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  • LMcD
    Full Member
    • Sep 2017
    • 8477

    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
    So did I. Bowes was especially rapid with Purcell, robbing me of the chance to identify it. (Nevertheless, I got 135 on the night, a personal best score... )
    Donald Trump has just tweeted to say that he got 420, but only managed to watch the second half.

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    • BBMmk2
      Late Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 20908

      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
      So did I. Bowes was especially rapid with Purcell, robbing me of the chance to identify it. (Nevertheless, I got 135 on the night, a personal best score... )
      About a couple of bars in or less!
      Don’t cry for me
      I go where music was born

      J S Bach 1685-1750

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      • zola
        Full Member
        • May 2011
        • 656

        Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
        As Jeremy Paxman said, it was just as well Bristol had a musician on the team.
        Is it my imagination, or does Paxman often seem irritated when a red brick university beats an Oxbridge college ?

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        • BBMmk2
          Late Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 20908

          Originally posted by zola View Post
          Is it my imagination, or does Paxman often seem irritated when a red brick university beats an Oxbridge college ?
          Was he at an Oxford college?
          Don’t cry for me
          I go where music was born

          J S Bach 1685-1750

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          • subcontrabass
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 2780

            Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
            Was he at an Oxford college?
            St Catharine's College, Cambridge

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            • Stanfordian
              Full Member
              • Dec 2010
              • 9314

              Originally posted by LMcD View Post
              Donald Trump has just tweeted to say that he got 420, but only managed to watch the second half.
              Hiya LMcD,

              Trump got 420! All wrong more like!

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              • BBMmk2
                Late Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 20908

                Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
                St Catharine's College, Cambridge
                Ah! Most strange!
                Don’t cry for me
                I go where music was born

                J S Bach 1685-1750

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                • MrGongGong
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 18357

                  Originally posted by LMcD View Post
                  Donald Trump has just tweeted to say that he got 420, but only managed to watch the second half.
                  420 to an American means something rather different to a score in UC

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                  • vinteuil
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 12844

                    Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
                    420 to an American means something rather different to a score in UC
                    ... and how, we wonder, does MrBongBong know this?





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                    • MrGongGong
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 18357

                      Originally posted by vinteuil View Post

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                      • LMcD
                        Full Member
                        • Sep 2017
                        • 8477

                        In my defence (and in my ignorance) I would like to make it clear that I chose my 'Trump score' entirely at random!

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                        • MrGongGong
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 18357

                          Originally posted by LMcD View Post
                          In my defence (and in my ignorance) I would like to make it clear that I chose my 'Trump score' entirely at random!
                          A likely story

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                          • BBMmk2
                            Late Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 20908

                            Hass anyone seen that Tom Service is on the Christmas special?
                            Don’t cry for me
                            I go where music was born

                            J S Bach 1685-1750

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                            • mercia
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 8920

                              Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
                              Hass anyone seen that Tom Service is on the Christmas special?
                              just watched. Tricky questions on forest-related music.

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                              • BBMmk2
                                Late Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 20908

                                Originally posted by mercia View Post
                                just watched. Tricky questions on forest-related music.

                                Yes I thought so too! At least they knew the Sibelius!
                                Don’t cry for me
                                I go where music was born

                                J S Bach 1685-1750

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