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  • zola
    Full Member
    • May 2011
    • 656

    Surely there must be some reaction to the Goldberg Variations question ( and more to the point, the answer ? )

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    • Richard Tarleton

      Originally posted by zola View Post
      Surely there must be some reaction to the Goldberg Variations question ( and more to the point, the answer ? )
      indeed. Excellent commentary as ever here . Wasn't sure about the green lipstick but a most entertaining team. I was interested in this round as this was No.1 niece's alma mater. As for the other lot - the guy in the beret needed only a baguette or string of garlic. It's all very well posing (as the whole team did, with their annoying intros) if you can then back it up by being any good, but this lot were useless at anything other than being poseurs. Harsh, but fair.

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      • Serial_Apologist
        Full Member
        • Dec 2010
        • 37702

        Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
        indeed. Excellent commentary as ever here . Wasn't sure about the green lipstick but a most entertaining team. I was interested in this round as this was No.1 niece's alma mater. As for the other lot - the guy in the beret needed only a baguette or string of garlic. It's all very well posing (as the whole team did, with their annoying intros) if you can then back it up by being any good, but this lot were useless at anything other than being poseurs. Harsh, but fair.
        Do people think they spend their entire student loan on being sartorial these days?

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        • BBMmk2
          Late Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 20908

          Well when Jeremy Paxman said 'questions on popular music'. I thought oh, does that mean they have dumped classical? However, I didn't recognise one of them and that was the Kanye West!
          Don’t cry for me
          I go where music was born

          J S Bach 1685-1750

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          • Dave2002
            Full Member
            • Dec 2010
            • 18022

            Originally posted by zola View Post
            Surely there must be some reaction to the Goldberg Variations question ( and more to the point, the answer ? )
            Well Bach was pretty switched on, wasn't he? Or was that Wendy Carlos?

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            • ardcarp
              Late member
              • Nov 2010
              • 11102

              I think I heard Paxo say that the London Institute in Paris had only 120 students. whereas the opposition represented a student body of around 8,000. As for clothing, not much that couldn't be picked up in charity shops.....

              (I fell off the chair laughing at 'synthesiser'.)

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              • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                Gone fishin'
                • Sep 2011
                • 30163

                Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
                ... this lot were useless at anything other than being poseurs. Harsh, but fair.
                I disagree strongly.



                They weren't even any good at poseuring.
                [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                • LMcD
                  Full Member
                  • Sep 2017
                  • 8478

                  I wondered how the Paris-based team managed to get through the qualifying heats or eliminators or whatever method the producers use to select the teams that make it on air.
                  I agree strongly with #1027! I don't think there's any correlation between the number of students represented and the performance of those representing them. The seies as a whole is becoming a bit tedious, don't you think?

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                  • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                    Gone fishin'
                    • Sep 2011
                    • 30163

                    Originally posted by LMcD View Post
                    ... the Paris-based team ...
                    None of whom appeared even to have heard of Racine, judging by their reactions upon hearing Paxo give them the answer.

                    The seies as a whole is becoming a bit tedious, don't you think?
                    Oh, I wouldn't go that far - there's been some stonking close-calls, and/or several individuals who seemed to know every answer - and I like the way many of the questions now involve more than just a simple recollection of facts.
                    [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                    • Richard Tarleton

                      Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                      I disagree strongly.



                      They weren't even any good at poseuring.
                      I suppose we should be grateful he didn't appear in a striped Breton jersey.

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                      • ardcarp
                        Late member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 11102

                        The series as a whole is becoming a bit tedious, don't you think?
                        I thought the Goldsmith team were OK, especially the Indian guy on our left, and the 'captain', whose smile seemed wider than her face...if that's possible. Agreed this wasn't much of a match, but no doubt things will hot up in later rounds.

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                        • Serial_Apologist
                          Full Member
                          • Dec 2010
                          • 37702

                          Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
                          I suppose we should be grateful he didn't appear in a striped Breton jersey.
                          He would have needed to know his onions.

                          (OK, just getting me beret....)

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                          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                            Gone fishin'
                            • Sep 2011
                            • 30163

                            Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                            He would have needed to know his onions.
                            (OK, just getting me beret....)
                            Ay ay - that's shallot.
                            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                            • Pabmusic
                              Full Member
                              • May 2011
                              • 5537

                              Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                              Ay ay - that's shallot.
                              That's allium for now, folks!

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                              • MrGongGong
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 18357

                                Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                                He would have needed to know his onions.

                                (OK, just getting me beret....)
                                Only one egg for breakfast n'all

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