Radio 3 - Lets lower the standards

[french frank]

That was very cleaver of you

And Caliban surely knows about the Simmer-y Axe?

[Serial_Apologist]

That was very cleaver of you

While there's nothing quite like having a good axe to grind from time to time , a clump hammer would be more practical for dealing with tough steak.

[Nick Armstrong]

And Caliban surely knows about the Simmer-y Axe?

You pulled away on that last hill, ff. Not with you...

[teamsaint]

I shall try to get one when i go to the chops.

[amateur51]

You pulled away on that last hill, ff. Not with you...

[Serial_Apologist]

I shall try to get one when i go to the chops.

Chump!

[french frank]

You pulled away on that last hill, ff. Not with you...

Ha!

"Oh, my name is John Wellington Wells
I'm a dealer in magic and spells
In blessings and curses
And ever-filled purses
In prophecies, witches, and knells
If any one anything lacks
He'll find it all ready in stacks
If he'll only look in on the resident Djinn
Number Seventy, Simmery Axe."

[salymap]

Ha!

"Oh, my name is John Wellington Wells
I'm a dealer in magic and spells
In blessings and curses
And ever-filled purses
In prophecies, witches, and knells
If any one anything lacks
He'll find it all ready in stacks
If he'll only look in on the resident Djinn
Number Seventy, Simmery Axe."

I KNEW it was G&S but which opera? And for the simple minded, [me], do the residents of St Mary Axe {?] call it Simmery Axe?

[Serial_Apologist]

I KNEW it was G&S but which opera? And for the simple minded, [me], do the residents of St Mary Axe {?] call it Simmery Axe?

One learns something new every day

[Don Petter]

Isn't the internet wonderful? I've just learnt that 'Number 70 St. Mary Axe' appears in several novels by modern British author Tom Holt as the address of a firm of sorcerers headed by J. W. Wells.

That could at least raise the standard of this thread a little.

[Don Petter]

I KNEW it was G&S but which opera? And for the simple minded, [me], do the residents of St Mary Axe {?] call it Simmery Axe?

Well, The Sorcerer, of course. I always assumed that it must have been thus pronounced in Gilbert's day?

And we always used to scurrilously substitute 'smells' for 'spells', I remember.

[cloughie]

Radio 3 is up and down like a Yo - Yo.

And radio 1 is level?

[salymap]

Well, The Sorcerer, of course. I always assumed that it must have been thus pronounced in Gilbert's day?

And we always used to scurrilously substitute 'smells' for 'spells', I remember.

Thanks Don,and Gilbert would love the info about Simmery Axe appearing in modern novels. It's one of the G&S I don't know.

[Ariosto]

And radio 1 is level?

You tell me.