele) Oedipus Tex ?
                              Last edited by Guest; 21-05-11, 17:50. Reason: missed something out

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                              • rubbernecker

                                Originally posted by Anna View Post
                                Well done Ofca! Would the first one be PDQ Bach (Peter Schickele) Oedipus Tex ?
                                Anna It most certainly would!

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