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  • vinteuil
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 12844

    ...well, when the need arises I'm sure that Chatham House, RUSI, and IISS will be able to find ahinton to benefit from his lucubrations

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    • ahinton
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 16123

      Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
      ...well, when the need arises I'm sure that Chatham House, RUSI, and IISS will be able to find ahinton to benefit from his lucubrations
      I'm sure that any of these would easily be able to find me if so they chose, but when and why would any of these organisations think to do this, especially given that what you describe as "lucubrations" are in fact personal viewpoints?
      Last edited by ahinton; 23-02-16, 16:12.

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      • Richard Tarleton

        Crikey, I'm glad young Oscar didn't get this question, doesn't bear thinking about.

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        • Nick Armstrong
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 26539

          Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
          Crikey, I'm glad young Oscar didn't get this question, doesn't bear thinking about.
          There's a few here who could give him a run for his money!
          "...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

            Handel's Rienzi ...
            "...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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            • gurnemanz
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 7391

              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
              Handel's Rienzi ...
              .... born Leipzig 1813 ...

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26539

                Originally posted by french frank View Post
                Amusing in the latest round to learn (in response to Paxo's enquiry, after they aced the 'armorial' round) that the York contestant who has a personal coat of arms is not


                Originally posted by Mary Chambers View Post
                Bartolomeo Cuthbert Joly de Lotbiniere

                but...

                ... Sam Smith

                To prove it, Mr Smith has 'tweeted' it with some help from young Oscar from Peterhouse



                "...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

                  Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                  Handel's Rienzi ...


                  Having been very pleased with myself and got full marks on both sets of Film questions, the mood was a little disrupted when the Thomas Pynchon question came up. Now I knew the title was Mason & Dixon, and that was what I meant when I called out ...



                  ... Fortum & Mason
                  [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                  • ahinton
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 16123

                    Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post


                    Having been very pleased with myself and got full marks on both sets of Film questions, the mood was a little disrupted when the Thomas Pynchon question came up. Now I knew the title was Mason & Dixon, and that was what I meant when I called out ...



                    ... Fortum & Mason
                    You might just have been able to forgive yourself had you instead called out Mason & Hamlin...

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                    • Flosshilde
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 7988

                      Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                      ...well, when the need arises I'm sure that Chatham House, RUSI, and IISS will be able to find ahinton to benefit from his lucubrations
                      I read that as lubrications. But I'm sure ahinton never takes too much drink.

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                      • ahinton
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 16123

                        Originally posted by Flosshilde View Post
                        I read that as lubrications. But I'm sure ahinton never takes too much drink.
                        Might the fact that I didn't read it thus but as vints typed it suggest that I must at least have been relatively sober when I did so?(!).

                        I do indeed try never to imbibe excessively and, for the record, never touch any kind of beer or lager and avoid most (but not all!) spirits, I am by no means teetotal (not that you suggested that I am); I am a Scotsman, after all (although I am not scotty!)...

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                        • Pulcinella
                          Host
                          • Feb 2014
                          • 10951

                          Paxo on last night's UC (just caught up): Fewer than two minutes to go!

                          That'll be one minute then!

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26539

                            Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
                            Paxo on last night's UC (just caught up): Fewer than two minutes to go!

                            That'll be one minute then!
                            I noticed that ! (Having been pilloried somewhere hereabouts for misuse of 'fewer' / 'less'!! )
                            "...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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                            • ardcarp
                              Late member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 11102

                              Final a bit one sided, sadly. Peterhouse worthy winners, but maybe St John's not getting into their stride?

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                              • Dave2002
                                Full Member
                                • Dec 2010
                                • 18022

                                Indeed, but Ravel ... Elgar!

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