The General Chat Room

[BBMmk2]

Myself and MrsBBM will be reconfiguring the rooms at home!

[teamsaint]

Myself and MrsBBM will be reconfiguring the rooms at home!

Go reconfigure.


Have a good weekend.

[P. G. Tipps]

Myself and MrsBBM will be reconfiguring the rooms at home!

I do trust you and the wife will be suitably attired for the job, Bbm ...

[MrGongGong]

I think this wins the hotly-contested prize for Most Nonsequiturial Mention of Sorabji Ever.

Never heard of him

[Zucchini]

I thought Lidl's Luvmeluvly bath foam says "with the gorgeous odours of sorabji and Danish oil"

[BBMmk2]

I do trust you and the wife will be suitably attired for the job, Bbm ...

Aha! Plenty of tea will be drunk, methinks, in the course of, with the Massed Band of HM Royal Marines playing, to inspire us! :)

[P. G. Tipps]

Aha! Plenty of tea will be drunk, methinks, in the course of, with the Massed Band of HM Royal Marines playing, to inspire us! :)

You are clearly a fellow-gentleman of discerning and impeccable taste, Bbm.

I salute both you and your good lady, sir!

[Beef Oven!]

Never heard of him

You may have heard of him under his real name, Leon Dudley Sorabji from Chingford

[ahinton]

I think this wins the hotly-contested prize for Most Nonsequiturial Mention of Sorabji Ever.

!!! Were you one of the jurors? If so, many thanks - and I could do with the prize money! That said, just as one cannot expect to win the UK National Lottery jackpot without first buying a ticket, I didn't think it possible to win such a prize for a non-existent competition, "hotly contested" or otherwise. Very droll, though!

[ahinton]

You may have heard of him under his real name, Leon Dudley Sorabji from Chingford

Unlikely, I suspect, given that he's never been so well known under that provisional name as under the name Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji and certainly never courted fame or fortune under either name in part of what was then Essex (and no, I somehow don't think that he'd ever quite have made it as an "Essex boy", either).

[ahinton]

Once or twice a year I have to wear a tie to be professorial in the somewhat antiquated doctoral defence ceremonies at Leiden University (founded 1575). Luckily the dressing room not only provides ties on loan (since I don't own one) but also has a useful poster on the wall explaining how to do it up (since I have difficulty remembering this). An encouraging sign of the times I would say.

But does this poster only show one way of doing it or several, as in http://www.ties.com/how-to-tie-a-tie ? and, if the latter, which do you usually choose? Being the ardent monarchist that I know you to be, I imagine that the Windsor might be your preferred method, though I cannot be sure, of course...

It might be considered useful to wear one when attending a production of The Knot Garden, too (although Ca-Ca-Caliban might disagree).

I'll get me tie...

[ahinton]

I thought Lidl's Luvmeluvly bath foam says "with the gorgeous odours of sorabji and Danish oil"

Never heard of it.

And what in any case is "Danish oil"? Something prepared from bacon fat?

[ahinton]

I think this wins the hotly-contested prize for Most Nonsequiturial Mention of Sorabji Ever.

Never heard of him

What? You've never heard of Richard Barrett? Come now; of course you have!

[Beef Oven!]

Unlikely, I suspect, given that he's never been so well known under that provisional name as under the name Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji and certainly never courted fame or fortune under either name in part of what was then Essex (and no, I somehow don't think that he'd ever quite have made it as an "Essex boy", either).

'Provisional' name?

It's on his birth certificate, not his driving licence!

[ahinton]

'Provisional' name?

It's on his birth certificate, not his driving licence!

Yes, provisional, notwithstanding it being on his birth certificate (as of course I know well that it is); you surely know the history of this (and that the "Shapurji" in the name by which he came to be known at some point during WWI was his father's forename)?

He never had a drivers' licence, incidentally but, if he had, it would almost certainly have borne the name Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji. One might wonder, though, whether the composer would have taken the name "Shapurji" had he been aware of his father's - er - um - legally questionable behaviour in matters familial, but such discovery was not made by him until some two decades thereafter.